Asus P5KPL-C/1600 User Manual

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

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.

DDR2 memory support

The motherboard supports DDR2 memory that features data transfer rates of

667/800/1066 (O.C.) 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

(17.0 GB/s when overclocking 1066). Without restriction to the memory size across

the two channels, the motherboard allows you to install DIMMs with different

memory size and enjoy dual-channel feature at the same time. See page 1-18 for

details.

8-channel high definition audio

Enjoy high-quality sound system on your PC! The onboard 8-channel HD audio

(High Definition Audio, previously codenamed Azalia) CODEC enables high-quality

192KHz/24-bit audio output, jack-detect feature, which automatically detects and

identifies what types of peripherals are plugged into the audio I/O jacks and notifies

users of inappropriate connection, meaning there will be no more confusion of

Line-in, Line-out and Mic jacks. See pages 1-29, 1-34 and 2-25 for details.

Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology

This motherboard supports the next-generation hard drives based on the Serial

ATA (SATA) 3Gb/s storage specification, delivering enhanced scalability and

doubling the bus bandwidth for high-speed data retrieval and saves. Easily backup

photos, videos and other entertainment contents to external devices. See page

1-32 for details.

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