| 533 MHz Front Side Bus | Up to 33% increase in Front Side Bus bandwidth over the previous generation. |
| Support for dual channel DDR2 400/533 MHz memory technology | Up to 60% improvement in peak memory bandwidth and average power savings over DDR memory. |
| Discrete Graphics | Supports a high speed PCI Express * graphics interface for the gaming and workstation applications. |
| Intel Stable Image Technology | Supports a unified graphics driver. Enables hardware changes without impact to IT software image stability. |
| Serial ATA | Provides up to 150 MB/sec transfer rate for disk traffic. |
| Direct Media Interface (DMI) | With up to 2 GB/sec concurrent bandwidth, DMI provides up to 4x faster I/O bandwidth compared to previous Intel proprietary Hub link I/O interface. |
| Integrated high speed USB 2.0 | Support for eight USB 2.0 peripherals for maximum 40x faster data transfer and backward compatible to support USB 1.1 devices. |
| Intel High Definition Audio (Intel HD Audio) | Increased bandwidth for high quality audio and support for Dolby* Technologies. Also enables power savings during audio activity. |
| PCI Express* Bus Architecture | Delivers up to a 4 times increase in discrete graphics bandwidth and 2 times the I/O bandwidth. Also supports industry peripherals such as ExpressCard*. Low pin count offers maximum bandwidth per pin. |
