MSI K8N Diamond Plus Motherboard Review
Main Specifications
Contents
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 through 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 included: 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.