1-4 Chapter 1: Product Introduction
Triple RAID solution
The NVIDIA
®
nForce 790i Ultra SLI chipset incorporates six Serial ATA connectors
with high performance RAID 0, 1, 10 and 5 functions, the Marvell
®
88SE6121
controller provides two external Serial ATA connectors for RAID 0, 1, 10 and
5 functions, and the Marvell
®
88SE6320 controller provides two internal SAS
connectors for RAID 0 and 1 functions, making this motherboard an ideal solution
to enhance hard disk performance and data back up protection without the cost of
add-on cards. See page 2-22, 2-26 and 2-27 for details
IEEE 1394a support
The IEEE 1394a interface provides high speed digital interface for audio/video
appliances such as digital television, digital video camcorders, storage peripherals
& other PC portable devices. See page 2-21 and 2-28 for details.
S/PDIF digital sound ready
This motherboard provides convenient connectivity to external home theater audio
systems via coaxial and optical S/PDIF-out (SONY-PHILIPS Digital Interface)
jacks. It allows to transfer digital audio without converting to analog format and
keeps the best signal quality. See page 2-21 and 2-23 for details.
Dual Gigabit LAN solution
The integrated dual Gigabit LAN design allows a PC to serve as a network
gateway for managing trafc between two separate networks. This capability
ensures rapid transfer of data from WAN to LAN without any added arbitration or
latency. See page 2-21 for details.
High Denition Audio
Enjoy high-end sound quality on your PC! The onboard 8-channel HD audio (High
Denition Audio, previously codenamed Azalia) CODEC enables high-quality
192KHz/24-bit audio output, jack-sensing feature, retasking functions and multi-
streaming technology that simultaneously sends different audio streams to different
destinations. You can now talk to your partners on the headphone while playing
multi-channel network games. See page 2-21 to 2-22 for details.
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