Chapter 1: Product Introduction; Special Features; Product Highlights - Asus H61-PLUS User Manual

Product introduction
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Special features

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Product highlights

LGA1155 socket for Intel
Pentium , and Celeron
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This motherboard supports the Intel
Pentium , and Celeron
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controllers integrated to support onboard graphics out with dedicated chipsets, 2-channel
(2 DIMMs) DDR3 memory, and 16 PCI Express 3.0/2.0 lanes. This provides great graphics
performance. Intel 3rd/2nd generation Core™ i7, Core™ i5, Core™ i3, Pentium
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Celeron processors are among the most powerful and energy efficient CPUs in the world.
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Intel H61 Express Chipset
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The Intel H61 Express Chipset is the latest single-chipset design to support the new 1155
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socket Intel 3rd/2nd Generation Core™ i7, Core™ i5, Core™ i3, Pentium
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processors. It provides improved performance by utilizing serial point-to-point links, which
allows increased bandwidth and stability.
Dual-Channel DDR3 2200 (O.C.) / 2133 (O.C.) / 2000 (O.C.) / 1866 (O.C.) / 1600 /
1333 / 1066 MHz support
The motherboard supports DDR3 memory that features data transfer rates of 2200 (O.C.)/
2133 (O.C.) / 2000 (O.C.) / 1866 (O.C.) / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 MHz to meet the higher
bandwidth requirements of the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The
dual-channel DDR3 architecture enlarges the bandwidth of your system memory to boost
system performance.
* DDR3 1600 MHz and higher memory frequency is supported by Intel
** Due to the CPU behavior, DDR3 2133/1866 memory modules runs at DDR3 2000/1800 MHz
frequencies.
PCI Express 3.0
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PCI Express 3.0 (PCIe 3.0) is the latest PCI Express bus standard with improved encoding
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schemes that provide twice the performance of the current PCIe 2.0. The total bandwidth
for a x16 link reaches a maximum of 32Gb/s, double the 16 Gb/s of PCIe 2.0 (in x16 mode).
As such, PCIe 3.0 provides users an unprecendented data speeds, combined with the
convenience and seamless transition offerred by complete backward compatibility with PCIe
1.0 and PCIe 2.0 devices. PCIe 3.0 will become a must-have feature for users who wish to
improve and optimize graphic performance, as well as have the latest technology available to
them.
* PCI 3.0 speed is supported by Intel
ASUS H61-PLUS
3rd/2nd Generation Core™ i7, Core™ i5, Core™ i3,
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processors
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3rd/2nd generation Core™ i7, Core™ i5, Core™ i3,
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processors in the LGA1155 package, with memory and PCI Express
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3rd generation Core™ processors.
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, and Celeron
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3rd generation processors.
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