Installation, Setup and BIOS

Installation was easy. There's no extra heatpipe cooling or chipset fan found on the motherboard. The advantages of the single chip solution of the nForce 570 SLI is plain to see ... I guess it runs a lot cooler than the 590 SLI. Hence, only a large heatsink was used for cooling.

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The location of the DDR2 DIMM slots have easy access, and so does the SATA connectors. However, I wasn't so impressed with the way the FDD, IDE and ATX connectors were situated. There're all bunched up together... so fitting these cables was very tight.

The BIOS on the K9N-SLI Platinum has the Cell Menu system. It has all the options available for adjusting CPU, DDR2, Chipset and PCIe voltages. There's also frequency adjustments for CPU, chipset and PCIe.

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