ASUS M2N-E Motherboard User Guide

Short Description
First Edition May 2006. Copyright © 2006 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. All Rights Reserved. This user guide contains the information you need when installing and configuring the motherboard.

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Content
…How this guide is organized
This guide contains the following parts:
. Chapter 1: Product introduction
This chapter describes the features of the motherboard and the new technology it supports.
. Chapter 2: Hardware information
This chapter lists the hardware setup procedures that you have to perform when installing system components. It includes description of the switches, jumpers, and connectors on the motherboard.
. Chapter 3: Powering up
This chapter describes the power up sequence and ways of shutting down the system.
. Chapter 4: BIOS setup
This chapter tells how to change system settings through the BIOS Setup menus. Detailed descriptions of the BIOS parameters are also provided.
. Chapter 5: Software support
This chapter describes the contents of the support CD that comes with the motherboard package.
. Chapter 6: NVIDIA® SLIT Technology support
This chapter tells how to install SLI-ready PCI Express graphics cards.
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Product highlights
Latest processor technology. The motherboard comes with a 940-pin AM2 socket that supports AMD AthlonT 64 X2/AMD AthlonT 64/AMD AthlonT 64 FX/AMD SempronT processors. With an integrated low-latency high-bandwidth memory controller and a highly scalable HyperTransportT technology-based system bus, the motherboard provides a powerful platform for your diverse computing needs, increased office productivity, and enhanced digital media experience.
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.
PCI ExpressT 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.
Serial 3Gb/s RAID. The NVIDIA nForce 570 UltraT chipsets incorporate six SATA 3Gb/s ports with high performance RAID functions in RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 and JBOD. This motherboard is the ideal solution to enhance hard disk performance and data back up protection without the cost of add-on cards.
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