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MicroATX motherboards have become increasingly
popular lately, especially among those who are looking to build a home
entertainment PC. As impressive as the overall size of these boards are
the loads of features most of them offer in such a tiny package. MSI, as
a well known manufacturer of low cost, high quality motherboards, is one such
company to offer a MicroATX board with little to no tradeoffs. The KM2M
Combo-L is a full-featured MicroATX motherboard that should appeal to those
budget-oriented buyers looking to build a low cost system.
The Bundle
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Included along with the board is one floppy ribbon cable, IDE ribbon cable,
one driver and utility CD, an I/O plate, instruction manual and a MSI case
badge.
Features
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Integrated ProSavage8™ 2D/3D Graphic Controller.
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AGP
4x and high bandwidth V-link host controller.
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Supports four memory banks using two 184-pin DDR DIMMs
or two 168-pin SDRAM DIMMs.
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Supports a maximum memory size of 2GB.
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Direct sound ready AC97 digital audio controller.
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6
ports USB 2.0 controller.
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Integrated Ethernet MAC.
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Three
PCI 2.2 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots.
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IrDA
connector for SIR/CIR/ASKIR/HPSIR
Specifications
CPU
• Supports Socket A for AMD® Athlon™/Athlon™ XP
/Duron™ processor
• Supports 1GHz to 2600+ processor.
Chipset
• VIA® ProSavageDDR™ KM266 Chipset
- FSB @200/266MHz
- Integrated ProSavage8™ 2D/3D Graphic Controller.
- AGP 4x and high bandwidth V-link host controller.
- Advanced memory controller supports DDR266 technology.
• VIA® VT8235 Chipset
- 533MB/sec Vlink client controller.
- Direct sound ready AC97 digital audio controller.
- Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode EIDE controller.
- Supports both ACPI and legacy APM power management.
- 6 ports USB 2.0 controller.
- Integrated Ethernet MAC.
FSB
100/133MHz (200/266MHz) clocks are supported.
Main Memory
• Supports four memory banks using two 184-pin DDR DIMMs
or two 168-pin SDRAM DIMMs.
• Supports a maximum memory size of 2GB.
• Supports 2.5v DDR SDRAM DIMM.
Slots
• One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slot. (Optional)
- AGP specification compliant.
- Supports AGP 2.0 2x/4x
• Three PCI 2.2 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots.
- supporting 3.3v/5v PCI bus Interface.
On-Board IDE
• An IDE controller on the VT8235 chipset provides IDE HDD/
CDROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA 66/100/133
operation modes.
• Can connect up to four IDE devices.
Audio
• Front Audio supported.
• Chip Integrated.
- Realtek ALC 650 codec.
- 5.1 channel AC'97 software Audio.
Video
Integrated ProSavage8™ 2D/3D Graphic Controller
LAN
• VIA® VT8235 integrated MAC + VIA 6103 PHY.
- RJ45 connector.
On-Board Peripherals
On-Board Peripherals include:
- 1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M
and 2.88Mbytes
- 1 serial port (COM1), 1 Intel-spec serial port (JCOM2, Optional) and 1 VGA
port
- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
- 6 USB ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 2)
- 1 Line-In/Line-Out/Mic-In port
- 1 LAN RJ45 connector
- 1 IrDA connector for SIR/CIR/ASKIR/HPSIR
BIOS
• The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects
the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board
automatically.
• The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI)
function which records your mainboard specifications.
Dimension
24.5 cm(L) x 23.8 cm(W) MicroATX Form Factor
Mounting
6 mounting holes
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