Hope this Works......

[gooberguy]

OK, i bought this mother board and a AMD atholon 64 3000+ , see on the motherboard specs it says only supports 3400+ and up. Does this mean that my 3000+ wont work or is that just somthing they say? I figured that if it can support 3400, it should be able to support lower ones tooo! Hopefully it does because i spent a lot of money on this!



MSI K8N Neo Platinum (nVidia nForce3 Chipset - 3 DDR - 10/100/1000 Lan - 8 USB 2.0 - IEEE1394)

Specifications

* Mfr Part Number: MS-7030
* CPU
o Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon 64 processor (Socket 754)
o Supports 3400+ or up
* nVIDIA® nForce3 250Gb Chipset
o Supports Athlon 64 processor (Socket 754), 800MHz Hypertransport interface.
o supports single memory channels, DDR 400/333/266 unbuffered memory.
o Supports external AGP 4X/8X
o Integrated Serial ATA interface: dual channel 4 S-ATA RAID controller and dual channel ATA 133/100/66/33 master mode EIDE controller.
o Integrated an nVIDIA MAC for Gigabit LAN.
o Supports 8 high speed USB2.0 ports.
o AC97 2.3 compliance.
* Main Memory
o Supports 3 slots for 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM modules.
o Supports the memory size up to 2GB.
o Supports unbuffered ECC/ non-ECC DDR 400/333/266.
* Slots
o One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) 1.5V 4X/8X slot
o Five 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface).
* On-Board IDE/SATA
o An IDE controller on the nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
o Can connect up to 4 IDE devices: 4 S-ATA RAID controller and dual channel ATA 133/100/66/33 master mode EIDE controller.
o Supoprt up to 4 SATA plus 4 ATA133 Hard drive
+ RAID 0 or 1, 0+1
+ RAID function work w/ATA133 + SATA H/Ds, SATA H/Ds or ATA133 H/Ds
* BIOS
o The mainboard BIOS provides Plug & Play BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically.
o The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) function which records your mainboard specifications.
* Audio
o 7.1 channel audio codec RealTek ALC850.
o Compliance with AC97 v2.3 Spec.
o Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement.
* LAN
o nVIDIA® nForce3 NV Gigabit LAN controller
o Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip.
o Supports 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s auto-negotiation operation.
o Compliant with PCI v2.2.
o Supports ACPI Power Management.
* IEEE1394
o Supports up to 3 x 1394 ports.
o Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps
o Controlled by VIA VT6306 chipset
* On-Board Peripherals
o 1 floppy port supports 1 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes
o 1 serial port
o 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
o 1 audio jack (5-in-1), coaxial/fibre SPDIF out
o 1 IrDA connector for SIR/ASKIR/HPSIR
o 8 USB 2.0 ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 4)
o 1 RJ45 LAN jack
o 3 IEEE 1394 connectors (Rear x 1/ Front x 2)
* Dimension: 30.5cm(L) x 24.5cm(W) ATX Form Factor
* Mounting: 9 mounting holes
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[Cobra]

If your XP3000 is a socket 754 CPU it should work. I can't see why it wouldn't.

[Goober57]

Does this mean that my 3000+ wont work or is that just somthing they say?
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From the MSI website............

Supports up to 3200+, 3400+, 3700+ or higher CPU

This was only a fast search. I didn't read everything!

Enjoy.

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[gooberguy]

I Checked the MSI website and it says exactly this
• Supports 2800+, 3000+, 3200+ and 3400+ or higher


So i think im good! Thanks for the help!

[ViRaL1]

They just say '3400+ and up' because they don't always know the upper limit until the chips come out and they've tested the new chips. At the same time they don't want to say they CAN'T support the next chip when it comes out.