CPU

• Supports Socket 775 for Intel® P4 5XX, 6XX, P4EE, *Pentium D 8XX and Celeron D processors.
• Supports FSB 1066/800/533MHz.
• Supports EIST technology.
• Supports Intel® Hyper-Threading technology.
• *For Pentium D support info please refer to MSI CPU support table.
Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.

Chipset

• NVIDIA® nForce4 SLI Intel Edition Chipset
- HyperTransport link to nVidia MCP04 south bridge
- Supports 2 PCI Express x 16 and 1 PCI Express x 1 interface
- Supports dual channel, DDR2 533/667

• NVIDIA® MCP04 (for nForce4 SLI Intel Edition) Chipset
- Integrate SATA-II controller, four drives
- Dual Fast-ATA 133 IDE controller, for four devices
- IEEE 802.3 nVIDIA MAC for 1000BASE-T

Main Memory

• Supports dual channel DDR2 533/667, using four 240-pin/1.8V DDR2 DIMMs.
• Supports a maximum memory size up to 16GB.

 

Slots    • Two PCI Express x16 slot (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)

Normal mode	Primary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x 16 Secondary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x 1
SLI mode	Primary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x 8 Secondary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x 8

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

On-Board IDE 

• An IDE controller on the NVIDIA® MCP04(for nForce4 SLI Intel Edition) chipset provides IDE
  HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices.
- Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, RAID 5 or JBOD mode.

 

On-Board SATA  

• MCP04(for nForce4 SLI Intel Edition) supports 4 SATA II ports.
- Transfer rate is up to 300 MB/s.
- Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, RAID 5 or JBOD mode.

NV RAID
• Supports up to 4 SATA and 4 ATA133 Hard drives.
- RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 or JBOD is supported.
- Supports up to 8 drives for RAID function.

Audio

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

LAN  

• Supports 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by nForce4 SLI Intel Edition MCP04 south bridge.

USB  

• 10 USB ports
- Controlled by MCP04(for nForce4 SLI Intel Edition) chip.
- 4 ports in the rear I/O, 6 ports via the external bracket.

IEEE1394

• VIA® 6306 chipset
- Supports up to three 1394 ports. (Rear panel x1, front x2)
- Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps.

Internal I/O Connectors

- ATX 24-Pin power connector
- 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
- 4-pin GPU power connector
- CPU / System / Power / NB FAN connectors
- 1 x IrDA infrared module header
- 1 x MSI D-Bracket 2 connector
- CD-in connector
- IrDA infrared module header
- Chassis intrusion switch connector
- Clear CMOS button
- Front panel audio connector
- Front panel connector
- 2 x IEEE1394 connector support additional 2 ports
- 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 port
- 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)
- 1 x IEEE1394 port
- 4 x USB 2.0 ports
- 1 x RJ45 LAN Jacks