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P35 Diamond

7.7
PC Zone Magazine
12-Oct-2007
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THE DIAMOND OFFERS support for DDR2, DDR3, a new 1333MHz bus speed and, coincidentally, X-Fi sound.

MSI's older P965-based Platinum (issue 179, 88%) was a fine board with a modest £80 price, and at £155 the P35-based Diamond needs to add something of value or be fast enough to put the rival nForce 680i in the shade. And I'm not sure it does either.

Aside from DDR3, the board still has the old problem of unbalanced x16/x4 PCIe slots, plus a looped heatpipe arrangement and raised Southbridge cooler that's sure to foul the edge of longer Radeons. It's a platform likely to frustrate the enthusiast owners who buy it.

With DDR3 double the cost of DDR2, you're better off waiting for the flagship X38 chipset - it adds balanced x16/ x16 PCIe slots, Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility, and is likely to have been tweaked to reel in NVIDIA's runaway 680i.

PC Zone StaffPC Zone Magazine
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Amen to that. Meantime us 680i users with 2-4 Sli 8800 series Geforce cards can play crysis on full wack. Assuming of course your using vista. Dx10 wont run in XP ? Lol.


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ZoNeHeaD on 23 Jan '08
omg i found a fellow 8800 buddy. finally..too many people horing those s**te ATI cards like they the muts nuts. meh my 8800 gtx plays crysis nice but still in Xp pro im afraid. tried vista and hated just bout everything but dx10. lool

i got me evga 750i mobo but only the one card...we see wot santa bring though hahaha
spoon2big07 on 17 Aug '08
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