MSI RS480M2-IL 939 ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

Bad one

Reviewed By: on 8/30/2005

Comments: Well I was expecting alot from the board..I love msi products. I have them in all of my pc's. This one would crash during game play using 6800gt. Then no post completely dead. Replaced with FOX**** works great. I couldn't wait for RMA, client needed it now. Too bad.

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Reviewed By: BigJohn on 8/29/2005

Comments: Bought this as a backup board while my K8NF-9 was sent to Gigabyte for repair. Been happy but it didnt like my MSI GF 6800 PCI-express video card. would lock up during games quite often. taking off the video card and using onboard seems more stable but still get lockups once or twice a week during heavy gaming. Would be a good board for a spare or for a Server board. Just bought a AMD64 3000 Venice core to put on it once my other one gets back and will make it a server.

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Great Features for the price

Reviewed By: Key on 8/26/2005

Comments: I used this board as the foundation for my wife's computer when she burned out her old board. We both work for the same software company and our company builds PC's to use our software. Our hardware department uses MSI boards with Athlon64's exclusively now. This particular MSI board is terrific. The price is nice and it's feature rich. The onboard ATI graphics is more than adequate for the average user and it even does a good job with 3D games like WoW and Sims2. It's compact and I had to be very careful getting the CPU heatsink installed. This is not the board to get if you're planning on installing a crazy-big third party CPU cooler, it's just too tight. No issues booting or with the BIOs or anything, although on occassion during reboots (say 1 out of 10) the system hangs on the onboard video splashscreen. It gets as far as the USB bus and that's it. Hitting the reset switch brings it up every time though. Other than that one glitch we've run ours rock-solid for two months.

MSI RS480M2-IL
Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester)
2x512MB Corsair Value Select DDR3200 Dual Channel RAM
2x80GB Samsung PATA 100 HDD
Toshiba 16X DVD-RW
Thermaltake 420W Silent Purepower PSU

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