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To complement the High Definition decoding of the G45 Express, the P5Q-EM offers up HDMI, DVI and VGA video outputs, allowing you to output HD video right to a home theatre display without any additional expense.
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Asus P5Q-EM Motherboard Highlights
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The Asus P5Q-EM is equipped with
one PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot for a discrete graphics card, a 32-bit
PCI and pair of x1 PCI Express slots for peripherals. Only
solid state aluminum capacitors are
used.
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Six 3.0GBps SATA II ports are tucked into the corner
of the motherboard, in front of three USB hearers, one firewire and
the motherboard's front panel header. The six SATA II ports are powered by
Intel's ICH10R southbridge, and support RAID 0, 1 5 and 10. An eSATA
bracket can be plugged into one of these jacks. The Intel ICH10R is hidden
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The Asus P5Q-EM motherboard
supports up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, at speeds of 667/800/1066MHz. The
memory capacity with 64-bit versions of Windows is
16GB.
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CPU support runs the range of
Intel's socket 775 processor line: 800/1066/1333/1600MHz
FSB.
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The Asus P5Q-EM
motherboard is built with all solid-state capacitors. These do not dry
out, leak or burst the way electrolytic capacitors can with
time.
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The I/O shield
houses DVI, VGA and HDMI video output, S/PDIF optical output and
multi-channel stereo ports for audio. The PS/2 connection is combination
mouse and keyboard, with two USB2.0 slots for good
measure.
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The on-board Asus EPU processor
(it's on the left, look carefully) can dynamically shift between power
phases in order to conserve energy when the CPU is under lighter load.
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An Asus motherboard built on a chipset that's
derived from the P45? Sounds like prime overclocking material to me! PCSTATS
gives the P5Q-EM a little bit of tweaking on the next page.
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