MSI K9N SLI Platinum Motherboard Nvidia nForce 570 SLI Chipset Based Designed for AMD Socket AM2 Athlon 64/FX/X2 Processors. Supports 64-bit AMD Athlon 64 / Athlon 64FX / Athlon 64 X2 processor (Socket AM2).

Specifications:

CPU:

• Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 / Athlon 64FX / Athlon 64 X2 processor (Socket AM2)
• Supports Athlon 64 CPU: 3500+, 3800+
• Supports Athlon 64FX CPU: FX-62
• Supports Athlon 64 X2 CPU: 3800+, 4000+, 4200, 4400+, 4600+, 4800+, 5000+, 5200+

Chipset:

NVIDIA ® nForce 570 SLI Chipset
- HyperTransport link to the AMD Athlon 64/Athlon 64FX/Athlon 64 X2 CPU
- Supports 2 PCI Express x16 interface (2nd X16 slot runs at X8 speed) / 2 PCI Express x 1 connection
- Independent SATAII controllers, for six drives
- Single Fast ATA-133 IDE controller

Main Memory:

• Supports dual channel DDR2 533/667/800, using four 240-pin DDR2 DIMMs.
• Supports the memory size up to 8GB
• Supports 1.8v DDR2 SDRAM DIMM

Slots:

• Two PCI Express X16 slot (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• 2nd PCI Express X16 is compatible with PCI Express x 8
• Two PCI Express X1 slot
• Three 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots, one orange slot reserves as communication slot.
• Support 3.3V/5V PCI bus Interface

On-Board IDE/SATA:

• An IDE controller on the nVIDIA nForce 570SLI chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 2 IDE devices
• NV RAID supports 6 SATA II ports (SATA1-6). Transfer rate is up to 300MB/s.
• NV RAID (Software)
- Supports up to 6 SATA
- RAID 0 or 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD is supported
- RAID function work w/ SATAII HDDs

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.
• Supports boot from LAN, USB Device 1.1 & 2.0 and SATA HDD

Audio:

Chip integrated by Realtek ALC883
- Flexible 8-channel audio with jack sensing
- Compliant with Azalia 1.0 spec

LAN:

Supports dual LAN jacks
- Dual LAN supports 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by nForce 570 SLI

IEEE1394:

VIA 6307 chipset
- Supports up to 2 x 1394 ports
- Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps

On-Board Peripherals:

- 1 floppy port supports 1 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes
- 1 serial port
- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
- 1 audio jack (5-in-1), coaxial/fibre SPDIF out
- 10 USB 2.0 ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 6)
- 2 RJ45 LAN jack
- 1 D-Bracket 2 pinheader
- 2 IEEE 1394 a connectors (Rear x 1/ Front x 1)
- 1 CD-in pinheader
- 1 IrDA pinheader

Dimension:
11.96 in (L) x 9.61 in(W) ATX Form Factor

Mounting:
9 mounting holes