Taiwanese manufacturer MSI has released a motherboard today, the MSI P965 Platinum, which is the first based on the Intel P965 Express chipset to support Crossfire, ATI's dual graphics card setup.

The P965 is designed for dual core processors and while it supports Pentium D is clearly intended for use with Core 2 Duo. The 965 family was launched in June and there are two other variations, the Q965 and G965 which form part of Intel's vPro and Viiv platforms respectively.

This MSI board has two PCI Express x16 slots and supports Crossfire directly. Gamers looking for maximum performance will look towards an Intel Core 2 Extreme as processor and those who favour ATI will now have the opportunity configure a dream system.