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 This MSI mainboard comes with two 16x PCIe slots and two 8x PCIe slots for up to 4 graphics cards. The manual says that the “mazarine” PCIe slots are x16, and the blue slots are x8. Where the “mazarine” is the darker blue slot. For the layout side, this AMD board has a horrible layout. The SATA connector should be closer to end of board so graphics cards do not cover them. While the cooling system on the board looks cool, it could cause problems with some graphics cards, although a HD4870 can be installed in the first slot without a problem. The manual of this motherboard is almost completely useless as it just states what somethings are and porvides very brief descriptions. It also gives wrong descriptions at times stating colors that are obviously not on the board anywhere. This motherboard can not handle high voltages, especially with all 4 dimms in use. However with all of these issue, MSI K9A2 Platinum is one of the cheapest dual 16x PCIe for 16x/16x with support for 140W AMD Phenom.
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MSI K9A2 Platinum AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX Motherboard Specification
| Processor |
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Socket AM2+/AM2; Phenom FX, Phenom, Athlon64 FX, Athlon64 X2 processors |
| Chipset |
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AMD 790FX + ATI SB600 |
| Front Side Bus |
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2600MHz Hyper Transport (5200 MT/s) |
| Memory |
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Max. 8GB;Dual channel DDR2 1066 x 4 DIMMs |
| Expansion Slots |
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4*PCIe2.0 x16, 1*PCIe x1, 1*PCI |
| IDE |
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1*ATA100 |
| Serial ATA(SATA)/RAID |
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6*SATAII + 2*eSATA w/ RAID 0, 1, 10 |
| Additional RAID Controller |
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Promise T3 |
| Audio |
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Realtek ALC888, 7.1 channel Audio |
| LAN |
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Realtek 8111B; 10/100/1000Mbps |
| IEEE1394 |
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1*1394a |
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