This is a new 790GX, form the AMD’s better alternative to the more hardcore chipset from and farfetched form the older and in the introduction of the 790FX, with a better choice of feature example the inboard dedicated graphics with 512MB inboard memory in the Northbridge for people who are not still planning for a discrete graphics solution to play DX10 games or detail as high as Crysis and all of the third party manufacturers are now flocking for the new AMD’s fight over the better G43 and P43 chipset from Intel, using the Intel core 2 Duo and Quad support, ploughs the competition in terms of processor power house, but the support of hybrid crossfire in the P43 and G43 chipset is not present, but the 790GX support it, with the onboard ATI radeon HD3300, can go with any HD3000 series graphics or a sequence of graphics options , with the HD3300 working for the normal desktop use and the dual or single HD400 series as the example the HD4870X2 or a single card HD4870, for extensive calculation and gaming.
So MSI, is also now in the use of the 790GX chipset. With the MSI’s DKA 790GX Platinum; with the board going with the black colour PCB as its main colouration of the board, the cooling design of the MSI DKA is a large circular nest in the Northbridge and a two heat-pipe running around the Southbridge chip cooler. Being only a media PC solution mobo, this only has a four pin power PCU connector and also five SATA ports and one eSATA port in the back, and including the DVI, S-video, and HDMI ports. The memory is a DDR2 memory dual channel and fsb rating of 1066MHz. With also an unusual inclusion of the power reset button in the PCB, while useful in some occasions, but this is a media solution mobo never going to be a hard-core gaming rig, but just to include it is a HTT over-clocking red thing that runs in the middle of the two PCIex slots.
For the performance and multimedia factors in the MSI DKA, is the better HD3300 onboard powering to the HD movies and high definition coding and rendering without the use of any at all, discreet graphics card. Memory bandwidth is also important in a media PC, and with the dual channel onboard memory chip in the CPU gave it in lower latencies and large bandwidth also far cheaper than the core 7i in term of features. You can get a Phenom Quad core processor of about $300 and that all you need for the mobo. This can be a great blend of a media PC with odd over-clocking devices.
