Intel's X38 is so near we can already taste the various flavors offered by motherboard manufacturers. After Gigabyte, Asus, BioStar and abit it is now MSI's time to shine in a sneak peak where its X38 Diamond board can be contemplated. The board itself is ready design wise and with a few more BIOS tweaks it will be released at the end of the month and hit the stores in October.

Revealed courtesy of bit-tech, the MSI X38 Diamond features a newly-designed Circu-Pipe cooling system, one more discrete and with only one loop. The board will come with support for the Core 2 line-up, including the upcoming 45nm Wolfdale and Yorkfield CPUs, it will have four DDR3 memory slots (DDR3-1600 and beyond), six SATA 3.0 Gbps ports and two eSATA connectors.

The X38 Diamond will also feature four PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots (Double Crossfire ready), two Gigabit Ethernet ports, on-board 7.1 audio and a bundle that will include a PCIe x1 X-Fi sound card. The new motherboard will also have one dying PCI slot and one ATA connector.

The price of the X38 Diamond will be announced once the Intel X38 chipset is officially announced. Also, according to bit-tech, MSI has confirmed that they are working on a water-cooling ready version of the board. Wait for it.




Image courtesy of bit-tech.