Board Features

* Support for Intel Lynnfield Core i5 and Core i7 LGA1156 CPUs
* Intel P55
* Four 1.5V DDR3 DIMM slots supporting up to 16GB of memory up to "2,133MHz (OC)"
* One Gigabit Ethernet controller from Realtek 8110SC
* Two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots providing either one x16 or two x8 links
* One PCI-Express x4 slot
* Two PCI slots
* Six SATA 3Gbps ports supporting Intel Matrix RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 and JBOD from Intel P55
* One IDE port supporting two devices and two SATA 3Gbps from JMicron JMB363
* Two SATA 3Gbps from JMicron 322 for "Asus Speeding HDD" including hardware RAID 0 and 1
* One eSATA 3Gbps port from JMicron 363
* 14 USB 2.0 ports - eight on rear I/O, six via pin-outs
* IEEE1394a Firewire supporting two ports - one via pin-outs, one on the rear I/O
* VIA VT2020 10-channel High-Definition audio codec supporting VIA Envy HD 192/24 "absolute pitch" audio and Creative X-Fi software including EAX Advanced HD 4.0, CMSS-3D, X-Fi Crystalizer and Creative ALchemy