Special Features; Product Highlights - Asus P5K DELUXE User Manual

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 Quad-core Processor Ready
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This motherboard supports the latest Intel
package. It is excellent for multi-tasking, multi-media and enthusiastic gamers
with 1066 / 800 MHz FSB. Intel
CPU in the world. This motherboard also supports Intel
manufacturing process.
Intel Core™2 Duo/ Intel
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This motherboard supports the latest Intel
package. With the new Intel
/ 800 MHz FSB, the Intel
CPUs in the world.
Intel P35 Chipset
The Intel P35 Express Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support 8GB of
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dual-channel DDR2 800/667/533 architecture, 1333/1066/800 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. 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.
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Quad-core processors in the LGA775
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Quad-core processor is one of the most powerful
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Core™2 Extreme CPU support
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Core™2 processor in the LGA775
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Core™ microarchitecture technology and 1333/ 1066
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Core™2 is one of the most powerful and energy efficient
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CPUs in the new 45 nm
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Chapter 1: Product Introduction
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