MSI MS-6195 User Manual

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
The MS-6195 ATX IR3 mainboard is a high-performance personal computer
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mainboard based on the AMD Athlon processor. This mainboard provides
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onboard Creative CT5880 PCI technology in audio. The AMD Athlon
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processor is the newest microprocessor in the AMD K86 family of
microprocessors.
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The mainboard uses the highly integrated AMD 751 system controller and
AMD 756 peripheral controller. The AMD-751 system controller features:
the S2k system interface supports a 100Mhz clock and double-data rate
(DDR) transfers, the 33MHz 32-bit bus interface supports up to six PCI
masters, the 66MHz AGP 1.0 compliant interface supports 2x data transfer
mode, and High Speed memory designed to support a 100MHz SDRAM (PC-
100-compatible-DIMM) with serial presence detect(SPD). The AMD-756
peripheral bus controllers feature an integrated ISA bus controller, an
enhanced IDE controller with Ultra DMA-66 support, and a keyboard/mouse
controller.
The MS-6195 ATX IR3 mainboard is one of our system board to implement
the AMD-750 chipset (AMD-751 and AMD-756), which supports a single
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Slot A for AMD Athlon processor.
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