ABIT NF5 is a fluke, MSI nF5 is not

When I opened a forum page containing a picture of the supposed Abit nForce5 based motherboard, I was delighted by the fact that Abit engineers picked the rose colour of the PCB, which was expressing hope for a better future after being bought by USI Corporation. However, several things bugged me…

So, the picture of Abit motherboard is a fake [ photochopped from original pic of MSI K9 motherboard ], however - the specs were semi-right: “nForce5″ chipset in question is known under a name “MCP55″, and its more or less the same nForce4 SLI chipset we know today, only featuring new enhancements in various sectors: it supports 20 PCIe lanes (so the two x16 slots you’re seeing on a picture are electrically x16. Data throughput wise - x8), six SATA-II devices and one PATA interface, a single Gigabit Ethernet (nV GbE) and most importantly - eight-channel RealTek ALC882D High-Definition Audio chip.

the Inquirer