MSI K8T Neo2-FIR- Manuals

Page 2 - Chipset; - Integrated dual channel native Serial ATA/RAID controller.; Memory; - 1 x IDE RAID

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Written by Stephen Friday, 04 September 2009 12:14 Chipset - North Bridge : VIA K8T800 Pro - HyperTransport connection to AMD K8 Athlon 64/Athlon 64 FX processor. - 8 or 16 bit control/ address. data transfer both directions. - 1000/800/600/400/200MHz "Double Data Rate" oper...

Page 3 - our high expectations?

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Written by Stephen Friday, 04 September 2009 12:14 Back Panel I/O Ports - 1 x Parallel, 1 x Serial - 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 Mouse - 7 x Audio I/O - 2 x IEEE1394 - 4 x USB 2.0, 1 x RJ-45 Port ..:: K8T Neo2-FIR Packaging ::.. I’ve always had positive experiences with MSI when it ...

Page 4 - turn out to be so rosy.

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Written by Stephen Friday, 04 September 2009 12:14 the best user manual’s I’ve come across in quite some time. We’ve seen manufacturers steadily increasing both the quantity and quality of information that they provide in their user manuals, and the K8T Neo2-FIR’s illustrates this f...

Page 6 - components and chips related to the core voltage power supply.

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Written by Stephen Friday, 04 September 2009 12:14 Located along the top edge of the PCB, we find the main three-pin fan power connector for the CPU fan. This area also houses the core voltage regulator chip, as well as several small capacitors. Along the right side of the processor...

Page 7 - see if this trend continues.

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Written by Stephen Friday, 04 September 2009 12:14 connector, though I prefer to see it positioned higher on the PCB when possible. Other than these few items, all that can be found around the K8T800 Pro Northbridge chip are some small electrical components. This portion of the boar...

Page 9 - and MSI has a masterpiece with the K8T Neo2-FIR.

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Written by Stephen Friday, 04 September 2009 12:14 RAID controller chip. To the left and right of the Promise chip, we see two orange Serial ATA connectors. A single IDE connector is oriented lengthwise from East to West along the top edge of the Promise controller chip. This area a...

Page 11 - sure each of them has been enabled.

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Written by Stephen Friday, 04 September 2009 12:14 sure each of them has been enabled. The next menu that we will be discussing is that of the PC Health Status menu. The menu houses all of the various displays for system temperatures, RPM readings, and voltage readings. As you can s...

Page 12 - wish for a little more on the DRAM side.

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Written by Stephen Friday, 04 September 2009 12:14 different percentage overclocks depending on the system load. This is an excellent feature for those users looking to do some overclocking, but don’t want to deal with tweaking the settings themselves. Overclocking wise, we see opti...

Page 13 - chipset which are known to have issues with frequency dividers.

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Written by Stephen Friday, 04 September 2009 12:14 but surely raise the FSB bus speed detecting any instability along the way. We ran our DDR500 capable RAM at 2.85V so as to allow for maximum overclocking without the RAM beginning to die out on us. The highest stable FSB that we ac...

Page 15 - controller, it is able to easily blow the 3.46GHz P4 out of the water.

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Written by Stephen Friday, 04 September 2009 12:14 3800+ / K8T Neo2-FIR combination comes out of top for overall bandwidth. The major difference here is that this time, the K8T Neo2-FIR combo is able to easily blow past the 3.46GHz Extreme Edition by nearly a GBp/s of bandwidth. Thi...

Page 16 - head into the UT2003 benchmarks.

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Written by Stephen Friday, 04 September 2009 12:14 3DMark 2003. For our 3DMark2003 results, we see results in complete contradiction to the results found with AquaMark. This time, we see the 3800+ / K8T Neo2-FIR / 9600XT combination besting the 3.46GHz EE / D925XCV2 / PCX5750 combin...

Page 17 - Edition CPU and PCX5750 setup in the dust.

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Written by Stephen Friday, 04 September 2009 12:14 The last benchmark for the day, Unreal Tournament 2003, shows us some very interesting results. For this test, we once again ran the benchmark in 640 x 480 mode in order take the graphics card out of the equation as far as results g...