Bored? Look at this board...

Suffering from the Monday blues? Lighten up your day by taking some time out to work out the make and model of this here motherboard.

http://img.hexus.net/v2/pipelines/st...CF0981_sml.jpg

http://img.hexus.net/v2/pipelines/st...CF0982_sml.jpg

erm....an asus game-extreme edition am2 mobo thingy? :D

I'd say by the colour it was MSI, and by the passively cooled northbridge that it was an ATI chipset. Socket AM2 obviously.

So, MSI's RD580 AM2 Crossfire board?

Simon

Edit to say the SATA port colours are definitely MSI, and I can just see a bit of the sticker on top of the parallel port where MSI put their NIC's MAC address, so I'm confident it's them...

^^MSI K9A Platinum

Not sure, tho' surely SATA ports can be anywhere on the board can't they?

yeah i think its that board too. just realised i was looking at the wrong picture:)

judging from the size of the SB sink.. I'd say its probably an ATI board with the overrated SB600..

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^^MSI K9A Platinum

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Clooose... But not quite... K9A Plat has a few different features from the board shown. Diff. SB sinks, and k9aplat is missing the "secret" (?) cooler by the cpu socket.

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Argh... This one's frustrating... Colors point to an MSI board (sata connectors, PCB color) but I can't find a board that matches that exactly...

My guess is that is uses some nVidia chipset or a new ATi CS chipset... Probably ATi given the heatsink color. (Strange thing to base a guess on, but it works for me ;))

Ah well, back to work T.T
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Haha...if u google on the pic´s name it´s: The Nobel Prize press conference room.

Muahahah.......:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

http://englenobel.blogs.com/photos/s.../dscf0981.html

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Originally Posted by ParoXoN

Clooose... But not quite... K9A Plat has a few different features from the board shown. Diff. SB sinks, and k9aplat is missing the "secret" (?) cooler by the cpu socket.

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Argh... This one's frustrating... Colors point to an MSI board (sata connectors, PCB color) but I can't find a board that matches that exactly...

My guess is that is uses some nVidia chipset or a new ATi CS chipset... Probably ATi given the heatsink color. (Strange thing to base a guess on, but it works for me ;))

Ah well, back to work T.T
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It's a toughie isn't it...! Maybe the pic on the MSI site is from a pre-production board? But I take your point about the different SB cooler colour and the MOSFET (?) cooler by the CPU socket.

Simon

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Originally Posted by S_D

It's a toughie isn't it...! Maybe the pic on the MSI site is from a pre-production board? But I take your point about the different SB cooler colour and the MOSFET (?) cooler by the CPU socket.

Simon

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Yup, the shots (the larger top down one) on the MSI site appears to be pre-production or somesuch.

The iso view (that links to the top down one) on the MSI site has SATA ports that match the few other shots of the K9A floating around on other review sites.

Shots on other review sites make me reckon it's deffo a k9a plat :mrgreen:

Agreed with the k9a platinum - presumably the mosfet cooler can be removed, just look at the line up on the MSI site and it's clear they've been arranged to sit under a cooler.

I think it's possibly the MSI K9N Platinum, but I'm not quite sure, K9N is the closest one I could find, unless (like someone else said) the pics above are pre-release pics, or Hexus has sneakily modded the board for the pics :p

Er.. why? :p No modifications. It's just the normal k9a platinum :p

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2819&p=3

k9a plantinum? this brings up the question why AM2?