Micro Star Computer MS- 9130 v1.x manual Mainboard Specifications, Target Market Segment, Chipset

MS-9130 Workstation Mainboard

Mainboard Specifications

Target Market Segment

hTarget in the workstation/high-end desktop user.

CPU

hSupports dual Socket 940 for AMD Opteron DPTM (SledgeHammer DP) processors.

hSupports Opteron DPTM 244 and higher.

hAMD x86-64 Technology.

-AMD’s 64-bit, x86 instruction set extensions.

-64-bit integer registers, 48-bit virtual address, 40-bit physical address.

-Eight new 64-bit integer registers (16 total).

-Eight new 128-bit SSE/SSE2 registers (16 total).

Chipset

hVIA K8T 800 Chipset (578-pin BGA)

-HyperTransportTM technology tunnel with side A (16 bits)

-Each side support transfer rates of 1600, 1200, 800, and 400 mega- transfer per second.

hVIA VT8237 Chipset (539-pin BGA)

-A 33 MHz/32-bit PCI 2.2 compliant bus interface supports up to 6 external devices.

-16-bit 66MHz V-Link client Interface with total bandwidth of 1066MB/ sec.

-2 SATA ports (RAID 0 or 1 function).

-LPC bus to connect peripherals such as super I/O and BIOS.

-Extensive ACPI-compliant power management.

-IOAPCI controller.

-AC’97 2.2 soft audio controller.

-USB hosts supporting 8 ports (USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 optional)

MainMemory

h144-bit DDR Register DIMM at 200/266/333 MHz.

hSupports DIMM sizes from 64 MB (128 Mb x 16 DRAMs) to 2 GB (1 Gb x 4 DRAMs), up to 8GB of memory in total.

hSupports interleaving memory within DIMMs.

hChip Kill ECC allows continuous correction of 4-bit errors in a failed x 4 memory device.

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