Monday, November 19, 2001

Technical details

Plenty of space has been left open around the CPU socket, which should allow for the installation of large heatsinks.

The memory slots are located far enough from the AGP port that there is little chance of a retention bar coming into contact with the graphics card.

The CPU retention bar is made of plastic, so handle with care.

Six 4700mfds have been installed on this board.

The voltage regulation circuits are of the bi-phase variety, and are composed of two series of four Mosfets.

Two fan connectors are included, both of which are controlled by the hardware monitoring system.

Hardware monitoring is controlled by the VT82C686B Southbridge.

It's possible to manually assign IRQs.

A Promise Technologies model PDC20265R controller is included, which permits up to four additional drives to be connected in RAID modes 0, 1 or 0+1.

A D-Led diagnostic panel is included, which permits users to diagnose system problems at a glance.

Fuzzy Logic 3 is included, which allows users to Overclock their systems from within Windows without needing to restart their computers.

The MSI Live BIOS update system is also included.

PC-to-PC networking technology is present, which allows 2 system to be tied together via their USB ports.

The BIOS can be rolled-back to the last batch of valid settings by pressing "Home" at start-up.

Next: Additional features.