Specification
Size
30.5 cm(L) x 23.5 cm(W) ATX Form Factor
CPU
Support for all Intel Pentium 4 processors to 3.06Mhz and above
Chipset
Northbridge - SiS® 655 Chipset
Support Intel® Pentium 4 processor with data transfer rate up to 533MHz
Supports Dual channel DDR 333/DDR 266 memory controller
Supports AGP 8x/4x interface at 0.8v or 4x at 1.5v with fast write transaction
Supports bi-directional 16-bit data bus with 1GHz bandwidth
Southbridge - SiS® 963 Chipset
Supports Dual-IDE ATA 66/100/133 Integrated audio controller with AC97 interface Low pin count interface for SIO
Advanced power management and PC2001 compliance
Memory
Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 2.5 Volt DDR SDRAM.
Supports up to 4GB memory size without EEC.
Supports Dual channel 200/266/333 MHz and up.
Slots
One AGP 50 Watts slot supports 8x/4x at 0.8V (AGP 3.0) or 4x at 1.5V (does not support 3.3V)
Six PCI v2.2 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots.
On board IDE
Dual IDE controllers integrated in SiS 963.
Support PIO, Bus Master, Ultra DMA66/100/133 operation.
Can connect up to four IDE devices.
Audio
AC97 link controller integrated in SiS 963.
6 channels software audio codec C-Media 9739A.
Compliance with AC97 v2.2 Spec.
Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement.
Can support SPDIF Out via S-Bracket only.
LAN
Broadcom 5702
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet MAC and PHY transceiver, auto-negotiation operation.
Supports single-port 10MB/s, 100MB/s and 1000MB/s BAST-T application.
Compliance with PCI v2.2, mini PCI 1.0 and LAN on Motherboard (LOM) standard.
Serial ATA
Support 2 serial ATA plus / ATA133
- RAID O or 1 are supported
- RAID function works w/ATA133+SATA H/D or 2 SATA H/D
- Connect up to 2 Serial ATA devices and 1 ATA133 device.
On Board Peripherals
On-Board Peripherals include:
1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes.
2 serial ports (COM A + COM B)
1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode.
6 USB 2.0 ports (Rear * 4 / Front * 2)
1 Line-In/Line-Out/Mic-In port
2 PS/2 connectors
1 RJ-45 LAN connector
Bios
The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically.
2Mb AMI BIOS w/ PnP, ACPI, SMBIOS 2.3, Green and Boot Block.
Provides DMI2.0, WfM2.0, WOL, WOR, chassis intrusion, and SMBus for system management.
In summary the MSI 655 Max has a feature set ready to take on the Asus P4G8X Deluxe.
