MSI K8N Diamond Plus 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: The install of mobo was easy. Nice overclocking options. Heatpipe is designed well, video cards were able to fit without problem. Many options and connections. I did not have any problems with driver or OS installation.

Cons: More info than Cons. Firewire pins numbered incorrectly on motherboard, it is fine if using form factor connector but if using split pins make sure to use the pinout in the manual. Also it was not clear about JPWR2 but if using SLI power supply with 8pin 12V connector connect it. Also manual mentions JAUD1 pins 5&6 and 9&10 must be jumpered for Line Out. I have both the Line out and the Front Panel in use and they both work without jumpers. The sound card is nice but I found that if connecting to a receiver that 5.1 is not possible for games and CD audio via SPDIF ports. Only passthru DVD encoded audio. You have to use analog 5.1 connections for games (this seems to be true with most sound cards though). I purchased a Creative DTS-610 to remedy this. RAID function works well.

Overall Review: MSI K8N Diamond Plus
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
TWINX2048-3200C2PRO
Thermaltake Kandalf VA9000SWA
OCZ OCZ600ADJSLI
ZALMAN CNPS9500 LED
ASUS EN7800GTX/2DHTV/256 Geforce 7800GTX
Creative DTS-610
Logitech G15 Keyboard

Pros: It's got alot of space

Cons: For some reason its giving me random restarts and im trying to figure out why right about now but its really annoying me and it freezes my comp some times.

Overall Review: None