Specifications

ASUS M2N32-SLI Premium Vista Edition 1-3
Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s technology and SATA-On-The-Go
The motherboard fully supports the Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s technology through the Serial
ATA interfaces and the NVIDIA
®
nForce
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590 SLI™ chipset. The Serial ATA 3 Gb/s
specication provides twice the bandwidth of the current Serial ATA products with
a host of new features, including Nativa Command Queueing (NCQ), and Power
Management (PM) Implementation Algorithm. Serial ATA allows for thinner, more
exible cables with lower pin count and reduced voltage required. Leveraging these
Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s features is the SATA-On-The-Go. Supported by the Silicon
Image Sil3132 Serial ATA controller, two Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s connectors (one at mid-
board and one on the rear panel) provide smart setup, and hot-plug function. See
page 2-24, 2-27, and 2-28 for details.
Dual RAID solution
Onboard RAID controllers provide the motherboard with dual-RAID functionality that
allows you to select the best RAID solution using Serial ATA devices.
The NVIDIA
®
nForce
®
590 SLI™ chipset allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID
5, and JBOD conguration for six SATA 3.0 Gb/s connector. See pages 2-24.
The Silicon Image
®
Sil3132 controller supports two additional Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s
connectors (one at mid-board and one on the rear panel) and allows RAID 0, RAID
1, and JBOD congurations on these ports. See pages 2-28 for details.
IEEE 1394a support
The IEEE 1394a interface provides high-speed and exible PC connectivity to a
wide range of peripherals and devices compliant to the IEEE 1394a standard. The
IEEE 1394a interface allows up to 400 Mbps transfer rates through simple, low-
cost, high-bandwidth asynchronous (real-time) data interfacing between computers,
peripherals, and consumer electronic devices such as camcorders, VCRs, printers,
TVs, and digital cameras. See page 2-23 and 2-29 for details.
High Denition Audio
Enjoy high-end sound quality on your PC! The onboard 8-channel HD audio (High
Denition Audio, previously codenamed Azalia) CODEC enables high-quality
192KHz/24-bit audio output, jack-sensing feature, retasking functions and multi-
streaming technology that simultaneously sends different audio streams to different
destinations. You can now talk to your partners on the headphone while playing
multi-channel network games. See page 2-23 and 2-24 for details.