Special Features; Product Highlights - Asus CROSSHAIR III FORMULA - Republic of Gamers Series Motherboard User Manual

1.3

Special features

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Product highlights

Republic of Gamers
The Republic of Gamers consists only the best of the best. We offer the best
hardware engineering, the fastest performance, the most innovating ideas, and we
welcome the best gamers to join in. In the Republic of Gamers, mercy rules are
only for the weak, and bragging rights means everything. We believe in making
statements and we excel in competitions. If your character matches our trait, then
join the elite club, make your presence felt, in the Republic of Gamers.
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/packaging to safeguard
consumers' health while minimizing the impact on the environment.
AMD socket AM3 Phenom™ II / Athlon™ II /
Sempron™ 100 Series processors support
This motherboard supports AMD
unique L3 cache and delivers better overclocking capabilities with less power
consumption. It features dual-channel DDR3 1333 memory support and
accelerates data transfer rate up to 5200MT/s via HyperTransport™ 3.0 based
system bus. This motherboard also supports AMD
manufacturing process.
AMD 790FX Chipset
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AMD 790FX Chipset is designed to support up to 5200MT/s HyperTransport™
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3.0 (HT 3.0) interface speed and quad PCI Express™ 2.0 x16 graphics. It is
optimized with AMD
performance and overclocking capabilities.
ATI CrossFireX™ Technology
ATI's CrossFire�� boosts image quality along with rendering speed, eliminating
the need to scale down screen resolution to get high quality images. CrossFireX™
allows higher antialiasing, anisotropic filtering, shading, and texture settings. Adjust
your display configurations, experiment with the advanced 3D settings, and check
the effects with a real-time 3D-rendered previews within ATI Catalyst™ Control
Center.
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Socket AM3 multi-core processors with
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's latest AM3 and multi�core CPUs to provide excellent system
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CPUs in the new 45nm
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Chapter 1: Product Introduction