Price Guides June 2005: Motherboards

NVIDIA managed to ship several more nForce4 SLI Intel Edition motherboards since we last mentioned them. There were some severe doubts about whether or not nForce4 for Intel was really going to take off, but it seems manufacturers have been able to adopt boards well enough. NVIDIA anticipates low priced SLI boards for everyone before the end of the year, but it looks like the price point will have to lower significantly for something like that to happen. These boards are dual core capable but also come with lots of features, which place them in good competition with 955X motherboards. A favorite of ours, the MSI P4N Diamond [RTPE: MS-7160-010] includes Creative's SoundBlaster Live chip. Then again, if you don't really plan on pursuing SLI but do want a dual core CPU, it's more cost effective to go the route of 945P.