Asus A8N-VM A8N-VM English Manual E2230 - Page 13

NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6100 GPU and NVIDIA® nForce™ 410 MCP chipsets The NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6100 graphics processing unit (GPU) Northbridge supports Microsoft® DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, and PCI Express interface. The NVIDIA® nForce™ 410 media and communications processor (MCP) Southbridge delivers NVIDIA® 10/100 Mbps LAN and NVIDIA® MediaShield storage management technology allowing easy RAID configuration (RAID 0, RAID 1) for Serial ATA II. Dual-channel DDR memory support Employing the Double Data Rate (DDR) memory technology, the motherboard supports up to4 GB of system memory using DDR400/333 DIMMs. The ultra-fast 400 MHz memory bus delivers the required bandwidth for the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. See page 1-10 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 1-15 for details. Serial ATA II technology The motherboard supports the Serial ATA 3 Gb/s technology through the Serial ATA interfaces and the NVIDIA® nForce™410 MCP Southbridge. The Serial ATA II 3 Gb/s specification provides twice the bandwidth of the current Serial ATA products with a host of new features, including Native Command Queueing (NCQ), and Power Management (PM) Implementation Algorithm. Serial ATA allows for thinner, more flexible cables with lower pin count, reduced voltage requirement. See page 1-23 for details. The Hot Swap function is supported only in RAID mode. ASUS A8N-VM 1-3