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MSI K9A2GM-FIH AMD 780G Motherboard review

Written by Administrator, on 14-07-2008 01:49

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The motherboard on the bench today is from MSI, called MSI K9A2GM-FIH. The motherboard is primarily aimed at the HTPC people and the system integrator. There's a number of HTPC manufactures because there's more money to be made with these machines. A lot of configuration is connected to HTPC's which to some degree justifies the higher price. The motherboard is the first we've seen with AMD's 780G chipset.

Specifications:

The motherboard supports CPU's with the AM2 and AM2+ standard. This includes most Athlon 64 X2 and all Phenom CPU's. Still it's recommended to check MSI's CPU support list before buying. The motherboard supports CPU's from the AM2 and AM2+ sockets, meaning

Socket	AM2+
CPU (Max Support)	Phenom
FSB	2600MHz
Chipset	AMD® 780G
DDR2 Memory	DDR2 533/667/800/1066
DDR3 Memory	N/A
DIMM Slots	4
Max Memory (GB)	8
PCI-Ex16	1
PCI-Ex8	N/A
PCI-Ex4	N/A
PCI-Ex1	1
PCI	2
IDE	1
SATA	4
RAID	0/1/0+1
LAN	10/100/1000*1
TPM	1(Optional)
USB ports (Rear)	4
Audio ports (Rear)	6
Serial ports (Rear)	1
Parallel ports (Rear)	1
1394 ports (Rear)	1(Optional)
eSATA	N/A
VGA	1
DVI	1(Optional)
HDMI	1(Optional)
Form Factor	M-ATX