Special Features; Product Highlights - Asus KFSN4-DRE SAS User Manual

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Special features

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Product highlights

Latest processor technology
The motherboard comes with dual 1207-pin surface mount Land Grid Array (LGA)
sockets coded Socket F, designed for AMD Opteron™ 2000 series processors.
The motherboard with the new socket supports registered DDR2-667/533 memory,
delivering advanced performance and ensuring reliable data protection.
AMD Quad-Core Architecture
The motherboard supports AMD quad/dual-core processors with discrete L2 cache
structure for each core and shared L3 cache to meet demands for more powerful
computing.
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.
HyperTransport™ Technology
HyperTransport™ Technology is a high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link
designed to increase the communication speed between integrated circuits in
computers, networking and telecommunicatons equipment up to 48 times faster
than other existing technologies.
DDR2 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory which features data transfer rates of
667 MHz or 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 bandwidth of up to 10.7 GB/s.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology support
(KFSN4-DRE/SAS model only)
SAS is the latest storage interface for enterprise-class storage devices. Building
on and improving the parallel SCSI foundation, SAS is the new industry standard
that includes Serial ATA interoperability, and is projected to be the succesor of the
Ultra320 SCSI technology.
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