Asus P5B Premium LGA775 DDR2 Motherboard

Asus P5B Premium LGA775 P965 DDR2 Motherboard. This motherboard supports the most powerful and energy efficient Intel® Core™2 processors. It features the Intel® P965 chipset and supports DDR2 800MHz dual-channel memory architecture. Quiet thermal technologies – 8-Phase Power Design, Stack Cool 2, Heat Pipe Design, Q-Fan 2 – together provide a comfortable environment for the processor, memory, graphics card and other components to interoperate effectively. With exclusive innovative tools – AI NOS™, AI Gear and AI Nap – users can adjust operation speed according to their specific needs. This motherboard is a cool and stable platform that delivers extreme performance, minimum noise and maximum power saving !



Specifications:

CPU
Intel® Socket 775 Core™2 Quad/Core™2 Extreme/Core™2 Duo/Pentium® Extreme/Pentium® D/Pentium® 4/Celeron® D Processors Compatible with Intel® 05B/05A/06 processors
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology ready   

Chipset
Intel® P965 / ICH8R with Intel® Fast Memory Access Technology     

Front Side Bus
1066/800/533 MHz      

Memory
4 x DIMM, Max. 8 GB, DDR2 800/667/533 Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory
Dual Channel memory architecture  

Expansion Slots
2 x PCIe x16 (blue @ x16 mode, black @ x2 or x4 mode) supports CrossFire Technology
1 x PCIe x1 (x1 or disabled mode)
3 x PCI 2.2 

Storage
Southbridge
6 x SATA 3 Gb/s ports
Intel Matrix Storage Technology Support RAID 0,1,5,10
JMicron® JMB363 PATA and SATA controller
1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices
1 x Internal SATA 3.0 Gb/s port
1 x External SATA port (SATA On-the-Go)
Support RAID 0,1,JBOD* (by 1x External SATA & 1x Internal SATA)
To create a RAID set, you need to prepare one internal SATA HD and one external SATA HD.    

LAN
Dual Gigabit LAN controllers, both featuring AI NET2 Marvell® PCI-E and PCI Gigabit LAN controllers
TI® 1394a controller supports 2 x 1394a ports (one at midboard; one at back panel)

Audio
ADI® AD1988B 8 -Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
Coaxial / Optical S/PDIF out ports

USB Ports
8 USB 2.0 ports (4 ports at mid-board, 4 ports at back panel)      

Back Panel I/O Ports
1 x PS/2 Keyboard
1 x PS/2 Mouse
1 x Serial port
1 x External SATA
1 x S/PDIF Out
1 x IEEE 1394a
2 x LAN(RJ45) port
4 x USB 2.0/1.1
8 -Channel Audio I/O         

Internal I/O Ports
2 x USB connectors support additional 4 USB ports
1 x Floppy disk drive connector
1 x IDE connector
1 x TPM connector
7 x SATA connectors
1 x IEEE 1394a connector
1 x CPU Fan connector
3 x Chassis Fan connector
1 x Power Fan connector
1 x S/PDIF Out connector
2 x 4-pin ATX 12V Power connector
24-pin ATX Power connector
Front panel audio connector
Chassis Intrusion connector
CD/AUX audio in
System Panel      

BIOS
8 Mb Flash ROM
AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 2.3, ACPI 2.0a, Multi-language BIOS, ASUS EZ Flash 2, ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 

ATX Form Factor
ATX Form Factor
12 inch x 9.6 inch ( 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm )