Advantages: Value for money, competent integrated hardware (especially the sound) Disadvantages: Geforce2 MX a little dated for todays games
...>Overview< --------------- This MSI motherboard utilises nVidia's nForce chipset. nVidias nForce (now superceded by the nForce2 and 3) was and is a milestone in motherboard technology. Never before had so many competent technologies been bundled into one board. The chipset main features are: Support for Duron/Athlon/XP processors with an FSB of 100/133mhz ...and thus 200/266mhz DDR RAM memory in DUAL CHANNEL mode. Integrated nVidia Geforce2MX-class ... ...may want to check the MSI site for this (link at bottom). This was one of the first mainstream boards (if not the first) to sport dual-channel memory. This allows two memory sticks to be used at once (you must buy a matching pair) and thus increases your memory bandwidth. For those of you who aren't technically minded, this basically allows your PC to transfer more information at one time, and thus run faster. >Graphics< The integrated Geforce2MX ...
Dave_UK 24.02.2004
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of MSI MS-6373 - motherboard - ATX - nForce 420-D
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