MSI MS-6117 Ver 1.1 Slot 1 ATX Motherboard Intel 440BX 3x ISA 4x PCI SDRAM

MSI MS-6117 Ver 1.1 Slot 1 ATX Motherboard Intel 440BX 3x ISA 4x PCI SDRAM

The MSI MS-6117 is a full ATX system board built on the Intel 440BX AGPset, designed to accept Intel Slot 1 processors — including the Pentium II and Pentium III. Version 1.1 is confirmed by the silkscreened marking visible on the PCB. The 440BX chipset was Intel's premier desktop and workstation platform of the late 1990s, widely regarded for its stability and overclocking headroom, and it remained a popular choice for Pentium III builds well into the early 2000s.

Specifications & What's Included

• Manufacturer: MSI (Micro-Star International)
• Model: MS-6117, Version 1.1
• Form Factor: ATX
• CPU Socket: Slot 1 (Intel Pentium II / Pentium III)
• Chipset: Intel 440BX AGPset
• Memory: 3x DIMM slots — SDRAM (PC100)
• Expansion Slots: 1x AGP, 4x PCI, 3x ISA
• Rear I/O: 2x PS/2 (keyboard + mouse), 2x USB, 1x DB25 parallel port, 2x DB9 serial ports (COM1/COM2)
• Power Connector: ATX 20-pin
• Included: Board only — no CPU, RAM, or accessories

Applications

The MS-6117 dates from the late 1990s — the era of Slot 1 Pentium II and early Pentium III systems, when the Intel 440BX chipset was the gold standard for performance desktop and workstation builds. It was used in custom-built workstations, small business desktops, and enthusiast rigs running Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and early Windows 2000 installations. Today the MS-6117 is sought by collectors and hobbyists restoring or building period-correct late-1990s PCs, as well as by those maintaining legacy industrial or point-of-sale systems that still run Slot 1 hardware. The three ISA slots make it especially useful for integrating older ISA expansion cards — sound, SCSI, or I/O cards — that have no PCI equivalent, a combination that became rare as ISA was phased out after the year 2000.