Asus P5Q PRO - Manual (Page 18)

1-2 Chapter 1: Product Introduction
1.3 Special features
1.3.1 Product highlights
Intel ® Core™2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad /
Core™2 Duo Processor Support
This motherboard supports the latest Intel ® Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad /
Core™ 2 Duo processors in the LGA775 package. It is excellent for multi-tasking,
multi-media and enthusiastic gamers with 1600 / 1333 / 1066 / 800 MHz FSB. The
Intel ® Core™ 2 series processor is one of the most powerful CPUs in the world. This
motherboard also supports Intel ® CPUs in the new 45nm manufacturing process.
Intel ® P45 Chipset
The Intel ® P45 Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support 16GB of dual-
channel DDR2 800/667 MHz memory architecture, 1333/1066/800 MHz FSB
(Front Side Bus) and multi-core CPUs. It especially includes Intel ® Fast Memory
Access technology that significantly optimizes the use of available memory
bandwidth and reduces the latency of the memory accesses.
PCIe 2.0
This motherboard supports the latest PCIe 2.0 device for twice the current speed
and bandwidth. This enhances system performance while still providing backward
compatibility to PCIe 1.0 devices.
Dual-channel DDR2 1200 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory that features data transfer rates of
1200/1066/800/667 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 19.2 GB/s.
Furthermore, this motherboard does not restrict the memory size across two
channels. Users may install different memory size DIMMs into the two channels
and enjoy dual-channel and single-channel functions at the same time. This new
feature optimizes the use of available memory size. See page 2-10 for details.