1-2 Chapter 1: Product introduction
1.3 Special features
1.3.1 Product highlights
Latest processor technology
The motherboard comes with a 940-pin AM2 socket that supports AMD Athlon
™
64 X2/Athlon
™
64/Athlon
™
64 FX/Sempron
™
processor. With an integrated low-
latency high-bandwidth memory controller and a highly scalable HyperTransport
™
technology-based system bus, the motherboard provides a powerful platform for
your diverse computing needs, increased ofce productivity, and enhanced digital
media experience. See page 2-6 for details.
NVIDIA
®
Scalable Link Interface (SLI
™
)
The NVIDIA
®
Scalable Link Interface (SLI
™
) technology allows two graphics
processing units (GPUs) in a single system. This technology takes advantage of
the PCI Express
™
bus architecture and features intelligent hardware and software
solutions that allows multiple GPUs to work together and achieve exceptional
graphics performance.
NVIDIA nForce
®
500 SLI
™
NVIDIA nForce
®
500 SLI
™
media and communication processors (MCPs) deliver
a complete range of solutions for AMD-based discrete platforms. Performance
enhancing features include NVIDIA
®
LinkBoost
™
technology to automatically
increase the bus speed and NVIDIA
®
SLI
™
technology for scalable graphics
performance.
AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet!
™
Technology
The motherboard supports the AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet!
™
Technology that dynamically
and automatically changes the CPU speed, voltage and amount of power
depending on the task the CPU performs. See page 4-24.
DDR2 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory that features data transfer rates of
800/667/533 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 page 2-11 and 2-12 for details.
Serial ATA 3Gb/s RAID
The motherboard supports the next-generation Serial ATA hard drives based on the
SATA 3Gb/s storage specication. The onboard NVIDIA nForce
®
500 SLI
™
MCP
allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD. See page 2-25.
