The Intel® G41 Express Chipset supports dual-channel DDR2 (6.4GB/s) or DDR3 (8.5GB/s) architecture with a 1333MHz (MAX ) FSB (Front Side Bus) and multi-core CPUs.

The Intel® GMA X4500 delivers DirectX10 3D graphics performance with SM 4.0 and OGL 2.1.

It has a maximum of 4 SATA2 (3GB/s), 6 USB2 and 4 PCIe X1 connectors (The ASUS P5G41-M has only one PCIe X1 connector).

The PCIe 1.1 X16 has only half the speed of PCIe version 2.0 X16. If you plan to upgrade your video card in (the near) future this should be taken into consideration, as graphics cards become faster and faster.

1. Introduction
   
2. Bundle, box and gallery
   
3. Motherboard Specifications
   
4. BIOS screenshots
   
5. Bundled software
   
6. Test setup and overclocking
   

7. CPU and Memory benchmarks
   
8. Rendering
   
9. Compression
   
10. Graphics
    
11. Power consumption
    
12. Conclusion