MSI K8N Diamond Plus

Test Setup

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System Hardware
Socket 939 Processor AMD Athlon X2 4800+(Toledo 90 nm, 2.4 GHz, 2x 1 MB L2 Cache)
Platform MSI K8N Diamond Plus (Socket 939), Rev. 1.0NVIDIA nForce 4 X16, BIOS 1.12
RAM Corsair CM72SD512RLP-32002x 512 MB DDR-400 (200 MHz, CL2-2-2-5, 1T)
Hard Drive I Western Digital WD740 Raptor74 GB, 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA150
Hard Drive II Western Digital WD3200JD320 GB, 7,200 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA150
Networking Intel Pro/1000
Graphics Card Extreme N7800GT/2DHTV (PCI Express)GeForce 7800GTX (430 MHz), 256 MB GDDR3 (600 MHz)
Power Supply Enermax EG565P-VE, ATX 2.01, 535 W
System Software & Drivers
OS Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600, Service Pack 2
DirectX Version 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Platform Drivers NVIDIA ForceWare 6.82
Graphics Driver NVIDIA ForceWare 81.85
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.