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Microstar International K8T NEO-FSR
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1 65125 10-27-2005
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100% of reviewers None indicated 8.0



Description: MSI K8T Neo makes use of the VIA® VT8237 chipset for gigabit ethernet, SATA, and of course, socket 754. Works great in both 64bit and 32bit modes. Overclocking capabilities.

CPU
• Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 processor (Socket 754)
• Supports 2800 , 3000 , 3200 , 3400
• Supports Sempron 2600 , 2800 , 3000 , 3100 , 3300

Chipset
• VIA® K8T800 Chipset
- HyperTransport connection to AMD Next Generation of CPU
- 8 or 16 bit control/ address. data transfer both directions
- 800/600/400/200MHz "Double Data Rate" operation both direction
- AGP v3.0 compliant with 8X transfer mode

• VIA® VT8237 Chipset
- Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode EIDE controller
- Integrated dual channel native Serial ATA/RAID controller that will supply 150MB/s and support RAID 0, RAID 1
- ACPI & PC2001 compliant enhanced power management
- Supports 8 USB2.0 ports. (Rear x4/ Front x4)

Main Memory
• Supports three 184-pin DDR SDRAMs up to 2GB memory size
• Supports DDR400*/DDR333/DDR266 DDR SDRAM (*Refer to MSI recommended modules)

Slots
• One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) 1.5V 4x/8x slot
• Five PCI 2.2 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots. (support 3.3v / 5v PCI bus interface)

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 specifications. (Only Works for Windows - YUK)

On-Board IDE

• An IDE controller on the VT8237 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA 66/100/133 operation modes. It can connect 4 Ultra ATA drives.
• Serial ATA/150 controller integrated in VT8237
- Up to 150MB/s transfer speed
- Can connect up to 2 Serial ATA drives
- Support RAID 0, RAID 1

Audio
• 6 Channel software audio codec Realtek ALC655
• Compliance with AC97' v2.3 Spec
• Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement
• Provide onboard SPDIF out

Network

• Realtek 8110S Dual layout
• Integrated Gigabit Ethernet MAC and PHY transceiver, auto-negotiation operation.
• Supports single-port 10MB/s, 100MB/s, 1000MB/s Base-T application.
• Compliance with PCIv2.2 and LAN on Motherboard (LOM) standard.

On-Board Peripherals

- 1 floppy port supports 1 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes
- 1 serial ports COM1
- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
- 8 USB 2.0 ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 4)
- 3 audio ports in vertical (Line-out, Line-in, MIC)
- 1 SPDIF out
- 1 RJ-45 jack
- 1 IrDA connector for SIR/ASKIR/HPSIR

Dimension
30.5 cm(L) x 24.5 cm(W) ATX Form Factor


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SYSTEM AS BUILT:

Fedora Core 3 (32Bit)
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800
1Gb RAM
200Gb IDE Hard Drive
100Gb IDE Hard Drive
HP 400i DVD /-R RW / CDRW
ATI Radeon 9000
Hauppauge WinTV (BT848) (PCI-Add In)
IEEE 1394 (Firewire) PCI Card -Add In

Epson Perfection 1660 Photo Canner (USB)
Digital Camera (USB)
Sony Camcorder (Firewire/1394)
HP Photosmart 8450 (Networked)

Worked right out of box running Fedora Core 3 (32bit).
Worked Right out of box running Knoppix 3.6
Worked Right out of Box Fedora Core 4 Test 2

Absolutely no issues with this Board. I did however Flash the BIOS to the latest release from the MSI site.

ANNOYANCES
Only one issue. On system boot, I get a warning about no PSB (Button). Tried to identify and research this issue with no results. Since it's only a warning, ignoring the quick POST message is not an issue.

SUMMARY
Very pleased with this board overall. It's a little shy on the sound features but for normal users (not Music Specialists), it's a great overall board with excellent sound quality, speed, stability and quick setup time. I regret the lack of a second Serial port or onboard 1394 but add in cards are available. The 8 USB Ports is a great thing.

I would recommend this board to anyone wanting to build a low cost high end system.
Keywords: AMD64 VIA®VT8237 gigabit SATA RAID
Chipset: VIA®VT8237


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Old 10-27-2005, 02:55 PM   #1
MrDunk
 
Registered: Oct 2005
Distribution: Gentoo 2005.1 x86_64 & Windows XP Pro
Posts: 8

Rep: Reputation:
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.13-gentoo-r3
Distribution: Gentoo 2005.1 x86_64



System has worked great so far with Gentoo. I haven't gone as far as testing the firewire, sound(ac97) yet but so far so good. There are no MSI specific drivers for linux yet, like they have for windows but I can't really consider it a downfall because they're always major versions behind anyways.

All-in-all this board has been stable and I haven't had any problems with the existing hardware.
 




  



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