| The A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard improves on the popular A7N8X Deluxe by adding Gigabit LAN and the exclusive ASUS Wi-Fi slot for easy wireless LAN setup. Of course, innovative features such as AGPPro/8x, Dolby® digital 6-channel audio, onboard IEEE 1394, Serial ATA, dual-channel DDR 400 and a dual LAN design are still included in this latest board. I bought this motherboard for a windows XP box. It worked perfect out of the box. Great on board extras: 2 NIC's-one gigabit-one 10/100, 6 channel audio, SATA, Wi-Fi, 6USB, 2 IEEE 1394. Outstanding BIOS, although my neighbor experienced BIOS death twice with this board I have had no problems. I run windows XP on this machine and have heard of problems with the Nforce2 chipset and linux although, knoppix seems to run fine on it. That has mad me a little scared to make this one a linux only machine. | A7n8x-e motherboard | | PROCESSOR | Socket A (462) for AMD Athlon XP AMD Duron Barton/Thoroughbred Core Ready | | CHIPSET | NVIDIA nForce2 North Bridge: NVIDIA® nForce2 SPP Ultra 400 South Bridge: NVIDIA® nForce2 MCP-T | | FSB SPEED | 400 / 333 / 266 / 200MHz | | SYSTEM MEMORY | Dual-Channel DDR 400 3 x 184-pin DIMM Sockets Max. 3 GB unbuffered PC3200(DDR400) / PC2700 (DDR333) / PC2100 (DDR266) / PC1600 (DDR200) non-ECC DDR RAM Memory (Twinbank) | | ON BOARD I/O | 1 x USB 2.0 connector support additional 2 USB 2.0 ports CPU/Power/Chassis FAN connectors Game Connector 20 pin ATX power connector IDE LED connector, power LED connector 2 x 1394 Connector 2 x SATA (Serial ATA) Connector WOR, WOL, Chassis Intrusion, SM Bus, SIR Headphone (optional) Front MIC CD/AUX/Modem audio in Front Panel Audio connector (optional) | | ON BOARD IDE | 2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66/33 | | SERIAL ATA | Silicon Image® Sil 3112A Controller with 2 ports Support RAID 0/1 | | ON BOARD AUDIO | Realtek® ALC650 6CH w/built in HP amplifier Integrated APU(Audio Processor Unit) SoundStorm/ Dolby® Digital (AC-3) Encoder | | ON BOARD LAN | 2 LAN Ports -Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit Lan PCI Controller -MCP-T integrated NVIDIA MAC + Realtek 8201BL PHY | | ON BOARD 1394 | IEEE 1394 interface provides high speed digital interface for audio / video appliances such as digital television, digital video camcorders, storage peripherals & other PC portable devices. 2 Firewire 1394 Ports MCP-T Integrated IEEE 1394a + Realtek® PHY 8801B | | FEATURES | Dual-Channel DDR400 Support TwinBank memory architecture to achieve Max 6.4GB/s bandwidth Asus PC Probe Asus LiveUpdate Utility Power Loss Restart CPU Throttle Vcore and Vio adjustable ASUS C.O.P. (CPU Overheating Protection) Post Reporter Q-Fan Technology STR (Suspend-to-RAM) | | BIOS & MANAGEMENT | 4Mb Flash ROM, Award BIOS, TCAV, PnP, DMI2.0, DMI, Green Industrial Standard PCI 2.2, USB 2.0 Manageability: DMI 2.0, WOR, WOL, Chassis Intrusion, SM Bus | | EXPANSION SLOTS | 1 x AGP Pro/8X (1.5V only) 5 x PCI Slots | | BACK I/O PORTS | 1 x Parallel 1 x Serial 1 x PS/2 Keyboard 1 x PS/2 Mouse 1 x Audio I/O 4 x USB 2.0 1 x S/PDIF out + 1 x Surround L/R audio jack + 1 x CNTR/LFE audio jack 2 X RJ45 | | ACCESSORIES | I/O Shield SATA Cable 2-port USB 2.0 / Game port bracket User's Manual UltraDMA 133 cable 2-Port 1394 Bracket FDD cable UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable 9-pin COM cable InterVideo WinDVD Suite | | BOARD SIZE | ATX 12"x 9.6" | |