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MSI K8N Diamond Plus Motherboard Review
Author: Gabriel Torres and Daniel Barros
Type: Reviews Last Updated: March 28, 2006
Page: 4 of 14
$ Check REAL-TIME pricing for ASUS P5N-E SLI (90-MBB5G0-G0EAY00Z) Motherboard $
Dell: $135.99 CompUSA.com: $129.99
TigerDirect.com: $129.99 Amazon: $135.00
Boomj: $126.53 Egoodz: $111.00

Main Features

MSI K8N Diamond Plus main features are:

  • Socket: 939.
  • Chipset: nVidia nForce 4 SLI X16 (SLI x16, PCI Express x16).
  • Super I/O: Winbond W83627THF.
  • Parallel IDE: Two ATA-133 ports.
  • Serial IDE: Four SATA-300 ports controlled by CK804 south bridge (RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 and JBOD) and two SATA-300 ports controlled by Silicon Image SiI3132 chip (RAID 0 and 1).
  • USB: 10 USB 2.0 ports (four soldered on the motherboard and two available on one I/O bracket that comes with the motherboard; four ports are left over).
  • Firewire (IEEE 1394a): Three ports controlled by VIA VT6306 chip, one in standard size soldered on the motherboard and two available thru a I/O bracket that comes with the motherboard (one regular sized and one miniature).
  • On-board audio: Produced by Creative SoundBlaster Live CAO106 DSP chip (eigth channels, 24-bit resolution, 100 dB signal-to-noise ratio), with optical and coaxial SPDIF outputs soldered on the motherboard
  • On-board video: No.
  • On-board LAN: Yes, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, one controlled by MCP04 south bridge together with Marvell 88E1115 PHY chip and the other controlled by Marvell PCIe Gigabit 88E8053 chip.
  • Buzzer: Yes.
  • Power supply: ATX12V v2.x (24-pin).
  • Slots: Two x16 PCI Express slots, two x1 PCI Express slots, one x4 PCI Express slots and two PCI slots.
  • Memory: Four DDR-DIMM sockets (up to 4 GB up to DDR400/PC3200).
  • Number of CDs that come with this motherboard: 1 CD.
  • Programs that come with this motherboard: MSI utilities.
  • Extra features: Hi-fi on-board audio with vacuum tube pre-amplifier.
  • More Information: Msicomputer.com.
  • Average price in the US*: USD 205.00.

* Researched on Shopping.com on the day we published this review.

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