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M5A97 Pro - ATX, AMD AM3+ FX, AMD 970/SB950, 4 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR3 2133MHz, AMD Quad-GPU CrossFireX, 6 x SATA 6Gb/s, 2 x eSATA 3Gb/s, 32 Mb Flash ROM, UEFI BIOS
Digital Power Design: The New Standard
The world's first Dual Intelligent Processors from ASUS pioneered the use of two onboard chips - EPU (Energy Processing Unit) and TPU (TurboV Processing Unit). The new generation of Dual Intelligent Processors 2 with DIGI+ VRM provides precise Vcore PWM, integrated graphics voltages and frequency module adjustments with minimal power loss through BIOS tuning and an exclusive user interface to increase the board's overclocking range while performance reaches its full potential. ASUS DIGI+ VRM digital power design empowers users with superior flexibility and perfect precision to ensure optimized performance, extreme system stability and greater power efficiency.
DIGI+ VRM
Herald the Arrival of a New Digital Power Design Era VRM, or voltage regulator modules, are considered among the most essential motherboard design components. They supply the voltage demanded by the CPU, and a good VRM must intelligently detect actual CPU power draw to provide precise power accordingly. ASUS DIGI+ VRM features a digital programmable microprocessor onboard to perfectly match digital power signal (SVID) requests from the CPU, eliminating digital-to-analog conversion lag. The precise power delivery minimizes power transfer loss to provide highest power efficiency, greater performance, and rock solid stability with the most flexible power adjustment than traditional analog power design.
TPU
The Ultimate Turbo Processor Unleash your performance with ASUS' simple onboard switch or AI Suite II utility. The TPU chip offers precise voltage control and advanced monitoring through Auto Tuning and TurboV functions. Auto Tuning offers a user friendly way to automatically optimize the system for fast, yet stable clock speeds, while TurboV enables unlimited freedom to adjust CPU frequencies and ratios for optimized performance in diverse situations.
EPU
Energy Efficiency All Around Tap into the world's first real-time PC power saving chip through a simple onboard switch or AI Suite II utility. Get total system-wide energy optimization by automatically detecting current PC loadings and intelligently moderating power consumption. This also reduces fan noise and extends component longevity!
Auto Tuning
Auto System Level Up Achieve extreme yet stable overclocking results automatically with Auto Tuning! With built-in stability testing, Auto Tuning allows beginners to easily upgrade their CPU performance at no extra cost.
UEFI BIOS (EZ Mode)
Flexible & Easy BIOS Interface Exclusive to ASUS motherboards, its UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is the first ever mouse-controlled graphical BIOS interface designed with dual selectable modes. It delivers a user-friendly interface that goes beyond traditional keyboard-only BIOS controls to enable more flexible and convenient input with quick scrolling. Users can easily navigate the UEFI BIOS with the smoothness of their operating system. Quick and simple overclocking and setup sharing is facilitated by the F12 hotkey BIOS snapshot feature. The exclusive EZ Mode displays frequently-accessed setup info, while the Advanced Mode is for experienced performance enthusiasts that demand far more intricate system control, including detailed DRAM information.
Exclusive ASUS Interface
- EZ Mode - gives easy access to selectable, optimized system modes, clear system info display and drag and drop boot prioritizing - Advanced Mode - for experienced performance enthusiasts that demand intricate system settings
AI Suite II
One-stop Access to Innovative ASUS Features With its user-friendly interface, ASUS AI Suite II consolidates all exclusive ASUS features into one simple-to-use package. It allows users to supervise overclocking, energy management, fan speed, voltage, and sensor readings. This all-in-one software offers diverse and easy to use functions, with no need to switch back and forth between different utilities.
SATA 6Gb/s Support
AMD® SB950 Southbridge natively supports next-generation Serial ATA (SATA) storage interface, this motherboard delivers up to 6.0 Gb/s data transfer rates. Additionally, get enhanced scalability, faster data retrieval, double the bandwidth of current bus systems.
USB 3.0 support
Experience ultra-fast data transfers at 4.8 Gb/s with USB 3.0-the latest connectivity standard. Built to connect easily with next-generation components and peripherals, USB 3.0 transfers data 10X faster and is also backward compatible with USB 2.0 components.
AMD® AM3+ FX/Phenom(TM)II /Athlon(TM)II /Sempron(TM) 100 Series Processors
This motherboard supports AMD® AM3+/AM3 multi-core processors with unique L3 cache and delivers better overclocking capabilities with less power consumption. It features dual-channel DDR3 memory support and accelerates data transfer rate up to 4800MT/s via HyperTransport(TM) 3.0 based system bus. This motherboard also supports AMD® CPUs in the new 32nm manufacturing process.
AMD 970
AMD® 970 Chipset is designed to support up to 4800MT HyperTransport(TM) 3.0 (HT 3.0) interface speed and PCI Express(TM) 2.0 x16 graphics. It is optimized with AMD®'s latest AM3+ and multi-core CPUs to provide excellent system performance and overclocking capabilities.
CrossFireX Support
Flexible Multi-GPU solutions, Your Weapon of Choice! ATI's CrossFireX(TM) boosts image quality along with rendering speed, eliminating the need to scale down screen resolution to get high quality images. CrossFireX(TM) allows higher antialiasing, anisotropic filtering, shading and texture settings. Adjust your display configurations, experiment with the 3D settings, and check the effects with a real-time 3D-rendered previews within ATI Catalyst(TM) Control Center.
GreenASUS and ErP Ready
The motherboard is European Union´s Energy-related Products (ErP) ready, and ErP requires products to meet certain energy efficiency requirements in regards to energy consumptions. This is in line with ASUS vision of creating environment-friendly and energy-efficient products through product design and innovation to reduce carbon footprint of the product and thus mitigate environmental impacts. | Memory | | Number of DIMM slots | 4 | | Non-ECC | Y | | Maximum internal memory | 32 | | Memory channels support | dual | | Supported memory types | DDR3 | | Supported memory clock speeds | 1066,1333,1600,1800,1866,2133 | | Internal I/O | | Chassis intrusion connector | Y | | Power fan connector | Y | | CPU fan connector | Y | | Front panel audio connector | Y | | Number of EATX power connectors | 1 | | USB 2.0 connectors | 3 | | Number of Parallel ATA connectors | 0 | | Number of SATA 3 connectors | 6 | | Number of COM connectors | 1 | | Number of chassis fan connectors | 2 | | S/PDIF out connector | Y | | Back panel I/O ports | | Speaker/ headphone/ line-out jack | 6 | | Digital audio optical out | 1 | | PS/2 ports quantity | 1 | | Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports quantity | 1 | | DVI-D ports quantity | 0 | | USB 2.0 ports quantity | 8 | | HDMI ports quantity | 0 | | VGA (D-Sub) ports quantity | 0 | | IEEE 1394/Firewire ports quantity | 0 | | eSATA ports quantity | 2 | | USB 3.0 ports quantity | 2 | | Management features | | Manageability features | WfM 2.0, DMI 2.0, WOL by PME, WOR by PME, PXE |
| Technical details | | Source data-sheet | Icecat.biz | | Proper use | PC | | Parallel processing technology support | Quad CrossFireX | | Motherboard chipset | AMD 970 | | Motherboard form factor | ATX | | Other features | | Compatible operating systems | Windows 32/64-bit | | BIOS | | BIOS memory size | 32 | | BIOS type | EFI | | ACPI version | 2.0a | | Video | | Integrated graphics adapter (UMA/GMA) | Y | | Networking | | Ethernet interface type | Gigabit | | LAN controller | Realtek RTL8111E | | Storage controllers | | RAID levels | 0,1,5,10 | | Controller interface type | AMD SB950 | | Controller (2nd) interface type | JMicron JMB362 | | Weight & dimensions | | Depth | 244 | | Width | 305 | | Expansion slots | | PCI Express x4 slots | 1 | | PCI Express slots version | 2.0 | | PCI Express x16 slots | 1 | | PCI Express x1 slots | 1 | | PCI slots | 2 | | Audio | | Audio system | Realtek ALC892 | | Audio output channels | 7.1 | | Processor | | Processors compatible | Phenom II X6,Phenom II X4,Phenom II X2,Athlon II X4,Athlon II X3,Athlon II X2 | | Processor family | AMD | | Processor socket | Socket AM3 |
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