K7T Turbo-R

MSI K7T-Turbo is a fantastically stable motherboard. Since I have bought my computer in may this year I haven't had a single problem with this motherboard. Layout is simply great leaving you enough place for a big CPU heat sink. There are 4 USB and 6 PCI outlets. One drawback is that there is no ISA outlet on the board. Performance is quite good compared with other boards with VIA KT133A chipset. I guess it is a bit slower than Abit K7T but MSI wins it on stability. I haven't tested overclocking yet and cannot leave my opinion on this matter. New BIOS drivers come out every month aproximately. There is no need not to be happy with this ...  Read the complete review

Microstar are the best motherboard manufacturer around, you can take my word for it, I'm a Computer technician. They are the most reliable motherboards I have come across. I have always used microstar boards at home and I have never once had a problem. This particular board is well designed and comes complete with an onboard IDE raid controller allowing you to connect upto 8 IDE devices to your system. Also it has onboard VIA ac97 sound, although not great, for simple sounds its perfect. If you use audio a lot and like good quality sound then I suggest you buy a seperate sound card. The board also comes with a USB riser which gives you an extra 2 usb ports to go with the ...  Read the complete review

This is perhaps my favourite motherboard made my MSI. I think it is cool just because of the RAID support, but there are so many things that make this a great board. I actually own this board's predecessor the K7T Pro-2A which is very stable and overclockable, but the Turbo takes the cake by far. Personnaly I have seen a 1Ghz AXIA chip run stable at 1525Mhz on this one. This board theoretically will support AMD Athlon's up to 1.7 Ghz so it is ready for the future. I have seen only a couple problems with this board as of yet, but are not inherent to the motherboard, but to the chipset. The VIA chipset housed on this board has some ...  Read the complete review