How are MSI Mobos?

[sihuda]

How are MSI Mobos?

I want a 754 socket with onboard video such as the following:
MSI "K8M Neo-V" K8M800 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Athlon64 CPU, Retail

Is this any good?

 

[sniperruff]

no exp with newer ones but my bro's KT333 from msi is rock solid

 

[Gurck]

I'm sure you'll find a lot of owners who've had no problems, but from what I've read here (ie. 'help, mb dead' posts) they seem to cause a disproportionate amount of problems, and I personally would not buy one. Search this forum for 'MSI' for more information.

 

[Yossairian]

I have an MSI NEO2 PLAT, and have no regrets about buying it. Honsetly though, if I was looking for a 754 board, I would probibly go with the DFI Lanparty

Edit - oops no onboard video though

 

[ComatoseDelirium]

Ahh.. I blame the people with MSI board problems, not the boards, its usually not the boards fault, I consider MSI, to be in the top 3 list of quality mobo, and graphics card manufacturers, I have used 4 MSI boards in my life, the most recent being a P4 msi 865 PE, it is rock solid can take abuse, overclocks well, AWESOME AND I MEAN AWESOME driver support, you get a lil program that searches for the latest and best drives and installs them all in one, and plus it has loads of features, awesome manual, especially since their located in Taiwan, not the most, English place in the world, I didn't find one grammatical error, and I usually notice those, plus a cool box

 

[Edward Lee]

I have a Soltek SL-K8AN2E-GR. For $89.00 and the fastest benches for it's class I highly recommend this board.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I had really bad luck with MSI boards and had a whole slew of them die from the bad caps issue, but I am using their dual Opteron Master2 now and I must say it is rock solid and high performing. It was very well priced, has a good feature set, and even allows a little overclocking. All it needs to do is show longevity and I'll be putting them back on my list for customer builds.

 

[JBT]

Mine was good while it lasted. I had a KT3 Ultra2 and it stopped running FSB's of highier than 160 after about 8 months. It had plenty of other weird quirks though, that all ticked me off. My favorite mobo so far was my Asus A7N8X DLX, now that was a solid board.

 

[XBoxLPU]

stay away

 

[Bassyhead]

I have their original nforce board (K7N420). It's been solid, never crashes, no problems except for a couple leaky capacitors which were easy to replace myself.

 

[ohnnyj]

I don't know how they are now but I had the first DDR mb available for the Athlons and it still runs after all the beating I gave it.

 

[charlie21]

I still have a KT333 and KT266A in use and they've been rock solid. I have heard many people complain about MSI, but I wouldn't hesitate to buy another.

 

[ohnnyj]

That's the name of it, KT266, I had totally forgotten, thanks.

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: Bassyhead
I have their original nforce board (K7N420). It's been solid, never crashes, no problems except for a couple leaky capacitors which were easy to replace myself.

I'd call that a pretty serious problem...

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: ohnnyj
That's the name of it, KT266, I had totally forgotten, thanks.

Probably a K7T266 Pro or a K7T266, I had a K7T Turbo Limited Edition and it rocked. Sold on eBay still working great after like 3 years.

I am scared of the new MSI baords, but due to the lack of 939 boards out right now, I am considering the Neo2 because it looks like a fantastic board (feature wise) even though I said I would never buy an MSI board again due to all the probs. I've been hearing... my direct experience though has been good.

 

[Arcanedeath]

I will never touch an MSI motherboard again, I had their orginal KT266 borad w/ a Tbird 1.33ghz and it died a total of 3 times over a 5 month period + it was never really stable, I just gave up on it and used an ECS K7S5A which is still runing well to this day. When you get a good MSI board they can be great but actualy finding a good board w/out weird quirks is a crap shoot. If you do decide to go w/ an MSI board good luck because you are going to need it. Just my 2 cents IMHO....

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: Bassyhead
I have their original nforce board (K7N420). It's been solid, never crashes, no problems except for a couple leaky capacitors which were easy to replace myself.

I'd call that a pretty serious problem...

It was a widespread problem that affected many motherboard manufacturers, not just MSI, and a number of consumer electronics companies, as well. MSI was not at fault, they did not manufacture the capacitors.

EDIT: Here's the background on the story: http://www.geek.com/news/geekn.../gee20030207018535.htm

Do a search for "leaking capacitors" on google and you'll see how widespread the problem was.

 

[Pollock]

I've had no problems with my Neo2 so far, although I've also only had it for a week.

 

[Andres3605]

no problems with my MSI NEO platinum