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@ 2006/08/29Today we are looking at MSI's K9N SLI Platinum - a medium range socket AM2 motherboard based on the nForce 570 chipset that aims to pack a lot of value as well as nearly all the functionality of the top end nForce 590 family of boards.
The nForce 570 SLI chipset is Nvidia's second highest performance nForce 5 chipset for AMD processors. It has 28 PCIe lanes, and supports a 2x8 SLI mode, or up to six PCIe slots in a 16x, 8x, 1x, 1x, 1x, 1x configuration.
The 570 also supports six SATA2 with RAID 0/1/0+1/5 support, and two PATA drives; "MediaShield" support, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports with TCP/IP acceleration. Up to ten USB2 ports and HD Audio round out this rather feature full chipset. As you can see from this brief overview, the K9N SLI Platinum is feature and I/O rich, and at an estimated price of $129USD it looks to be a viable option for those looking for a medium range board.
The nForce 570 SLI chipset is Nvidia's second highest performance nForce 5 chipset for AMD processors. It has 28 PCIe lanes, and supports a 2x8 SLI mode, or up to six PCIe slots in a 16x, 8x, 1x, 1x, 1x, 1x configuration.
The 570 also supports six SATA2 with RAID 0/1/0+1/5 support, and two PATA drives; "MediaShield" support, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports with TCP/IP acceleration. Up to ten USB2 ports and HD Audio round out this rather feature full chipset. As you can see from this brief overview, the K9N SLI Platinum is feature and I/O rich, and at an estimated price of $129USD it looks to be a viable option for those looking for a medium range board.
