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MSI P4N Diamond Motherboard

Strengths: Very easy setup.Well written manual. Great Support

Weakness: Can not over clock memory past 900 MHZ.

I chose this mother board because I wanted a unit that would be compatible with dual core processors. But still be compatible with my Extreme series chip. And be compatible with the new Double Data Rate memory from Corsair. So that in the future when the dust settles on the dual core processors I can easily upgrade without having to invest much in a whole system later. I also wanted SLI for quick graphics. And the ease, and capability of extreme over clocking.Well, all I can say is that this system rock's! I bought this mother board very early soon after its release and had nothing but great success! MSI's live update software rocks! It automatically updates your drivers and bios! All at the click of the mouse from there site! And Nvidia's and MSI's over clocking software makes it real easy to bring your components to maximum values without breaking a sweat. I installed a Raptor hard drive raid system. Nvidia 7800 GTX video card, With 2 gig's Corsair Double DDR PC 2 6400 memory, Plextor DVD and CDR drives and it all configured and ran without a hitch from the moment power was turned on. Its been operating stable as a rock and I have played Half life 2 at over 100 frames a second. Flawlessly without so much as a hick up! I'm very pleased.

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