Special Features; Product Highlights - Asus P5Q PRO - Motherboard - ATX User Manual

1.3

Special features

1.3.1

Product highlights

Intel Core™2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad /
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Core™2 Duo Processor Support
This motherboard supports the latest Intel
Core™ 2 Duo processors in the LGA775 package. It is excellent for multi-tasking,
multi-media and enthusiastic gamers with 1600 / 1333 / 1066 / 800 MHz FSB. The
Intel Core™ 2 series processor is one of the most powerful CPUs in the world. This
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motherboard also supports Intel
Intel P45 Chipset
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The Intel P45 Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support 16GB of dual-
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channel DDR2 800/667 MHz memory architecture, 1333/1066/800 MHz FSB
(Front Side Bus) and multi-core CPUs. It especially includes Intel
Access technology that significantly optimizes the use of available memory
bandwidth and reduces the latency of the memory accesses.
PCIe 2.0
This motherboard supports the latest PCIe 2.0 device for twice the current speed
and bandwidth. This enhances system performance while still providing backward
compatibility to PCIe 1.0 devices.
Dual-channel DDR2 1200 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory that features data transfer rates of
1200/1066/800/667 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 19.2 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 2-10 for details.
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Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad /
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CPUs in the new 45nm manufacturing process.
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Fast Memory
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Chapter 1: Product Introduction