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AMD moved to the Socket AM2 platform last year. The NVIDIA 590 SLI chipset that the M2N32-SLI Premium Vista Edition board uses supports all of the current Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64, and FX up to FX-62 CPUs on the market. AMD launched the FX-74 last year on a new Socket, but the mainstream computer user will continue to use the AM2 platform for most of this year.  CPU Socket AM2  DIMM Slots 4 DIMM slots are the norm for memory slots on a motherboard on the market today. The ASUS board has 4 slots for up to 8GB of unbuffered ECC or non-ECC DDR2 800 MHz memory. With the release of Microsoft Vista, and the majority of CPUs on the market today supporting 64-bit extensions, and games and applications requiring more and more memory, the need for 8GB support or more is never greater.  PCI slots  Two PCI Express x16 slot  PCI Express x1 slot, PCI Express x4 slot An SLI motherboard distinguishes itself from others by having two slots for the video cards on the board. NVIDIA first introduced SLI back to the consumer in late 2004, a scant two and a half years ago. SLI is the number one multiple-graphics solution on the market, with over 90% of Steam users that have multiple-GPU using SLI. NVIDIA 6xxx series and 7xxx series cards were limited to single card mode in Vista until the release of the 101.45 Forceware drivers which allowed them to do SLI.  6 SATA ports  External SATA  IDE and FDD controller  MediaShield The nForce 590 SLI MCP supports up to 6 SATA ports natively. Six SATA ports are situated on the ASUS M2N32-SLI Premium Vista Edition board, allowing for full utilization of the onboard drives with a seventh SATA port for the external SATA port also on the board. A single IDE port and FDD port finish up the drive expansion on the board.  SuperBeam  SoundMAX Preferences Onboard audio is provided by an ADI1988 CODEC. Analog Devices Incorporated is one of the manufacturers of onboard sound that has been popular on the Intel platform as of late. NVIDIA was a bit late into the High Definition Audio support with their motherboard chipsets, but today all of their motherboard chipsets support the standard providing features like multiple audio streams, Dolby Surround Sound support and more. The SuperBeam Directional microphone is included with the motherboard bundle, allowing you to have noise reducing recording done on the integrated audio.  Rear IO The rear I/O of the board consists of 4 USB 2.0 ports, an external SATA port, 6 jacks for the onboard audio, an S/PDIF In and Out coaxial port, a Firewire port, a COM1 port, two RJ-45 jacks for the onboard Gigabit LAN, and a PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard port. Marvell PHY brings Gigabit Ethernet to the board along with the nForce 590 SLI MCP bringing such features as Teaming and TCP/IP Acceleration to the board. Contents: 
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