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990XA-GD55 series – MSI motherboard – user manual

Motherboard MSI 990XA-GD55

Download MSI 990XA-GD55 manual in PDF format: 990XA-EN

CPU

• 64bit AMD® FX, Phenom II X6/X4/X3/X2, Athlon II X4/X3/X2 and Sempron CPU in AM3 / AM3+ package.
Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.

Hyper Transport Bus

• HyperTransport 3.0 supporting speed up to 5200MT/s

Chipset

• AMD® 990X and SB950 Chipset

Main Memory

• Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600/1866/2133* (OC) DRAM, 32GB Max

Slots

• 2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots
• 4 PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots
• 1 PCI slot, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface.

On-Board SATA

• 6 SATA III (1~6) ports by AMD® SB950
– Supports storage and data transfers at up to 6Gb/s

RAID Function

– SATA III 1~6 support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 mode by AMD® SB950

MSI Reminds You…
• The RAID setup floppy disk is optional depending on the districts. You can download the files from the website to make the setup disk.

USB 3.0

• 2 USB 3.0 ports by NEC® D720200

Audio

• Chipset integrated by Realtek® ALC892
– True Blu-ray Audio Support
– Flexible 8-channel audio with jack sensing
– Compliant with Azalia 1.0 Spec

LAN

• Realtek PCI-E GbLAN controller 8111E
– Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in single chip
– Supports 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s
– Compliance with PCI-Express Bus specification v1.0a

Internal I/O Connectors

– 1 x ATX 24-pin power connector
– 1 x ATX 8-pin 12V CPU power connector
– CPU x 1 / System x 4 FAN connectors
– 1 x Front panel audio connector
– 1 x Front panel connector
– 1 x Chassis intrusion switch connector
– 2 x USB 2.0 connectors
– 6 x Serial ATA III connectors
– 1 x Serial port connector
– 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
– 1 x SPDIF-out connector
– 1 x TPM module connector

Back Panel I/O Ports

– 1 x PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse port
– 1 x Claer CMOS button
– 1 x Coaxial SPDIF-out
– 1 x Optical SPDIF-out
– 8 x USB 2.0 ports
– 2 x USB 3.0 ports (blue)
– 1 x RJ45 LAN Jacks
– 1 x 6 in 1 audio jack