Specifications

CPU

• Supports Intel® i3 / i5 / i7 based processors & Pentium G6950 in LGA1156 package.

Chipset

•Intel® P55 Chipset
- Hi-Speed USB (USB2.0) controller, 480Mb/sec.
- 6 SATAII ports with transfer rate up to 3Gb/s.
- PCI Master v2.3, I/O APIC.
- ACPI 2.0 compliant.
- Serial ATA RAID 0/1/5/10.
- Integrated AHCI controller.

• Lucid® Hydra 200 Chipset
- This chipset supports A-mode, N-mode and X-mode, X-mode can only work with Microsoft Windows® 7

• Supported Operating Systems
- Microsoft Windows® Vista (SP2) 32-bit and 64-bit
- Microsoft Windows® 7 OS 32-bit and 64-bit

• Microsoft Windows® Editions include:
- Windows Vista Home Basic
- Windows Vista Home Premium
- Windows Vista Business
- Windows Vista Enterprise Edition
- Windows Vista Ultimate
- Windows 7 Home Premium
- Windows 7 Professional
- Windows 7 Ultimate

• Supported graphic libraries
- DirectX 9
- DirectX 10

* Lucid® Hydra 200 chipset allows you can use the graphics cards from different vendors. To make A-mode, N-mode and X-mode work, you need to install the software drivers MSI provides. If your graphics cards are under ATI 4xxx, using driver 1.3.105 will get better perfomace. If you are using ATI 5xxx, you must install driver 1.4.106.

* For HYDRA driver ver 1.3.105 we recommend you install NVIDIA graphic card to the first PCI-E X16 slot while running X mode
* For HYDRA driver ver 1.4.106 we recommend you install ATI graphic card to the first PCI-E X16 slot while running X mode

Main Memory

•Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 1066/1333/1600*/1800*/2000*/2133*/2300* (OC) SDRAM, 16GB Max
- Supports 1Gb/ 2Gb/ 4Gb DRAM size
- Supports Dual channel mode

Slots

• 3 PCI Express gen2 x16 slots
- PCI_E2 / PCI_E4 / PCI_E5 slots will be x16/ x16/ x0 or x16/ x8/ x8
- supports ATI® Crossfire™ & Hydra N-mode, A-mode & X-mode
• 2 PCI Express gen2 x1 slots
- Only PCI_E1 supports installing the QuantumWave Audio card
• 2 PCI slots, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface

On-Board IDE/SATA

• One Ultra DMA 66/100/133 IDE controller integrated in JMicron® 363.
- Supports PIO, Bus Master operation modes.
- Can connect up to two Ultra ATA drives.

•SATAII controller integrated in Intel P55/JMicron® 363 chipset
- Up to 3Gb/s transfer speed.
- Supports six SATAII ports (SATA1~SATA6) by P55
- Supports four SATAII ports (SATA7~SATA10) by JMicron 322, support SATA RAID 0/1/JBOD.
- Supports two eSATA / USB combo port by JMicron 363.
- Supports AHCI controller with AHCI / SATA RAID 0/1/5/10 by P55.
- SATA7 & SATA8 support RAID 0/1 & JBOD mode by 1st JMicron® JMB322
- SATA9 & SATA10 support RAID 0/1 & JBOD mode by 2nd JMicron® JMB322

Audio

• QuantumWave Audio card
- Creative EAX Advanced HD 5.0
- THX TruStudio PC
- Creative Alchemy
- 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec with jack sensing

• Chipset integrated by Realtek® ALC889
- Compliant with Azalia 1.0 Spec
- Meet Microsoft Vista Premium spec
* For better audio performance, we recommend installing THX

LAN

• Supports two PCI Express LAN 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Realtek 8111DL.

IEEE1394 / FireWire

• VIA® VT6315N chipset
- Supports up to two 1394 ports. (Rear panel x1, pinheader x1)
- Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps.

Internal I/O Connectors

- ATX 24-Pin power connector
- 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- CPU x 1 / System x 4 FAN connectors
- CD-in connector
- Front panel audio connector
- Front panel connector
- 1 x chasis intrusion connector
- 2 x USB 2.0 connectors
- 10 x Serial ATAII connectors
- 1 x ATA133 connector
- 1 x IEEE1394 connector support additional 1 port
- 1 x GreenPower Button
- 1 x Reset Button
- 1 x Power Button
- 1 x Clear CMOS Button
- 1 x SPDIF-out connector
- 1 x TPM module connector
- 1 x OC Genie Button
- 1 x Over-Voltage switch & 1 set voltage check point
- 1 x CPU Phase LED Panel

Back Panel I/O Ports

- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse
- 2 x eSATA / USB Combo ports
- 1 x IEEE1394 port
- 8 x USB 2.0 ports
- 2 x RJ45 LAN Jacks
- 1 x D-LED2 panel connector

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 24.4cm(W) ATX Form Factor

Mounting

• 9 mounting holes.