K8N Master2-FAR

CPU

• Supports dual AMD Opteron™ 200 and sinlge Opteron™ 100 family processors
• Supports dual AMD Opteron™ 200 Series processor with 1GHz FSB
• Supports Opteron EE/HE series CPU
• Supports Dual-Core Opteron™ CPU
• AMD x86-64 Technology
• Supports ECC/Registered memory

• NVIDIA® nForce™4 Pro
- HyperTransport link to the AMD Opteron™ CPU
- Supports dual-channel DDR266/333/400 memory
- Supports PCI Express x16/ x8/ x4/ x1 interface
- Two independent SATA II controllers, for four drives
- Dual Ultra ATA 133/100/66 IDE controllers
- Supports high-speed USB2.0 ports

Main Memory

• 144-bit Register DDR at 266/333/400 MHz
• Requires 184-pin Registered ECC DDR DIMMs (maximum 6)
• Supports interleaving memory within DIMMs
• ChipKill ECC allows continuous correction of 4-bit errors in a failed x 4 memory device

DDR Cooling Fan To protect the system from overheating, make sure that you install MSI's proprietary DDR cooling fan (patent pending) before the system memory reaches 2GB or beyond. This DDR cooling fan will help to dissipate heat produced by DDR memory modules, which in return contributes to system stability during overclocking.

Slots

• One 32-bit/33 MHz PCI slot (in orange, also can work as a communications slot)
• One PCI Express x4 slot
• Two PCI Express x16 slots for graphics cards (SLI mode supported)
- 2nd PCI Express x16 slot (PCI_E3) is compatible with PCI Express x 1

HDD Interface

• Dual IDE controllers on the NVIDIA nForce™4 Pro chipset
- Provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA 133/100/66 operation modes
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices
• Two independent SATA controllers on the NVIDIA nForce™4 Pro chipset
- NV RAID supports 4 SATA II ports with up to 300MB/s transfer rate

• 1 floppy port supports two FDDs with 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, and 2.88MB
• 1 PS/2 keyboard port
• 1 PS/2 mouse port
• 1 serial port
• 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
• 2 RJ-45 ports (with LEDs)
• 10 USB ports (6 on the front and 4 on the rear)
• 3 IEEE 1394 ports (2 on front and 1 on rear)

Onboard LAN

• 1st LAN supports 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Marvell 88E1111 PHY
• 2nd PCI LAN supports 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Broadcom BCM5788

Onboard Audio

• Realtek ALC850 8-channel codec
- 8-CH DA connector with 48 KHz rate
- Compliant with AC97 2.3 specifications
- Meets perfomace requirement for audio on PC 97/2001 system
- Meets Microsoft WHQL / WLP 2.0 audio requirement

Onboard IEEE 1394

• VIA VT6306 IEEE 1394 controller

Power Management Features

• Wake up on LAN (WOL), wake up on PCI
• RTC alarm and wake up
• Wake up on keyboard/mouse/USB from S1 & S3
• Supports ACPI S1, S3, S4, S5 function

System Management

• SMBus (I2C)
• Temperature, voltage, and fan monitors.

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

Dimension
• ATX Form Factor (30.4 cm X 25.4 cm)

Mounting
• 9 mounting holes