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Review Date: 19 Sep 2007
Price when reviewed: £200
Supplier: http://www.ebuyer.com
Reviewed By: Chris Finnamore
Our Rating
MSI's P6N Diamond has four PCI Express x16 slots, so you could fit four graphics cards and have eight monitors.
You could also fit two Nvidia graphics cards in an SLI configuration. As the first two PCI Express slots run at full x16 speed, there wouldn't be a bottleneck with even the fastest cards.
The P6N is noisy, due to a high-speed fan on the Northbridge. We had a few problems setting up the motherboard. The sound chipset drivers supplied in the box wouldn't install under Vista and crashed the system. A new set of drivers from the MSI website installed fine, but we experienced the occasional crash when running our benchmarks. Still, the Diamond was quick, coming top of our application benchmarks with an overall score of 152.
This is a highly specified motherboard. The onboard Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme is high quality. However, the P6N Diamond is expensive and too unstable to recommend.
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