Asus P5AD2-E Premium User Guide - Page 17

Serial ATA technology The motherboard supports the Serial ATA technology through the Serial ATA interfaces and the Intel® ICH6R. The SATA specification allows for thinner, more flexible cables with lower pin count, reduced voltage requirement, and up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate. See pages 2-27 and 2-28 for details. Triple RAID solution Onboard RAID controllers provide the motherboard with multi-RAID functionality that allows you to select the best RAID solution using IDE or Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Intel® ICH6R allows RAID 0 and RAID 1 configuration for four SATA connectors and supports the Intel® Matrix Storage Technology. See pages 2-27 and 5-31 for details. The Sil3114R controller supports four additional SATA connectors and allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and a software patch to support RAID 5. See pages 2-28 and 5-21 for details. If you are using IDE hard disk drives, the ITE8212 controller provides RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD functionality for two IDE channels that supports for up to four IDE hard disk drives. See pages 2-26 and 5-36 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 2-20 for details. 8-channel high definition audio Onboard is the C-Media CMI9880 7.1-channel audio CODEC. This CODEC is fully-compliant with Intel® High Definition Audio standard (192 KHz, 24-bit audio). With the CODEC, 8-channel audio ports, and S/PDIF interfaces, you can connect your computer to home theater decoders to produce crystal-clear digital audio. The CMI9880 CODEC comes with a software application that features jack detection to monitor the plugging status of each jack, impedance sensing to determine audio device classes, and pre-defined equalization for various audio devices. See pages 2-23, 2-24, and 5-14 for details. ASUS P5AD2-E Premium 1-3