Asus M3N72-D is a fantastic AMD motherboard, comes with supporting 140 watt CPU for new AMD Phenom, DDR2 1066 memory, overclocking, SLI and Hybrid SLI, external SATA, Firewire and HDMI with sound on board. The BIOS is well designed and easy to use. The User’s Manual included in the box is extremely well written. The SATA ports mounted on the side as they leave more clearance for other componenets. Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit version detected most of the devices and the included software bundle installed wonderfully. Some users complain of the CD-In port too far away from the drives bay. However, just move your drives down lower in the case, or buy a longer cable. Otherwise, the CD-In port is only needed for the older CD and DVD optical drives that utilize the older IDE 40-wire ribbon cables. The newer IDE optical compponents like DL-DVD and Blue-Ray can use the Ultra IDE 80-wire ribbon cable (included in the box), or SATA cables which both of these transmit audio signals via the cables, so the the CD-In cable isn’t needed. This AMD mainboard is well laid out and well engineered.
ASUS M3N72-D AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Specification
| Processor | : | Socket AM2+/AM2; Phenom, Athlon64 X2, Sempron processors |
| Chipset | : | NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI Chipset |
| Front Side Bus | : | 2600MHz Hyper Transport (5200 MT/s) |
| Memory | : | Max. 8GB;Dual channel DDR2 1066*/800 x 4 DIMMs
*DDR2 1066 is supported by AM2+ CPU |
| Expansion Slots | : | 2*PCIe2.0 x16, 2*PCIe x1, 2*PCI |
| IDE | : | 1*ATA100 |
| Serial ATA(SATA)/RAID | : | 6*SATAII w/ RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD |
| Onboard Video Chipset | : | NVIDIA GeForce 8 series w/ HDMI Video port connector |
| Audio | : | Realtek ALC1200, 7.1 channel Audio |
| LAN | : | Realtek 8211C; 10/100/1000Mbps |
| IEEE1394 | : | 1*1394a |
