MSI P7N SLI Platinum Intel Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Extreme/Core 2 Duo/Pentium 1333 MHz PC2-8500 (DDR2-10... Motherboard

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Socket Type: Socket LGA775
Compatible Processors: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Pentium D, Intel Core2 Duo, Intel Core2 Extreme, Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Intel Core2 Quad
Memory Type: DDR2 SDRAM
Number of Memory Slots: 4 x 240 Pin DIMMs

MSI P7N SLI Platinum Intel Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Extreme/Core 2 Duo/Pentium 1333 MHz PC2-8500 (DDR2-10... Motherboard Reviews

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Pros: supports IDEs so if you have older hard drives and disk drives you could still use them on this SLI supported motherboard. Cons: First one was DOA. from Newegg.com Pros: Bought this board from another site and it overclocks well. SLI. The board serves its purpose. from Newegg.com Pros: I purchased 2 of these boards, one worked right out of the box for a friend's build. The second board is for a personal build. from Newegg.com Pros: This board is very nice. Right from opening the box, you can tell it's high quality; the heat sink looks amazing. Inside the box you'll find 2 floppy and 2 IDE (ATA) cables, 4 SATA cables, an SLI Bridge, the manual, and a quick reference sheet- along with assorted LED and USB pin connectors/wires. There is also an included bracket that houses 2 USB ports and one Firewire. from Newegg.com Pros: Good Valve, Highly Upgradeable, Easy to Overclock Cons: Bios had to be updated first thing. factory installed bios doesn't recognise 1TB hard drives and had trouble with a quad core processor. All fixed with online bios update. from Newegg.com Pros: Nice layout of board with 4 eSATA and 4 EIDE controllers and 3 PCI Express slots...2 PCIe 8X slots for my two 3-Ware Sidecar 4 Tbytes hard drive array system... Only reason I switched to MSI after 25 years of building computers. from Newegg.com Pros: layout was nice and easy except one audio plug in near fist pci-e slot blocked my 260gtx from fitting but a simple bend of that made it fit. Cons: could not enter the bios at all! from Newegg.com The board fails to resume from S3 sleep in Vista SP1 and Windows 7 Beta (really now, this is something virtually every board should be able to handle nowadays). The BIOS doesn’t provide an option to disable VT, which is actually a minor security risk (allows for potential bluepill rootkit hypervisor injection). More worrisome from a security standpoint is the poorly coded MSI liveupdate utility which, in order to suppress UAC prompts at logon, disables UAC altogether. Topping off everything, the board hard-hangs when running demanding workloads such as FarCry 2. from Newegg.com Great features and awesome BIOS tools. Did the update for BIOS in windows and it went perfectly. Also all the drivers are available online to ensure you get the most up to date within their provided MSI tool. Runs very cool. from Newegg.com Couldn't go much further than that. To go past 3.8 I had to juice my proc a bit and temps were getting kinda high even on a Tuniq Ultra 120. Cons: Needs more USB ports but there is an extra bracket for 2 more and pin set for an additional 2 (ie case or bracket taking up another slot) Other Thoughts: I've had MSi products in the past and have had reliability with each. Just give her a little TLC and she'll purr. from Newegg.com

Specs

Released	1 year ago
Socket Type	Socket LGA775
Compatible Processors	Intel Pentium 4, Intel Pentium D, Intel Core2 Duo, Intel Core2 Extreme, Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Intel Core2 Quad
Memory Type	DDR2 SDRAM
Number of Memory Slots	4 x 240 Pin DIMMs
Audio Input	Microphone Jack
Audio Output	Sound Card SPDIF Out 7.1 Channels Line Out
Bios Features	Plug And Play BIOS DMI
Chassis Type	Desktop
Chipset	NVIDIA nForce
Compatibility	PC
Depth	9.65 in.
Expansion Slots	PCI x 2 PCI Express x16 x3
Fans	3 x Fans
Form Factor	ATX
Front Side Bus Speed	1333 MHz
Integrated Audio	Intel High Definition Audio Subsystem Realtek ALC888
Integrated Input/Output Ports	USB 2.0 x 6 RJ45 Lan Port x 1 PS/2 Mouse x 1 PS/2 Keyboard x 1 Floppy Port x 1 FireWire (IEEE1394a) x 1 2 x External SATA
MPN	P7N SLI Platinum
Max Supported RAM	8 GB
Max supported CPUs qty	1
Multi GPU Support	NVIDIA SLI
Networking Type	Gigabit Ethernet
Other Features	Chassis intrusion detection Hyper Thread Technology Ready Dual Channel Memory Architecture 64bit Ready
Package Qty	1
RAID Support	JBOD Support SATA RAID 0 SATA RAID 1 SATA RAID 0+1 SATA RAID 5
Regulatory Approval	RoHS Green Mark
South Bridge Chip	NVIDIA nForce 430 MCP
Storage Controller Type(s)	DMA/ATA-133 (Ultra) x 2, Serial ATA II x 4
Supported RAM speeds	333 MHz
UPC	816909043020
Video Interface	PCI Express
Width	12.01 in.

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