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Asus M2N32 WS Professional Motherboard Highlights
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There is plenty of
space between the two PCI Express x16 slots for videocards with dual
slot heatsinks. There are two PCI Express x1 slots, one 32 bit PCI slot and
two 64 bit PCI-X slots for expansion as well. At the bottom of
the ASUS M2N32 WS Professional motherboard we find the two IEEE 1394a ports along
with the USB 2.0 headers. All headers are at the bottom of the motherboard, including;
a COM or Serial port header, two USB 2.0 headers and two IEEE 1394a
headers.
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Looking at the
bottom right hand
corner of the Asus M2N32 WS Professional motherboard we find two IDE
channels, nine Serial ATA II channels. Of these, six are from the nForce 590
SLI MCP and three from a Marvell controller. The system supports RAID
0/1/5/10 via the nVIDIA MCP55XE Southbridge chipset; NCQ and 'hot plug'
are standard. The Marvell Serial ATA II controller does not support
RAID.
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Clearance for
the first PCI Express x1 slot is tight. The two PCI-X slots at center have
enough room behind them for long expansion cards to be
installed.
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The Asus M2N32 WS
Professional has four 240-pin DDR-2 memory DIMM slots which accommodate
8GB of DDR-2 800/667/533 RAM. Populate the DIMM slots of the same colour
first, for dual channel memory. To the right of the DIMM slots are the
main 24 pin ATX power connector, IDE and floppy drive
connectors.
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As we can see here all the
cooling solution is very fancy. The small heatsink on the MCP55XE Southbridge
conducts heat though the heatpipe to the small heatsink on the Northbridge. The
C51XE also transfers a bit of heat to the MOSFET heatsink
too.
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Asus have implemented a PCB technology called "stackcool", which is
only just visible on the underside of the ASUS M2N32 WS Professional.
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