ASUS M2N-L Manual Do Utilizador

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

The motherboard comes with a 940-pin AM2 socket that supports AMD Athlon™ 64 

x2, AMD Athlon™ 64, AMD Athlon™ 64 FX, AMD Sempron™, AMD Opteron™ 64 

1000 series (dual core), and AMD Phenom™ processors. With an integrated low-

latency high-bandwidth memory controller and a highly scalable HyperTransport™ 

technology-based system bus, the motherboard provides a powerful platform for 

your diverse computing needs, increased office productivity, and enhanced digital 

media experience.

It provides extremely high performances and shortened data access time by 

supporting 2000 MT/s HyperTransport Bus, dual-channel un-buffered DDR2 800 

memory and AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology. See page 2-6 for details.

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.

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.

Onboard RAID controllers allow you to select the best RAID solution using Serial 

ATA devices. 
The NVIDIA

® 

 nForce

®

 570 SLI MCP (MCP55P) chipset allows RAID 0, RAID 1, 

RAID 5, RAID 0+1, and JBOD configurations for six SATA disks. 

The motherboard supports the next-generation Serial ATA II 3Gb/s technology 

through the Serial ATA interfaces and the NVIDIA

® 

 nForce

®

 570 SLI MCP 

(MCP55P) chipset. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s specification provides twice the 

bandwidth of the current Serial ATA products. Additionally, Serial ATA allows for 

thinner, more flexible cables with lower pin count and reduced voltage required.