Asus M2A-MX, User Manual

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ASUS M2A-MX 1-3
AMD
®
690V
and ATI SB600 chipsets
The AMD
®
690V Chipset delivers a Windows Vista
TM
Premmium experience. This
Northbridge is the latest AMD chipset designed to support AMD Sempron
TM
, AMD
Athlon
TM
64, Athlon
TM
64 FX, Athlon
TM
64 FX x2 CPU. It boosts your gaming and
multimedia experience with integrated ATI Radeon x1200 Graphics. It also features
800 / 1000MHz HyperTransport (HT) interface speeds, Microsoft DirectX 9.0, Pixel
Shader V2.0 and dual VGA outputs. The AMD SB600 chipset buid-in ATA 133
controller supports RAID 0, 1 and, 0+1. See page 1-30 and 2-17 for details.
DDR2 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory which features data transfer rates of
800 MHz / 667 MHz / 533 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of
the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The dual-channel
DDR2 architecture doubles the bandwidth of your system memory to boost system
performance, eliminating bottlenecks with peak bandwidths of up to 12.8 GB/s.
See page 1-13 for details.
PCI Express™ interface
The motherboard fully supports PCI Express, the latest I/O interconnect
technology that speeds up the PCI bus. PCI Express features point-to-point serial
interconnections between devices and allows higher clockspeeds by carrying data
in packets. This high speed interface is software compatible with existing PCI
specifications. See page 1-23 for details.
Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology
The motherboard supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on the new
SATA 3Gb/s storage specification. The onboard AMD
®
SB600 allows RAID 0, RAID
1 and RAID 0+1 configurations for four SATA connectors. See pages 1-30 and
2-17 for details.
Gigabit LAN solution
PCI Express Gb LAN controller delivers transfer speeds up to ten times faster than
conventional 10/100/1000 Ethernet connections. Gigabit LAN is the networking
standard for the early future and is ideal for handling large amounts of data such
as video, audio, and voice. See page 1-26 for details.