MSI K8T Neo2-F/ FIR AMI BIOS 9.4

- Update CPU ID.


Specifications:

CPU

￭ Supports 64-bit AMD Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX processor (Socket 939)
￭ Supports up to 3500 , 3800 Athlon 64 FX 53, or higher CPU
Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.


Chipset

￭ VIA K8T800 Pro Chipset
- HyperTransport connection to AMD Athlon 64 processor
- 8 or 16 bit control/address/data transfer both directions
- 800/600/400/200MHz "Double Data Rate" operation both direction
- AGP v3.0 compliant with 8x transfer mode

￭ VIA VT8237 Chipset
- Integrated Faster Ethernet LPC
- Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio
- Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller
- ACPI
- Supports 2 Serial ATA ports
- Supports 8 USB2.0 ports


Main Memory

￭ Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 2.5V DDR SDRAM.
￭ Supports up to 4GB memory size without ECC.
￭ Supports Dual channel DDR266/333/400MHz.


Slots

￭ One AGP 8x slot
- AGP 3.0 specification compliant
￭ Five 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface).


On-Board IDE / SATA

￭ An IDE controller on the VIA VT8237 chipset provides IDE HDD/CDROM with PIO, Bus
Master and Ultra DMA 66/100/133 operation modes
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices

￭ Serial ATA/150 controller integrated by VT8237
- Up ot 150MB/s transfer rate
- Can connect up to 2 serial ATA devices
- Supports RAID 0 or RAID 1


Serial ATA RAID

￭ Promise 20579 On-Board
￭ Supports 2 serial ATA and 1 ATA133
- RAID 0, RAID 1 supported
- RAID function work w/ATA133 SATA H/D or 2 SATA H/D
￭ Connect up to 2 SATA devices and 1 ATA133 devices
￭ SATA 150MB/s with extensions (SATA II Phase I)
￭ Smart RAID function
￭ SATA ATAPI device compatible




Audio

￭ 8 channels software audio codec RealTek ALC850
- Compliance with AC97 v2.3 Spec.
- Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement.


LAN

￭ Realtek 8110S Dual layout
- Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip.
- Supports 10, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s


IEEE1394

￭ VIA� 6306
- Supports up to three 1394 ports. Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps


On-Board Peripherals

On-Board Peripherals include:
- 1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes
- 1 serial port (COM1)
- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
- 1 IrDA connector for SIR/ASKIR/HPSIR
- 1 audio port
- 8 USB 2.0 ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 4)
- 1 RJ45 LAN jack
- 3 IEEE1394 port (Rear x 1 / Front x 2 header) (Optional)


BIOS

￭ The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and
expansion cards of the board automatically.
￭ The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your
mainboard specifications.


Dimension

￭ 30.5cm(L) x 24.5cm(W) ATX Form Factor

Mounting

￭ 9 mounting holes.