Info
Mobo: 865PE-NEO2LS
Processor: Intel P4 2.53 GHZ Northwood
Memory: 2 Sticks of PC2700 Crucial (running in Dual Channel Mode).
What's Inside the Box?
The board came with some rounded cables, 2 SATA cables, 1 USB Bracket, ATX back plate. The northbridge is quite silent although MSI seemed to have some sort of boogie fever going on as they've added some blinking lights to it.. It has 6 channel onboard audio , and a 10/100 Intel LAN chip.. There's also a chip marked CORE CELL.. Has two onboard 3-PIN fan headers (one for the CPU, and the other for a front fan)..
Some notes:
Just recently set-up my new 865PE-NEO2LS mainboard with a 2.53 GHZ P4 along with two 512MB PC2700 Crucial RAM..
The problem is that the mainboard is quite unstable when the RAM is set to SPD (which is 333), I have to set it to 266 to get stability out of it.. At 333, I can't even install Windows for it Blue Screens when it tries to start up..
I know the RAM works for they both work perfectly on an i845PE chipset at 333 MHZ default..
Anybody else out there having problems? (I know the canterwood has problems with certain 400 MHZ DDR)..
BTW, the board definitely doesn't work with a Willamete 1.7 (won't boot - must be the voltage) - fought with it for a couple of hours and just broke down and bought a 533 MHZ FSB processor and got it working then RAN into the RAM issue..
The only good thing is that I was able to get the board for 99$ at the Local Computer Fair (in pomona) and gotten rid of the onboard audio by buying an Audigy 2 for 65$ OEM..
Mobo: 865PE-NEO2LS
Processor: Intel P4 2.53 GHZ Northwood
Memory: 2 Sticks of PC2700 Crucial (running in Dual Channel Mode).
What's Inside the Box?
The board came with some rounded cables, 2 SATA cables, 1 USB Bracket, ATX back plate. The northbridge is quite silent although MSI seemed to have some sort of boogie fever going on as they've added some blinking lights to it.. It has 6 channel onboard audio , and a 10/100 Intel LAN chip.. There's also a chip marked CORE CELL.. Has two onboard 3-PIN fan headers (one for the CPU, and the other for a front fan)..
Some notes:
Just recently set-up my new 865PE-NEO2LS mainboard with a 2.53 GHZ P4 along with two 512MB PC2700 Crucial RAM..
The problem is that the mainboard is quite unstable when the RAM is set to SPD (which is 333), I have to set it to 266 to get stability out of it.. At 333, I can't even install Windows for it Blue Screens when it tries to start up..
I know the RAM works for they both work perfectly on an i845PE chipset at 333 MHZ default..
Anybody else out there having problems? (I know the canterwood has problems with certain 400 MHZ DDR)..
BTW, the board definitely doesn't work with a Willamete 1.7 (won't boot - must be the voltage) - fought with it for a couple of hours and just broke down and bought a 533 MHZ FSB processor and got it working then RAN into the RAM issue..
The only good thing is that I was able to get the board for 99$ at the Local Computer Fair (in pomona) and gotten rid of the onboard audio by buying an Audigy 2 for 65$ OEM..