MSI 970 GAMING - Manual (Page 18)

Chapter 1
1-4 Getting Started
Motherboard Specifications
CPU Support ■ Supports AMD ® FX TM / Phenom TM II/ Athlon TM II and Sempron TM
processors for the AM3/ AM3+ socket
Hypertransport ■ HyperTransport™ 3.0, supports up to 4.8 GT/s
Chipset ■ AMD ® 970 & SB950
Memory
Support
■ 4x DDR3 memory slots supporting up to 32GB
■ Supports DDR3 2133(OC)/ 1866/ 1600/ 1333/ 1066 MHz
■ Dual channel memory architecture
Expansion
Slots
■ 2x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots
- PCI_E2 supports up to PCIe 2.0 x16 speed
- PCI_E4 supports up to PCIe 2.0 x8 speed
■ 2x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots
■ 2x PCI slots
Multi-GPU
Support
■ Supports 2-Way AMD ® CrossFire TM Technology*
■ Supports 2-Way NVIDIA ® SLI TM Technology
* Supports Windows 7 and Windows 8/ 8.1.
Storage ■ AMD ® SB950 Chipset
- 6x SATA 6Gb/s ports
- Supports RAID 0, RAID1, RAID5 and RAID 10
USB ■ AMD ® SB950 Chipset
- 14x USB 2.0 ports (8 ports on the back panel, 6 ports
available through the internal USB 2.0 connectors)
■ VIA VL806 Chipset
- 4x USB 3.0 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 2 ports
available through the internal USB 3.0 connector)*
* These USB 3.0 ports do not support M-Flash recovery function.
Audio ■ Realtek ® ALC1150 Codec
- 7.1-Channel High Definition Audio
- Supports S/PDIF output
LAN ■ Killer E2205 Gigabit LAN controller*
- 1x LAN port on the backpanel
* The Killer Network Manager is only available for Windows 7 and Windows 8/ 8.1
currently. The supported drivers for other operating systems would be available on
the website if provided by vendor.
Back Panel
Connectors
■ 1x PS/2 keyboard/ mouse combo port
■ 8x USB 2.0 ports
■ 2x USB 3.0 ports
■ 1x Optical S/PDIF-Out connector
■ 1x LAN (RJ45) port
■ 6x OFC audio jacks