The MSI P7N Diamond is an advanced Tri-SLI motherboard allowing 3-way SLI through 4 PCI-e x16 ports (which operate as x16, x16, x8 under Tri-SLI mode) and 4 DIMM slots for dual channel DDR2 1066+ ram modules up to 8GB. It should be noted that NVIDIA SLI is only supported in 32 and 64 bit Windows XP/Vista operating systems. The P7N provides support for socket LGA 775 CPUs meaning that it is compatible with Intel Core2 Extreme, Core2 Quad, Core2 Duo, Pentium XE, Pentium D, and Pentium 4 processors. The P7N also comes installed with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme for HD 7.1 CH Audio. For additional features the P7N also provides a dual gigabit LAN for double the network speed, and MSI's own premium mobo application; Live Update; Dual Corecell; MSI Dual CoreCenter; and DOT. Additional ports included are IEEE 1394, RAID (0, 1, 0+1, 5 & JBOD); SATAII; ATA133; eSATA; 2 PCI-E X1; 2 PCI; and 10 USB. The MSI P7N Diamond was released on February 17, 2008 and has an MSRP price of about $299.
