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Written by CB Team
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
 MSI’s have sent us news about their latest K9A2 Platinum mobo which utilizes the latest AMD 790FX chipset, supporting the new generation Socket AM2+ with dual channel DDR2 800/1066.
In addition the K9A2 Platinum is ready to fully support features such as the new Quad Core Phenom processors which comes with HyperTransport 3.0, a great improvement in the internal bandwidth, MSI unique technology Dual CoreCell with software control Dual CoreCenter, Quad VGA CrossFire, HD 7.1 channel Sound and new Circu-Pipe solution.
The Quad Core CPU support will bring more benefits to multimedia and multitasking by enhancing the performance and reducing the waiting time for any kind of applications. It provides high definition audio/video stream editing and offers higher performance on 3D gaming and professional graphic rendering.
AMD will soon launch their triple card CrossFire soon in the coming season, but now MSI design quad PCI-E VGA slot for more then this new technology, they are ready on Quad CrossFire with PCI-E Gen2 bandwidth once AMD is ready on multi VGA side.
From MSI P35 Platinum and Diamond series, MSI has designed a special heat-pipe solution with circle shape and bigger sink surface called Circu-Pipe. The special design can enhance the heat dissipation performance and reduce the heat 20% faster than the others.
K9A2 Platinum spec:
- AMD 790FX chipset based
- Supports AMD Socket AM2+/AM2 Phenom, Athlon and Sempron processors
- 2 PCI-E x16 slots for full x16 speed CrossFire support
- 2 extra PCI-E x16 slot design for Quad VGA with x8 x8 x8 x8 speed.
- 4 dual channel DIMMs DDRII 533/667/800/1066 up to 8GB
- 10/100/1000 LAN port
- 7.1 channel surround Audio
- Supports 6 SATAII, SATA 1~6 supports RAID 0/1/0+1,5
- Extra SATA hardware RAID with SAS ready port
- 2 PCI-E x16, 2PCI-E x8, 1 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI slots
- 10x USB 2.0, 2x IEEE1394
- Dual CoreCell technology with D.O.T. Express
- Copper Pipeline Heatsink design
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 October 2007 )
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