User guide
1-4 Chapter 1: Product introduction
AMD 780V
The AMD 780V Northbridge is the latest AMD chipset designed for both HT1.0 and
5200MT/s HyperTransport™ 3.0 (HT 3.0) interface speed and external graphics in
PCI Express™ 2.0 standard. It features the integrated ATI RV610-based graphics
and fully DirectX 10.0 compliant.
PCI Express 2.0 support
This motherboard supports the latest PCIe 2.0 devices for double speed and
bandwidth which enhances system performance.
DVI Interface
DVI (Digital Visual Interface) provides high visual quality of digital display devices
such as LCD monitors. The interface of this motherboard supports dual VGA
output both DVI and RGB and is HDCP compliant allowing playback of HD DVD,
Blu-ray Disc.
Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology and RAID support
This motherboard supports hard drives based on the Serial ATA (SATA) 3Gb/s
storage specications, delivering enhanced scalability and doubling the bus
bandwidth for high-speed data retrieval and save. It also supports RAID 0, RAID 1,
and RAID 0+1 congurations for Serial ATA drives.
Gigabit LAN solution
The on-board LAN controller is a highly integrated Gigabit LAN controller. It
is enhanced with an ACPI management function to provide efcient power
management for advanced operating systems.
To ensure high visual quality, install Windows
®
Media Player 11 or later versions
when you connect a display monitor to the DisplayPort, VGA, or DVI port, or
when you connect two display monitors to any two of these three ports.