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- Overall 8
Beeps
newegg.com
13 May 2008
- Summary: Needs to explicitly say in the details that it will not support more than 1 non-ATI GPU (NVidia). To get multi-GPU capabilities you MUST use CrossFire compatible ATI c...
- Pros: Good mobo from what I can tell. I've installed it into 2 of my gaming rigs. Once I got my ATI cards in them, they work great and seem stable. Good features for the pri...
- Cons: See other thoughts.
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- Overall 8
to REALWHO2
newegg.com
12 May 2008
- Pros: Look at MSI's website. 1.8 volts for ram.
- Cons: Read privious
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- Overall 10
Great motherboard!
newegg.com
11 May 2008
- Summary: So far so good. Hope it keeps running as well as it is right now. The default memory speed is 800mhz in the bios, so if you get 1066mhz memory, be sure to go into the ...
- Pros: Plenty of features for anything you should need. Simple installation with references from the manual, which is very good. Seems to have a nice set of overclocking tool...
- Cons: Mine came with the 1.3 bios version with runs Phenom processors well. I upgraded to the 1.4 which is the latest on their site and had to downgrade due to instability. ...
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- Overall 10
Excellent so far
newegg.com
11 May 2008
- Summary: Cannot wait to overclock using this board....heard some good things about the board.
- Pros: I bought an ""open box buy"" and got everything promised with a new board except the AM2+ (CPU) mounting hardware was gone. No problem...I had a spare. Fired right up ...
- Cons: None so far.
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- Overall 8
Great board for the money
newegg.com
10 May 2008
- Summary: Other then the BIOS update issue i like the board. Looks pretty sweet with my clear side and blue light PSU.
- Pros: Great setup of features. RAID 0 setup was a breeze and Vista 32bit install fast. Love the eSATA and upgradablity this board supports.
- Cons: Only ran into two problems with this board. First one was the heat pipe ALMOST gets in the way of my SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 3870, as it is the pipe is resting on the edge ...
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- Overall 10
User Review
newegg.com
09 May 2008
- Summary: I was wanting a simple 770 board for my new rig. Seems like every one has some major strike against it so I ended up shelling out the money for a board that was MUCH m...
- Pros: Solid stability, excellent passive cooling, lots of extras, plenty for the money.
- Cons: Didn't tell me who the final cylon is.
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- Overall 10
For the record
newegg.com
09 May 2008
- Summary: Get a good power supply. I'm presently taking my chances by using a cheapo power supply while counting my pennies for a new one. Voltages are pretty screwey, I'm not g...
- Pros: Reference my last review. For the record, I did buy this at Newegg, only ""open box"", which doesn't show on the review as being purchased at Newegg. I honestly can't ...
- Cons: No cons. I got a killer deal on it.
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- Overall 10
Good bang for the buck, so far!!
newegg.com
09 May 2008
- Summary: I was going to use a Perc 5i controller on this, unfortunately the ram died on the card while I was messing around with it. It does work on this board, though, with pi...
- Pros: Set this board up with a 5400+, 2 gb of kingston (for now) and a 73 gb fujitsu sas drive. raised fsb to 215, got clock of 3.01 ghz. This thing flies! Initial impressio...
- Cons: I don't have another fujitsu hard drive laying around. I can't wait to see what this will do in Raid 0. By the way, the Promise controller IS bootable, you just have t...
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- Overall 10
V.2?
newegg.com
09 May 2008
- Summary: I went to msi's site and it claims to have a version 2 of the msi k9aplat edition. Judging by the Cf-F models that newegg has recently gotten at 94.99 or less, those s...
- Pros: I really enjoy this motherboard, it has x amount of potential! With four pci express slots 2.0 I have 3 crossfired 3870's and an nvidia physx engine card with the phen...
- Cons: There is one con that I have to mention. I first had this motherboard, purchased from tXgXr DXrxcX a while back before i knew that newegg had a constant 10.00 off deal...
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- Overall 8
For M-Marc and others
newegg.com
09 May 2008
- Summary: For info on the voltage look at the following link. http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K9A2_Platinum&class=mb It right there under memory.
- Pros: none
- Cons: none
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MSI K9A2 Platinum
Key components status hardware monitor. Monitor the Dual Core CPU each unit status. Optimize System status define. Auto speed up with system loading change. The MSI Live Update online is design… Read more