MSI K8T Neo2 SOCKET 939 AGP8X VIA K8T800 Motherboard

CPU

• Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 and Athlon™ 64 FX processor (Socket 939)
• Supports up to 3500+, 3800+ Athlon 64 FX 53, or higher CPU
Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.

Chipset 

• VIA® K8T800 Pro Chipset
- HyperTransport™ connection to AMD® Athlon™ 64 processor
- 8 or 16 bit control/address/data transfer both directions
- 800/600/400/200MHz "Double Data Rate" operation both direction
- AGP v3.0 compliant with 8x transfer mode

• VIA® VT8237 Chipset
- Integrated Faster Ethernet LPC
- Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio
- Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller
- ACPI
- Supports 2 Serial ATA ports
- Supports 8 USB2.0 ports

Main Memory

• Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 2.5V DDR SDRAM.
• Supports up to 4GB memory size without ECC.
• Supports Dual channel DDR266/333/400MHz.

DIMM Module Combination
Install at least one DIMM module on the slots. Each DIMM slot supports up to a maximum size of 1GB. Users can install either single- or double-sided modules to meet their own needs. Please note that each DIMM can work respectively for singlechannel DDR, but there are some rules while using dual-channel DDR (Please refer to the suggested DDR population table below). Users may install memory modules of different type and density on different-channel DDR DIMMs. However, the same type and density memory modules are necessary while using dual-channel DDR, or instability may happen. Please refer to the following table for detailed dual-channel DDR. Other combination not listed below will function as single-channel DDR.

  Green
DIMM1 (Ch A)
 Green
DIMM2 (Ch A)
 Purple
DIMM3 (Ch B)
 Purple
DIMM4 (Ch B)
 System Density
 
Single Channel  - 128MB~1GB - - 128MB~1GB
Dual Channel  - 128MB~1GB - 128MB~1GB 256MB~2GB
Dual Channel  128MB~1GB 128MB~1GB 128MB~1GB 128MB~1GB 512MB~4GB

MSI Reminds You...
• DDR combination of this board works ONLY in the 3 combinations listed in the table above.
• Please select the identical memory modules to install on channel A or channel B, or it may cause some unknown failure.
• Always insert the memory modules into the GREEN slots first, and it is strongly recommended not to insert the memory modules into the PURPLE slots while the GREEN slots are left empty.
• This mainboard DO NOT support the memory module installed with more than 18 pieces of IC (integrated circuit).
• Do not support three memory modules.

Recommended Memory Combination List
DIMM Slots  Max Speed 
Green Purple
 
DIMM1 DIMM2 DIMM3 DIMM4
- S - - DDR 400
- D - - DDR 400
- S - S DDR 400
- D - D DDR 400
S S S S DDR 400
D D D D DDR 333 

S: Single Side                  D: Double Side 

Slots

• One AGP 8x slot
- AGP 3.0 specification compliant
• Five 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface).

On-Board IDE / SATA

• An IDE controller on the VIA® VT8237 chipset provides IDE HDD/CDROM with PIO, Bus
  Master and Ultra DMA 66/100/133 operation modes
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices

• Serial ATA/150 controller integrated by VT8237
- Up ot 150MB/s transfer rate
- Can connect up to 2 serial ATA devices
- Supports RAID 0 or RAID 1

Serial ATA RAID

• Promise 20579 On-Board
• Supports 2 serial ATA and 1 ATA133
- RAID 0, RAID 1 supported
- RAID function work w/ATA133 + SATA H/D or 2 SATA H/D
• Connect up to 2 SATA devices and 1 ATA133 devices
• SATA 150MB/s with extensions (SATA II Phase I)
• Smart RAID function
• SATA ATAPI device compatible

Audio

• 8 channels software audio codec RealTek ALC850
- Compliance with AC97 v2.3 Spec.
- Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement.

LAN

• Realtek® 8110S Dual layout
- Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip.
- Supports 10, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s

IEEE1394

• VIA® 6306
- Supports up to three 1394 ports. Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps

On-Board Peripherals

On-Board Peripherals include:
- 1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes
- 1 serial port (COM1)
- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
- 1 IrDA connector for SIR/ASKIR/HPSIR
- 1 audio port
- 8 USB 2.0 ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 4)
- 1 RJ45 LAN jack
- 3 IEEE1394 port (Rear x 1 / Front x 2 header) (Optional)

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