MSI plans to announce three new motherboard based on Nvidia 7x0 SLI chipsets and the interesting thing is that each of these three motherboards will support the entire range of AMD CPUs from the slowest Sempron all the way to the soon-to-be-launched Phenom 9950 with its 140W TDP.

At the tip of the iceberg is the K9N2 Diamond an ATX motherboard powered by the Nvidia 780a SLI chipset, the first chipset that supports the Hybrid power state that can shut off your graphics cards when you don't need them. The board supports 3-Way SLI and as we said above, it can cope with 140W CPUs or anything that dissipates less than that.

Second in line is the K9N2 Zilent, again an ATX board, but this time with the more affordable Nforce 750a SLI chipset. Zilent usually mean that the board uses Zallman’s cooler, this time they bundle Zalman CNPS9700 LED with the board. The Nforce 750a chipset supports two-way SLI and, again, 140W CPUs are ok for this board. For 140W TDP support you really need high quality PWMs around your CPU socket and obviously all these new motherboards will have them.

The last one on MSI’s list is the K9N2 SLI Platinum, again an ATX board which also sports the Nforce 750a SLI chipset with SLI support, and yet again 140W CPU support.

MSI's old KL9N SLI-F V2, an ATX motherboard with Nvidia's old Nforce 570LT SLI chipset will be able to cope with 95W TDP CPUs and no better than that.

According to AMD's website this board will be able to cope with the Phenom X4 9650 at 2.3GHz, but not with anything faster than that.

You will be surprised to learn that a lot of AMD 780G and 790FX boards around won’t support the Phenom 9950 and its 140W TDP. Stay tuned, there will be more. All other Nvidia-based motherboards can cope with a maximum TDP of 89W.