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MSI K8N Diamond Plus
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50% of reviewers None indicated 9.0



Description: CPU:
• Supports 64-bit AMD® Opteron™, Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core, Athlon™ 64 FX, Athlon™ 64 processor (Socket 939)
• Supports up to 4800+ or higher CPU
• Supports AMD® Cool'n'Quiet technology

Chipset

• NVIDIA® GeForce nForce4 SLI x16 SPP(C51D) Chipset
- HyperTransport link to the AMD Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64X2/ Athlon 64 CPU
- HyperTransport supporting speed up to 1GHz (2000MT/s)
- Supports 1 PCI Express x16 interface

• NVIDIA® nForce4 SLI x16 MCP(nForce4 SLI) Chipset
- Supports 1 PCI Express x16/ 2 PCI Express x1/ 1 PCI Express x2 connection
- Two independent SATA controllers, for four drives
- Dual Fast ATA-133 IDE controllers
- IEEE802.3 NVIDIA MAC for 1000BASE-T

Main Memory:
• Supports dual channel DDR 266/333/400, using four 184-pin DDR DIMMs.
• Supports a maximum memory size up to 4GB.
• Supports 2.6V DDR SDRAM DIMM.

Slots:
• Supports two PCI Express x16 slot (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• Supports two PCI Express x1 slots (support PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• Supports 1 PCI Express x4 slot interface, supports PCI Express x2 transfer rate
(supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• Two 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface).

Onboard IDE:
• An IDE controller on the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO,
Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices

Onbaord SATA:
• NV RAID supports 4 SATA II ports(SATA 1 to 4). Transfer rate is up to 300MB/s.
• Silicon Image's SATA RAID supports another 2 SATA II ports. (SATA 5 and 6)
- Transfer rate is up to 300MB/s.

NV RAID (Software)
• RAID 0 or 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD is supported
• Supports up to 4 SATA HD

Silicon Image's SATARAID™ (Software)
• RAID 0 or 1 and multiple RAID groups are supported
• Support up to 2 SATA devices connected to a single controller

Audio:
• Creative sound Blaster Audigy SE audio
- 24-bit / 96KHz audio quality
- Up to 100db SNR clarity
- 7.1 Channel output supported
- Supports S/PDIF digital interface
- PCI 2.3 Specification compliant

LAN (Ethernet):
• Supports dual LAN jacks
- PCI LAN supports 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Marvell 88E1115 PHY.
- PCI Express LAN supports 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Marvell 88E8053

Firewire (IEEE1394):
• VIA 6306 chipset
- Supports up to three 1394 ports. (Rear panel x1, pinheader x2)
- Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps

Internal I/O Connectors:
- ATX 24-pin power connector
- ATX 4-pin VGA power connector
- 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- CPU / Power / System / NB FAN connectors
- CD-in connector
- Clear CMOS button
- IrDA infrared module header
- Chassis intrusion switch connector
- Select DDR power jumper
- Front panel audio connector
- Front panel connector
- D-Bracket2 connector
- 2 x IEEE1394 connector support additional 2 ports
- 3 x USB 2.0 connector support additional 6 ports
- 1 x Floppy disk drive connector
- 6 x Serial ATA connectors
- 2 x ATA133 HD connectors

Back Panel I/O Ports:
- 1 x Parallel port
- 1 x Serial port (COM 1)
- 1 x PS/2 keyboard
- 1 x PS/2 mouse
- 1 x Coaxial SPDIF out
- 1 x IEEE1394 Port
- 1 x 6 in 1 audio jack (S/SPDIF out)
- 4 x USB 2.0 ports
- 2 x RJ45 LAN jack

BIOS:
• The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and
expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your
mainboard specifications.

Dimension:
• 30.4cm(L) x 24.4cm(W) ATX Form Factor

Mounting:
• 9 mounting holes

(Info cite: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/produc...il.php?UID=710)
Keywords: nforce4 nforce sli 16x x16 msi
/sbin/lspci output: 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a4)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:0d.0 Modem: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Modem (rev a2)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f3)
00:11.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:13.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:17.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) 06:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01)
Chipset: nforce4 sli x16
Connection Type: Socket 939; PCI-e 16x, 4x, 1x; PCI; DDR; SATA; IDE


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Old 11-11-2006, 07:03 AM   #1
downhillgames
 
Registered: Aug 2005
Distribution: Ubuntu 64-bit/LinuxMint
Posts: 15
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
Distribution: Fedora Core 6



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Pros: Everything works "out of box" as far as tested except onboard sound on an older FC5 kernel. I've played games with great performance. I've never *ever* had stability issues in Linux with this board. Highly reccomended!

Cons: The onboard Audigy worked in FC5 but was glitchy. Alsa sliders were missing, options didn't work. This may have been fixed now, but I havn't been able to test. MOST apps could use the onboard but a couple wouldn't work no matter what I did. (this gives it a 9 instead of 10)

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Old 11-23-2006, 08:16 PM   #2
digital8doug
 
Registered: Aug 2006
Distribution: Sabayon 351, Mepis8, oSuse11.3, Kubuntu8.1, Fed10, Slack12.1 #426299 RLU
Posts: 125
Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0

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Does 4GB of DDR400 RAM actually run faster than 2GB (>bandwidth w/4?) in Linux? Most 939 boards decrease DDR when all 4 DIMM are used, so only 2 DIMM is >4 DIMM bandwidth, due to AMD memory controller limitations up toFX60x2, but not sure if Opteron has same limit.
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