MSI Intros nForce 780i and 750i Motherboards

malware · Dec 17, 2007

Later today NVIDIA will finally release the new nForce 780i and 750i chipsets and one of the first manufacturers to answer the call for new hardware is MSI. What Micro-Star International has prepared are the P7N Diamond and the P7N SLI Platinum motherboards. The nForce 780i-powered Diamond and the 750i-boasting Platinum both feature MSI's Circu-Pipe cooling systems and come with full support for Intel's 45nm Core 2 processors (Yorkfields and Wolfdales), DDR2-1066 support and SLI. The higher-end P7N Diamond is triple-SLI ready and features no less than four PCI-Express x16 slots, while the Platinum board is equipped with three PCI-Express x16 slots, but supports only dual-card setups. Both boards feature solid capacitors and support eSATA but are separated by the number of SATA ports (6 for the Diamond, 4 for the Platinum) and Ethernet interfaces (two on the Diamond). The two new boards are set to hit the stores soon.

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EastCoasthandle · Dec 17, 2007

not impressive at all and the PCIe layout looks funky.

cdawall · Dec 17, 2007

layout looks oddly similar to the 680a chipset with tri sli :roll:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131146

FatForester · Dec 17, 2007

Yea, this looks rather goofy. There were some rumors on the [H] a while ago talking about the 780i. Evidently the bios is really clunky and CPU support was sketchy on their reference board they received. We'll see when they ship...

Darknova · Dec 17, 2007

Tri-SLI = 4 x16 slots
SLi = 3 x16 slots..

Ok...am I missing something? You know..like when were there other cards that used x16 slots?..

kwchang007 · Dec 17, 2007

Darknova said:
Tri-SLI = 4 x16 slots
SLi = 3 x16 slots..

Ok...am I missing something? You know..like when were there other cards that used x16 slots?..

Physics, raid, sound cards are starting to, things like that. Tri-Sli.....3 cards in Sli.

Darknova · Dec 17, 2007

kwchang007 said:
Physics, raid, sound cards are starting to, things like that. Tri-Sli.....3 cards in Sli.

Without being funny...they use PCI-E x1...so why not put x1 slots on instead of another x16 which takes up more room?

kwchang007 · Dec 17, 2007

Darknova said:
Without being funny...they use PCI-E x1...so why not put x1 slots on instead of another x16 which takes up more room?

idk they're weird like that. I think some physics use x8....I guess they were like "ah what the hell let's just put it there"

Wile E · Dec 18, 2007

Darknova said:
Without being funny...they use PCI-E x1...so why not put x1 slots on instead of another x16 which takes up more room?

Many RAID controllers use more than 1x. From 4x all the way to 16x.

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