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Introducing the Motherboard
Specifications
CPU
•
Accommodates Intel
®
Core
TM
i7 / Core ™ i5 / Core
TM
i3 /
Pentium series processors in the LGA1156 package
•
Supports Unlocked Intel ® Core
TM
i7 / Core
TM
i5 Processors
•
Supports “Hyper-Threading” technology CPU
•
Supports Intel
®
Turbo Boost Technology
•
Supports Intel
®
Smart Cache
Chipset
•
Intel P55 Express Chipset
Extra Chips
•
NVIDIA nForce
®
200 PCI Express switch chip with extra
32 PCIe lanes
- Programming support for NVIDIA ® SLI TM technology
- Full 64-bit addressing
- Supports the PCI Express power management capability
•
PLX PEX 8608 PCIe Gen 2 switch
- Offers 8 PCI Express Gen2 (5.0GT/s) lanes
- Supports Read Pacing
TM
Technology
- Supports packet cut-thru with the industry’s lowest
latency of 140ns (x4 to x1)
Memory
•
Dual-channel DDR3 memory architecture
•
4 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM sockets support up to 16 GB
•
Supports DDR3 2400 (OC) / 2200 (OC) / 2000 (OC) /
1800 (OC) /1600 (OC) / 1333 /1066 DDR3 SDRAM
•
Supports Intel ® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory
modules
•
Supports 1 Gb, 2 Gb and 4 Gb DDR3 DRAM technologies
for x8 and x16 devices (It is not recommended to use 512
Mb DDR3 memory device on this motherboard)
Storage
•
Supported by Intel P55 Express Chipset
- 6 x Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s Host Controllers
- Supports SATA RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10
•
Supported by Marvell 88SE9128 and PLX PEX 8608
- 2 x Serial ATA 6.0Gb/s ports supporting 2 xSATA
6.0Gb/s device
- 2 x eSATA 6.0Gb/s ports supporting external SATA
6.0Gb/s devices
- Supports SATA RAID 0 and 1
Expansion Slots
•
3 x PCI Express x16 Gen 2 slots (PCIEX16_1, PCIEX16_2,
PCIEX16_3 run at x16, x8, x8 speed)
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2 x PCI Express x 1 slots
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1 x PCI slot