First you have the standard – but not quite standard – compliment of a manual, driver/utility DVD, sticker, SATA cables and back plate. There is a strong accessory pack, as motherboards go. To go with the native Crossfire-X compatibility and the Hydra addition, the board comes complete with five PCI-e 2.0 x16 slots – configurable as 2 x 16x, 3 x 16x or 2 x 16x + 2 x 8x. So while you can run multiple NVIDIA cards, it is not “SLI”. This is a good thing, in that you can combine different generations rather than being tied to identical cards as with SLI. While benchmarkers may not take advantage of that particular feature, what this means for them is that you can run SLI on an AMD chipset a feat not accomplished before now without hacked, potentially unstable drivers.Īuthor’s Note: Please note for clarity, the Hydra chip offers “N mode” rather than “SLI”. If you want to use the most recent generation released (say, an HD 6870) with your next-to-most recent card (say, a GTX 470), you can! Call it SL-Hydra-Fire…call it what you want, your FPS goes up and that makes any gamer happy. This gives PC users greater flexibility, and enables vastly increased performance, free of compatibility limitations.” Any generation graphics card from either nVidia or ATI combined with one another. Per ASUS, “Lucid Hydra CrossLinx 3 makes it possible to combine multi-GPU graphics cards from any generation and vendor on the same motherboard. Apart from the obvious facts that this board uses AMD’s strongest chipset, the 890FX northbridge and SB850 southbridge, it also shows you a very interesting addition – the Lucid Hydra Crosslink 3 chip. – COP EX (Component Overheat Protection – EX)ħ x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (1 port is also for ROG Connect)ģ x USB connectors supports additional 6 USB 2.0 portsĨ x SATA connectors: 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (Red) & 2 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (Gray)Ĩ x Fan connectors: 1 x CPU / 1 x PWR / 3 x Chassis / 3 x OptionalĢ x EZ Plug connectors (4-pin Molex Power connectors)ġ6 Mb Flash ROM AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 2.4, ACPI2.0a Multi-Language BIOSġ x Multi-functional module (1-port IEEE 1394a + 2-port USB2.0)ġ2 inch x 10.6 inch ( 30.5 cm x 26.9 cm ) Onboard Switches: Power / Reset / Core Unlocker / Clr CMOS (at rear)ĪSUS Q-LED (CPU, DRAM, VGA, Boot Device LED)īIOS Flashback with onboard switch button – 13 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (6 ports at mid-board, 6 ports at rear, 1 port at rear is also for ROG connect) – Supports 1 Optical S/PDIF out port at back I/O – Supports Jack-Detection, Multi-streaming, Front Panel Jack-Retasking A RAID array over 2TB can only be set as a data disk only. * Due to the Windows XP/ Vista limitation, the RAID array with the total capacity over 2TB cannot be set as a boot disk. Support Lucid HYDRALOGIX / ATI CrossFire™X TechnologyĦ xSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports Support RAID 0,1,5,10ġ x Power External SATA 3Gb/s ports at rear (SATA On-the-Go)ġ x External SATA 3Gb/s ports at rear (SATA On-the-Go) Hence, a total installed memory of less than 3GB is recommended.ĥ x PCIe 2.0 x16 (dual x16, triple x16 x8 x8) When installing total memory of 4GB capacity or more, Windows 32-bit operation system may only recognize less than 3GB. Please refer to or user manual for Memory QVL. With ASUS design, this motherboard can support up to DDR3 1333MHz. *Due to CPU spec., AMD 100 and 200 series CPUs support up to DDR3 1066Mhz. AMD Socket AM3 Phenom™II /Athlon™II /Sempron™ 100 Series ProcessorsĤ x DIMM, Max.
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