Asus Motherboard AP130-E1 - Manual (Page 16)

1-2 Chapter 1: Product introduction
Latest processor technology
The motherboard supports the latest Intel ® Pentium ® 4 processor via a
478-pin surface mount ZIF socket. The processor with 1MB/512KB L2 cache
includes a 800/533 MHz system bus and features the Intel Hyper-
Threading Technology and new power design that allow up to 3.4+GHz
core frequencies.
Dual-channel DDR400 memory support
Employing the dual-channel DDR memory architecture, the motherboard
provides a solution that doubles the system memory bandwidth to boost
system performance. The motherboard supports up to 4GB of system
memory using PC3200/2700/2100 ECC or non-ECC DDR DIMMs to
deliver up to 6.4GB/s data transfer rate for the latest 3D graphics,
multimedia, and Internet applications.
Serial ATA technology
The motherboard supports the new Serial ATA technology through the
SATA interfaces and the Intel
® 6300ESB ICH and Promise ® PDC20319
controllers onboard. The SATA specification allows for thinner, more
flexible cables with lower pin count, reduced voltage requirement, and up
to 150MB/s data transfer rate.
Multi-RAID solution
The motherboard has the Promise ® PDC20319 controller to support multi-
RAID solution using Serial ATA/150 hard disks. The RAID0 (striping),
RAID1 (mirroring), and RAID 0+1 provide a cost-effective high-
performance solution for added system performance and reliability.
Gigabit LAN solution
The Intel ® 82547GI Gigabit Ethernet controller allows full-duplex Gigabit
performance on LAN on Motherboard (LOM) applications through the
Communication Streaming Architecture (CSA). Instead of connecting to
the PCI bus, the controller connects to the dedicated CSA bus on the
Memory Controller Hub (MCH) thus reducing the PCI bottlenecks by
freeing the PCI bus for other I/O operations.
1.3 Special features