nVidia’s entry into the P4 chipset segment is certainly impressive. The P4N Diamond manages to post scores which are as good as Intel’s 925XE in most benchmarks and better in gaming bringing it a bit closer to the Athlon64 dominated category. nVidia also provides better built-in features such as support for ten USB 2.0 ports, four IDE drives along with four SATA drives than can be mixed to create RAID and their Active Armor Firewall technology.

One of the main advantages that nForce4 brings is SLI technology which will be looked upon in an upcoming article where we’ll compare AMD to Intel in high-end SLI gaming. We do like the fact that you dont have to use the SLI card to switch between SLI and non-SLI mode and kudos to MSI for that.

We think that MSI has done a good job with the P4N Diamond. It’s full of features- although wireless connectivity would’ve been a plus, is pretty stable and delivers good performance and overclocking options. The price of this board will be close to $250 (approximately AED 920/-) which is certainly a bit on the higher side, however, all SLI boards are around that price.