CPU

• Supports 64-bit AMD® Opteron™, Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core, Athlon™ 64 FX, Athlon™ 64 processor (Socket 939)
• Supports up to 3500+, 3800+, Athlon 64 FX 53(55), or higher CPU
Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.

Chipset

• NVIDIA® nForce4 / nForce4 Ultra Chipset
- HyperTransport link to the AMD Athlon 64/Athlon 64 FX CPU
- HyperTransport supporting speed up to 1GHz (2000MT/s)
- Supports PCI Express x16/x1 interface
- Two independent SATA controllers, for four drives
- Dual Fast ATA-133 IDE controllers
- IEEE 802.3 NVIDIA MAC for 1000BASE-T

Main Memory

• Supports dual channel DDR 266/333/400, using four 184-pin DDR DIMMs.
• Supports a maximum memory size up to 4GB without ECC.
• Supports 2.5v DDR DRAM DIMM.

Slots

• One PCI Express x16 slot (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• One PCI Express x1 slots (support PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• Four 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface).

On-Board IDE

• An IDE controller on the NVIDIA nForce4 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO,
Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices

On-Board SATA

• nForce4 chipset supports 4 SATA ports. (Orange SATA Connector)
- Transfer rate is up to 1.5Gb/s.
• nForce4 Ultra chipset supports 4 SATA II ports. (Purple SATA II Connector)
- Transfer rate is up to 3Gb/s.

NV RAID (Software)
• Supports up to 4 SATA and 4 ATA133 Hard drives
- RAID 0 or 1, 0+1, JBOD is supported
- RAID function available for ATA133+SATA H/D drives

Audio

• 7.1 channel audio codec RealTek ALC850.
- Compliance with AC97 v2.3 Spec.
- Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement.

LAN  

• Supports Gigabit LAN
- Supports 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Marvell 88E1115 PHY

Internal I/O Connectors

- ATX 24-Pin power connector
- 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
- CPU / System x 2 / NB FAN connectors
- CD-in connector
- Clear CMOS jumper
- Chassis intrusion switch connector
- 1 x IrDA infrared module header
- 1 x MSI D-Bracket 2 Connector
- Front panel audio connector
- Front panel connector
- 3 x USB 2.0 connector support additional 6 ports
- 1 x Floppy disk drive connector
- 4 x Serial ATA connectors
- 2 x ATA133 HD connectors

Back Panel I/O Ports

- 1 x Parallel
- 1 x Serial port (COM 1)
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse
-  1 x Coaxial SPDIF out
-  1 x 6 in 1 Audio jack (S/SPDIF out)
- 4 x USB 2.0
- 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack

BIOS

• The motherboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and
expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The motherboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your
motherboard specifications.
• Supports boot from LAN, USB Device 1.1 & 2.0, and SATA HDD.