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Motherboard specifications -4, Chapter 1, Motherboard specifications – MSI 970 GAMING User Manual

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Chapter 1

1-4

Getting Started

Motherboard Specifications

CPU Support

■ Supports AMD

®

FX

TM

/ Phenom

TM

II/ Athlon

TM

II and Sempron

TM

processors for the AM3/ AM3+ socket

Hypertransport

■ HyperTransport™ 3.0, supports up to 4.8 GT/s

Chipset

■ AMD

®

970 & SB950

Memory

Support

■ 4x DDR3 memory slots supporting up to 32GB

■ Supports DDR3 2133(OC)/ 1866/ 1600/ 1333/ 1066 MHz

■ Dual channel memory architecture

Expansion

Slots

■ 2x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots

- PCI_E2 supports up to PCIe 2.0 x16 speed

- PCI_E4 supports up to PCIe 2.0 x8 speed

■ 2x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots

■ 2x PCI slots

Multi-GPU

Support

■ Supports 2-Way AMD

®

CrossFire

TM

Technology*

■ Supports 2-Way NVIDIA

®

SLI

TM

Technology

* Supports Windows 7 and Windows 8/ 8.1.

Storage

■ AMD

®

SB950 Chipset

- 6x SATA 6Gb/s ports

- Supports RAID 0, RAID1, RAID5 and RAID 10

USB

■ AMD

®

SB950 Chipset

- 14x USB 2.0 ports (8 ports on the back panel, 6 ports

available through the internal USB 2.0 connectors)

■ VIA VL806 Chipset

- 4x USB 3.0 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 2 ports

available through the internal USB 3.0 connector)*

* These USB 3.0 ports do not support M-Flash recovery function.

Audio

■ Realtek

®

ALC1150 Codec

- 7.1-Channel High Definition Audio

- Supports S/PDIF output

LAN

■ Killer E2205 Gigabit LAN controller*

- 1x LAN port on the backpanel

* The Killer Network Manager is only available for Windows 7 and Windows 8/ 8.1

currently. The supported drivers for other operating systems would be available on

the website if provided by vendor.

Back Panel

Connectors

■ 1x PS/2 keyboard/ mouse combo port

■ 8x USB 2.0 ports

■ 2x USB 3.0 ports

■ 1x Optical S/PDIF-Out connector

■ 1x LAN (RJ45) port

■ 6x OFC audio jacks