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  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: flyinghao

    Updated:07-01-08

    Duration of ownership:2 Days

    Strengths: Goodd looking board with intense features. It works fine with my AMD 9600 (black edition), 4x1GB Crucial memory and 2x HD 4850 in crossfire.

    Weaknesses: Uses the little dated, but capable SB600 southbridge. But not a big issue for me.

    Overall Evaluation: I knew I wanted a 790FX board for my Phenom 9600 and future crossfire build. This one completely satisfied me. It is worth noting here that it comes with more connections/cables for every contingency. The manual is well written and MSI's website is very easy to navigate and useful. wonderful!!

  • Overall Rating
    4 stars 4 Star Review
    Reviewed by: bamboozled2

    Updated:06-05-08

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Stable. Booted right up and has run fine so far.

    Weaknesses: Chipset heatpipe too close to the main PCI-e slot.

    Overall Evaluation: Booted up fine then updated bios and has run smoothly and stable since. Have used a couple of MSI boards before an never had a problem one still in use to this day 15 years later. Got this at a pretty good deal but do have tot wait and a rebate. So far a quality product as usual that I have come to expect from MSI.

  • Overall Rating
    4 stars 4 Star Review
    Reviewed by: mattrg

    Updated:05-18-08

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Price, Reliable, Features, 790FX, Support for Phenoms, Good OC

    Weaknesses: RAID (see comments), Only 4 back-panel USBs (the rest you must connect)

    Overall Evaluation: This, so far, is a great board... after spending quite some time getting it to work properly. If you plan on using the SATA RAID with a SATA DVD, you will have some issues. Some people say to use the 2xPromise ports for the raid, but I found a better way. The Promise RAID is not as good, supporting only smaller stripe sizes. But if you use the ATI RAID, you must set all ATI SATA ports to RAID, and then cannot boot from CD. Which is the issue. Just temporarily hooking up a IDE DVD was the best solution I found. Btw, you'll need a floppy to load up the RAID drivers during Windows install if you plan on using XP. With Vista, you're fine, since it supports loading them off a CD or USB. Hope that helps some people, RAID can be tricky to get to work, but I have it running Vistax64 quite nicely finally. This board supposedly over clocks well too, although I have not tried this myself. Sys Specs: K9A2 Platinum AMD A64 X2 5000 A-DATA 2x2GB DDR2 800 2x Seagate 7200.11 ST3320613AS 320GB (Single Platter) in RAID0 1x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ 750GB

  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: davidhoops

    Updated:01-10-08

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: One of the best over clocking motherboards I have ever tested. Overclocking AMD 5000 Black safely at 3.4!!

    Weaknesses: Only compatible up to 8GB of DDR2. Gigabite is compatible up to 16GB of DDR2.

    Overall Evaluation: K9A2 Platinum Motherboard is one of the best motherboards that I gave ever tested. I\\\'m using and overclocked AMD 5000 Black with Dual Crossfire Radeon 3870 512MB and 4GB of OCZ Reaper DDR2 800 in a Cooler Master COSMOS 1000 and a Cooler Master Power Supply 850 watts. K9A2 Platinum Motherboard enable me not to only over clock my CPU but also my RAM and GPU with their very easy to use BIOS. I would recommend this motherboard to anybody who wants to achieve serious speed at a great cost. By the way I found this motherboard, but of couse through pricegrabber.com.

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MSI K9A2 Platinum Motherboard
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