Four 975X Motherboards For Core 2 Duo
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MSI 975X Platinum Power Up Edition: MSI's Come-Back
Feature Overview
MSI equips its flagship product with lots of interfaces, including serial and parallel ports. To offer more than Intel's standard four-port Serial ATA/300 controller, MSI integrated a JMB361 controller chip, which offers one additional UltraATA/133 channel. The only component we missed was an optical digital audio output.
| MSI 975X Platinum Power Up Edition | |
|---|---|
| Northbridge | Intel 975X (Rev. C0) |
| Southbridge | Intel ICH7R (82801 GB) |
| Voltage Regulator | 4 Phases |
| BIOS | 082406 15:39:23 |
| Clock Generator | ICS9545198GLF |
| 266.6 MHz (FSB1066) | 266.9 MHz (+0.08%) |
| Connectors and Interfaces | |
| onboard | 2x PCIe x162x PCIe x12x PCI5x SATA2x IDE4x USB 2.01x Firewire1x Audio for Front Panel1x CD in1x Fan 4 pins (CPU)2x Fan 3 pins (System) |
| IO panel | 2x PS2 (keyboard + mouse)1x LPT1x COM1x Network4x USB 2.01x Firewire1x Firewire1x SPDIF out1x 7.1 Channel Audio |
| Mass Storage Controllers | |
| ICH7 | 1x IDE (ATA100/66/33)4x SATA (RAID 0,1,5,10) |
| JMB361 | 1x SATA (RAID 0,1,5,10)1x IDE |
| Network | |
| Intel 82573L | 1x 1 Gbit/s LAN |
| Audio | |
| Realtek ALC882M 7.1 | AC97 or High Definition Audio |
| Firewire | |
| VIA VT6308P | 2x 1394a (400 Mbit/s) |
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