Asus M2N Plus Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 11

M2N-Plus SLI Vista Edition specifications summary CPU Chipset System bus Memory Expansion slots Scalable Link Interface (SLI™) Storage LAN Audio IEEE 1394a USB 2.0 Socket AM2 for AMD Athlon™ 64 FX / AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 / AMD Athlon 64™ / AMD Sempron™ processors Supports AMD Cool 'n' Quiet™ Technology AMD64 architecture enables simultaneous 32-bit and 64-bit computing AMD Live!™ ready NVIDIA® nForce® 500 SLI™ MCP 2000 / 1600 MT/s Dual-channel memory architecture - 4 x 240-pin DIMM sockets support unbufferred ECC/non-ECC DDR2 800/667/533 MHz memory modules - Supports up to 8 GB system memory 2 x PCI Express™ x16 slots with NVIDIA® SLI™ support at x8, x8 speed 2 x PCI Express™ x1 slots 2 x PCI 2.2 slots Supports two identical NVIDIA® SLI™-ready graphics cards, both at x8 mode ASUS two-slot thermal design NVIDIA® nForce® 500 SLI™ MCP supports: - 2 x IDE connectors for four Ultra DMA133/100/66/33 devices - 4 x Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s connectors support four Serial ATA devices - RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD configurations spanning across Serial ATA drives NVIDIA® nForce® 500 SLI™ MCP built-in Gigabit MAC with external Attansic PHY - Supports TCP/IP Acceleration C-Media Superior Quality Audio 7.1 channel CODEC (Vista-ready) - Supports S/PDIF Out interface VIA 1394 controller supports 2 x 1394a ports Supports up to 8 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (four at mid-board, four on the rear panel) (continued on the next page) xi