±Recent Visitors

Recent Visitors to Com-Central!

±User Info-big


Welcome Anonymous

Nickname
Password

Membership:
Latest: cgsimpson
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 6645

People Online:
Members: 0
Visitors: 622
Total: 622
Who Is Where:
 Visitors:
01: Community Forums
02: Downloads
03: Member Screenshots
04: Downloads
05: Community Forums
06: Home
07: Photo Gallery
08: Community Forums
09: Photo Gallery
10: Home
11: Community Forums
12: Community Forums
13: Member Screenshots
14: Community Forums
15: Community Forums
16: Photo Gallery
17: Community Forums
18: Home
19: CPGlang
20: Downloads
21: Community Forums
22: Community Forums
23: Community Forums
24: Community Forums
25: Downloads
26: Community Forums
27: Home
28: Community Forums
29: Community Forums
30: Community Forums
31: Home
32: Community Forums
33: Community Forums
34: Community Forums
35: Your Account
36: Your Account
37: Community Forums
38: Community Forums
39: Home
40: Community Forums
41: Downloads
42: Community Forums
43: Photo Gallery
44: Community Forums
45: Community Forums
46: Photo Gallery
47: Your Account
48: Photo Gallery
49: Community Forums
50: Community Forums
51: Downloads
52: Photo Gallery
53: Downloads
54: Community Forums
55: Community Forums
56: Community Forums
57: Community Forums
58: Community Forums
59: Community Forums
60: Community Forums
61: CPGlang
62: Community Forums
63: Community Forums
64: Community Forums
65: Community Forums
66: Home
67: Your Account
68: Community Forums
69: Community Forums
70: Community Forums
71: Photo Gallery
72: Photo Gallery
73: News Archive
74: Community Forums
75: Community Forums
76: Community Forums
77: Community Forums
78: Community Forums
79: Community Forums
80: Community Forums
81: Community Forums
82: Community Forums
83: Photo Gallery
84: Photo Gallery
85: Community Forums
86: Community Forums
87: Community Forums
88: Community Forums
89: Photo Gallery
90: Photo Gallery
91: Member Screenshots
92: Community Forums
93: Home
94: Community Forums
95: Your Account
96: Community Forums
97: Community Forums
98: Community Forums
99: Community Forums
100: Community Forums
101: Community Forums
102: Home
103: Statistics
104: Your Account
105: Community Forums
106: Community Forums
107: Downloads
108: Home
109: Community Forums
110: Photo Gallery
111: Community Forums
112: Community Forums
113: Community Forums
114: Community Forums
115: Community Forums
116: Community Forums
117: Community Forums
118: Community Forums
119: Your Account
120: Community Forums
121: Downloads
122: Community Forums
123: Home
124: Community Forums
125: News Archive
126: Community Forums
127: Community Forums
128: Community Forums
129: Member Screenshots
130: Community Forums
131: Community Forums
132: Community Forums
133: Community Forums
134: Community Forums
135: Community Forums
136: CPGlang
137: Community Forums
138: Photo Gallery
139: Community Forums
140: Community Forums
141: Community Forums
142: Community Forums
143: Community Forums
144: Community Forums
145: Community Forums
146: Community Forums
147: Community Forums
148: Home
149: Community Forums
150: Community Forums
151: Downloads
152: Community Forums
153: Member Screenshots
154: Community Forums
155: Photo Gallery
156: Downloads
157: Photo Gallery
158: Community Forums
159: Home
160: Home
161: Photo Gallery
162: Community Forums
163: Community Forums
164: Community Forums
165: Community Forums
166: Community Forums
167: Community Forums
168: Home
169: Community Forums
170: Downloads
171: Member Screenshots
172: Photo Gallery
173: Community Forums
174: Community Forums
175: Community Forums
176: Community Forums
177: Downloads
178: Member Screenshots
179: Community Forums
180: Community Forums
181: Community Forums
182: Home
183: Community Forums
184: Community Forums
185: Community Forums
186: Community Forums
187: Community Forums
188: Photo Gallery
189: Home
190: Photo Gallery
191: Community Forums
192: Community Forums
193: Community Forums
194: Photo Gallery
195: Photo Gallery
196: Photo Gallery
197: Community Forums
198: Community Forums
199: Community Forums
200: Community Forums
201: Community Forums
202: Photo Gallery
203: Community Forums
204: Community Forums
205: Community Forums
206: Community Forums
207: Community Forums
208: Photo Gallery
209: Home
210: Home
211: Community Forums
212: Community Forums
213: Home
214: Community Forums
215: Community Forums
216: Community Forums
217: Photo Gallery
218: Community Forums
219: Community Forums
220: Community Forums
221: Community Forums
222: Community Forums
223: Home
224: News Archive
225: Photo Gallery
226: Community Forums
227: Community Forums
228: Photo Gallery
229: Photo Gallery
230: Your Account
231: Community Forums
232: Your Account
233: Home
234: Community Forums
235: Community Forums
236: Community Forums
237: Community Forums
238: Statistics
239: Home
240: Community Forums
241: Downloads
242: Photo Gallery
243: Community Forums
244: Photo Gallery
245: Photo Gallery
246: Community Forums
247: Photo Gallery
248: Community Forums
249: Community Forums
250: Photo Gallery
251: Photo Gallery
252: Community Forums
253: Community Forums
254: Community Forums
255: Community Forums
256: Community Forums
257: Community Forums
258: Downloads
259: Home
260: Community Forums
261: News
262: Photo Gallery
263: Community Forums
264: Your Account
265: Community Forums
266: Home
267: Community Forums
268: Home
269: Community Forums
270: Community Forums
271: Photo Gallery
272: Community Forums
273: CPGlang
274: Community Forums
275: Downloads
276: Community Forums
277: Photo Gallery
278: Photo Gallery
279: Community Forums
280: Photo Gallery
281: Community Forums
282: Downloads
283: Community Forums
284: Community Forums
285: Home
286: Home
287: Community Forums
288: Community Forums
289: Community Forums
290: Photo Gallery
291: Downloads
292: Community Forums
293: Community Forums
294: Community Forums
295: Photo Gallery
296: Photo Gallery
297: Photo Gallery
298: Photo Gallery
299: Community Forums
300: Community Forums
301: Photo Gallery
302: Community Forums
303: Community Forums
304: Home
305: Community Forums
306: Community Forums
307: Community Forums
308: Community Forums
309: Photo Gallery
310: Community Forums
311: Downloads
312: Community Forums
313: Photo Gallery
314: Community Forums
315: Community Forums
316: Community Forums
317: Photo Gallery
318: Community Forums
319: Community Forums
320: Photo Gallery
321: CPGlang
322: Photo Gallery
323: Your Account
324: Photo Gallery
325: Community Forums
326: Community Forums
327: Community Forums
328: Home
329: Community Forums
330: Community Forums
331: Community Forums
332: Photo Gallery
333: Photo Gallery
334: Home
335: Community Forums
336: News Archive
337: Community Forums
338: Community Forums
339: CPGlang
340: Community Forums
341: Community Forums
342: Home
343: Community Forums
344: Downloads
345: Your Account
346: Photo Gallery
347: Community Forums
348: Your Account
349: Community Forums
350: Statistics
351: Community Forums
352: Photo Gallery
353: Photo Gallery
354: Community Forums
355: Downloads
356: Community Forums
357: Community Forums
358: Community Forums
359: Downloads
360: Community Forums
361: Home
362: Photo Gallery
363: Community Forums
364: Home
365: Your Account
366: CPGlang
367: Community Forums
368: Community Forums
369: Community Forums
370: Downloads
371: Community Forums
372: Community Forums
373: Community Forums
374: Community Forums
375: Community Forums
376: Photo Gallery
377: Community Forums
378: Photo Gallery
379: Community Forums
380: Community Forums
381: Community Forums
382: Community Forums
383: Community Forums
384: Community Forums
385: Community Forums
386: Community Forums
387: Community Forums
388: Home
389: Home
390: Community Forums
391: Community Forums
392: Community Forums
393: Community Forums
394: Community Forums
395: Photo Gallery
396: Community Forums
397: Community Forums
398: Home
399: Home
400: Photo Gallery
401: Home
402: Community Forums
403: Home
404: Photo Gallery
405: Community Forums
406: Community Forums
407: Community Forums
408: Community Forums
409: Home
410: Community Forums
411: Home
412: Community Forums
413: Community Forums
414: Community Forums
415: Home
416: Photo Gallery
417: Community Forums
418: Community Forums
419: Home
420: Community Forums
421: Community Forums
422: Community Forums
423: Community Forums
424: Home
425: Community Forums
426: Your Account
427: Member Screenshots
428: Community Forums
429: Community Forums
430: Community Forums
431: Community Forums
432: Member Screenshots
433: Community Forums
434: Community Forums
435: Community Forums
436: CPGlang
437: Community Forums
438: Community Forums
439: Photo Gallery
440: Community Forums
441: Community Forums
442: Community Forums
443: Community Forums
444: Community Forums
445: Community Forums
446: Downloads
447: Your Account
448: Community Forums
449: Home
450: Community Forums
451: Downloads
452: Community Forums
453: Your Account
454: Photo Gallery
455: Your Account
456: Community Forums
457: Photo Gallery
458: Community Forums
459: Photo Gallery
460: Community Forums
461: News Archive
462: Community Forums
463: Community Forums
464: Photo Gallery
465: Community Forums
466: Photo Gallery
467: Community Forums
468: Community Forums
469: Your Account
470: Community Forums
471: Community Forums
472: Downloads
473: Photo Gallery
474: Community Forums
475: Community Forums
476: Community Forums
477: Downloads
478: Statistics
479: Your Account
480: Member Screenshots
481: Community Forums
482: Community Forums
483: Community Forums
484: Community Forums
485: Community Forums
486: Community Forums
487: Community Forums
488: Photo Gallery
489: Community Forums
490: Home
491: Member Screenshots
492: Community Forums
493: CPGlang
494: Downloads
495: Your Account
496: Community Forums
497: Community Forums
498: Photo Gallery
499: Community Forums
500: Community Forums
501: Your Account
502: Home
503: Community Forums
504: Home
505: Community Forums
506: Community Forums
507: Downloads
508: Home
509: Community Forums
510: Home
511: Community Forums
512: Community Forums
513: Community Forums
514: Community Forums
515: Photo Gallery
516: Community Forums
517: News
518: Community Forums
519: Community Forums
520: Downloads
521: Community Forums
522: Community Forums
523: Community Forums
524: Community Forums
525: Photo Gallery
526: Community Forums
527: Community Forums
528: Community Forums
529: Photo Gallery
530: Community Forums
531: Community Forums
532: Photo Gallery
533: Photo Gallery
534: Community Forums
535: Community Forums
536: Community Forums
537: Community Forums
538: Downloads
539: Home
540: Community Forums
541: Community Forums
542: Community Forums
543: Photo Gallery
544: Community Forums
545: Photo Gallery
546: News
547: Community Forums
548: Community Forums
549: Photo Gallery
550: Community Forums
551: Community Forums
552: Community Forums
553: Home
554: Community Forums
555: Photo Gallery
556: Downloads
557: Photo Gallery
558: Community Forums
559: Photo Gallery
560: Your Account
561: Photo Gallery
562: Community Forums
563: Downloads
564: Community Forums
565: Community Forums
566: Photo Gallery
567: Community Forums
568: Community Forums
569: Community Forums
570: Community Forums
571: Community Forums
572: Community Forums
573: Community Forums
574: Community Forums
575: Community Forums
576: Community Forums
577: Community Forums
578: Community Forums
579: Community Forums
580: Photo Gallery
581: Community Forums
582: Community Forums
583: Downloads
584: Photo Gallery
585: Home
586: Photo Gallery
587: Community Forums
588: Community Forums
589: Community Forums
590: Community Forums
591: Home
592: Community Forums
593: Community Forums
594: Community Forums
595: Community Forums
596: Community Forums
597: Community Forums
598: Community Forums
599: Community Forums
600: Photo Gallery
601: Community Forums
602: Community Forums
603: Community Forums
604: Photo Gallery
605: Community Forums
606: Community Forums
607: Community Forums
608: Community Forums
609: Community Forums
610: Photo Gallery
611: Community Forums
612: Downloads
613: Home
614: Community Forums
615: Community Forums
616: Community Forums
617: Downloads
618: Downloads
619: Community Forums
620: Photo Gallery
621: Community Forums
622: Photo Gallery

Staff Online:

No staff members are online!
MSI K8N Diamond Plus Main Board... :: Archived
Resolve issues with your computer problems here or read about the latest computer parts and information.
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page     Forum Index ›  Hardware

Topic Archived View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Shadow_Bshwackr
Janitor

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 7015
Location: Central Illinois, USA
PostPosted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:56 pm
Post subject: MSI K8N Diamond Plus Main Board...

A very interesting article at Tom's Hardware.

If you like building your own machines, you know how much research goes into finding those choice pieces with the features you're looking for. Most of the high end gaming rigs here at CC use an ASUS board, but it looks as if MSI is wanting a piece of the pie... Wink



Over the last year, several companies have been able to make a name for themselves with their Athlon 64 SLI mainboards. Arguably, the two companies that were able to build the best reputations in this market were Asus with the A8N-SLI line, and DFI with their highly overclockable LAN-Party models. However, neither company was shy about pricing their offerings accordingly high.

While others also offered competitive products, they also felt the intense pressure of a highly competitive market. For example, Abit's day-to-day business is governed more by financial woes than by product launches. ECS and Winfast (Foxconn) still have a ways to go before they become the household names they're aspiring to become. Finally, although Biostar also launched several new products last fall, their market penetration has not been up to expectations, aside from the developing market in Brazil. Aside from Asus, only Gigabyte was able gain market share, thanks to a number of innovations.

With its new K8N Diamond Plus, MSI is now aiming to re-establish itself as a dominant force, hoping to bypass Gigabyte and thereby position itself as the number two company after Asus. To this end, our review sample came with a 31-page PowerPoint presentation, meant to ensure that both potential buyers and the press are made aware of even the most minute details about this new product.

MSI clearly aims the K8N Diamond Plus at the 3D gaming market. The board offers SLI support - including two PCI Express slots with 16 lanes each - above-average overclocking options, as well as an audio subsystem meant to blow the competition out of the water


To read the whole article: Click HERE!
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Shades
Forum Tree-Rat

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 07, 2005
Posts: 6473
Location: 3rd Branch up, 'Ye Olde Oak', Green Wood.
PostPosted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:55 pm
Post subject: Re: MSI K8N Diamond Plus Main Board...

Asus have great mobo's and we've been suggesting them and some MSI boards for a while over at B.Y.O..

_________________
Skwerl's place.

Com-Central's cutest, fluffiest, twitchiest, tail.
CPU > Intel i9-9900k (o/c 4.9GHz); COOLING > BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4;
MOBO > ASUS PRIME Z390-A; RAM > 2x32GB Corsair LPX 2666MHz;
GPU > Gigabyte GEFORCE GTX650Ti PCI-e 3.0 2Gb GDDR5;
AUDIO > Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music (plus - Universal Audio UAD2 Quad Custom accelerator);
HDD > 3x1TB+ M.2. SSDs; LCD > DELL - S2419HGF (1920x1080);
PSU > 650W be quiet Straight Power 11 - 80+ Gold;
CASE > BeQuiet! SILENT BASE 601; OS > Windows 11 Home Advanced (64-bit).
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website ICQ Number
Shadow_Bshwackr
Janitor

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 7015
Location: Central Illinois, USA
PostPosted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:21 pm
Post subject: Re: MSI K8N Diamond Plus Main Board...

I agree Shades and ASUS made overclocking easy in the BIOS.... (UHm...not that we would EVER think of OC'n...
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Shades
Forum Tree-Rat

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 07, 2005
Posts: 6473
Location: 3rd Branch up, 'Ye Olde Oak', Green Wood.
PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:38 am
Post subject: Re: MSI K8N Diamond Plus Main Board...

Of course.
Wink

Back in the day, my mobo was rated as supposedly pretty good for what I wanted but I couldn't install the RAID-0 config I was after and Gigabutt were less than useless for after-sales.

Their site had duff links, was mis-informed (and mis-informative), and communicating directly suffered more than a little from a language barrier (seems you have to go direct to Taiwan if you have any questions).

After being told for 6 weeks there was nothing wrong with my board and that everything wrong with the world, since the demise of the Roman Empire to present day, was entirely my fault, I gave up and just gave myself a normal set-up with 2 x 80Gb drives instead.

Six months later (without hearing anything further from Gigabutt), I happened to notice an interesting item referring to my mobo on their site; It suggested that there was a fault with my BIOS which somehow prevented the RAID-0 set-up and that they'd now patched it.

Buggers!

_________________
Skwerl's place.

Com-Central's cutest, fluffiest, twitchiest, tail.
CPU > Intel i9-9900k (o/c 4.9GHz); COOLING > BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4;
MOBO > ASUS PRIME Z390-A; RAM > 2x32GB Corsair LPX 2666MHz;
GPU > Gigabyte GEFORCE GTX650Ti PCI-e 3.0 2Gb GDDR5;
AUDIO > Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music (plus - Universal Audio UAD2 Quad Custom accelerator);
HDD > 3x1TB+ M.2. SSDs; LCD > DELL - S2419HGF (1920x1080);
PSU > 650W be quiet Straight Power 11 - 80+ Gold;
CASE > BeQuiet! SILENT BASE 601; OS > Windows 11 Home Advanced (64-bit).
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website ICQ Number
Uhu_Fledermaus
Aircraft Demolition Expert

Offline Offline
Joined: Nov 28, 2004
Posts: 4369
Location: Blaricum, The Netherlands ~GMT+1
PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:29 am
Post subject: Re: MSI K8N Diamond Plus Main Board...

Six months later (without hearing anything further from Gigabutt), I happened to notice an interesting item referring to my mobo on their site;

It suggested that there was a fault with my BIOS which somehow prevented the RAID-0 set-up and that they'd now patched it.


Laughing maybe you should change to a another mobo after all, at least from me they would not get one penny's worth anymore Wink

I allways have used ASUS mobo's be it with AMD or Intel CPU's and are very happy with 'm, alltough they are maybe not the cheapest ones around, at the end of the day it pays you back by less hassle and good quality and support.

me two pence's worth for the round archive Wink
Back to top
View user's profile ICQ Number MSN Messenger Photo Gallery
Shades
Forum Tree-Rat

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 07, 2005
Posts: 6473
Location: 3rd Branch up, 'Ye Olde Oak', Green Wood.
PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:42 am
Post subject: Re: MSI K8N Diamond Plus Main Board...

Yep, I'm starting to think about a rebuild but I'll wait until it's closer to the time before planning components.
But I'm a stubborn s.o.b., and always vote with my feet. Gigabutt won't see another penny outta me no matter what they put out in future.
Asus are in the lead with me for mobo's at the moment. It's still a toss-up between amd and Intel, and nVidia and ATi, because the market will have changed so much by the time I'm ready.
I reckon I'll be able to cannibalise everything else from my existing rig.

_________________
Skwerl's place.

Com-Central's cutest, fluffiest, twitchiest, tail.
CPU > Intel i9-9900k (o/c 4.9GHz); COOLING > BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4;
MOBO > ASUS PRIME Z390-A; RAM > 2x32GB Corsair LPX 2666MHz;
GPU > Gigabyte GEFORCE GTX650Ti PCI-e 3.0 2Gb GDDR5;
AUDIO > Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music (plus - Universal Audio UAD2 Quad Custom accelerator);
HDD > 3x1TB+ M.2. SSDs; LCD > DELL - S2419HGF (1920x1080);
PSU > 650W be quiet Straight Power 11 - 80+ Gold;
CASE > BeQuiet! SILENT BASE 601; OS > Windows 11 Home Advanced (64-bit).
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website ICQ Number
XcalibeR
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 11, 2005
Posts: 358

PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:39 pm
Post subject: Re: MSI K8N Diamond Plus Main Board...

I've got an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum in my comp... been running without a hitch for a year now. Never had any problems with it. Perfect layout, plus the abilities of NForce 4 make it a perfect board Smile

_________________


[TSF]Lt. Col. XcalibeR{5thF}
PG_Raptor
Back to top
View user's profile Photo Gallery
IMS_JoseCuervo
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jun 23, 2005
Posts: 88
Location: NEW YORK,PARIS,LONDON,FADETTE
PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:33 pm
Post subject: Re: MSI K8N Diamond Plus Main Board...

im running an MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum and love it. i built this system about 8 months ago and decided to stay AGP. what sealed the deal for me with MSI was after Anandtech benched it against ASUS,ABIT and several other well known mobos and concluded this board was the best socket 939 board they had ever tested.

_________________
"if a man says something in the woods and a woman isn't there to hear it, is he still wrong?"
Back to top
View user's profile
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page    Forum Index ›  Hardware
Page 1 of 1
All times are GMT - 6 Hours

Archive Revive
Username:
This is an archived topic - your reply will not be appended here.
Instead, a new topic will be generated in the active forum.
The new topic will provide a reference link to this archived topic.