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MSI P45 Platinum
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Description: CPU

• Supports Intel® Core 2 Extreme/Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo based processors in LGA775 package.
• Supports Intel® Yorkfield, Wolfdale in the LGA775 package.
• Supports FSB 1600* (OC)/1333/1066/800 MHz.

Chipset

• Intel® P45 Chipset
- Supports FSB 800/1066/1333/1600* (OC) MHz.

• Intel® ICH10R Chipset
- Hi-Speed USB (USB2.0) controller, 480Mb/sec, up to 12 ports.
- 6 SATAII ports with transfer rate up to 3Gb/s.
- PCI Master v2.3, I/O APIC.
- ACPI 2.0 compliant.
- Serial ATA RAID 0/1/5/10.
- Integrated AHCI controller.

Main Memory

• Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.8 Volt DDR2 800/1066* (OC)/1200* (OC) SDRAM, 16GB Max (To support 16GB max, please check the criteria at Intel website)

Slots

• Two PCI Express x16 slots (PCI Express Bus SPEC V2.0 compliant; supports CrossFire Technology)
- When using two PCIE x16 slots, the PCIE x16 lanes will auto arrange from x16/ x0 to x8 x8.
• Two PCI Express x1 slots. (support PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• Two 32-bit v2.3 master PCI bus slots.
- Support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface.

On-Board IDE/SATA

• One Ultra DMA 66/100/133 IDE controller integrated in JMicron® 363.
- Supports PIO, Bus Master operation modes.
- Can connect up to two Ultra ATA drives.

• SATAII controller integrated in ICH10R/JMicron® 363 chipest
- Up to 3Gb/s transfer speed.
- Supports six SATAII ports by ICH10R
- Supports two SATAII ports by JMicron 363.
- Supports one eSATA port by JMicron 362.
- Supports AHCI controller with SATA RAID 0/1/5/10 by ICH10R.


Audio

• Chipset integrated by Realtek® ALC888/888T
- Flexible 8-channel audio with jack sensing
- Compliant with Azalia 1.0 Spec
- Meet Microsoft Vista Premium spce
- Supports VoIP Card (for ALC888T only)

LAN

• Supports PCI Express LAN 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Realtek 8111C.


IEEE1394 / FireWire

• JMicron® 381 chipset
- Supports up to two 1394 ports. (Rear panel x1, pinheader x1)
- Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps.

Internal I/O Connectors

- ATX 24-Pin power connector
- 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- 4-pin ATX 12V VGA connector
- CPU / System x 5 FAN connectors
- CD-in connector
- Front panel audio connector
- Front panel connector
- 1 x chasis intrusion connector
- 1 x serial port pinheader
- 3 x USB 2.0 connectors
- 1 x Floppy disk drive connector
- 8 x Serial ATAII connectors
- 1 x ATA133 connector
- SPDIF-Out connector
- Clear CMOS Jumper
- 1 x IEEE1394 connector support additional 1 port (optional)
- 2 x HW-OC FSB jumpers
- 1 x GreenPower Genie connector (optional)
- 1 x Reset Button
- 1 x Power Button
- 1 x TPM module connector (optional)


Back Panel I/O Ports

- 1 x Clear CMOS button
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse
- 1 x eSATA port

- 1 x IEEE1394 port (optional)
- 6 x USB 2.0 ports
- 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack
- 1 x 6 in 1 audio jack
- 1 x Optical SPDIF-out

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.

Dimension

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

Mounting

• 9 mounting holes.

http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?f...2_no=&cat3_no=
/sbin/lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2e20 (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2e21 (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a37 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a38 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a39 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a3c 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a3e 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a40 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a42 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a48 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a4a 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a34 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a35 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a36 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a3a 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a16 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a22 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3a30 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0622 (rev a1) 02:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 03) 02:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 03) 03:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 2380 04:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 03) 04:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 03) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) 06:01.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02)
Chipset: Intel P45
Connection Type: LGA775


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Old 06-21-2008, 04:48 AM   #1
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.25-ARCH
Distribution: Arch Linux x86_64



Painless installation. Everything worked out of the box. Speedy SATA operation using ICH10R in AHCI mode. Have not tested the JMicron SATA/PATA controller, but there should be support in the kernel. S/PDIF optical out works after unmuting IEC958 in alsamixer. Hardware monitor sensors work with modules f71882fg and coretemp. Overall performance is very good and the board operates rock-stable.
 




  



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