Asus P5BV/SAS - Manual (Page 17)

ASUS P5BV Series 1-3
Gigabit LAN solution
The motherboard comes with dual Gigabit LAN controllers and ports to provide a
total solution for your networking needs. The onboard Broadcom 5721 Gigabit LAN
controllers use the PCI Express interface and could achieve network throughput
close to Gigabit bandwidth. See page 2-23 for details.
Serial ATA II technology
The motherboard supports the Serial ATA II technology through the Serial ATA
interfaces controlled by the Intel ® ICH7R. The SATA specification allows for thinner,
more flexible cables with lower pin count, reduced voltage requirement, and up to
300 MB/s data transfer rate.
Built-in SATA RAID solution
The Intel ® ICH7R allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5 configuration for
SATA hard disk drives via the Intel ® Matrix Storage Manager (under Windows
Operating System) or the LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID Setup Utility (no RAID
5) (for P5BV only). See page 2-26 and Chapter 5 for details.
USB 2.0 technology
The motherboard implements the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 specification,
dramatically increasing the connection speed from the 12 Mbps bandwidth on USB
1.1 to a fast 480 Mbps on USB 2.0. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.1.
See pages 2-23 and 2-27 for details.
Temperature, fan, and voltage monitoring
The CPU temperature is monitored by the ASIC (integrated in the Winbond
hardware monitor) to prevent overheating and damage. The system fan rotations
per minute (RPM) is monitored for timely failure detection. The ASIC monitors the
voltage levels to ensure stable supply of current for critical components. See page
4-30 for details.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology support
(P5BV/SAS model only)
SAS is the latest storage interface for enterprise-class storage devices. Building
on and improving the parallel SCSI foundation, SAS is the new industry standard
that includes Serial ATA interoperability, and is projected to be the succesor of the
Ultra320 SCSI technology.