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MSI P6N Diamond Review - Page 1 of 3

INTRODUCTION

MSI is back with their newest motherboard featuring NVIDIA's newest and greatest chipset, the 680i SLI. The MSI P6N Diamond not only sports NVIDIA's 680i SLI chipset, but also other high quality features such as NVIDIA's SLI, NVRAID capabilities, Dual Core Capacitors and Creative's X-Fi audio technology on-board!

MSI P6N Diamond
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We will be putting it to the test to see how well it stands up in the world of enthusiasts' motherboards. This motherboard retails for $249.99, but does this motherboard have enough features and crank out enough horsepower to be considered "worth it"? Let's take it for a test drive and see just how well all of these features collaborate.

WHAT'S IN THE BOX?

MSI P6N Diamond

The retail box of the MSI P6N Diamond includes 1 IDE Rounded Cable, 1 Floppy Cable, 1 SLI Bridge, 1 Northbridge Fan, 3 4-pin Molex Power Connector to SATA Power Connector Adaptors, 4 SATA Data Cables, 1 USB Extension for Expansion Slots, 1 Firewire Extension for Expansion Slots, 1 Quick Installation Guide and 2 User Guides.

MSI P6N Diamond Specifications
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A very nice selection of features on this motherboard. Plenty of room for hard drives with 5 SATA ports along with NV RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, up to 8 GB in RAM for future usage, and up to 1333 MHz FSB for Intel Core 2 Quad Core CPUs and overclockers.

Next Page: Installation, Motherboard Layout and Test Setup

Last Updated on November 3, 2007


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