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QDI PlatiniX-2D

The PlatiniX 2D is available in several hardware configurations. The standard features consist of 6 PCI slots, monitoring features, a piezo speaker substituting the PC speaker, an AC97 sound system and several overclocking features. You can also get it with a 100 Mbit network controller from Intel and/or a Promise IDE RAID controller.

The overclocking features are quite interesting, since they are much more than a bonus. There are many FSB clock speeds to choose from (up to 126 MHz) and the CPU core can be increased up to 0.3 V (up to 1.85 V for the Pentium 4 Northwood). In addition, the AGP and memory voltage can be increased by 10%.

The layout is straightforward, except for the floppy connector, which is not placed ideally. Still you can see that nothing will obstruct the AGP card (see picture).

Unfortunately, we did not receive this motherboard in a complete package, so we can offer no additional comments on the motherboard or the software.

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.