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Company(s): MSI
Product: Motherboard
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Author: Michael (Oreo) Falcon
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Date: 5-28-02
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MSI K7D Master Specifications
CPU
Supports dual Socket A (Socket-462) for AMD® Athlon MP processors
Supports up to Athlon MP 2000+ or higher
Chipset
AMD® 762 chipset (949 BGA)
- Supports 200MHz High speed, split transaction system bus
- A 66/33MHz 64/32bit PCI 2.2 compliant bus interface supports up to seven bus masters
- The 66MHz AGP 2.0 compliant interface supports 1x, 2x, and 4x data transfer mode
AMD® 768 chipset (492 BGA)
- Host (primary) PCI bus utilizes a 66 MHz, 32-bit interface.
- Enhanced IDE controller (through ATA100)
- LPC bus to connect peripherals such as super IO and BIOS
- Extensive ACPI-compliant power management logic
- IO APIC controller
- AC97 soft audio controller
FSB
100/133MHz clocks are supported (266 MHz Internal System Bus)
Main Memory
-- Supports eight memory banks using four184-pin DDR DIMM
-- Supports DDR SDRAM DIMM
-- Supports a maximum memory size of 4GB (registered DDR only)
Slots
One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) Pro Slot (4X mode)
Two 64-bit/66MHz and three 32-bit/33MHz PCI Slots
Supports 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface
On-board IDE
-- An IDE controller on the AMD-768 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM
with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA 100 operation modes.
-- Can connect up to four IDE devices.
Network (optional K7D Master-L only)
Intel® 82559ER LAN Controller
- Integrated IEEE802.3 10-BaseT & 100-BaseTX PHY
Audio
- Direct Sound AC97 Audio
4 Port USB Card 2.0
- Compliant with USB specification Revision2.0 (Data Rate 1.5/12/480Mbps)
- Compliant withHost Controller Interface specification for USB Rev 1.0a
- Root Hub with 4 external and sharing with 1 internal downstream facing ports
On-board Peripherals
On-Board Peripherals include:
-- 1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes.
-- 2 serial ports (COMA + COM B)
-- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
-- 1 IrDA connector for SIR/FIR/ASKIR/HPSIR.
-- 4 USB ports (Rear * 2/ Front * 2)
-- 1 audio/game port
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.
Dimension
30.5 cm(L) x 25.2 cm(W)ATX Form Factor
Mounting
9 mounting holes
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