MSI K8N NEO-FSR Nforce3 250Gb Chipset 800MHz FSB DDR400 Socket 754 ATX Motherboard with SATA, Gigabit LAN, RAID, 8 Channel Audio, AGP 8X, Firewire, USB 2.0: MS-7030

Specifications
CPU
• Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 processor (Socket 754)

• Supports up to 3200+, 3400+, 3700+ or higher CPU

Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.
Chipset
• NVIDIA® nForce3 250Gb Chipset

- Supports Athlon™ 64 processor (Socket 754), 800MHz Hypertransport interface.

- Supports single memory channels, DDR 400/333/266 without ECC support.

- Supports external AGP 4X/8X

- Integrated Serial ATA interface: dual channel 4 S-ATA RAID controller and dual channel

ATA 133/100/66/33 master mode EIDE controller.

- Integrated an nVIDIA MAC for Gigabit LAN.

- Supports 8 high speed USB2.0 ports.

- AC'97 2.3 compliance.



Main Memory



• Supports 3 slots for 184-pin DDR DRAM DIMM modules.

• Supports DDR 400/333/266.

• Supports a maximum memory size of 2GB for DDR400

• Supports a maximum memory size of 3GB for DDR333



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


S: Single Side D: Double Side


Slots
• One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) 1.5V 4X/8X slot

• 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 NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO,

Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.

- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices



• Integrated SATA PHY, supporting up to 2 ports

- One SATA controller, supporting 2 drives in master mode



NV RAID (Software)

• Supports 2 serial ATA + 1 ATA 133

- RAID 0 or 1, 0+1, JBOD is supported

- Booting from RAID

- Cross controller RAID support

- Rebuilding on the Fly

- Spare Disk Allocation

• Supports Windows 2000 and later versions



Audio
• 7.1 channel audio codec RealTek ALC850.

- Compliance with AC97 v2.3 Spec.

- Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement.



LAN



• Realtek® 8100C

- Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip.

- Supports 10Mb/s or 100Mb/s auto-negotiation operation.

- Compliant with PCI v2.2.

- Supports ACPI Power Management.



• NVIDIA® nForce3 250Gb LAN controller

- Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip.

- Supports 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s auto-negotiation operation.

- Compliant with PCI v2.2.

- Supports ACPI Power Management.



On-Board Peripherals
On-Board Peripherals include:

- 1 floppy port supports 1 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes

- 1 serial port

- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode

- 6 audio ports

- 8 USB 2.0 ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 4)

- 1 RJ45 LAN jack



BIOS
• The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug amp; 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.