Six 975X Enthusiast Motherboards for Today and Tomorrow

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MSI deploys an active fan on the Northbridge, the rotation speed of which can be adjusted in the BIOS. While we tend to prefer passively cooled solutions, this one was designed properly - and with the overclocker in mind.

MSI adds a PCI SATA RAID controller by JMicron that offers two ports.

We had to break the lock of the ATX power connector before we could install it.

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MSI deploys a 4-phase voltage regulator; the retail version of the motherboard comes with MOSFET heat sinks.

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Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.

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