The MSI K9N6PGM2-V motherboard uses the AM2 socket for AMD Athlon 64/Athlon 64X2 CPUs and the AM2+ socket for AMD Phenom CPUs. It features a variety of expansion slots and can handle both SATA and IDE devices. The board is no longer in production but MSI still provides occasional updates for some component drivers.
Processor and Chipset
The MSI K9N6PGM2-V motherboard uses the AM2+/AM2 socket, which supports several processors including the AM2+ Athlon, AM2+ Phenom Agena, AM2+ Phenom Toliman, Athlon 64 Brisbane, Sempron Brisbane, Athlon 64 Lima, Athlon 64 Sparta, Sempron Lima, Opteron, Athlon 64x2 Windsor, Athlon 64 Orleans and Sempron Manila. The front side bus operates at up to 2000MT/s for AM2+ CPUs and 2000/1600MT/s for AM2 CPUs. The size of the L2 cache will vary depending on the specific processor. The chipset is the NVIDIA MCP61.
Expansion
The MSI K9N6PGM2-V offers a wide range of expansion possibilities. There is one PCI-Ex16 slot and one PCI-Ex1 slot in addition to two PCI slots. The board can support two SATA II devices such as hard drives and optical drives. There is also one IDE connector/controller that operates in Ultra DMA 66/100/133 modes for connecting an older hard drive or optical drive. This allows for two IDE devices when used in the master/slave mode. There is also a connector for one 3.5 inch floppy disk.
Ports and Connectors
The motherboard's back panel provides connections for a PS/2 keyboard, a PS/2 mouse, four USB 2.0 ports, a parallel port, a serial connector, a VGA video out connector and one RJ-45 LAN jack. There are also jacks for audio line-in, microphone-in, subwoofer-out, front speaker-out, side speaker-out and rear speaker-out. This six-in-one audio jack setup allows you to easily connect a surround sound system to the computer.
RAM, BIOS and Audio Controller
The motherboard has two DDR2, 1.8 volt, 240-pin DIMM memory slots that can each handle a DDR2 533/667/800 memory module of up to 2GB for a total possible RAM configuration of 4GB. The board uses the AMI BIOS and the final BIOS update provided on the MSA website is version 9.9, released in December, 2009. For integrated audio the motherboard uses the Realtek ALC861/883/888 controller, which can provide eight channel audio through the board's six-in-one audio jack panel.
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