Motherboards in 2002: Preview from Comdex

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Gigabyte wasn't the only one to have a Plumas based board in their suite. During our visit to MSI, we were able to see their upcoming Plumas board, the MS-9101. It features one infiniband, one PCI32, and three PCI64 slots on the board. It also has Intel's gigabit Ethernet controller integrated on the board as well.

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MSI also had Intel 845 DDR and AMD 760MPX boards ready not to mention that we did see their SiS 645 solution up and running.

On the Athlon side of things, MSI had their KT266A and nForce boards on display. While their nForce solution is on the verge of being released, it still has some serious performance issues which has prevented us from publishing a review of the final board. MSI is working on fine tuning the BIOS for the mass-production version of the board.

MSI continues to manufacture video cards using the NVIDIA graphic chips. Shown here are their GeForce3 Ti500 and Ti200 cards.