Gaming Performance
The overall gaming performance of the MSI K8N Diamond Plus is extremely competitive and consistent throughout the benchmarks. The board exhibited very strong showings in the Serious Sam II and F.E.A.R. benchmarks while finishing in the lead group with the other titles. In actual game play the board exhibited superb manners in both single player titles and in our online gaming sessions that sometimes lasted up to eight continuous hours. We tested the MSI board in both standard and overclocked conditions during game play without issue.
The overall gaming performance of the MSI K8N Diamond Plus is extremely competitive and consistent throughout the benchmarks. The board exhibited very strong showings in the Serious Sam II and F.E.A.R. benchmarks while finishing in the lead group with the other titles. In actual game play the board exhibited superb manners in both single player titles and in our online gaming sessions that sometimes lasted up to eight continuous hours. We tested the MSI board in both standard and overclocked conditions during game play without issue.
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DigitalFreak - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
Agreed. However, there are alternatives if you have the PCI-E slots available. Going the add-in route also allows you to run off the PCI-E bus. 1394b can saturate the PCI bus.http://www.siig.com/product.asp?pid=1013">PCI-E Firewire 800 adapter
Olaf van der Spek - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
[quote]MSI provides an SLI Video Link card that is long enough to connect two NVIDIA based video cards for SLI operation along with a digital switching method that eliminates the use of jumpers to configure SLI capability.[/quote]Does that switch between dual x16 and dual x16???
DigitalFreak - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
LOL Sounds like someone has been cut & pasting together reviews.Gary Key - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
No cut and paste, the sentence content was corrected, lets call it an editorial difference of opinion. :)decalpha - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2739&p=...">http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2739&p=...The MSI K8N Diamond Plus was extremely stable with 4 DDR2 modules in Dual-Channel operation
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
Corrected to DDR.MIKEMIKE - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
meant that to read:Something about the first page irked me, it isnt a normal introduction to the item being reviewed. it seems as if that needs to be a second page, and a new first page drafted up.
redbone75 - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
I may be mistaken, but I think it's called an introduction.MIKEMIKE - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
Something withthe layout, and introduction of the mobo irked me and turned me off of the review in general, not sure what specifically though.Gary Key - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - link
Thanks for the comments. At times we try different layouts, some work, some do not, but hopefully we progress for the better over time.