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MSI K9N2GM, Micro-ATX motherboard review |
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Written by sineoc
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 |
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Page 2 - Closer look
Nothing much to be said about the box, save that it is so small it fits in a school boy back pack easily.
Same with the bundle really, quite standard – few cables, manual, driver CD and back plate...
And now for detailed photos of the board:
The motherboard is in the MSI preferred colour – red. You can clearly see the overall component placement. The chipset cooler is not very big, even though it's passive, that could be a potentially bad thing, but at this point a obvious benefit of this comes forward, namely that its size interferes not with some CPU coolers. Memory slots are packed rather close and that's kinda a bad. From a modder's point of view combining the motherboard with the right card while using the Hybrid SLI functions, a perfect gaming HTPC could be created.
Interesting decision is the one not to supply the motherboard with DVI but with HDMI only. One, that cannot be overlooked even by the clear advantage of providing a 1394 port.
Considering the the class and purpose of this motherboard the six SATA do tend to stick out.
Note the 4 phase powering of the processor, thing quite common nowadays, with all kinds of motherboards even. Now on to testing we go! :)
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