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MSI P6N Diamond LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

MSI P6N Diamond ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 1 year
Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 1 year

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Return for refund within: 30 days
Return for replacement within: 30 days
Restocking Fee: Yes

Review Summary (read all 215 Reviews)

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Total Reviews:	215

man this sucks

Reviewed By: bob on 8/13/2008

Tech Level: average - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: ya it has many pci 16 slots and it has good sound card

Cons: when i put in my pentium d 2.8 it got hot as hell but i did not even get to bios and 1 of the chips just above the cpu socket burst into flames i had to unplug it and putit out with my sock hell probaly f'd now cause im not sure if i buy a new pricessor will help it

Other Thoughts: i wonder if i can get it replaces cause it is burnt and i dont know if it was casue it was a bad product or i did something worng

1 out of 6 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes

Good Board

Reviewed By: on 7/12/2008

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

Pros: Plugged everything in and it booted right up. Very stable with overclocking E2180 from 2.0 Gz to 2.75 so far. Will try to get 3.0 soon. MSI updates the drivers AND bios online from their website and through XP without having to use DOS (for bios update).

Cons: Onboard harware SATA ports 6 and 7 (Sil 4723) would not recognize my Raid 0 array on cold boot in the morning. Would work the rest of the day but I hated having to press reset to get it to read raid array. Switched to SATA 1 and SATA 2 ports and works perfectly (had to re-install windows!). Bios slightly confusing compared to some others in regards to overclocking. ON board sound microphone difficult to get working and was weak even with mic boost. Switched back to my regular creative X-fi card (supposidly same thing as onboard) and worked great.

Other Thoughts: Corsair Sli compatible memory 2 gigs (still running XP), 2 Western Digital Corvair 150's in RAID 0 (fast!!!), DVD drive, Dual core Pentium with 1 mb cache, 9600GT. This board is only PCIexpress 1.0 compliant. Right now microsoft flight sim is the only game that you notice a big difference in frame rates from PCIe 2.0 which is twice as fast and more expensive on the newer boards. I will use and upgrade this board for several years before games catch up to it's potential with 3 PCI express 16's and one 8X able to be used for video at the same time, and ability to use quad core.

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Ok motherboard

Reviewed By: Ninjew on 7/10/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Lots of slots and pretty straight forward. Didn't have any trouble trying to get my ram and video card in. The XFI sound is also a nice bonus.

Cons: When I tried to install vista it kept freezing during the installation. It took me a day or two to try and figure out the problem. Turns out something (don't know what..) in the BIOS was preventing vista from installing. So you just have to update the BIOS (go to MSI's website). The sound card is also set to disabled by default in the BIOS, so you might have to enable that.

Other Thoughts: Overall this is a good motherboard for the price.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes

Model
Brand	MSI
Model	P6N Diamond
Supported CPU
CPU Socket Type	LGA 775
CPU Type	Quad-core / Core 2 Extreme / Core 2 Duo / Pentium 4 / Pentium D / Pentium XE / Celeron D
FSB	1333/1066MHz
Supported CPU Technologies	Hyper-Threading Technology
Chipsets
North Bridge	NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI
South Bridge	nForce 430i
Memory
Number of Memory Slots	4×240pin
Memory Standard	DDR2 800
Maximum Memory Supported	8GB
Channel Supported	Dual Channel
Expansion Slots
PCI Express x16	4 (The 4 PCI Express interface will operate at either x8+x8+x16+x8 or x16+x16+x8 mode)
PCI Express x1	1
PCI Slots	2
Storage Devices
PATA	1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max
SATA 3Gb/s	5
SATA RAID	NV RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD
Onboard Video
Onboard Video Chipset	None
Onboard Audio
Audio Chipset	Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme HD Audio
Audio Channels	8 Channels
Onboard LAN
Max LAN Speed	Dual 10/100/1000Mbps
Rear Panel Ports
PS/2	2
USB 1.1/2.0	4 x USB 2.0
IEEE 1394	1 x IEEE 1394a
eSATA	1 x eSATA 3Gb/s
S/PDIF Out	1 x Optical, 1 x Coaxial
Audio Ports	5 Ports
Onboard USB
Onboard USB	6 x USB 2.0
Physical Spec
Form Factor	ATX
Dimensions	12.0" x 9.6"
Power Pin	24 Pin
Features
Features	Supports FSB 533/800/1066/1333 MHz (FSB 1333 requires FSB 1333 CPU and manual FSB adjustment in the BIOS)
Packaging
Package Contents	P6N Diamond Driver Disk User Manual 2 x Software Disk Rear I/O Panel Shield IDE/PATA Cable FDD Cable SATA Cables 4-pin to SATA Power Cables SLI Bridge SLI Retention Bracket Brackets
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts	1 year limited
Labor	1 year limited

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