MSI P35 Platinum
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MSI P35 Platinum


9/10
Overall rating 9/10

The Intel P35 has seen a pretty quiet launch with retail boards already in store shelves. The MSI P35 Platinum is one of the few early products to hit the market that will still be based on DDR2 memory, but MSI does manage to implement some interesting ideas and bag themselves a winner.

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Product Specification

Processor Support and Chipset Type
  • Supports all 90nm/65nm Intel LGA775 processors
  • 45nm ready (Wolfdale & Yorkfield)
  • Quad-Core Optimized
  • Northbridge: Intel P35
  • 533 / 800 / 1066 / 1333MHz front side bus
  • PCI Express x16 for graphics
  • Southbridge: Intel ICH9R
  • Intel High Definition Audio
  • Supports six PCI Express x1 lanes
  • Supports up to twelve USB 2.0 ports
  • Supports six SATA 3.0Gbps ports (with Matrix Storage Technology)
  • Integrated 10/100/1000Mbps MAC
Memory
  • Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.8 Volt DDR2 SDRAM
  • Supports 1066/800/677/533 dual channel DDR2 memory architecture
Storage
  • Intel ICH9R Southbridge
  • 6 x SATA 3.0Gbps interface
  • Intel Matrix Storage Technology
  • Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5 , RAID 10
  • Marvell 88SE6111
  • 1 x Ultra ATA 33/66/100/133 (data transfer rate up to 133MB/sec.)
  • 1 x SATA 3.0Gbps interface
Audio
  • Intel High Definition Audio (Azalia)
  • Realtek ALC888T HD Audio CODEC
  • Optical S/PDIF
Networking Marvell 88E8111B Gigabit Ethernet PHY
FireWire (IEEE 1394)
  • VIA VT6308P FireWire controller
  • 2 x 1394a ports @ 400 Mbps speed
Rear I/O
  • 1 x Floppy connector
  • 1 x Ultra ATA IDE connectors
  • 7 x SATA connectors (5 x internal, 2 x eSATA)
  • 12 x USB 2.0 ports (6 x rear, 6 x header)
  • 2 x IEEE 1394a ports (1 x rear, 1 x header)
  • 1 x RJ45 LAN port
  • 1 x Optical S/PDIF Output
  • 8-Channel Audio I/O ports
  • 1 x COM port (header)
  • 1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port
  • 1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port
Internal Connectors
  • 2 x PCIe x16 slots, PCI Express Bus specification v1.1 compliant
  • 2 x PCIe x1 slots, PCI Express Bus specification v1.1 compliant
  • 2 x 32-bit PCI slots, PCI 2.3 compliant
Form Factor ATX Form Factor, 12"x 9.6"(30.5cm x 24.4cm)