This motherboard supports the Intel Core i 7/ Core i 5/ Core i 3/ Pentium/ Celeron processors in the LGA1155 package, with i GPU, memory, & PCI Express controllers integrated to support onboard graphics out with dedicated chipsets, 2-channel (2 DIMMs) DDR3 memory, & 16 PCI Express 3.0/2.0 lanes. This provides great graphics performance. Intel Core i 7/ Core i 5/ Core i 3/ Pentium/ Celeron processors are among the most powerful & energy efficient CPUs in the world. The motherboard supports DDR3 memory that features data transfer rates of 2200 (O.C)/2133 (O.C)/2000 (O.C)/1866 (O.C)/1600/1333/1066 support MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the 3D graphics, multimedia, & Internet applications. The dual-channel DDR3 architecture enlarges the bandwidth of your system memory to boost system performance