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MSI P7N SLI Platinum Motherboard Review |
| Written by Administrator, on 21-04-2008 22:30 |
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As with the P6N motherboard, the P7N Platinum features an elaborate copper heatsink/heatpipe chipset cooling solution on a jet-black circuit board. The heatpipe arrangement runs from the MOSFET's to the System Platform Processor (C55 SPP), the nForce 430i Media and Communications Processor (C51 MCP) and the nForce 200.
The nForce 750i SLI appears to be a refresh of the nForce 650i SLI chipset. However, the nForce 200 chip does provide PCI Express 2.0 features, although the lanes are cut from 32-lane capability, as found on the nForce 780i, to 24 lanes and NVIDIA's Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) is not featured on this chipset. Nothing much else appears to be changed, even the nForce 430 MCP has been retained.
MSI P7N SLI Platinum Specifications
CPU SUPPORT
- Supports Socket 775 for Intel Core2 Quad, Core2 Extreme, Core2 Duo, Pentium 4, Pentium D, Pentium XE processors
- Supports 533/800/1066/1333MHz Front-Side Bus (FSB)
- Supports EIST techonology
- Supports Intel Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology
- Supports Intel Dual Core Technology to 1333MHz and up
Chipset/PCI Express
- Supports FSB 400-1333MHz FSB
- 18 PCI Express lanes
- One link at x16 tweaked as chipset interconnect
- Two PCIe x1 lanes
NVIDIA nForce 200
- 32 PCI Express 2.0 lanes
- One PCIe x16
- Two PCIe x8
Memory
- NVIDIA DualDDR2 architecture
- Supports DDR2 533/667/800MHz Memory
- 4 x 240-pin DIMM Sockets - 8GB Max
- NVIDIA QuickSync
- Fourth Generation DASP
Storage
- NVIDIA nForce 430 (MCP)
- 2 x Ultra ATA 33/66/100/133 (data transfer rate up to 133MB/sec.)
- 4 x SATA 3.0GBPS interface
- NVIDIA MediaShield Technology
- Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5
JMicron JMB363
- 2 X SATA 3.0Gbps interface
- Supports eSATA
Audio
- Realtek ALC888 8-channel HD Audio CODEC
- Optical S/PDIF
Networking
- NVIDIA Gigabit LAN co-supported by Realtek RTL8211BL PHY chip
IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
- VIA VT6308P FireWire controller
- 2 x 1394a ports @ 400 Mbps speed
I/O Interface
- 1 x Floppy connector
- 1 x Ultra ATA IDE connector
- 4 x SATA connectors
- 2 x eSATA connector
- 8 USB 2.0 ports (Rear x 4 / On-board header x 4)
- 1 RJ45 LAN port
- Optical S/PDIF port
- 8-Channel Audio I/O ports
- 1 x 9-pin serial port (header)
- 1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port
- 1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port
Expansion Slots
- 1 x PCI-e x16 slot, PCI Express Bus specification v2.0
- 2 x PCI-e x8 slots, PCI Express Bus specification v2.0
- 2 x 32-bit PCI slots, PCI 2.3 compliant
Special Features
- MSI Dual CoreCell
- Dual CoreCell Center
- Live Update 3
PCB
- ATX Form Factor, 12"x 9.6"(30.5cm x 24/4cm)
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