MSI announces MSI KT6 Delta, Socket A mainboard based on brand new VIA KT600 chipset and VIA south bridge-VT8237, supporting the latest AMD Athlon™ XP (former known as Barton), Athlon™ and Duron™ processors. It is the first to support synchronized 400MHz FSB (Front Side Bus) and DDR400 memory. It has Thermal Diode Circuit onboard, that is specially designed for AMD Athlon™ XP processors and protects the CPU from damage from overheating due to improper operation or cooling fan failure.

VIA FastStream64 Technology is first introduced with the VIA KT600 Chipset. This new technology expands the performance by extending array of prefetch buffers and reduces latency in the memory controller.

To enhance the overall system performance, MSI KT6 Delta is Serial ATA ready. Advanced users only need to install Serial ATA-compatible hard drives to enjoy super-speed data transfer at 150MB/sec. Moreover, the Serial ATA ribbon cable is thinner and longer. It solves cooling problems inside the case and facilitate hard drive connection.

MSI KT6 Delta comes also with one AGP 8x slot, five standard PCI slots, 3 DIMM slots which support up to 3GB of DDR400 (PC3200), DDR333 (PC2700) and DDR266 (PC2100) SDRAM. To optimize the hard drive velocity and security, you could incorporate onboard Promise RAID controller (optional) with integrated VIA RAID, supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1. Even with VIA RAID only, you can build personal redudant disk array for fault tolerance. Broadcom Gigabit or 10/100M LAN controller (optional) brings users better performance than integrated Ethernet solution.

5.1 channel Audio is integrated on MSI KT6 Delta and allows users who want quality sound effects to realize the home theater dream by simply connecting six speakers to the output. It is ideal for enjoying 3D games and cinemas.

MSI KT6 Delta is delivered with MSI Live Update™ 2 and MSI CoreCenter™ utilities, which are exclusively designed by MSI for friendly operation and easy maintenance.

More info and Source: MSI Europe