Asus M2N-SLI Motherboard - NVIDIA nForce 560 SLI, Socket AM2/AM2+, ATX, Audio, PCI Express, Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB 2.0, Firewire, Serial ATA, RAID

Socket
This motherboard features a Socket AM2/AM2+ design.

Chipset
The M2N-SLI motherboard is based on the NVIDIA nForce 560 SLI MCP Northbridge chipset. It supports AMD Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 Fx, Athlon 64 and Sempron Processors, with Hyper-Transport Technology and 800/1000MHz (1600/2000 MT/s) Front Side Bus support.

Asus M2N-SLI Socket AM2/AM2+ Barebone Kit

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In order to come up with your ideal multimedia and gaming system, you need to choose the best hardware for your computer. With the Asus M2N-SLI Socket AM2/AM2+ Barebone Kit, all the best components are combined to give you the best and toughest computer system.

This multimedia barebone kit consists of an AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.0GHz Socket AM2 CPU, an Asus M2N-SLI Socket AM2 motherboard, a Western Digital 250GB SATA-300 OEM hard drive, a 20x DVD±RW burner, Crucial 2GB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz memory, a 800-watt power supply, and the Ultra X-Blaster Black ATX Mid-Tower case.

Expect exceptional multimedia performance with the AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processor which runs at the impressive speed of 3.0GHz. With that speed, you can do heavy tasks, such as photo manipulation and video editing, and you’re system will still run smoothly. Finish your tasks in less time with this processor.

The barebone kit also includes a large-capacity Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA hard disk. For a multimedia computer, that space is definitely more than enough to contain all your files. Just so you can have an idea of how much files this hard disk can hold, here’s a concrete example: this HD can hold as much as 106 two-hour DVD-quality movies or 375 hours of VHS-quality video or 221 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or 93,750 vivid digital photos or 533 action-packed games!

And guess what, this hard disk has a cache size of a whopping 16MB. Bigger cache means faster performance. Plus, it has a file transfer rate of 3000 Mb per second so you don’t need to wait for so long just to access your file.

And of course, you need to back up those files in case you accidentally erase your data. With a 20x DVD±RW optical driveincluded in this barebone kit, you can do that – and you can do that fast. This DVD burner can write as much as 4.7GB of data in 5 minutes! And one amazing feature of this DVD burner is that it has SMART-WRITE technology - a self-learning function, automatically detecting and deciding the optimal write strategy of DVD recordable media (DVD-RW & DVD-R) for the best quality.

This barebone kit includes stable memory—2048MB of PC6400 DDR Crucial Ballistix Dual Channel memory with a speed of 800MHz. No one wants interrupted gaming fun just because your memory fails to deliver exceptional performance. With this memory, you can do multiple multimedia tasks – play computer games, watch movies, stream videos, and work on your office tasks – and your computer will still be performing smoothly.

And all that are protected in the sleek-designed Ultra X-Blaster ATX Mid-Tower Case. This tower case will give you the security and protection your internal hardware needs, and at the same time, it provides convenience and expansion possibilities. This tower can make your life easier because it has front USB ports for faster connectivity to other devices and audio Ports for an easier access. It also comes with PowerUp GEN-6803 800-Watt Power Supply so you need not to worry about energy needs

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