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Ursprungligen inskrivet av -Boris-
Tycker det var galet dyrt för MSI-skräp.
Ser inte vad det kortet har av värde som inte ett vanligt 600:- mATX kort med HDMI inte har.

De borde fokusera arbeta med att få acceleration i MPC eller nåt istället.

Ursprungligen inskrivet av SNix
Anledningen till det höga priset är antagligen färstärkaren som gör det möjligt att koppla in passiva högtalare direkt till moderkortet

Hey All,

Perhaps I can shed a little insight on this board. I was a consultant on the team that helped spec out this board. My post here is to provide a little info about this board and the thought process behind it. I do work in the industry, but I do not work for MSI.

The board was designed with the Home Entertainment market in mind. If you look at the specs, you will notice that the legacy PC connectors were removed and replaced with more AV centric connectors.

Video
To provide better connectivity to HD displays (DLP, Plasma, LCD, etc), the board supports HDMI, Component Video and VGA. Therefore, regardless of the type or age of your HD screen, odds are this board will have a connection that supports it.

It is based upon the 780 family chipset so it supports 1080P, Blu Ray, etc. It also has 128MB of dedicated side port memory for stutter free HD playback, including Blu Ray without the need of a discrete graphics card.

A x16 slot was added to allow people to instally a hybrid x-fire card (Radeon 3200-3400 family) or a high end discrete card to make this a gaming HTPC.

Audio
Typical PC motherboards rely on the typical PC codecs (Realtek, ADI, etc.). While this board does have a realtek codec to support SPDIF, this board also has a codec from D2Audio. D2Audio makes high quality class D digital amplifiers for folks like B&W, Polk, Control 4, Phasetech, Denon, Marantz, etc. This code provides much higher audio quality than traditional PC audio. Signal to Noise Ratio is 105dB or higher, Total Harmonic Distortion is 0.1% or lower. This is similar to fairly expensive Mainstream Amplifers.

In additon to this, the audio is very scalable. The motherboards by itself, supports 2.1 RCA line level audio. With one of the add in cards you can take it up to 7.1. Again, these are standard AV style RCA connectors, not 3.5mm mini jacks. This way, if you have a nice amplifier and don't want to replace it, you can easily integrate this into your existing Home Entertainment solution and deliver high quality audio directly to the amp.

The board does support Coax SPDIF, but the audio quality over SPDIF does not come close to what you get from the line level 7.1 add in card.

Now, if you don't have a nice amp, but want great audio without spending $800 on just an amp, you can install the amplifer card 100/ch. and deliver AVR class audio directly to your speakers. Paired with Vista MCE and you have a high quality very nice, single solution box for your audio and video needs.

I have personally set up the 5.1 amp version and the audio sounds simply amazing. Great dynamic range, frequency response. Crystal clear highs, deep booming bass.

I use it almost daily. I rent a lot of blu rays and this plays back everything without any problems.

The challenge I have seen is that people think of this as another PC motherboard. While it can be used as a fully functional PC, it is really designed to deliver a great entertainment experience in a cost effective manner.

Hope this helps provide a little insight and info as to why this board was set up the way it was.

Regards,
Java