Introducing
K7N420 PRO (MS-6373) Socket A mainboard, now integrated with the new nForce™ Chipset from NVIDIA®.
K7N420 PRO is design to address the needs of today's most demanding
users—all of whom expect unmatched system and memory performance,
stunning 3D graphics, awesome 3D audio, fast broadband and networking
connections.
This entirely new chipset (nForce), is redefining the PC to deliver
unmatched system performance, and nForce's revolutionary new system
architecture includes:
- A distributed processing platform, which frees up the CPU to perform other important tasks.
- The integrated Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Audio Processing Unit (APU) providing unparalleled 3D graphics and audio.
- A complete suite of networking and communications technologies, including 10/100Base-T Ethernet and home phone-line networking (HomePNA 2.0).
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The nForce chipset is comprised of two platform processors:
- IGP: Integrated Graphics Processor.
- MCP: Media & Communications Processor.
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 IGP (North Bridge)
- TwinBank, an optimized 128-bit memory architecture providing
the highest possible memory bandwidth. (Compare
with dual channel Rambus memory controllers of i840/i850/i860)
- A dynamic adaptive speculative pre-processor (DASP) for boosting CPU performance.
- An integrated GeForce2 GPU for unparalleled 3D graphics performance.
(The internal bandwidth is 1.5 GB/s, which
equal to AGP 6X)
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 MCP (South-Bridge)
- An Audio Processing Unit (APU) with a Dolby Digital 5.1 real-time encoder.
- Hardware DirectX8 audio processor, up to 256 different stereo voices
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Encoder
- DSL2-acceleration
- 32 bin mixer, with 8 voice volumes mixed to each bin (to get to 256)
- StreamThru™ enhanced data streaming technology for superior broadband and networking performance.
- The industry's most complete media and communications suite, including support for HomePNA 2.0, 10/100Base-T Ethernet and USB.
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MSI K7N420 PRO Specifications:
- Socket A for AMD Athlon/Duron/Athlon XP up to 1800+ or higher
- NVIDIA nForce 420D (with MCP-D) chipset
- ATX form factor, 200/266MHz FSB
- Twinbank Memory Architecture/128-bit DDR controller
- Video: 256-bit 3D/2D graphics accelerator, T&L and optional TV-out daughter card
- Audio: APU (audio processing unit) in MCP, up to 256 HW-processed voices or 64 HW voice in 3D, supports multi-speaker 3D audio
- Optional 10/100 Base-T fast Ethernet
- 5 PCI, 1 AGP 4x, 1 CNR, 3 DDR (Max. 1.5GB), 6 USB, SPDIF out
- PC2PC, D-LED, Fuzzy Logic 3, Live Update Series
- ETA: November
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