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MSI K9N DIAMOND Mainboard Review

For nearly a year now, our faithful MSI K8N Diamond Plus mainboard has sat here in the wings producing superb benchmark results and running without faultier. Each new professional graphic card that came along, the mainboard performed with the card excellently returning results which took you all be surprise. Today we now take some time out and look at its; successor the MSI K9N Diamond. This mainboard has been out for a little time now and many websites have covered in great depth its functionality as a great multimedia mainboard, but, here you all look for the professional workstation angle. Today we think that you will be ever so slightly surprised just on how much of an uptake has been gained with AM2 CPU from AMD. The new K9N Diamond has brought a new look and feel to what it has to offer; and in many areas superb upgrade performance with the correct peripherals will most certainly return increased performance.
As covered earlier lets have a brief look at the main salient points to this mainboard
CPU	• AMD® Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64, Athlon FX and Sempron in the Socket AM2 package
FSB	• HyperTransport supporting speed up to 1GHz (2000MT/s)
Chipset	• North Bridge: NVIDIA® nForce 590 SLI Chipset • South Bridge: NVIDIA® MCP55PXE Chipset
Slots	• 2 PCI Express X16 slots (Supports SLI technology, both PCIE x16 slots compatible with PCI Express X 16 speed) • 2 PCI Express X1 slots • 2 PCI slots, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface, includes one orange slot which supports 2 master for MSI special PCI function card (ex. wireless LAN and Bluetooth combo card.)
Onboard IDE	• One IDE port by NVIDIA® MCP55PXE • Supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133 mode • Supports PIO, Bus Master operation mode • Can connect up to two IDE devices
Onboard SATA	• 6 SATA II ports by NVIDIA® MCP55PXE • Supports storage and data transfers at up to 300 MB/s
Raid Function	• SATA II 1~6 supports RAID 0/ 1/ 0+1 /5 or JBOD mode by NVIDIA® MCP55PXE
Audio	• Chipset integrated by Creative ® CA0106 • 24-bit / 96 KHz audio quality • 100db SNR clarity • Up to 7.1 Channel audio-out and SPDIF-out
LAN	• Dual LAN jacks • Supports Dual LAN 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Vitesse VSC8601
IEEE1394	• Chipset integrated by VIA® VT6306 • Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps
Page 1 - Introduction Page 2 - Mainboard Pictures Page 3 - System Configuration, Benchmarks and Software Used Page 4 - SiSoftware 2007 SP1 and Hard Drive Tach 3.0.1.0 - Journalists Edition Page 5 - PCMark 2005 Advanced with build 1.2.0 and 3D Mark 2006 Advanced with build 1.1.0 Autodesk® 3ds Max® 8 with SP3 Page 6 - Cinebench, SPEC Benchmarks and Conclusions

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