MSI really produced a likely good board for basic over-clocking and just giving the X58 a little much more in the bag and still offer a good, I don’t know what I said in the previous review on the X58 eclipse but it is still a good board to work but still aware of the flaws in the product. So out with the motherboard and go review the graphics solutions that MSI has in store, the MSI 9600GT diamond just came in the market when still the NVIDIA side are in the problem of high performance crown, but a 9600GT diamond is a whole new league of over-clocking potential, with the change of the back panel in the graphics and also a whole new cooling phase, we can’t really miss this.
So the MSI diamond as we can see in the bottom picture is the design of the 9600GT diamond edition from MSI, with the inclusion of the high levitated cooling system with all copper and aluminium fins and heat-pipes. For the spec however really have no difference with the reference card but has GDDR3 memory 256-bit interface and a memory size of 512MB and have the memory frequency at 1700MHz and the core at 650MHz. But with the setting also set at OC when you push the button in the back you boost up the core frequency by 710 MHz, but the rest are left untouched. Also the out devices in the MSI 9600GT diamond are dual HDMI ports one DVI digital or analogue and also one optical port, with quite a odd setting of ports, finding out that this card is a probably a HDMI media graphics solution or people who are stuck with a HDMI gaming monitor, but with the rest of the card are the usual features in the NVIDIA stock, CUDA and Physics technology and also pre HD video plus a bit of MSI, with Drmos chips and as I said the cooler is a Xpress cool and some DOT software over-clocking.
For the test score for the 9600GT diamond really is a good overall score just going better with the more NVDIA oriented games like Ghost-recon and also in Warmonger, but it does not go better with the GTX 280 and the 4870 1GB versions. So for the part of having this graphics card is in the half way, for those people who can effectively over-clock on the fly but still going to have some stability problems because of the cooler have some problems keeps both noise and temp down in over clocked settings. But for the medium specs in a media PC can be a good inclusion of having this in the system as well, just normal users in gaming will really hate using the card and the features.