I looked at the specs for both and they're identical. The only difference I can see is that the Turbo is almost $20 cheaper than the Turbo-R. Am I missing something here? Thanks.
Yeah. The difference is that the k7t turbo-r has an external raid controller, meaning that you can have up to 8 ide devices in your computer instead of 4 that the kt7-turbo can.
Wait a minute. I just checked Anand's KT7 Turbo review and the KT7 Turbo DOES have RAID and it can support 8 IDE devices. Or has MSI changed this since the review was done (the board Anand reviewed was a pre-production sample)?
Well he means they added RAID to a different model. Alot of KT133 and KT133A mobos are like that. There's the Abit KT7A, KT7A-R, IWill KK266, KK266-R, and then the MSI.
The KT7 Turbo board that Anand reviewed had RAID. My guess is that MSI chose to split up the KT7 Turbo line in two, a RAID and a non-RAID version, after the review was done.
Please dont mix KT7 with K7T, KT7 is Abit, K7T is MSI.
The Turbo non-R DOES NOT, I repeat, does not include RAID regardless of what MSI's web site or Anandtech says. Only the Turbo-R has RAID, and yes it can act like regular IDE.
Thats right, they're not going to bother printing a different box just for the Turbo-R, they just put a little sticker by the words "Optional RAID".
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