MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Motherboard Review - nForce4 Ultra

MSI has long been a leader in the ‘eye candy’ department and the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum is easily one of the better looking motherboards on the market right now. You won’t be ashamed to have a case window with the K8N Neo4 Platinum as your backbone! Of course there’s more here than meets the eye, and the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum is in general a very well rounded motherboard.

The Nvidia nForce4 Ultra chipset is already very feature rich, and the board builds on that foundation by offering up two Gigabit network cards, IEEE 1394 Firewire, 7.1 channel audio and an additional Serial ATA/RAID controller (4x SATA, 4X SATAII ports). If that’s not enough, the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum also has plenty of PCI and PCI Express expansion room.

…With a retail price of of $185 CDN ($151 US), the K8N Neo4 Platinum is priced with somewhat of a premium, but then this motherboard is pretty much equipped to the max. It even has MSI’s “Core Cell” chip if you’d like to let the board automatically handle Dynamic overclocking for you. I recently recommended this exact model to a friend and I think it’s safe to say it would satisfy the needs of most mainstream users.

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