MSI P35 Diamond Review @ Hardwarezone
Hardwarezone review the MSI P35 Diamond, an enthusiast’s motherboard featuring a MSI SkyTel VoIP card and a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio card. Hardwarezone give the MSI P35 Diamond a final score of 4.5 out of 5 and write:
Looking at the product itself, the P35 Diamond is an excellent board. Like the P35 Platinum before, the P35 Diamond showed exceptionally strong performance in SYSmark 2004 and impressive memory subsystem performance throughout our benchmarking process, and this time, surpassing the ASUS P5K3 Deluxe in most applications. It is quite obvious that they’ve optimized performance real well. From what we can tell, the board was rock solid throughout our testing, so whatever MSI has done, they’ve managed to deliver an exceptional performer in the P35 Diamond without any compatibility or stability complications. On the down side, overclocking still won’t be one of the board’s main forte, but at 465MHz, it is still considered a capable overclocker.
One of the things we loved about the P35 Platinum is still what we like best about the P35 Diamond, and that is MSI’s new Circu-Pipe cooling. It is not only the most unique, but it is lightweight and still the best performing (by touch) P35 chipset cooler we’ve come across. If you think the all-in-one packaging bundle of the P35 Diamond is your cup of tea, the board carries an average price of US$280. Alternatively, the standalone P35D3 Platinum can be found for about US$180. Whichever one you pick, MSI’s performance speaks out.
Read the full review of the MSI P35 Diamond motherboard here.