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MSI X38 Diamond

09 Jan 2008

MSI's X38 Diamond succeeds its older P35 Diamond flagship motherboard with better overclocking and power efficiency, a more comprehensive storage solution and support for quad-GPU solutions. Other highlights such as Creative X-Fi audio and SkyTel VoIP are still there too.

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<h2 class="header-green">Product Specification</h2>
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		<td class="prd_content">Processor Support and Chipset Type</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_lightgrey">
			<ul><li>Supports all 90nm/65nm/45nm Intel LGA775 processors
</li><li>Quad-Core ready
</li><li>Northbridge: Intel X38 
</li><li>Southbridge: Intel ICH9R</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
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		<td class="prd_content">Memory</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_darkgrey">
			<ul><li>Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 SDRAM
</li><li>Max 8GB Dual-channel DDR3-1333</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
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		<td class="prd_content">Storage</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_lightgrey">
			<ul><li>Intel ICH9R Southbridge: 6 x SATA 3.0Gbps interface, Intel Matrix Storage Technology, Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5 , RAID 10
</li><li>Marvell 88SE6111: 1 x Ultra ATA 33/66/100/133 (data transfer rate up to 133MB/sec.), 1 x SATA 3.0Gbps interface (used by SiI5723 controller below) 
</li><li>Silicon Image SiI5723: 2 x SATA 3.0Gbps interface, SATA RAID 0, RAID1 and JBOD</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
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		<td class="prd_content">Audio</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_darkgrey">
			<ul><li>Intel High Definition Audio (Azalia): Realtek ALC888T HD Audio CODEC with hardware VoIP support, Bundled  SkyTel VoIP card, Optical S/PDIF
</li><li>Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI Express card</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
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		<td class="prd_content">Networking</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_lightgrey">
			<ul><li>Intel 82566 PCIe Gigabit Ehternet LAN
</li><li>Marvell 88E8111B Gigabit Ethernet  PHY</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
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		<td class="prd_content">FireWire (IEEE 1394)</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_darkgrey">
			<ul><li>VIA VT6308P FireWire controller
</li><li>2 x 1394a ports @ 400 Mbps speed</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
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		<td class="prd_content">Rear I/O</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_lightgrey">
			<ul><li>1 x Floppy connector
</li><li>1 x Ultra ATA IDE connectors
</li><li>8 x SATA connectors (6 x internal, 2 x eSATA)
</li><li>12 x USB 2.0 ports (8 x rear, 4 x header)
</li><li>2 x RJ45 LAN ports
</li><li>2 x FireWire-400 ports (1 x rear, 1 x header)
</li><li>1 x Optical S/PDIF Output 
</li><li>8-Channel Audio I/O ports
</li><li>1 x COM port header
</li><li>1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port
</li><li>1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
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		<td class="prd_content">Expansion Slots</td>
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			<ul><li>2 x PCIe x16 slots, PCI Express Bus specification v2.0 compliant
</li><li>2 x PCIe x16 slots, PCI Express Bus specification v1.1 compliant
</li><li>2 x PCIe x1 slots, PCI Express Bus specification v1.1 compliant 
</li><li>1 x 32-bit PCI slots, PCI 2.3 compliant </li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
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		<td class="prd_content">Other Features</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_lightgrey">
			<ul><li>MSI Dual Core Cell Center
</li><li>MSI Live Update 3</li></ul>		</td>
	</tr>
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		<td class="prd_content">Form Factor</td>
		<td class="prd_content02 alernate_darkgrey">
			ATX Form Factor, 12"x 9.6"(30.5cm x 24.4cm)		</td>
	</tr>
	</table>

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