Socket This motherboard features a Socket AM2 (940) design. The Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) style socket makes it easy to install and upgrade your processor.
Chipset The KN9 SLI motherboard is based on the NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP Northbridge chipset. It supports AM2 (940) Processors, with Hyper-Transport technology and 1000MHz (2000 MT/s) Front Side Bus support.
Memory Expansion The KN9 SLI provides 4 DIMM sockets using Dual Channel 240-pin DDR2 with a total capacity of up to 4GB. You can install DDR2 800MHz Memory.
SLI™ Technology The Scalable Link Interface is a technology developed by nVidia® to link two or more graphics cards together. The linked graphics cards will effectively work as one graphic processing unit thereby potentially doubling the graphics processing power. To use SLI™, you can only use one graphics output and cannot use dual or multi-monitor output.
PCI Express Support The KN9 SLI fully supports PCI Express, the latest I/O interconnect technology that speeds up the PCI bus. PCI Express features point-to-point serial interconnections between devices and allows higher clockspeeds by carrying data in packets. This high-speed interface is software compatible with existing PCI specifications.
IDE The KN9 SLI includes built in IDE facilities that support Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133.
Audio The KN9 SLI comes with a Realtek ALC880 audio codec which supports high quality 8-channel audio.
Serial ATA RAID Support The KN9 SLI supports the Serial ATA technology through the Serial ATA interfaces. Doubles bus bandwidth which provides blazingly high disk performance, up to 3.0Gb/s.
Dual GbE LAN Dual NVIDIA® 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet