Difference in MSI Boards?

[busterbrown885]

I am giving serious consideration to building rather than buying a Dell, will be using the AMD64x2 3800 or 4200 cpu.
Have been searching for the motherboard and so far I think I will use a MSI (any other thoughts will be appreciated)

I have been unable to determine the difference between these 2 boards which I believe to support the 64x2 AMD's

K8N Neo 4 sli, model #MS 7100 and the
K8N Neo 4, Platinum sli, model # MS 7125

Thank you for your help

 

[Harvey]

K8N Neo 4 sli.

Special Features:

? 11.96 in.(L) x 9.61 in.(W); ATX
? 4 DIMMs w/ DDR 400 upto 4 GB
? 2 PCI-E 16X; 3 PCI; 10 USB
? Creative sound Blaster Live 24-bit H/W audio 7.1 CH Surround Sound
? Gb LAN; IEEE 1394 RAID(0, 1, 0+1); SATA2; ATA133
? Live Update; Fuzzy Logic; PC Alert; MSI CoreCell; MSI CoreCenter; DOT , DigiCell; nVidia Firewall

CPU

? Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon? 64FX/64 processor (Socket 939)
? Supports 3000+ (D0), 3200+ (D0), 3500+, 3800+, 4000+, FX53 and FX55

K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI.

Special Features:

? 11.96 in.(L) x 9.61 in.(W); ATX
? 4 DIMMs w/ DDR 400 upto 4 GB
? 2 PCI-E 16X; 3 PCI; 10 USB
? Creative sound Blaster Live 24-bit H/W audio 7.1 CH Surround Sound
? Dual Gb LAN; IEEE 1394 RAID(0, 1, 0+1); SATA2; ATA133
? Live Update; Fuzzy Logic; PC Alert; MSI CoreCell; MSI CoreCenter; DOT , DigiCell; nVidia Firewall

CPU

? Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon? 64FX/64 processor (Socket 939)
? Supports 3000+, 3200+, 3500+, 3800+, 4000+, FX53 and FX55

It looks like the only differance is, the Platinum edition has a dual Gb LAN, instead of only one, and the supported CPU list is slightly different, which could be addressed in a BIOS update.

 

[busterbrown885]

This is only the 2nd pc that I will have built, what is the benefit of having a dual GB lan rather than a single lan?

Thank you