[Grey Wolf]

I actually miss my old KT333. MSI makes better mainboards than Soltek....

[diamondgeezer]

This nForce2 board is giving me nowt but grief. Sure it gives me a few more points on my 3D Mark over the Via version I used to have, but the gameport on my SB refuses to work and my USB is somewhat wobbly. And it cost me several pounds more than the Via version

[Admiral LSD]

Serves you right for buying Asus

My 8RDA+ hasn't given me a shred of trouble the entire time I've had it.

[diamondgeezer]

Serves me right for taking advice from the self-declared experts on this board, I reckon

[mikhael]

Ignore Admiral LSD. He's a techie-freak. Gotta have every nifty gadget ever.

I tend to stick with a tight cluster of hardware: Asus, Abit, Gigabyte (for budget stuff) and Tyan (for cheap, reliable scsi controllers). The only grief I ever took on any of these boards was trying to find them without integrated peripherals (give up these days) and an annoying tendancy by Gigabyte to put tall caps right at the upper right corner of a board. In small cases, this can lead to a cap getting knocked off by a CDRom drive.

[Odyssey]

[color=cc9900]I've got an MSI motherboard, completely knocked a capacitor off the top of the motherboard when putting a CD drive in. Can only put a CD drive in one slot because of them. Thing is, I just stuck the capacitor back on its pins again and it worked fine. Other than that, no problems with the motherboard at all, not even with the onboard sound.[/color]

[kode]

the only problem I _had_ with my MSI board I have now was the placement of the IDE connectors in combination with the ridiculously small case I got stuck with. The problem was that there was no room to put the cd drive where I wanted it.

I solved it by getting a dvd/cdrw combo that was a lot shorter than the old cdrw.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I have an Abit NF7, it has built on sound which is pretty great IMHO, sure it's no audigy but it really works well for what I need it to do. The built on NIC is good too.
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[Grey Wolf]

I wish I had that new MSI K8T NEO-FISR.....
(and the A64 3200+ and Mushkin Level II Black PC3500 RAM to go with it )