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1.1
Special features
1.1.1
Product highlights
Latest processor technology
The motherboard supports AMD socket AM2 single-core Athlon 64/ Sempron and
dual-core Athlon 64 X2/Athlon 64 FX processors with 2MB/1MB/512KB L2 cache,
which is based on 64-bit architecture. It features 2000/1600 MT/s HyperTransport
Bus, dual-channel un-buffered DDR2 800 memory support and AMD Cool 'n' Quiet
Technology. See page 1-9 for details.
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NVIDIA
Quadro
and NVIDIA
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The NVIDIA
supports Microsoft
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NVIDIA
PureVideo Technology with unprecedented integrated video quality, and
PCI Express interface.
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The NVIDIA
Southbridge delivers NVIDIA
management technology allowing easy RAID configuration (RAID 0 and RAID 1)
for Serial ATA 3Gb/s.
DDR2 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory which features data transfer rates of
800MHz/667 MHz/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, eliminating bottlenecks with peak bandwidths of up to 12.8 GB/s. See
pages 1-13 to 1-16 for details.
PCI Express™ interface
The motherboard fully supports PCI Express, the latest I/O interconnect technology
that speeds up the PCI bus. PCI Express features point-to-point serial
interconnections between devices and allows higher clockspeeds by carrying data
in packets. This high speed interface is software compatible with existing PCI
specifications. See page 1-20 for details.
1-2
NVS210S GPU
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nForce™ 430B MCP chipsets
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Quadro
NVS210S graphics processing unit (GPU) Northbridge
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DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, dual VGA out (RGB and DVI-D),
nForce™ 430B media and communications processor (MCP)
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Gigabit and NVIDIA
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MediaShield storage
Chapter 1: Product introduction
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