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MSI X48 Platinum Mainboard Review (page 2)

Category: Mainboards

by Doors4ever

[ 03/14/2008 | 06:28 PM ]

Package and Accessories

MSI X48 Platinum mainboard ships in MSI’s traditionally designed box with the major features of the solution listed on the front of it:

On the reverse of the box you can find a little more detailed list of the mainboard specifications:

The accessories bundle includes a common set of cables such as FDD and IDE cables, power adapters for Serial ATA HDDs and four SATA cables. This time, however, they are all packed into a single unit:

Moreover, the box also contains an I/O Shield, and additional bracket with one IEEE1394 port and two USB ports, and a set of connectors for easy connection of the major interfaces to the front panel USB, IEEE1394 and audio ports called M-connectors.

The board is also accompanied with a user’s manual, colorful poster with brief installation instructions, all necessary utilities and drivers for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

We have already seen all these accessories before, but this time the package also included something new:

MSI X48 Platinum mainboard is equipped with four graphics card slots that is why it is bundled with a pair of MSI Multi-GPU CrossFire Video Link Cards. In other words, these are two flexible bridges for pairing the installed graphics cards.