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In this review PCSTATS will be testing out MSI Computer's K9AG Neo2 Digital motherboard. The MSI K9AG Neo2 Digital is one of the few full size ATX motherboards build on AMD's 690G northbridge and SB600 southbridge chipsets.
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The MSI K9AG Neo2
Digital motherboard supports three PCI devices, two PCI Express x1, and
one PCI Express x16 expansion card. The board has one floppy and one IDE
channel, four 3GB/s SATA II connections.
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The bottom right
hand corner of the MSI K9AG Neo2
Digital motherboard is neatly organized. There are the four 3GB/s Serial ATA II
slots which support RAID 0/1/10, three USB bracket headers, a Firewire header
(in green), the front panel I/O header, the parallel IDE channel and the
AMD SB600 Southbridge heatsink. The clear CMOS jumper is right next to
the CMOS battery (easy to access).
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MSI have positioned two PCI Express x1
slots next to the x16 videocard slot so thick videocards will not interfer
with PCI cards. The IDE connector is offset, so there is sufficient
clearance between it and the videocard.
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The main
ATX power connector has 24-pins, and sits a little close to the memory
DIMM slots. Depending on the heatspreaders attached to your memory, this might
make for a rather tight squeeze.
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There
are four DDR2 memory slots on the MSI K9AG Neo2
Digital. The board supports 8GB of DDR2-800/667/533 MHz memory running in a dual channel configuration. The
K9AG Neo2 Digital is compatible with ATX 1.4 and ATX 2.0 spec power supplies, minimum
350W.
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There
is plenty of
space around the CPU socket for larger socket AM2 heatsinks. Like
all modern motherboards, the MSI K9AG Neo2 Digital is compatible with PWM
CPU fans.
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