Advantages: Fast, cheap, stable, excellent support and v good manual Disadvantages: Requires a minimum of Win ME upwards
Ive been using the MSi 845E max (6566e) motherboard for the past 2 years and it still performs as stable now as it did back then.
The board itself is very well packaged and comes with all the usual extras including drivers CD and IDE cables for both CD-roms/hard drives and floppy disc aswell as an excellently informative and well laid out manual.
The 845E Max by MSi supports all Pentium 4 processors as well as Celerons upto 3.06 ghz using the built in 845E Intel chipset and includes full support for both 133mhz front side bus (FSB) quad pumped (133 x 4 = 533 fsb) Pentium 4's and 184 pin PC 2100 (266mhz) DDR memory upto 2 ghz, there are 2 available memory slots which is plenty for most people and i whole heartedly recommend firstly adding 1 x 512mb of DDR to the motherboard so as to leave 1 free DDR slot if you ever chose to add ...
Advantages: Good stable board Disadvantages: Not many PCI slots
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The board is a Socket A board so support the AMD Athlon up processor. The FSB supported is 266 MHz which today is by far not the best speed but it is certainly capable of running at high speeds. The board can also be over clocked to run faster so if you are into pushing your computer to the limits then this board is capable of doing that.
The board also contains onboard LAN so there is no need to buy a network interface card. Considering the board?s low price and it is packed with feature this can satisfy users of all levels.
The board is easy to install and the motherboard manual provided explains everything you need to know in great depth and in an understandable way.
Overall I would highly recommend this board as it is stable easily overclockable and packed with features and for the price you cannot really go wrong. Well done MSI. ...
Advantages: Easy to install, reliable and cheap for such a high quality product. Disadvantages: Oddly placed FDD header
The MSI K9N Neo-F
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I've never written a motherboard review before so I hope I cover everything you need to know.
AVAILABILITY:
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This item should be in the £40-£50 price range.
It is I would consider a higher mid range board.
Specs:
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ATX
This is an ATX sized motherboard. It will fit in midi or full sized tower cases. It will not fit in mini ATX cases.
Processor = SOCKET AM2
This is a Socket AM2 motherboard.
For: AMD ATHLON 64's, Semprons And Athlon dual cores aka X2's.
RAM = DDR2
This board supports the 240 pin DDR 2 standard. It will take PC4200 PC5300 & PC6400 sticks of ram.
PCIE Graphics.
This will take a PCIE x16 Graphics card. It will not work with AGP cards. PCIE is the more recent technology.
Chipset ...
Product Information for "MSI MS-6547 - motherboard - ATX - SiS645" »
Audio
Audio Output
Sound card - PCI
Sound Output Mode
Stereo - 16-bit
Compliant Standards
AC '97
Features
BIOS Features
APM 1.2 support, ACPI 1.0 support
Manual Settings
CPU frequency
Hardware Monitoring
CPU core temperature, chassis temperature, CPU fan tachometer, chassis fan tachometer, system voltage, CPU overheating protection, CPU core voltage
Sleep / Wake Up
Keyboard wake up, suspend to RAM (STR), wake on LAN (WOL), suspend to disc, mouse wake up, wake on PCI device, wake on USB port, wake on ring (WOR)
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29/11/2003
Manufacturer's product description
MSI specializes in the design and manufacturing of mainboards, interface cards, and barebones. In the rapidly changing information technology industry, MSI has certainly become a vital link in the chain of leading-edge technology. MSI is strongly aware that the only way to gain the confidence of customers is to constantly challenge itself. Providing high-quality assurance and customer trust has always been MSI's foremost goal. MSI's entire manufacturing and production process, from the selection of parts, the preparation of materials, to the assembly of products has to go through various demanding automatic and manual inspection steps. MSI also uses the finest precision equipment to minimize the defect rate.
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