Asus P5L 1394 Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 17

Serial ATA technology The motherboard supports the Serial ATA technology through the Serial ATA interfaces and Intel® ICH7 southbridge. The SATA specification allows for thinner, more flexible cables with lower pin count, reduced voltage requirement, and up to 300 MB/s data transfer rate. See page 2-25 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 2-19 for details. 6-channel high definition audio Onboard is the Realtek® High Definition 6-channel audio CODEC. This CODEC is fully-compliant with Intel® High Definition Audio standard (192KHz, 24-bit audio). With the CODEC, 6-channel audio ports, and S/PDIF interfaces, you can connect your computer to home theater decoders to produce crystalclear digital audio. The Realtek® High Definition audio 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 equalizaion for various audio devices. See pages 2-22 to 2-23, and 5-10 for details. S/PDIF digital sound ready The motherboard supports the S/PDIF technology through the coaxial S/PDIF Out port on the rear panel. The S/PDIF technology turns your computer into a high-end entertainment system with digital connectivity to powerful audio and speaker systems. See page 2-23 for details. USB 2.0 technology The motherboard implements the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 specification, dramatically increasing the connection speed from the 12 Mbps bandwidth on USB 1.1 to a faster 480 Mbps on USB 2.0. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.1. See pages 2-23 and 2-27 for details. ASUS P5L 1394 1-