CPU

• Supports Socket 775 for Intel® Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, P4, P4EE, Pentium D, Pentium XE processors.
• Supports FSB 1333/1066/800/533MHz. (FSB 1333MHz supports on E6x50 processors only)
• Supports EIST technology.
• Supports Intel® Hyper-Threading technology.
Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.

Chipset

• NVIDIA® nForce 680i SLI SPP (C55XE) Chipset

• NVIDIA® nForce 570i SLI MCP (MCP55P) Chipset

Main Memory

• Supports dual channel DDR2 533/667/800, using four 240-pin/1.8V DDR2 DIMMs.
• Supports a maximum memory size up to 16GB

Slots

• Four PCI Express x16 slots (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• One PCI Express x1 slot (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® nForce 590i SLI MCP chipset provides IDE
HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 2 IDE devices.

On-Board SATA

• nForce 590i SLI MCP supports 5 SATA II ports (SATA 1 to 5).
- Transfer rate is up to 300 MB/s.
- 2 SATAII ports with RAID 0 or 1 by Sil4723
- 1 eSATA port by Sil3531 (back panel)

NV RAID
• Supports up to 5 SATA and 2 ATA133 Hard Drives
- RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 or JBOD is supported
- Supports up to 7 drives for RAID function.

MSI Reminds You... • The RAID setup floppy disk is optional depending on the districts. You can download the files from the website to make the setup disk.

Audio

• Chip integrated by Creative ® Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio chipset
- Flexible 8-channel audio with jack sensing
- Compliant with Azalia 1.0 spec.

LAN

- Supports dual 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet ports by Realtek® RTL8211B

IEEE1394

• VIA® VT 6308P chipset
- Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps

Internal I/O Connectors

- ATX 24-Pin power connector
- 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- CPU / Systemx3 FAN connectors
- 1 x MSI D-Bracket 2 Connector
- CD-in connector
- Front panel audio connector
- Front panel connector
- IrDA infrared module header
- 1 x IEEE1394 connector
- 3 x USB 2.0 connector support additional 6 ports
- 1 x Floppy disk drive connector
- 7 x serial ATA connectors
- 1 x serial port connector
- SPDIF-out connector for HDMI
- 1 x ATA133 connectors
- Chassis intrusion switch connector
- Clear CMOS button

MSI Reminds You... • The floppy disk cable will be optional.

Back Panel I/O Ports

- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse
- 1 x eSATA port
- 1 x Optical SPDIF put / 1 x Coaxial SPDIF out
- 1 x 5 in 1 Audio jack
- 1 x IEEE1394 port
- 4 x USB 2.0 ports
- 2 x RJ45 LAN Jack

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.

 
Product Accessories

MSI Reminds You... • The accessories will probably be different according to the different selling areas of product models. For details of accessories, please refer to the descriptions on the product package.