MSI P965 Platinum Motherboard Review
By Gabriel Torres on December 14, 2006 Page 3 of 9

Main Features

Hardware Secrets Golden AwardMSI P965 Platinum main features are:

  • Socket: 775.
  • Chipset: Intel P965.
  • Clock Generator: ICS 9LPRS514EGLF
  • Super I/O: Fintek F71882FG.
  • Parallel IDE: One ATA-133 port controlled by JMicron JMB361 chip.
  • Serial IDE: Seven SATA-300 ports, six controlled by the south bridge (ICH8R) supporting RAID (0, 1, 5 and 10) and one controlled by JMicron JMB361 chip.
  • USB: 10 USB 2.0 ports (four soldered on the motherboard and six available thru I/O brackets. This motherboard comes with one bracket with two ports; four are left over).
  • Firewire (IEEE 1394a): Two ports controlled by VIA VT6307 chip (one soldered on the motherboard and the other available thru an I/O bracket).
  • On-board audio: Produced by the chipset together with a Realtek ALC883 codec (eight channels, 24-bit resolution, up to 96 KHz sampling rate for the inputs and up to 192 KHz sampling rate for the outputs, 85 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the inputs and 95 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the outputs).
  • On-board video: No.
  • On-board LAN: Yes, one Gigabit Ethernet port controlled by the chipset together with a Realtek RTL8111B chip.
  • Buzzer: No.
  • Power supply: ATX12V v2.x (24-pin).
  • Slots: Two x16 PCI Express slots (one of them, the yellow one, works at x4 but supports CrossFire), two x1 PCI Express slots (which are automatically disabled when a video card is installed on the yellow PCI Express slot) and two PCI slots.
  • Memory: Four DDR-DIMM sockets (up to 8 GB up to DDR2-667/PC2-5400 or up to 4 GB up to DDR2-1066/PC2-8500).
  • Number of CDs that come with this motherboard: 1 CD.
  • Programs that come with this motherboard: Drivers and utilities.
  • Extra features: USB Bracket with diagnostics LEDs (“D-Bracket 2”).
  • More Information: http://www.msicomputer.com
  • Average price in the US*: USD 148.00

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


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