Special Features; Product Highlights - Asus P5Q EM - DO Motherboard - Micro ATX User Manual

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Special features

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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 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad / Core™2 Duo
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Processor Support
This motherboard supports the latest Intel
package. It can also support Intel
microarchitecture technology and 1600/1333/1066/800MHz FSB, Intel
processor is one of the most powerful and energy efficient CPUs in the world.
Intel G45 Chipset
The Intel G45 Express Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support dual-
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channel DDR2 800/667 architecture, 1333/1066/800 FSB (Front Side Bus), PCIe
2.0, and multi-core CPUs. It provides digital home entertainment of full 1080p high-
definition video playback, including Blu-ray disc movies, with the next-generation
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD. The Intel
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delivers optimized 3D graphics performance and support for Microsoft DirectX
10, Shader Model 4.0 and OpenGL 2.1. 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. See page 1-27 for details.
Serial ATA 3 Gb/s technology
This motherboard supports hard drives based on the Serial ATA (SATA) 3 Gb/s
storage specification, delivering enhanced scalability and doubling the bus
bandwidth for high-speed data retrieval and saves. The onboard Intel
allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10 configurations for six SATA
connectors. See page 1-36 for details. See page 1-36 for details.
ASUS P5Q-EM
Core™2 processors in LGA775
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45nm multi-core CPUs. With new Intel
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See page 1-27 for details.
Core™2
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G45 Express Chipset
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Fast Memory
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ICH10R
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Core™
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