Instruction Manual

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M4N78 PRO specications summary
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CPU AMD
®
Phenom™ X4 / Phenom™ X3 / Athlon™ X2 /
Athlon™ / Sempron™ processors (socket AM2+/AM2)
Compatible with AMD
®
Phenom™ II / Athlon™ X4/
Athlon™ X3 / Athlon™ X2 (AM3 CPU)
AMD
®
45nm CPU support
AMD Cool’n’Quiet™ Technology
Chipset
NVIDIA GeForce
®
8300
System bus Up to 5200 MT/s; HyperTransport™ 3.0 interface for
AM3 / AM2+ CPU
2000 / 1600 MT/s for AM2 CPU
Memory Dual-channel memory architecture
- 4 x 240-pin DIMM sockets support unbufferred
ECC / non-ECC DDR2 1066* / 800 / 667 MHz
memory modules
- Supports up to 16 GB system memory
*Due to AMD CPU limitation, DDR2 1066 is supported by
AM2+ / AM3 CPUs for one DIMM per channel only. Refer
to www.asus.com or this user manual for the Memory
QVL (Qualied Vendors Lists).
** Due to OS limitation, when installing total memory of
4GB capacity or more, Windows 32-bit operation
system may only recognize less than 3GB. Hence, a
total installed memory of less than 3GB is
recommended.
VGA
Integrated NVIDIA
®
GeForce
®
8 series GPU
- Hybrid SLI™ support (for Windows
®
Vista™ only)
- Supports HDMI™ Technology with max. resolution up
to 1920 x 1200
- Supports DVI with max. resolution up to
1920 x 1200 @ 60Hz
- Supports D-Sub with max. resolution up to 1920 x
1440 @ 75 Hz
HDMI / DVI / RGB support
- Supports Microsoft
®
DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.0,
Pixel Shader 4.0
- Supports PCIe 2.0 / 1.0 architecture
Expansion Slots
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slot
2 x PCIe x1 slots
3 x PCI 2.2 slots
LAN
NVIDIA
®
Gigabit MAC
Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET 2
USB
12 x USB 2.0 /1.1 ports (8 at mid-board; 4 on the rear
panel)