MSI K8N Diamond

Cases, Graphic Cards, Hard Disk Drives (Internal), More...Keyboards, Mice & Input devices, KVM Switches, Optical Drives (Blu-ray), Optical Drives (DVD), PC Speakers, Power Supplies, Processors (CPUs), Sound Cards, System Memory (RAM), TV Tuners, USB and Firewire Hubs

3.50

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Price

AU$399.00

Review Date

Wednesday, 14th of September, 2005

What's Hot

Built-in Creative SoundBlaster Live!, wide array of connectivity options, good performance, good board monitor software

What's Not

SLI functionality must be manually installed

The Final Word

All things considered, this board impressed us with its features, especially its on-board Creative audio, but we did have to fiddle with different drivers in order to get the RAID array detected properly by Windows.

Note: This product is no longer available directly from the manufacturer. It may be available in retail channels or second hand. The price displayed is the price at review time.

General

Length (mm)

304

Width (mm)

244

Warranty (Months)

Memory

Maximum memory (RAM)

4 GB

RAM Type

DDR

Number of DIMM Slots

Motherboard

Processors Supported

AMD Athlon 64

Processor Socket Types

Socket 939

Storage Interfaces Supported

Serial ATA

RAID Supported

Yes

Network Card on Motherboard

Yes

Sound Card on Motherboard

Yes

SATA RAID Levels Supported

0, 1

Motherboard Benchmark Tests

Microsoft Office with SP-2

529

Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1

330

Windows Media Encoder 9.0

301

Multi-tasking

411

3D Mark 2005

4859

USB 2.0 transfer (1GB)

35sec

FireWire transfer (1GB)

1min 16sec

Hard Drive transfer in RAID 0 mode (2GB)

1min 22sec

PC Expansion Slots

Expansion Slots

PCI, PCI Express x1, PCI Express x16

Number of PCI Slots

Number of PCI Express x1 Slots

Number of PCI Express x16 Slots

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