The ATI CrossFire right from its inception has created a lot of hype and today we’ll look at the MSI RD480 Neo2, one of the Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire edition motherboards. A mid range product, the Neo 2 is MSI's first AMD-based motherboard to support CrossFire multi-GPU technology. It uses ULI M1573 Southbridge instead of the newer M1575 and doesn’t suffer from problems which were seen in SB450 and brings Azalia-class HD Audio. It has four standard SATA-150 connectors with RAID (0, 1 and 0+1) support and NCQ, and has two Ultra-ATA connectors courtesy of the ULi M1573 Southbridge.
The RD480 Neo2 has a decent layout and doesn’t believe in a frivolous design and comes with a range of voltage and frequency options. MSI's CoreCell technology is also onboard, for monitoring and diagnostics and MSI even threw in their D-Bracket 2 diagnostics bracket with two extra USB 2.0 ports.
Its features include:
# MSI RD480 Neo2
# AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2GHz) support
# 2 x 512MB Corsair DDR400 @ 6-3-3 CAS 2.5 CMD 1T
# Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA hard disk drive (one single NTFS partition)
# Gigabyte GV-NX66T128D-3 GeForce 6600GT 128MB - with NVIDIA ForceWare 81.98 driver
# ULi SATA/RAID driver 6.2.07
# Microsoft Windows XP Professional
MSI RD480 Neo2 PC Motherboard source
Sourced By Tanya Palta. Edited by Colbert Low
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