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MSI
K8T NEO-FIS2R
The Athlon 64 is here and MSI's new flagship product takes the form of the K8T NEO-FIS2R. This motherboard uses the VIA K8T800 chipset and has all the usual features you would expect from a high end motherboard. MSI however have always been good on price so its well worth giving these a decent look over as well as the other brands such as Abit and ASUS. Bear in mind that the motherboards designed for the Athlon 64 will only support the Athlon 64. AMD has moved on to a socket 754 and the older Athlon XP's of any variety will not fit in this M/b. The K8T supports up to 2Gb of system memory using 3 DIMM slots supporting DDR modules of 266Mhz, 333Mhz, and 400Mhz, also its fitted with 2 Serial ATA ports, 2 ATA ports and a Promise controller for 2 Extra S-ATA ports. You can also use RAID functions 0, 1 and 0+1 on these drives, giving you all the options for a fast or secure system.
AGP 8x Firstly it has AGP 8x support so you can fully utilize those latest graphics cards such as the Geforce FX and the Radeon 9800. This provides an AGP bus bandwidth of 2.1Gb/s instead of the 1.1Gb/s provided with the AGP 4x specification. With more and more complex textures coming into games the AGP bus speed is getting more and more important all the time as On-Card memory is not large enough to handle everything. DDR400 The current fastest memory available DDR400. DDR400 also known as PC3200. DDR400 provides a 200Mhz*2 memory system. Remember the days of PC100. In order to use the DDR400 memory you will need a CPU that supports 800Mhz FSB. USB 2.0 USB 2.0 is up to 40 times faster than the standard USB1.1 ports. This is great news if you are using external Hard Disks CD-Drives or scanning large pictures on a USB scanner. with 480Mbs transfer rate there will be no slow down is your USB transmission. Serial ATA Controller Serial ATA is the new way of connecting your Hard drives to your Motherboard. The current Serial ATA specification is ATA-150 (150Mb/s). The MSI NEO-FIS2R supports 2 S-ATA devices and has the ability of RAID 0. It also has the Promise 20378 controller which allows 2 more S-ATA devices. The S-ATA devices connected to this controller will be able to use RAID 0, 1 and 0+1
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A nice little extra from MSI is the Core
Centre. This is the little extra in the form
of a piece of software that sits in your
system tray, not eating up a lot of memory but
giving you a few benefits. Its can display the
current CPU's speed and temperature as well as
voltage readings and fan speeds and it
allows you to run an auto overclocking
feature. What this does is slowly increase the
FSB speed of your CPU. Be very careful when
overclocking as it can cause damage to your
system. Be especially careful with this
utility as it will increase the FSB speed
until you stop it or until your system freezes
or re-boots. Letting it get too far can cause
hardware damage and cause you to lose system
files on your PC. This feature is for experts
and people with too much money only :).
