There were several MSI manufactured motherboards used by eMachines, for a number of CPU generations.
eMachines is one of several brands owned by Acer computers. It is Acer's budget line of computers for sale in the United States and is their mid-range brand for sale in Europe. The eMachines brand are sold as complete systems, and are made from a variety of components, with motherboards from several manufacturers. One manufacturer used by eMachines is MSI, and their motherboards all have part numbers starting with "MS". There were several generations of MSI motherboards used by eMachines, and they can be grouped by processor generation.
AMD Athlon Motherboards
These motherboards used the Slot A architecture established by AMD for the Athlon CPU shortly after it was introduced; the Athlon used the K7 core and was contemporary with the Intel Pentium III architecture. There were three MSI motherboards using this architecture: the earlier MS-6777, which supported bus speeds of 166 MHz through 266 MHz; the MS-6734, with front side bus speeds ranging from 200 to 333 MHz and the Slot A MSI-7061, which was nearly identical. All three motherboards had integrated nVidia graphics chip sets, and are nearly a decade old as of November 2010.
Intel Pentium IV Motherboards
MSI made a limited number of Pentium IV/Celeron D-compatible motherboards used by eMachines. These used the LGA-775 processor package, and had two very similar models, the MSI-7173 and the MSI-7211. The primary differences between the two motherboards in this generation were the maximum front side bus speed and CPU multipliers, with the first generation supporting 533 MHz and the second generation supporting 800 MHz.
AMD Athlon 64 Motherboards
AMD's follow-on to the Athlon was the Athlon 64 processor. This was a 64-bit processor which was supported by the MS-6741 motherboard for the original release, using Socket 754 (roughly contemporary to the Pentium IVs). This was followed by the MS-7142, which could handle higher voltage CPUs. Many models also had the nearly identical MS-7145
AMD Athlon 64FX Motherboards
AMD's Athlon 64FX architecture includes a mutli-core version of the AMD Athlon 64 series, and includes support for DDR2 RAM. These motherboards use the Socket 939 interface, and motherboards of this type include the MS-7093, the MS-7184, and the MS 7207, which is the current 'high end' MSI motherboard used by eMachines.
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