Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 - M5 A97 EVO R2.0 specifications summary

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M5A97 EVO R2.0 specications summary
CPU AMD
®
Socket AM3+ for AMD
®
FX Series CPU up to 8-core
Compatible with AMD
®
Socket AM3 for AMD
®
Phenom™II/Athlon™
II/Sempron™ 100 Series Processors
AMD 140W CPU Support
AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet™ Technology
Supports AM3+ 32nm CPU
Chipset AMD
®
970/SB950
System Bus Up to 4800 MT/s; HyperTransport™ 3.0
Memory 4 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR3 2133(O.C)/1866/1600/1333/1066
MHz, ECC, Non-ECC, un-buffered Memory
Dual channel memory architecture
* Due to CPU spec., AMD 100 Series CPUs support up to DDR3 1066MHz.
With ASUS design, this motherboard can support up to DDR3 1333MHz.
** Due to OS limitation, when installing total memory of 4GB capacity
or more, Windows® 32-bit operation system may only recognize
less than 3GB. Hence, a total installed memory of less than 3GB is
recommended.
*** Refer to www.asus.com or user manual for the Memory QVL(Qualied
Vendors Lists) of AM3+/AM3 CPU.
Expansion slots 2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (Blue@x16 speed; Black@x4 speed)
2 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots
2 x PCI slots
Multi-GPU support Supports AMD
®
Quad-GPU CrossFireX™ Technology
Storage AMD
®
SB950 Chipset:
- 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports with RAID 0,1,5 and 10 support (gray)
1 x ASMedia
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PCIe SATA controller:
- 2 x eSATA 6Gb/s ports (red)
LAN Realtek
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8111F Gigabit LAN controller
Audio Realtek
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ALC 892 8-channel High Denition Audio CODEC
- Supports Jack-Detection, Multi-Streaming, and Front Panel
Jack-Retasking
- Supports 192khz/ 24bit True BD Lossless Sound
- Blu-ray audio layer Content Protection
- DTS UltraPC II
- DTS Connect
- Optical S/PDIF Out port at back I/O
- ASUS Noise Filter