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Review: MSI 648 MAX Motherboard

by Tarinder Sandhu on 25 October 2002, 00:00

Tags: MSI

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Specifications

Specifications in detail

CPU

Supports Intel Pentium® 4 Socket478 processor
400/533MHz System Data Bus

Chipset

SiS648/963 chipset
Supports AGP 4X/8x, AGP2.0 and 3.0 specification
Supports Hi-Speed Universal Serial Bus (USB v2.0)
Supports Dual Ultra ATA 133/100/66/33 channels supporting 4 devices


Memory

Supports Three 184-pin DDR DIMM module
Supports up to 2GB MAX
Supports PC1600, PC2100, PC2700, and PC3200 (indirectly)
Supports ECC RAM


Audio

ALC650 single chip 6-channel CODEC on-board

System BIOS


AMI Plug and Play BIOS supports APM and ACPI
Vcore from 1.5 - 1.6v. Vmem from 2.5 - 2.8v


Backplane

PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Connectors
1 Floppy Port (up to 2.88MB)
1 Parallel Port (EPP/ECP)
2 Serial Ports
4 USB 2.0 Connectors (4 on the backplane, D Bracket for the remaining 2)
Audio connector (Line-in, Line-out, MIC-in, and Game Port )


Miscellaneous

6-PCI slots, 33MHz
D Bracket2
S Bracket
Keyboard and Mouse Power On
2 usable fan headers

No on-board hardware RAID or LAN make this something of a basic motherboard in today's terms. The inclusion of the ALC650 audio CODEC and accompanying S/PDIF bracket is decent, though.