friday, april 30, 2004

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the motherboard.since my system will sport dual amd opteron cpus,

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it has to be able to accommodate. It should be of quality craftsmanship

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and from a reputable company. starting there, I found this one from MSI.

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I looked into the MSI K8T Master2 FAR. From what I've read this board

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should suite my interests just fine. It isn't unpacked yet though..

I don't want to mess it up. I'm still slobbering all over the place

just like tex. he's my basset hound and came with that dumb name.

but hell he's a good dog, and so is this board.

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Supports Dual/Single Socket 940 for AMD Opteron Processors

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Support DDR 400 Registered ECC Memory

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Dual Channel ATA 33/66/100/133

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Dual Channel Serial ATA/RAID (0, 1)

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System Management Software

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10/100/1000 Gigabit LAN

MSI K8T Master2 FAR

drivers

tips

features

CPU

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Supports Dual CPUs (Socket 940) for AMD® Opteron™ 200 series (2-ways) processors and up (SledgeHammer DP)

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Single CPU (Socket 940) for AMD® Athlon-64 FX 51 series or Opteron 100 series (1-way) or Opteron 200  series (2-ways) CPU.

Chipset

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VIA® K8T800™ Chipset

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800MHz HyperTransport FSB

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Support for AGP 2X/4X/8X/Pro

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Ultra V-Link 1.06GB/s high bandwidth North/South Bridge interconnect

VIA® VT8237™ Chipset

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IO APIC controller.

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Including ACPI/OnNow

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USB 2.0, 6 ports, UHCI compliant

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Dual Channel ATA 33/66/100/133

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Dual Channel Serial ATA/RAID (0, 1)

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Advanced power management capabilities

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LPC bus to connect peripherals such as super I/O and BIOS.

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A 33MHz/32bit PCI 2.2 compliant bus interface supports up to 6 external devices.

Main Memory

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144-bit DDR at 200, 266, 333MHz, 400MHz.

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DDR 400 Registered ECC Memory Validation

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Supports interleaving memory within DIMMs.

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Supports 4 DDR DIMMs upto 8GB (Registered Memory only)

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Supports DIMM sizes from 64MB (128Mb x 16 DRAMs) to 2GB on each DIMM slot.

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ChipKill ECC allows continuous correction of 4-bit errors in a failed x 4 memory device.

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For Single AMD® Athlon-64 FX 51 series, it will support Registered Memory up to DDR 400

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For Single orDual AMD® Opteron Series, it will support Registered Memory up to DDR 333

Slots

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1 AGP Pro slot

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4 PCI 32-bit/33MHz slots

BIOS

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APM 1.2, WOL

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4Mb Flash EEPROM

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Supports PXE boot protocol

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PCI 2.2 compliant, VPD, and DMI

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PC2001 system design compliant

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PnP 1.0A, SMBIOS 2.3, ACPI 1.0A, 2.0

Onboard Connector

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RJ-45 with LEDs

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Front panel connector

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Power connectors (24+8 SSI)

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Stacked Mouse and keyboard ports

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Stacked 2 serial and 1 parallel ports

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3-pin Clear CMOS header with a jumper

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USB header (Front), Stacked 2 USB (Rear)

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Four 3-pin cooling fan locking header(2 for system & 2 for CPUs)

Power Management Features

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RTC alarm

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Wake up on LAN (WOL), USB, PCI, Mouse

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Supports ACPI S1, S2, S4 and S5 functions

System Management

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SMBus (I2C)

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Chassis intrusion

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Temperature, voltage, and fan monitors

Onboard I/O

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2 IDE ports

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2 SATA ports

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1 floppy port

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2 serial ports

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1 parallel port

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1 PS/2 mouse port

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1 PS/2 keyboard port

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4 USB ports (two on front and two on rear).

Network

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Provides 1000, 100 and 10MB/s data rates

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Broadcom BCM5705 Gigabit LAN controllers

PC Health Monitoring

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CPU/Chassis temperature monitoring

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Support for system management software

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LED and control for chassis intrusion detection

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Two onboard voltage monitors for CPU core/s, 2.5V, 3.3V, -12V, +12V, 5V, 5VSB,VBAT status monitor

Dimension

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ATX Form Factor: 25.4 x 30.5cm

Mounting

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9 mounting holes

cables

misc

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