Computex`2004: Mobo Foxconn
MSI presented a new version of its motherboard built on the i925X chipset. This is the 925X Neo Platinum model which offers practically standard specifications: four DIMM slots with support for DDR2, one PCI x16 Express slot for most recent video cards, two PCI x1 Express slots, three PCI slots, eight USB2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet and four SerialATA channels (available are RAID arrays of levels 0, 1 and 0+1). Of additional features, worth mentioning is support for the Firewire (3 ports) as well as dual-channel ParallelATARAID. Interestingly, both additional controllers are made by VIA.
Besides, the board offers the CoreCell chip that expands the functionalities. Also declared is support for the faster bus of 1066 MHz speed. Remember that officially the i925X chipset supports processors with such bus. However, there are no visible obstacles to that, and the vast majority of boards should run correctly in this mode.
The next quite interesting product is the 915P Combo motherboard which is built on the i915P chipset and supports both memory types (DDR and DDR2).
By its specifications, the board is a complete replica of 925X Neo Platinum.
Now let's look at motherboards for AMD processors. First off, it is the K8N Platinum model which is aimed at Athlon64 Socket754 processors. This board is built on the nForce3 250Gb chipset and offers a peculiar PCB design (especially the positioning of DIMM slots). On the whole, relationships of MSI with nVidia are good enough (remember that MSI was one of the last to launch production of video cards on ATI chips), and it has not problems with supplies of various nForce3 versions.
One more motherboard is also based on the nVidia chipset. This is K8N Neo2 Platinum based on the nForce3 Ultra chipset aimed at Athlon64 Socket939 processors.
Since MSI is a first-rank company, it offers a motherboard on the VIA chipset in its assortment as well. Here is the K8T Neo2 model based on the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset also aimed at Athlon64 Socket939 processors.
Finally, as a tribute to the fading era of SocketA, MSI presented the K7N2 Delta2 Platinum motherboard based on the nForce2 400 Ultra chipset + Gigabit MCP.
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