The most luxury NVIDIA SLI 16X motherboard- MSI K8N Diamond first look

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Originally Posted by situman

you still can't use the PCI slot below the second pci-x slot on the MSI with a gpu in there.

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:clap: and?

you cant use 2 of the 3 pci slots on the a8n32 unless you have single slot coolers and want them to idle at 70c+ and dual slot (512gtx/some air coolers/watercooling) means the pci card that goes in the middle gets some serious heat.

you only need 1 pci slot for xfi, and thats at the bottom. :fact:

so you can use xfi and dual slot cooling now, the expert has the best layout with up to 2 pci slots that can be used but and also itsnt comparable due to different chipset used and that it kills cpu's

besides, apart from a tv card, i cant think of anything else most people would need to put there.
i though most people here had separate media rigs anyway :stick:

(rig 1=omgamdgamerrigandoverclockedrig)
(rig 2=stable media rig with loads'o'space and a tv card)

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Originally Posted by 3NZ0

when does it come to the uk? :slobber: :slobber:

this mobo calls for fx60 and dual g71's! :D

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I hear you :woot:

well i ordered the new MSI K8N Diamond+ just now ....

after WWM has indorsed it, then i have to give it a try :)

in stock @ newegg...

I really like the way the BIOS is setup in the screenies.

looks like this january will be another busy month in mobos ..competition and price gauging ; P

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Originally Posted by LoN3R

looks like this january will be another busy month in mobos ..competition and price gauging ; P

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That goes hand in hand don't you know:slapass:

Im trying to find one of these in canada and they are pretty rare lol. I want either this or the asus 32.

Another BS layout on the PCI's. If they would do away with the dam orange wireless slot and make a normal pci then this would be perfect...Then you could put any cooling you want are your VGA's and still have room for your soundcard... I will pass on this one...

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Originally Posted by flashnc

well i ordered the new MSI K8N Diamond+ just now ....

after WWM has indorsed it, then i have to give it a try :)

in stock @ newegg...

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Want to sale your NEO4 sli

Looks like a hell of a board cant wait to see some of our guys breaking WR's on this. Or atleast beating their highest clocks :)

I a working eXpert so Im happy :toast:

u could fit a sound card with a second gpu .. the spacing looks fine .. way better then the a8n32sli ..

why does it have a 24 pin .. 8 pin and a molex connector ..

i like how on the expert the power connectors are right next to each other so u dont have to route wires all over the board

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Originally Posted by jetjaguar

u could fit a sound card with a second gpu .. the spacing looks fine .. way better then the a8n32sli ..

why does it have a 24 pin .. 8 pin and a molex connector ..

i like how on the expert the power connectors are right next to each other so u dont have to route wires all over the board

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not if your using Arctic silencer....The orange slot is Wireless only remember...Unless Iam wrong here...Or can you use the orange slot for anything pci...

WTF?:stick:

you cant use the orange slot for normal pci?

i was sure you could :confused:

if so this mobo just lost my interest :slapass:

The orange slot can be used as a normal PCI slot. Back when I had the Neo3, I used the orange slot all the time for my Soundblaster card with no problems, even while running @ 300*9...

I do like the layout better than the Asus. Someone over there needed to be :slap:

I'd jump on this if I wasn't happy with my Expert.

Looks like it could be a nice board, but as long as I can remember there's always been one constant with MSI; Their support SUCKS!:( For those testing it, good luck I'm anxious to see some results......... :)

I think I may order one tonight to test out :)

When you add this motherboard to your cart at Mwave you get $10 off as a promotional discount! Ordred me one!

Board looks sexy, as always...

Anyone else how has this board? I wonder how it will preform with 2x1GB or 4x1GB compared to the DFI Expert.

was about to go with this mobo + 2GBHX GSkill

with all the new cores and sockets io don know wat to do now.. the drama!

That would be intresting indeed, my Expert doesn't like all ram @ stock, I have to play with the timings every single time, getting sick of it.:slap:
I really hope this one could replace my Expert.:)

Has anyone other than WWM tried on of these out yet? I was looking at it when they first came out... Went Expert though and I am VERY happy!

Ive been running the board for 3 weeks now..The glitches so far that I see are the following.

Ocing is limited with 2 1g sticks (patriot PC3200 5/3/2/2/)
When running in raid mode on the nvidia side the bios gives a cant load pci rom not enough something at boot. (still boots right through just a small glitch)
Running 4 1gig sticks double sided is not gonna happen.
Board does have some potential but really needs a couple bios updates......So far 300htt is the max on this board. It just uterly craps out over that no matter how relaxed you make your settings...
Oh and there is a Phantom PCI MODEM that shows up in the devmgr...This is a problem with the onboard sound...Someone said that MSI got enabled and Disabled mixed up in the bios haveint tried that yet...too lazy...

Other than reeeeally neeeding a bios update this board is rock solid...

The board works fine but really need a bios update..i dont know how tomshardwareguide and another users can have i new bios...its realy hard to find the new bios..

Sounds like good board but bad support from msi?