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Tim S · 17th Aug 2007, 15:17

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/08..._of_features/1

The MSI X38 Diamond is arriving next month will have tons of features in its flagship product, including a revised liquid Circu-Pipe heatpipe arrangement.

Mister_Tad · 17th Aug 2007, 15:22

leet cooling is always nice, as is the inclusion of both DDR2 and DDR3 slots, but that layout is a bit pointless :/

DXR_13KE · 17th Aug 2007, 15:55

this kind of remembers me of those awful memory transition mobos, they were crap with both memories........

Mister_Tad · 17th Aug 2007, 15:56

Being an MSI Diamond series board I would expect that it should be a pretty decent board

Usually the "transition" boards are made by relatively off-brands

WildTangent · 17th Aug 2007, 16:17

What's the point of all the PCI-E x16 ports, and only one PCI port?! :\ Wouldn't be so bad if device manufacturers would finally move on to PCI-E. And also, are there any pics of the I/O panel at the back?

Tulatin · 17th Aug 2007, 16:34

So uhm... why only two SATA?

Johnny Bravo · 17th Aug 2007, 16:39

as stated there are four missing SATA ports on the board

Bindibadgi · 17th Aug 2007, 17:01

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Originally Posted by WildTangent

And also, are there any pics of the I/O panel at the back?

Nope, none that we can publish, but I've told you what's on the rear I/O

WildTangent · 17th Aug 2007, 17:26

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Originally Posted by Bindibadgi

Nope, none that we can publish, but I've told you what's on the rear I/O

Yes, but I'm interested in how they're laying it out. Oh well, guess I'll have to be patient and wait for more pics

Bindibadgi · 17th Aug 2007, 17:44

Ah, PS2, Firewire, two eSATA and S/PDIF with four USB above like the P35 Platinum we reviewed, then four more USB each with two RJ45 above and finally 6 3.5mm audio jacks.

zr_ox · 17th Aug 2007, 19:11

I dont mind the layout at all, it's pretty clean although I see issues with the IDE port and my reservoir.

Having an Nvidia GPU with the intension of going SLi I will be waiting for Nvidia's response.

DarkLord7854 · 17th Aug 2007, 20:24

2 SATAs and 1 PCI? O.o

cosmic · 17th Aug 2007, 20:34

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Originally Posted by DarkLord7854

2 SATAs and 1 PCI? O.o

Yes - its the new standard, your now only allowed a single hard drive and burner for environmental reasons.

DougEdey · 17th Aug 2007, 20:46

That's just silly, why has there been an increase upto now with the SATA ports, and now it drops?

Tim S · 17th Aug 2007, 20:53

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Originally Posted by TFA

We'll leave you with what we believe is the first image of MSI's X38 Diamond motherboard to hit the 'net, but please bear in mind that this obviously isn't the final cooling solution. Instead, it'll have the aforementioned Circu-Pipe Liquid cooler which will cover the PWMs too. The board is also missing the four extra SATA ports down on the bottom right where you can see the solder points ready for them.

Woodstock · 17th Aug 2007, 21:19

do i count 6 dimm slots? 4 DDR2 and 2 DDR3 or other way round?

Bindibadgi · 18th Aug 2007, 00:17

4 DDR3. 2 DDR2

dyzophoria · 20th Aug 2007, 03:00

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Originally Posted by Tim S

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Originally Posted by TFA

We'll leave you with what we believe is the first image of MSI's X38 Diamond motherboard to hit the 'net, but please bear in mind that this obviously isn't the final cooling solution. Instead, it'll have the aforementioned Circu-Pipe Liquid cooler which will cover the PWMs too. The board is also missing the four extra SATA ports down on the bottom right where you can see the solder points ready for them.

people should start reading articles first before judging the pictures

iwog · 28th Aug 2007, 16:23

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Originally Posted by dyzophoria

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Originally Posted by Tim S

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Originally Posted by TFA

We'll leave you with what we believe is the first image of MSI's X38 Diamond motherboard to hit the 'net, but please bear in mind that this obviously isn't the final cooling solution. Instead, it'll have the aforementioned Circu-Pipe Liquid cooler which will cover the PWMs too. The board is also missing the four extra SATA ports down on the bottom right where you can see the solder points ready for them.

people should start reading articles first before judging the pictures

but they're just so pretifuls we can help but marvel at them and ignore the words. Plus a picture says a 1000 words so there's actually more info in the picture than the article :P

Tim S · 28th Aug 2007, 16:26

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but they're just so pretifuls we can help but marvel at them and ignore the words. Plus a picture says a 1000 words so there's actually more info in the picture than the article :P

We chose to make the words that are there very important though. Think of the extra 1000 words in the picture as supplementary.

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