<<thats not true.
my friends abit runs with 157 MHz.>>
What makes you think the MSI is not capable of that with another stick of RAM?
anandtech can not make a "MAX FSB" statment with the ram he use for the test!
look on other hardware sites and you will see more then 147 Mhz are possible with the abit (or the epox).>>
Thats true, but they're the only site that reviewed both boards and the reached the same front side bus despite one having an advantage in northbridge cooling.
<<please READ reviews >>
Please direct me to a web site that clearly shows the MSI not reaching as high of a front side bus as Abit.
<<please let the people decide what they need
i dont care for cnr or amr slots, they absolutly useless for me.
i dont need a ISA slot but if i have the choice i go for ISA.>>
Thats you, a majority of the people out there today need PCI instead of the outdated ISA, Im pretending the CNR is not even there, I ignore useless things.
<<mama, uahaha i want that toy.
you sound like a broken record >>
Have I offended you by prasing the MSI over your Epox?
<<you have not seen this board yet?>>
I have seen the board in person at Comdex. But there is no way to get your hands on them right now, nobody besides PCResources has played around with it.
<<you have only read some reviews (or i am wrong?)>>
So have you.
<<how can you be that SURE?>>
Im that sure because Im confident in MSI.
<<in which areas the board is better then the epox?>>
We shall see...
<<oc? no>>
Nupe, you're wrong. MSI reached a higher FSB despite not having northbridge active cooling!!.
<<stability? i dont see a difference between my msi kt7pro2a and my epox 8kta3!>>
You dont see it? Or are you too ignorant too see it? Have you ran any kind of stability tests like PCResources?
<<speed? i dont think so>>
The speed is about equal.
<<features? lol, i dont think so>>
Oh I think so, D-LED, LiveBIOS, FuzzyLogicIII, RAID, onboard sound, the list goes on.
<<sorry, you sound like a kid
if someone are an ABIT zealot you are sure one of the biggest MSI zealots >>
Well I guess you read none of my previous posts, I never denied being an MSI zealot, I even said it's a pleasure to admit it.
<<please stop worshiping anandtechs stress test.
this test means nothing to the normal user.>>
Oh why dont we just ignore stability as a whole then? There shouldnt be much different between the most stable board in the market and the least stable board in the market, right? Wrong, McFly, stability is the most important aspect of a motherboard, whether you like it or not, bit and your Epox are no match for MSI in terms of stability. Anandtech gave them a high rating for a reason.
<<my epox system is a webserver and now runs for 11 days without a crash.
if i it crash, you could be 99.95% sure that windows crashes my system and not a board issue. >>
MSI can easily accomplish the same thing.
<<about RMA:
please tell me where you get informations about the RMA rates.>>
From my personal experience, and the experience of veterans like Patrick.
<<sorry but this is not that easy.
i have send a email to msi (but get no respones yet).>>
We shall see, if its not 4 phase, it's a 3 phase, because I see at least 3 coils.
<<ps: im not an abit user! i am an msi and epox user>>
Clearly you're biased toward Epox, look I dont know what's wrong with your Pro2A, Im sorry if you had bad experience with it, but your arguments are less than relevant. Did you forget your Epox will be more expensive too? Oh I forgot, you just do the card stacking to hide the disadvantage.
PS, can you also stop using the smilies in your arguments? Its annoying the hell out of me, thanks in advance.