Among its key features, the board has support for dual channel DDR2 as well as DDR3 memory modules. The board supports Intel's latest P3 5 Express chipset. This provides support for Intel's multi-core CPUs, including those based on the 45 nm process. The board supports a front side bus speed of up to 1600 MHz and it even allows you to vary the memory ratios to over clock the board.
The motherboard has 1 pcr Express x 16 slot, 3 PCI Ex¬press xl slots. and 3 regular PCI slots. Plus, it can support upto 12 USB 2 ports



The motherboard was tested on a machine having 600 watts SMPS, 120 GB '. SATA 7200rpmHDD, a Quad Core 2.66 GHz Processor with 2 GB DDR2 e'533 MHz RAM and WinXP SP2. The Sandra was 62.5 and 0.44ns/MHz. The scores for 3D Mark. PC Mark and Pov-Ray benchmarks were 3490. 4257 and 18558 respectively. lCPU-753 and xCPU¬2591 were the Cinebench 10 scores. After we plugged in an NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT graphics card, the scores obtained for the latest games, viz UT3. Crysis and Com¬pany of Heroes stood at 49. 18 and 117 FPS respectively .