Thread: MSI K9N2 Diamond motherboard

The striking of the heatpipe motherboard suggests it already: the MSI K9N2 Diamond has plenty of power must be well cooled. And our tests confirmed the initial impression: The board is super fast! But it also has its drawbacks - such as high power consumption. Besides the support from the chipset IDE connector, the board has one more IDE port to the care of the JMB363 chip. Overall, you can use up to four ATAPI drives - join it - hard drives or burners.

If you use the integrated graphics, you have a DVI port is available, which can be converted via the included adapter to an HDMI interface. In connection with one of three PCIe 16x slots can be exploited on Windows Vista and Hybrid SLI. Alternatively, you can combine three graphics card to a so-called 3-way SLI technology - the necessary connections are included. However, then only one card works with 16x, the other two, each with 8 times the data rate. The Socket AM2 + motherboard offers four eSATA and two Firewire ports, of which only some may need to adapt by bracket. These sets at the MSI board.

The placement of the memory slots for dual-channel is in the manual is somewhat misleading illustration, as the position of the individual slots in it does not match the arrangement on the board. After all, is the manual does not require that the user the color difference between "blue" (once mistakenly called "bule") and edited "Mazarin", a darker shade of blue, know it - this will help further the number of individual slots. Booting from USB disk and USB stick graduated from the MSI board perfectly. Especially the latter was super faster, which is not always the case. Less commendable, however, the power consumption of the board: With 4.8 watts when turned off, it achieved the worst result so far, and the measurements in idle mode and at full load were relatively high.