Special Features; Product Highlights - Asus P5E3 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/packagings to safeguard
consumers' health while minimizing the impact on the environment.
Intel Core™ 2 Quad Processor Ready
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This motherboard supports the latest Intel
LGA775 package. It is excellent for multi-tasking, multi-media and enthusiastic
gamers with 1066 / 800 MHz FSB. The Intel
the most powerful CPUs in the world. This motherboard also supports Intel
in the new 45 nm manufacturing process.
Intel Core™2 Duo / Extreme CPU support
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This motherboard supports the latest Intel
package. With the new Intel
1333/ 1066 / 800 MHz FSB, the Intel
energy efficient CPUs in the world.
Intel X38 Chipset
The Intel X38 Express Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support 8GB of
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dual-channel DDR3 1333/1066/800 MHz memory architecture, 1333/1066/800
FSB (Front Side Bus), dual PCI Express 2.0 x16 graphics and multi-core CPUs.
It especially includes Intel
optimizes the use of available memory bandwidth and reduces the latency of the
memory accesses.
DDR3 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR3 memory that features data transfer rates of
1800 (O.C.) / 1600 (O.C.) / 1333 /1066 / 800 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth
requirements of the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The
dual-channel DDR3 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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Core™ 2 Quad processors in the
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Core™2 processor in the LGA775
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Core™ microarchitecture technology and 1600 /
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Core™2 is one of the most powerful and
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Fast Memory Access technology that significantly
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Core™ 2 Quad processor is one of
Chapter 1: Product Introduction
CPUs
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