Posted on Wednesday, January 07 2009 @ 18:28 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Some leaked information about the upcoming MSI Eclipse Plus X58 motherboard
was spotted by FUD Zilla. This will be one of the first Intel X58 based motherboards with the NVIDIA nForce 200 chipset, according to NVIDIA this chip should enable better SLI performance. There are four PCI Express x16 slots on this board, along with two PCI Express x1 slots and a single PCI slot.
Around the back you'll find two PS/2 ports, eight USB 2.0 ports, dual eSATA and Gigabit Ethernet, a single FireWire port, a clear CMOS button and a two digit diagnostics LED display. The board also features an internal D-LED2 display, a range of onboard buttons, 10 SATA connectors, two headers for an additional four USB 2.0 ports and a header for one more FireWire port. The board does of course have six memory slots for triple-channel DDR3. As there are no audio connectors we'd expect MSI to ship a PCIe x1 audio riser, most likely with an X-Fi chip on it which would go in the top most PCIe x1 slot.
