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Date 2008-02-11
Provider: MSI
Author: Niko Lupala
Editor: Amber Lupala
MSI X48 Platinum Motherboard Review
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Inside with the board you will also have a few accessories, you get for example; a manual, and cd with drivers for both WinXp and Windows Vista. You also get a few wxtra USB ports if you have a need for them. You also get two adapters for Crossfire and the back I/O plate of course.
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If yours is to run IDE drives you get one flat IDE cable, you also get a floppy drive cable, Molex > Sata Adapter, four SATA cables, and some minor adapters.
I still find it odd that they do not use rounded cables instead of flat IDE cables as they look alot better and keep the case cooler.
The board is quite colorful and has a nice heatsink mounted in the middle of it. We can see that all ports for example are colored in dfferent colors so you know exactly where to connect everything.
The board itself has a nice black PCB that matches well with the copper colored heatpipes and heatsink.
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Around the cpu socket itself there is quite a bit of space for bigger coolers, the ram slots are colored in blue and pink to show you where and how to plug in the ram. The ATX connector is mounted below the ram slots which is a very good place, as you are able to hide the ATX cable pretty good.
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The SATA connectors aim towards the drives which makes it also easier to hide the cables. This way you don't have to bend the cables or buy 90 degree angled connectors.
As we can see the main heatsink is connected with heatpipe to the smaller heatsinks that are mounted on the chips, the heatpipes job is to transfer the heat to the bigger heatsink where it will hopefully dissapear into the case.
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The heatsinks are well connected with a copper heatpipe to maximize the heat transfer between the heatsinks. It almost looks like the PCI-E slot is to close to the heatsink but there is actually quite a bit space between so there won't be any problems even with high end cards.
As said earlier this card offers Crossfire and with todays 8800GT and 3870 cards you can get a very nice setup for as low as 500$.
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This card is filled with various features and so is the back when it comes to the connector part. You got all from Ps/2, usb, firewire, Hdmi, USB, lan to surround sound to play with on this card.
There is a small display mounted on the motherboard that gives you information on what is going on with it.
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