Wednesday, March 19th 2008
MSI P45D3 Platinum Cinco Pipe Motherboard Pictured
MSI's cooling solution for its upcoming Intel P45-powered motherboard, the P45D3 Platinum, is now out in the open. Set to cool the new mainstream LGA775 chipset the Cinco Pipe is Circu Pipe's successor. The whole cooling system is made out of copper, and features five heatpipes all along the CPU area, northbridge and southbridge. Aside from the chipset cooling, the P45D3 Platinum has four DDR3 slots, two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots with support for CrossFire, six SATA 3.0 Gbps ports, integrated HD audio and just about everything you can dream of. The P45D3 Platinum will be released in Q2.
Sources:
TechConnect Magazine, coolaler
21 Comments on MSI P45D3 Platinum Cinco Pipe Motherboard Pictured
Also from looks of it you can put a fan on the fins to enhance cooling.
Alright, MSI specialise with chipset/MOSFET cooling, they better buck up with end-user support, RMA departments, etc.
Did they ship / you received that 780i SLI board yet?
I think they've sent the 780i board, a board has arrived but I can't check to see what it is because I'm away on spring break and won't be back until the weekend.