Advantages: Reliable, Good Online Support/Updates, Affordable, Good Layout
Disadvantages: Only two SATA controllers, Sound & Graphics could be better

...We have stocked this MSI K9VGM-V motherboard for over 3 months now. And, to its credit, considering it's more of a budget board, we haven't had one failure with them. Considering the number we sell, that is very good! Good Points: Reliable Motherboard, Nicely laid out for keeping the inside of the PC clear of trailing cables, Cheap to buy, Simple BIOS & MSI offer what is called a 'Live Update' for its motherboards which works much better than some other manufacturers. Bad Point: Only two SATA controllers onboard, Onboard Sound & Graphics not quite as good as those offered by its competitors in the same catergory. All in all we'd say that this board is great for system builders who are putting together a home/budget type package but is probably unsuitable for the more adventurous computer user.... Read review

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Advantages: Nice looking, good screen, nice key board lay out.
Disadvantages: Speakers and battery life.

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Advantages: Really good calue for money
Disadvantages: Te keyboards too small and not set out too well

...I got this as a Christmas present last year as i needed a laptop to do school work surf the internet and just th usual sorts of things. This laptop is great for that and more. It comes with a 1.8 ghz AMD sempron processor which is pretty good for the £500 this laptop costs. It has 1 gb of ram and an 80 Gb hard disk which is big enough for the average home user. It has a 15.4" TFT monitor. It can play about 2 hours of DVD playback at full charge and it can do just under 3 hours while doing normal work on it. It's very good value for money but it does have bad things going for it aswell. The keyboard was the main let down for me as it has been crushed into a small space and i pretty hard to get used to it. They have tried to cram a whole numerical keypad onto the side of the keyboard which is only useful if you are doing alot... Read review

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Advantages: HDMI video output, Good Processor and RAM
Disadvantages: Shared graphics card, 12 inch screen

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Advantages: Durable, easy to use, stacked with features
Disadvantages: Only four memory slots, slow speed with four memory modules

...I currently have this motherboard in my computer system. I have so far had no major technical issues with it and have enjoyed every minute. I am running it with a AMD 64 3800+, 4x512 MB PC3200 Kingston Hyper X memory modules, a Western Digital 10,000 RPM Raptor 69GB Hard drive, a bog standard Samsung DVD drive and a Nvidia 7800 GTX graphics card. The above components are all quite expensive and I knew I would have to choose a suitable motherboard to fit them into. I first came across the board whilst searching the internet, it seemed a reasonable price for the specs included. Now that I have it working I can tell you it runs just about anything you can find, well game wise anyway. I have never experienced any sort of system crash and the updates from MSI to bios and drivers have always installed without a problem. One of the most... Read review

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Advantages: very good value for money
Disadvantages: not available yet in any higher than 1.5 ghz

...AMD now are on the brink of prdecessing thier main rivals Intel at the processor game. Their most recent processor the AMD Athlon 1.4 ghz has been a great success, and rivals the intel p4 chip with 600mhz more processing power Combined with a DDR (double data rate) motherboard, AMDs chip provides the ultimate solution for high end video editing and games. Compatable with a wide range of main board manufacturers including Gigabyte, Asus, msi and abit, the chip is widely available at low prices, just £90 for the 1.4 mhz chip, which has been proved to be faster than the PIV chip (on a DDR motherboard), and it costs £300 less. If you want a cheap pc with top specs then this processor is for you. With a bus speed of 133mhz and 10.5x clock multiplier, this chip will certainly top my pc upgrade list!... Read review

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Advantages: MyVIVO Features and Good Graphics
Disadvantages: Price

...Well as video cards go this is no more impressive than any of todays cards but in its time (autumn 2003) it was a state of the art card, and although ATi still beat nvidia on performance per pound it was still a fantastic card. The thing that attracted me most to it was the pure performance of it, but it also had VIVO functions for me to do some video editing with and MSI was and still is one of the few manufacturers that provide a decent package (i.e. all the cables, more software that you knew what to do with (full games, demo games, full software and all the cables) and quick and full manuals). It was one of the easiest cards to install, just slot it into the AGP slot. Next attact the extra power cable (NOTE: on any card that requires extra power, never use the same power cable that is plugged into the HDD as the hard drive... Read review

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Advantages: Great make / Great Mobo
Disadvantages: None as yet..............

...I have this motherboard for about a year now and it is still a top class motherboard. This was bought in Pc World for about £90 and this borad is still going strong. This would be my third motherboard after 2 Aopen boards failing me within a few monthsof oneanother. (Goddamn Blue Screens) MSI is one of the main giants in the world of computer components and this board is one of the best they have to offer. This board is designed to run on an athlon processor up to a 3200. It also has: 1 x AGP slot 5 xPCI slots 1x Comminications port. 3x DDR Slots(Dual DDR 400 support up to 3GB) It also has RAID capabilities and S-ATA. This board is a serious board if Hard drives are important to you. Also supplies is an add-on bracket with both 4-pin and 6-pin firewire and another bracket which allows you to upgrade the onboard sound to 5... Read review

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Advantages: Good Performance for the price
Disadvantages: There are faster cards out there

...Taking the card out of the box and examining it revealed a well engineered card with surface mount technology that looks very professional. The Graphics Processor has a fan fitted to keep it cool and even after 8 hours the card was only warm. The card installed into my AGP slot with no problems and with the side back on I started up the PC. Windows XP found the card and installed the drivers with no fuss after prompting for the CD that comes with the card. MSI also have an online web site to update the drivers automatically, the software can be found on the CD that comes with the product. You do not have to stick with the MSI drivers the Latest NVIDIA drivers will work just as well. My previous graphics card was a 3DFX 3500 TV and ran glide and Open GL games very well. I ran up some of my older games I.E Kingpin which was Open GL... Read review

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Advantages: Very stable MoBo, built in ATI Graphics, reasonably priced.
Disadvantages: No SLI

...I purchased the RS482M4-ILD motherboard on 10th November 2005. The board arrived complete with a variety of cables. The board was well packaged and looks quite robust. For a review with all pictures search for MSI RS482M4-ILD review .This board is based on the RADEON 200 chipset. It includes on board Video. What you get in the box:Amongst the cables there is a SATA power cable and a SATA motherboard to disk cable. You also get 1 IDE and 1 Floppy cables. There is a Serial port via ribbon cable, TV S-Video and SPDIF connectors and 8channel sound via another cable. MSI provide software that includes a utility for checking all the updates available for your motherboard. This works well and it will inform you if your software is current or not. You can select all the updates that you want. Fitting the motherboard to your ATX case... Read review

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