This will probably be my next board since I want to keep my RAID capability and the Abit is priced to high IMO. So, I was wondering who here at HWC is using this board?
Not impressed with the support level of the MSI.
Had first hand experience just this past weekend,
Never did find the bleepin' manual for an older mobo
Well...I don't use this board yet. I haven't made the jump to KT266A/DDR yet...I might not...may skip to Intel! Anyways, I have found the MSI K7T Turbo-R to be a very stable board even at 152MHz FSB. Not a single problem (except I keep frying my processors ). This is a very fast and stable board, so I would assume they've only improved on that. If there were more replies, I wouldn't have posted this, but I figure its better than nothing for ya!
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Yeah, MSI are as stable as dead elephants but Tom's said something about that particular not having much leeway in terms of overclocking.. have a look for his 13-board review to make sure I haven't missed something...
I put one in a friends comnputer that didnt want to pay for the Abit or Asus. I thought it was a very good board. Stable and cheap. Just what he was looking for. Couldnt get the fsb past 148 but I think it was the cpu holding us back. He didnt want to unlock it and see...
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I bought mine only one week ago and I´m very pleased with its performance. Except for I/O Voltage it has all the tweaks you need for professional oc`ing, but as I´m still waiting for my Volcano7 and using an oem cooler right now I´m running my XP1600+ with standard freq. I´m using Apacer CL2-Ram and there were no problems with the most aggressive timings so far. The RAID controller is the Promise Lite with HD support only and only 2HD-Arrays, no CD´s etc. but hey no problem there are two more IDE channels with the Via chipset. Performance is Promise standard though, e.g. very good but maybe a little slower than the latest Highpoint controllers.
Someone in here wrote that he could only reach 148mHz FSB but that probably was a CPU issue - I´ve heard people reached 164mHz with quality RAM and unlocked CPUs, and that doesn´t seem to unusual with this board, although the chipset is only passively cooled. I like the board very much, I haved seen any bluescreen since I installed it... and I didn´t even reinstall Windows98SE after upgrading ;-) There are configuration issues though because the bios offers only limited possibilities for IRQ-Routing. There is one very good (german...) config guide at www.teccentral.de which helps circumventing most problems.
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). This is a very fast and stable board, so I would assume they've only improved on that. If there were more replies, I wouldn't have posted this, but I figure its better than nothing for ya!
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