MSI 970 GAMING

CPU

• Supports AMD®FX™/ Phenom™ II/ Athlon™ II and Sempron™ processors for the AM3/ AM3+ socket
Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.

Hyper Transport Bus

• HyperTransport 3.0 supporting speed up to 4.8GT/s

Chipset

• AMD® 970 and SB950 Chipset

Main Memory

• 4 x DDR3 memory slots supporting up to 32GB
• Supports DDR3 2133(OC)/ 1866/ 1600/ 1333/ 1066 MHz
• Dual channel memory architecture

Slots

• 2 x 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
• 2 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots
• 2 x PCI slots

Multi-GPU

• Supports 2-Way AMD® CrossFire™ Technology*
• Supports 2-Way NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology*
* Supports Windows 7 and Windows 8/ 8.1.

On-Board SATA

• AMD SB950 Chipset
- 6 x 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
- 4 x 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*
- 1 x 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.

Internal I/O Connectors

-1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
-1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
-6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
-3 x USB 2.0 connectors (supports additional 6 USB 2.0 ports)
-1 x USB 3.0 connector
-1 x 4-pin CPU fan connector
-2 x 4-pin system fan connectors
-2 x 3-pin system fan connectors
-1 x Front panel audio connector
-2 x System panel connectors
-1 x Chassis Intrusion connector
-1 x TPM module connector
-1 x Serial port connector
-1 x S/PDIF-Out connector
-1 x Clear CMOS jumper
-1 x Slow mode booting switch

Back Panel I/O Ports

- 1 x PS/2 keyboard/ mouse combo port
- 8 x USB 2.0 ports
- 2 x USB 3.0 ports
- 1 x Optical S/PDIF-Out connector
- 1 x LAN (RJ45) port
- 6 x OFC audio jacks

BIOS

• The motherboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The motherboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your motherboard specifications.

Dimension

• 12 in. x 9.6 in. (30.5 cm x 24.4 cm) ATX Form Factor

Mounting

• 9 mounting holes.