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In the early 2006, the K8N Diamond Plus on Socket939 platform by MSI.
That board with high quality hardware audio, heat pipe and real good overclock ability with high performance, good on cost/performance ratio.
MSI K9N Diamond was born to be Diamond After AMD transfer to AM2 platform.
Build with NVIDIAs finest nForce590 SLI chipset based, support EPP technology and DDRII memory.
Diamond series means top class.
Take a first look on BOX design.
The Diamond heart MSI Diamond logo still the main theme in front.
Inside stuff
High-end product bundle with many cables and disks.
K9N Diamond Mobo overview
The left down corner
2X PCI Express X16
2X PCI Express X1
2X 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots
Build in Sound Blaster Audigy SE HW audio, still be the best quality MoBo audio. High quality 24bit/192kHz sampling rate, 106dB with EAX ADVANCED HD environment surround audio with the fibre-optical and S/PDIF output.
Right down corner
The red button for Clear CMOS.
6 SATAII port, support RAID 0 or 1,0+1, 5 and JBOD disk array mode
Up right corner
4 DDRII DIMM slot
1 IDE port and 24pin power connector.
Up left corner
CPU Socket and PWM design
North Bridge/ South Bridge with pipeline heatsink design.
Slow fan works quiet.
Use all Japan capacitor.
IO port
Dual Gigabit LAN design
1394/ fibre-optical out put and 4 USB2.0 port.
Test platform setup
CPU:AMD AM2 Althon64 X2 4800+
MB: MSI K9N Diamond
DRAM:Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C3
VGA:ELSA 730GT 256B3 DTV
HD:Seagate 7200.7 80GB
POWER:Corsair HX620W Modular Power Supply
Cooler:Tower112
DDRII 803 CL3 3-3-9 1T 2.2V stable and good performance
CPU default 2.4GHz, DDRII 800 with CL=3,3,3,9 1T setup
SIS Sandra bandwidth turbo up to 9018MB/S
This is the best record with default setup on both AMD and Intel platform Ive
ever seen so far.
CPU FSB up to 345Mhz stable.
Its also the best record AM2 motherboard when I use same 4800+ X2 processors to overclock.
Diamond series always match their Diamond quality, powerful multimedia function, also with good overclock ability.
This Mobo will give AM2 platform some impact to encourage the momentum.
That board with high quality hardware audio, heat pipe and real good overclock ability with high performance, good on cost/performance ratio.
MSI K9N Diamond was born to be Diamond After AMD transfer to AM2 platform.
Build with NVIDIAs finest nForce590 SLI chipset based, support EPP technology and DDRII memory.
Diamond series means top class.
Take a first look on BOX design.
The Diamond heart MSI Diamond logo still the main theme in front.
Inside stuff
High-end product bundle with many cables and disks.
K9N Diamond Mobo overview
The left down corner
2X PCI Express X16
2X PCI Express X1
2X 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots
Build in Sound Blaster Audigy SE HW audio, still be the best quality MoBo audio. High quality 24bit/192kHz sampling rate, 106dB with EAX ADVANCED HD environment surround audio with the fibre-optical and S/PDIF output.
Right down corner
The red button for Clear CMOS.
6 SATAII port, support RAID 0 or 1,0+1, 5 and JBOD disk array mode
Up right corner
4 DDRII DIMM slot
1 IDE port and 24pin power connector.
Up left corner
CPU Socket and PWM design
North Bridge/ South Bridge with pipeline heatsink design.
Slow fan works quiet.
Use all Japan capacitor.
IO port
Dual Gigabit LAN design
1394/ fibre-optical out put and 4 USB2.0 port.
Test platform setup
CPU:AMD AM2 Althon64 X2 4800+
MB: MSI K9N Diamond
DRAM:Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C3
VGA:ELSA 730GT 256B3 DTV
HD:Seagate 7200.7 80GB
POWER:Corsair HX620W Modular Power Supply
Cooler:Tower112
DDRII 803 CL3 3-3-9 1T 2.2V stable and good performance
CPU default 2.4GHz, DDRII 800 with CL=3,3,3,9 1T setup
SIS Sandra bandwidth turbo up to 9018MB/S
This is the best record with default setup on both AMD and Intel platform Ive
ever seen so far.
CPU FSB up to 345Mhz stable.
Its also the best record AM2 motherboard when I use same 4800+ X2 processors to overclock.
Diamond series always match their Diamond quality, powerful multimedia function, also with good overclock ability.
This Mobo will give AM2 platform some impact to encourage the momentum.
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