Chipset

• Intel® 945G Chipset
- Supports FSB 533/800/1066MHz.
- Integrated Intel® GMA 950 graphics core 
- Supports PCI Express x 16 graphics interface.
- Supports dual channel, DDR2 400/533/667

• Intel® ICH7/ICH7R Chipset
- Hi-Speed USB (USB2.0) controller, 480Mb/sec, up to 8 ports.
- 4 SATAII ports with transfer rate up to 3Gb/s.
- 1 channel Ultra ATA 100 bus master IDE controller.
- PCI Master v2.3, I/O APIC.
- ACPI 2.0 compliant.
- Supports AHCI controller with SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Matrix RAID. (ICH7R only) 

Main Memory 

• Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.8 Volt DDRII DRAM
• Supports up to 4GB memory size.
• Supports dual channel DDRII memory architecture.
• Supports DDRII 533/667 memory interface.

Slots • One PCI Express x16 slot. (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant) 
• One PCI Express x4 slots.
• Two 32-bit v2.3 master PCI bus slots. (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface)

On-Board IDE/SATA 

• One Ultra DMA 66/100 IDE controllers integrated in ICH7/ICH7R
- Supports PIO, Bus Master operation modes.
- Can connect up to two Ultra ATA drives.

• SATAII controller integrated in ICH7/ICH7R
- Up to 3Gb/s transfer speed.
- Can connect up to four SATAII devices.
- Supports AHCI controller with SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Matrix RAID. (ICH7R only)

MSI Reminds You... • The RAID setup floppy disk is optional depending on the districts. You can download the files from the website to make the setup disk.  • ICH7R with RAID function only available on945GM2-FR

Audio

• High Definition link controller integrated in Intel® ICH7/ICH7R chip.
• Audio codec Realtek® ALC880.
- Compliant with Azalia 1.0 spec.

LAN

• Realtek® RTL8110S 
- Supports 10 / 100 / 1000 Mb/s.
- Compliane with PCI 2.2.
- Supports ACPI Power Management.

IEEE1394

• VIA® 6307 chipset
- Supports up to two 1394 ports. (Rear panel x1, pinheader x1) 
- Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps

IEEE1394 only available on945GM2-FI

Internal I/O Connectors

- ATX 24-Pin power connector
- 4-pin VGA power connector
- 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- CPU / System FAN connectors
- CD-in connector
- Serial port header (COM2) 
- Front panel audio connector
- Front panel connector
- 2 x USB 2.0 connector support additional 4 ports
- 1 x IEEE1394 connector support additional 1 ports (optional)
- 1 x Floppy disk drive connector
- 4 x Serial ATA connectors
- 1 x ATA100 HD connectors
- Wake on LAN connector 
- Chassis intrusion switch connector
- Clear CMOS jumper

MSI Reminds You... • The floppy disk cable will be optional.

Back Panel I/O Ports

- 1 x Parallel port 
- 1 x Serial port (COM 1)
- 1 x VGA port 
- 1 x PS/2 keyboard 
- 1 x PS/2 mouse 
- 1 x 6 in 1 audio jack (S/SPDIF out) 
- 1 x IEEE1394 port (optional)
- 4 x USB 2.0 ports
- 1 x RJ45 LAN jack