Monday, November 19, 2001

Additional features

Additional features of the MSI K7T Turbo R Limited (MS-6330 ver:3) motherboard include: Wake on LAN, Wake on Modem Ring, PS2 connectors for connecting mice & keyboards, 4 USB ports - two of which are located on the back panel, an integrated AC"97 sound-card, Power Lost Recovery, Suspend to RAM, Suspend to Disk, RX/TX connectors for infrared, and start-up from the mouse, keyboard, or at a pre-set time. Hardware monitoring of fan speed, CPU temperature, and of voltages is also included as a standard feature of this PC99-compliant motherboard.

Finally, let's not forget the integrated RAID controller, the D-LED diagnostic panel, Fuzy Logic 3, Live BIOS updating, and PC-2-PC networking.

Below, a photo of the MSI K7T Turbo R Limited (MS-6330 ver:3).

Installation

Installation of the MSI K7T Turbo R Limited (MS-6330 ver:3) is quite simple, thanks to its jumperless design. Users need only insure that JP17 is either in its defaut position, or else set to match the FSB speed expected by their processor. Once that's done, its simply a matter of placing the board in a case, plugging in, booting-up, and jumping into the BIOS to make any necessary adjustments.

Software bundle

The installation CD includes VIA 4-in-1 version 4.28v drivers, drivers for the sound-card, drivers for the RAID system, Adobe Acrobat Reader, a digital rendition of the user's manual, PC-2-PC drivers, PC-Alert, 3D Turbo, Fuzy Logic 3, MSI Live BIOS, Trend PC-cillin2000, Microsoft DirectX 8, and several other utilities.

Hardware bundle

The MSI K7T Turbo Limited (MS-6330 ver:3) comes with: two 80-pin ATA66/100 cables, a floppy-drive cable, a USB connector for the rear panel, and a PC-to-PC USB networking cable.

Next: Specifications.