This mainboard is based on VIDIA Nforce780a SLI single chipset. The mainboard supports all AMD processohis mainboard is based on VIDIA Nforce780a SLI single chipset. The mainboard supports all Ars: Phenom, Athlon and Sempron. It has 4 DDR2DIMMs which can go upto a max of 8 GB. The LAN support is for 10/100/1000 fast Ethernet dual LAN by Realtek 8211BL/8111C. It also has 2 IDE ports, 6 SATAII ports and 2 ESATA ports.

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The SATA port supports RAID 0/1/0+ 1/5 and ESATA ports supports RAID 0/1 mode. The board carries 3 PCI Express x16 slots which are compatible with PCIE 2.0 specification. The board has 3-way SLI technology that allows 3 GPUs to run in sequence and enhance the performance of a graphic intensive applicalion. The board comes with an X-Fi audio card powered by crative CAO110 audio chip.

Ths supports up to 8 channel SPDIF audio and allows users to attach 2.4,6 or 8 speakers for better surround sound. The motherboard was tested with 320 GB SATA 7200 rpm HDD, Athlon 64X2 dual core 3800+ 2.0 GHz processor, 2 GB DDR2 533 MHz RAM and Windows XP SP3. The score for 3D Mark, PCMark and Pov ray benchmarks were 7386, 1093 and 40,590 respectively. The CineBench scores were: 1 CPU-1665 and x-CPU-3225. To test the &.aming performance we used' GeForce 9600 GT for UT3 and obtained a score of 94 Fps.