MSI 890FXA-GD70 ATX AMD Motherboard

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What I can price is the tech assistance. I would get responses in a matter of a couple of hours. The replies were intelligent, thorough, and useful. And polite; that counts a lot. There is no drool tray for when you slobber all over this purty issue. So tuck a napkin under your chin or sumthin'. At the time of this writing ྡྷባቧ), this board does not help the best-of-the-line 1100T CPU. A Beta BIOS is offered but MSI advises you to check their CPU Assistance list to see what is officially supported.

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Effortless overclockingGood port placementCan turn off LEDs Runs slightly hot I'm running a 1090T overclocked to 4.1 GHz with barely growing the voltage. This boards begs to be overclocked.

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Lots of good attributes, rapidly, simple to use Had to be replaced after much less than a year. Really shody poor workmanship. This is the 1st board I can bear in mind getting to replace in more than 10 years. My earlier builds have been ASUS and ABIT and had completely no troubles other than 1 was a bit quirky. I had anticipated this build to final me a very extended time considering the cost I had paid and the supposed excellent of the components. There are not words to express how disappointed I was with this item and I can guarantee I will not contemplate MSI in the future when I go to upgrade such as I am getting to do now. For goodness sake and for your personal sanity stay away from this. Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Buyer,We would like to apologize for the challenge you have seasoned with this distinct mb. Please e mail me straight via usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial number and your full get in touch with info, subject heading "EAH890FXA". I would like to assist you get this resolved.Ideal Regards,User AssistanceMSI Product Help

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Awsome hardware help and future upgrade possibilities. Up 2133 Mhz memory, all AMD CPU assistance. Up to Quad X-fire or Qaud SLI. AMD or Intel the selection is yours. Two ethernet ports enables for world wide web and LAN to be set up without having ad on cards and with 10럼񲿘Mbps bandwith quite good. Couldnt locate the key to tap to enter bios upon startup in any of the manuals called MSI and its F11. Initial MSI board owned. With Intel it was F1 or, F2 Asus was F2, and this a single was various as properly. No biggie tho. AMD Phenom II Quad Overclocked Ɠ.91Ghz)MSI 890FXA GD-70 Mobo8GB Critical Ballistix Tracer 4Ʀ 1600MhzATI HIS 4890 1GB GDDR5 * 2 鿶 VPU 1050 MemoryꈜGB SATA 7200 6GB transferZalman CFA 9900 CPU coolerZalman ZF1000 * two VPU coolersUltra X3 1000Watt Modular PowerThermaltake Kandalf Super Tower all aluminum

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Board has a ton on inputs for multiple devices and supports a lot of expandability.Port places are all in the correct place. The only explanation I had to use any cable exts were due to the big case that I had.The OC application and monitoring computer software it came with are wonderful also. Can be applied by either non or experienced folks. Nothing so far. The computer software that comes with is a tiny out of date, but MSI has all the new ones quickly findable on their web-site. OC functions are fantastic and actually uncomplicated to use. No compatibility troubles either

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The nicest searching motherboard I've built in a while for confident.Wonderful design and style with so several pci express slots I adore it.Runs four 9500 GT video cards at 8X on every single slot.Runs the 6 core AMD 1100T flawlessly on newest bios.Registers all of my 16gb's of ram.Certainly gorgeous design awesome motherboard.Every thing is extremely high excellent even the product manuals and installation guides quite incredibly high good quality.Great board incredibly solid. When I updated to the newest bios I got error 38 soon after reading on it the code appears to be a problem for detecting video cards so right after I removed 3 of the cards began it back up and set the bios up again and right after I did that I installed the video cards once again and all worked well.It was a bit scary not generating it past the commence screen image and locked hard so you can't get in the bios but following I did what I listed above it's been running flawlessly and it didn't do any of this until I updated the bios.PCI EXPRESS SLOT two - 3 - 4 are incredibly close and my single 9500 gt's wouldn't run that close simply because the screw pattern on the back so this could be an concern if you strategy on utilizing all ports on the other hand if you're just employing four single cards and run them at 1 - two - four - 5 you won't have an concern and all cards will run at 8x. Every little thing is working great following the tiny scare of updating the bios and receiving code 38 on the boards LED.Immediately after the measures above almost everything has been flawless.

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Every thing I wanted, practically nothing I didn't. Incredibly sleek, plenty of room for a Crossfire VGA setup. None.

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very featureful. doesn't post with crossfire untill soon after bios update. boot with a single card, update, put the second a single in... straightforward. retention mount on the motherboard snapped after six months. yes, it snapped. heatsink was 900g.... not every little thing is military grade... watch what you buy.

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Constructed another system with this board and it operates flawlessly.16gb's of ramamd 6 core 1100Tfour 9500 GT video cardsSilverstone 800 power provideRuns every little thing flawlessly the only issue is right after the bios update you have to pull every single video card out to set the bios back up then shut it off and put the cards back in.Other than that it runs flawlessly.Incredibly quite strong board. none Fantastic!

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At stock settings the board is stable and speedy. Good layout and functions. Any try to overclock working with the biosƑ.7) or MSI manage center benefits in endless reboots and getting to reset cmos by jumper clear. I ran auto overclock utilizing handle center and a modest jump from 200 fsb to 207 fsb final results in failed overclock try. I am incredibly disappointed in this board, a genuine let down. I have been developing computer systems for 10 years and at this point I want I would have bought an Asus or Gigabyte board. I wish I could return it.

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Runs Cool. Fast. Plenty of added cables in Box. Phenom II X6 help. Recognizes all 16gb of my memory. Tight fit with video card more than Sata. Paid 200, now down to 159. Phenom II X6890 FXA-GD7016gb GSkill MemCorsair Per three 128gb SSD Sata IIIHitachi 2TB HD Sata IIIWD 1.5TB HD Sata IIMSI N460 GTX Hawk 1gb 256 bit VideoCardCorsair 750w 80 Silver Modular PS

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The whole Board. Simple setup, Bios a tiny difficult but easy enough to figure out. NONE This is the only DDR3 MB that has worked for me on the initially go. I have Purchased ASUS boards with no luck. MSI is my new firm to deal with.

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totally sexy seeking board, wonderful spacing of the 16x lanes for xfire so the cards aren't correct on leading of every single other, steady and simple to configure bios. setting up Raid was a small difficult. make positive just before you set up raid you read the On the net manual as the one it comes with doesnt show you how to do it. but all the drivers you need to have are on the msi cd. for windows 7 use the w74a drivers not w7. Build򍷢t @ four.5ghz h70 cpu coolerMSI 890FX-GD708gb Gskill ripjawsxƔgbx2 blackƜ Sapphire 6970's (black and chrome onesƜ WD caviar black 500gb hdd's in raid01000w Kingwin energy supply.

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Great overclockability Tonnes of BIOS capabilities in Cell MenuIndicator lightsDebug codes on boardTemperatures when benchmarking, gaming, and priming are as anticipated. Place of Debug codes only make it ideal for testing purposes only - would rather have Pc speaker connected and leave out the debug codes as they don't aid a lot anyways Contrary to my prior critique, I have concluded that this board is wonderful at its price tag point. One particular of the reasons why I chose this board was the maximum RAM speed assistance and price tag versus the ASUS crosshair 4. For these who've grown weary of ASUS, MSI's flavour is absolutely worth a try. First MSI board I've owned and I most probably will acquire their merchandise in the future.

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Constructed an additional a single with this board and it performs just as flawlessly as the rest.This time I've utilised five video cards EVGA gt430's to be exact and all worked excellent as anticipated.This is a great motherboard general with excellent memory,cpu and graphics card help.A should buy for several graphics card on a AMD system. none. Buy ! Acquire ! Purchase! :D

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This is an superb mainboard and MSI did the product packaging suitable. The normal cables, I/O panel, and so on. are all there, and they've integrated a nice poster identifying all those tiny connectors for audio, front-panel LEDs, switches, etc. The included application is also clever and functional, updating itself to the most up-to-date version with ease, and enabling you to tweak just about something. The on-board LEDs might be a little overboard for some customers, but they can be deactivated.

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The board looks seriously good in most instances, given that the majority of situations are black, the giants MOSFET heatsink is nice and doesn't get in the way of the Noctua NH-D14, it has dual PCIe 2. x16 lanes at full speed with a lot of space among them so you don't have to water cool, my last ASUS board had the PCIe so close the cards couldn't breathe. There is no Load Line Calibration Enable/Disable, if it's "Built-in" then i would be ashamed to admit it. I purchased this board with the intent to overclock, i paid well over 赨 for this, and the usualy board of competition was out of stock. Quite a few critiques stated the board overclocked 1090t's to 4.2ghz+, even though we all know every chip is differant, the chip is not the issue, nor is the Power supply. The voltage this board distributes is inconsistant at best, involving load and idle there is a entire .50v differance, if that isn't poor sufficient, the voltage set in the BIOS is always a lot more or much less than what you're aiming for, causing instibility on really light overclocks. It's a excellent board, don't get me incorrect, you CAN hit four.2ghz+ as i have performed, but figuring this board out is exactly where you commence to disrespect it, alot of persons buy ASUS, or other brands so the BIOS is additional familiar to them, this is like buying a foreign automobile in america back in the early 1900's and asking a person to operate on it, it's just completly differant with -some- similarities.for the record, you have to off-set CPU-VDD and CPU Voltage as a manual LLC configuration, and that requires you to figure out given that each and every powersupply will deliver differant amp's and voltages.AMD Phenom II x6 1090t @ four.2ghz | CPU-NB 2800mhz | HTT Link 2600mhz4GB RipJaw 1333 7-7-7-21 RAMDual Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 O.C @ 850񳂠Noctua NH-D14

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-five PCI-E!!!-OC genie is good-ran right out of the box, assembled anything in significantly less than an hour -for a 赨 board, SLI assistance would have been nice-want there was a lot more SATA ports, but im just picky sick board, but would have Seriously liked this board to support each SLI and crossfire, especially at the 赨 price tag point

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Have no complaints so far. Utilised this for my initial develop a month ago and everything went smoothly! All my parts work nicely with it with no difficulties! None

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lots of ports, north bridge heat sink, cool software program included, the auto overclock genie is cool, this board is a beast non so far this board is really uncomplicated to function with