MSI K8N Diamond Plus Limited Edition
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MSI K8N Diamond Plus Limited Edition


Since we last reviewed the MSI K8N Diamond Plus, things have been going on behind the scenes. Barely a month from our initial review, MSI has released a Limited Edition version of the K8N Diamond Plus and calling it the world's first Hi-Fi motherboard.

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Product Specification

Processor Support and Chipset Type
  • Socket 939-based Athlon 64 processors
  • North Bridge: NVIDIA C51D
  • South Bridge: NVIDIA nForce4 SLI
Memory
  • 4 184-pin DIMM sockets
  • Maximum of 4GB of DDR266/333/400 SDRAM
Storage
  • Floppy disk
  • 2 channels ATA/133 with RAID 0, 1, 0+1 support
  • 4 channels Serial ATA with RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 support
  • 2 channels Serial ATA with RAID 0, 1 support via SiI 3112
Audio 8-channel HD audio via Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE
Rear I/O
  • 1 PS/2 keyboard
  • 1 PS/2 mouse
  • 1 serial port
  • 1 parallel port
  • 4 USB 2.0 with headers for 6 more
  • 1 Firewire via VIA VT630 with header for 2 more
  • 1 RJ45 10/100/1000
  • 1 RJ45 10/100/1000 via Marvell 88E8053
  • 1 analog front out
  • 1 analog bass/center out
  • 1 analog rear out
  • 1 analog surround out
  • 1 analog line in
  • 1 analog mic in
  • 1 coaxial digital S/PDIF input
  • 1 coaxial digital S/PDIF output
Expansion Slots
  • 2 PCI Express x16
  • 1 PCI Express x4
  • 2 PCI Express x1
  • 2 32-bit/33MHz