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The motherboard supports all current AMD AM3 CPUs including the 955 Black Edition, the 810, the 7xx series and Athlon 2 CPUs. AM2+ CPUs will not fit in the Socket as there are two pins extra on that CPU, but AM3 CPUs will work on AM2+ motherboards due to the configuration of the pins. The AM3 CPUs support DDR3 memory up to DDR3-1333MHz. The SB710 Southbridge is a lighter version of the SB750. This chip has the Advanced Clock Calibration of the SB750 meaning that it will overclock with the same ease. The main difference between the two chipsets is that the SB710 does not support RAID 5. The target market for this motherboard is for the HTPC user and RAID 5 is not likely to be a factor. MSI uses all Solid Capacitors on their board, meaning that their capacitors will last longer than the capacitors of other motherboards that are not solid. AM3 CPUs support Active Power Switching, allowing the CPU to run at a lower clock speed when the computer is idle or doing low-intensity computing like Word. This allows the computer to save energy and thus is more environmentally conscious. The 785G is a new Northbridge with integrated graphics. This chipset is manufactured on TSMC's 55nm process node, just as the majority of ATI graphics cards are manufactured on. ATI calls the integrated graphics on the 785G the Radeon HD 4200. This is the first integrated graphics chipset to fully support Microsoft DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1. Previous integrated graphics from ATI and NVIDIA supported DirectX 10.0 only. DirectX 10.1 mainly added performance and image quality improvements to DirectX 10.0. The Radeon HD 4200 on the board has 40 SPs making it akin to the HD 4350 chip found on ATI's most inexpensive HD 4xxx series discrete cards. There are four ROPs, 8 Texture address units, 4 Texture filtering units, and it uses shared memory with the rest of the system. ATI offers HyperMemory technology for those companies that want to add it to their board. This allows the board maker to put 128MB of DDR3 memory to use as frame buffer memory. The 4200 has a clock speed of 500MHz, which is the same as the 3400 on the 785G. Contents:
 
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