Asus P5B-PLUS, User Manual

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1- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
1.3 Special features
1.3.1 Product highlights
Green ASUS
This motherboard and its packaging comply with the European Union’s Restriction
on the use of Hazardous Substances (RoHS). This is in line with the ASUS vision
of creating environment-friendly and recyclable products/packaging to safeguard
consumers’ health while minimizing the impact on the environment.
Intel
®
Core™ 2 Quad Processor Ready
This motherboard supports the latest Intel
®
Core™ 2 Quad processors in the
LGA775 package. It is excellent for multi-tasking, multi-media and enthusiastic
gamers with 1066 / 800 MHz FSB. Intel
®
Quad-core processor is one of the most
powerful CPU in the world.
Intel
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Core™2 Duo/ Intel
®
Core™2 Extreme CPU support
This motherboard supports the latest Intel
®
Core™2 processor in the LGA775
package. With the new Intel
®
Core™ microarchitecture technology and 1066 /
800 MHz FSB, the Intel
®
Core™2 is one of the most powerful and energy efficient
CPUs in the world. This motherboard also supports the latest Intel
®
Quad-core
processor, which is excellent for multi-tasking, multi-media and enthusiastic
gamers with 1066 / 800 MHz FSB.
Intel P965 Chipset
The Intel
®
P965 Express Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support 8GB
of dual-channel DDR2 800/677/533 architecture, 1066/800 FSB (Front Side
Bus), PCI Express x16 graphics and multi-core CPU. It especially includes Intel
®
Fast Memory Access technology that significantly optimizes the use of available
memory bandwidth and reduces the latency of the memory accesses.
DDR2 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory that features data transfer rates
of 800/667/533 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.
Furthermore, this motherboard does not restrict the memory size across two
channels. Users may install different memory size DIMMs into the two channels
and enjoy dual-channel and single-channel functions at the same time. This new
feature optimizes the use of available memory size. See page 2-13 for details.