MSI 785GTM-E45 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

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Had all the ports/slots that I wanted.The Realtek HD audio is wonderful!The Drivers have been quite uncomplicated to set up and didnt need more than ten minutes.Nice colour for the motherboard. none at all. not genuinely a con, but if you want to upgrade your RAM ultimately you could want to get another board, hence the two RAM slots. I really like it! It replaced a Gigabyte 1 that was DOA, Im glad I made the switch to MSI

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I am quite pleased with MSI merchandise. I have a K9A2 Platinum in my create at home. I utilised this board in a make that I did for some household members. I know they will be pleased. To quote what another guy wrote about the 790FX-GD70, " The colors are great and it doesn't appear like a paintball accident." I haven't identified any but. Far Cry2 is one of the coolest games. I like it, mainly because I can create maps and host them. Total pwnage. Far more games ought to offer you this function.

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Extremely Cheap. Board is quite trustworthy when drivers are operating. I am a Personal computer tech and develop hundreds of computer systems for my customers month-to-month I have always loved this board when creating a small business unit. Recently in the last couple weeks I have had hundreds of clients calling me with claims of BSOD issues. I have linked this issue straight with the present drivers on the ati website for the 4200 HD card. I have contacted ati and have been told more than and over that it is not the graphics card. In each and every instance of BSOD, the issue was fixed by reverting the updated drivers back to the original drivers. This is clearly a Driver issue and ATI will not repair it. If you obtain this board, you will get a BSOD, I guarantee you. If any ATI / MSI reps are browsing this forum please respond to what I have written and get in contact with me.Been a tech for more than 15 years, developing and repairing all units. Do not acquire this board till these driver difficulties are fixed.12.19.ten Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Consumer,We would like to apologize for the concern you have skilled with this particular mb. Please e-mail me directly by means of usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial quantity and your complete contact information, topic heading "EAH785GTM". I would like to help you get this resolved.Ideal Regards,User AssistanceMSI Product Help

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It looked marvelous and showed promise. I'm pretty sure Fisher Price is MSI's only competitor. The board would not recognize any USB peripherals. As I was making use of this board to develop a NAS, I intended to boot the Ubuntu installation off of a thumb drive (thereby not needing a CDROM). That didn't definitely work out. Now I'm afraid I'm going to be sent an inferior product even after the RMA. I'm sorry ASUS. I'll never cheat on you with a little taiwanese boy with palsy's loving manufacturing operate once more. Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Client,We would like to apologize for the situation you have knowledgeable with this distinct mb. Please e mail me straight by way of usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial number and your comprehensive contact details, topic heading "EAH785GTM". I would like to support you get this resolved.Most desirable Regards,User SupportMSI Solution Help

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* Radeon HD 4200 IGP defaulted to 200Mhz 2D, 500MHz max. Manual max at stock-voltage was around 740MHz.* Has physical clear-CMOS-jumper alternatively of finky Dual BIOS, and so forth characteristics.* BIOS gives little VCORE and FREQ measures.* supports AMD OverDrive for CPU info and tuning, but MSI Afterburner far better on IGP information.* SB710 supports ACC, enabling unlocking disabled Phenom II cores.* ISL6323A VCORE PWM controller offers .0125V measures.* RightMark Audio Analyzer 16b 44.1k on ALC888S was Great, Excellent, Great, Quite Fantastic, Extremely Fantastic, Quite Fantastic, Incredibly Excellent, but falls apart above 44.1kHz. Use 24b 44.1k for optimum good quality.* 6x SATA face out rather up into expansion PCIe/PCI cards. No need to have for left-angle SATAs which seem mislabeled by some brands...* COM1 header supports 115.2kbps.* Operates in Win7 64bit.* In a technique, it can be usable but nonetheless low power at the wall [lowest was 41W idle with tuned Phenom II (C2) X4 (Black) @ 1.6GHz, no DVD drive, two quiet 120mm fans ࿫% eff, SS * Supports 125W_DC TDP via CPU list, but restricted to around 90W_DC by poor thermals on VCORE power circuitry.* USB header pin ten is generally no-connect, but is tied to USB overcurrent (detect). USB OC is normally active-low, and pins 5 and 10 of USB front panel connectors are commonly shield/ground/low...* DDR2 is getting phased out of production so prices will enhance throughout 2010.* No S/PDIF digital audio external connector or mainboard header.* But general analog audio high quality is below average.* Only 1x three-pin fan header apart from four-pin PWM CPU fan header.* No Sideport memory, so beneath typical for most �-2009 games at 1280x1024 and max good quality even with northbridge IGP overclocked (IGP is HT restricted).* BIOS updates through Windows...I suppose, hold a clean base image just for updating the BIOS...* Changing BIOS settings like voltages, and so forth "feels" odd compared to other BIOSes. DX10.1 4200 is like HD 3450 with superior video decode&accel but worse RAM B/W. DXVA works in MPC (X4 1.6GHz): ɝ%CPU on 1080p H.264/AVC. IGPﯴMHz༙% w/DXVA, or 100% &jerky w/sharpening. Idleკ.5W w/ DXVA, მ.5W w/o DXVA. Sharpening: ო.five & ტ.5W. 1080p may well perform with sharpening, but 720p is comfy. An O/Cd IGP loses low-power added benefits.With prime95 for weeks, the VCORE energy circuitry was extremely hot even as low as 90W_DC TDP, but substantially worse upto around 130W_DC TDP. At either load, the mainboard was helped by Enzotech 10pcs BMR-C1 ྫ including HD-Audio CODEC), 5pcs MOS-C10 heatsinks on the power circuitry, and fan directly above the heatsinks (at 130W_DC they were about 133*F, 56*C beneath prime95). A lot more than a 90W_DC TDP CPU, even with heatsinks and fan would be poor lengthy-term.I don't remember seeing a Fintek F71882FG SuperIO ahead of, but it appears to work. SpeedFan can talk to it as well.

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good function set..stable..am3 assistance..onboard graphic good for backup only.. two fan headersbsod's with onboard graphics but thats a drivers problem not the mobo..cant adjust voltage.. runs my ram and cpu voltage just a hair over stock not a challenge but its weird..

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This mobo worked excellent out of the box with my two.5ghz AM2 dual core processor. It has been five months now and it nevertheless runs excellent. None We use it to watch Television and films through NetFlix, Hulu and other internet sites such as TNT, CBS, and so on. Our 720p 32" Television is connected straight to the HDMI port and it works wonderful. Now we are going to add an AverMedia A188 card and start recording OTA. We had cable Tv but it was crazy how a lot you pay for Tv programming. Besides the local channels by means of OTA look so a lot greater than when viewed more than cable.

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Affordable, free of charge shipping, stable with an AMD X2 550 BE (no overclock or unlocked cores). All USB and SATA ports working, and not terrible onboard audio(HDMI audio performs!) or video (ATI 4200) is always a plus. This board has the capacity to unlock Got it for 59.99 and free shipping, thanks Newegg. The board didn't auto recognize my G.Skill DDR2 at 1066, but quickly fixed in bios. No other hardware associated issues and nothing to knock off an egg for. Fresh install of XP with no problems. I can't wait to unlock the 550 to extend the life of this rig, but it's not required correct now.

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Uncomplicated to setup, worked immediately with my processor (Phenom X4 9750). Essentially ran cooler on this board than my earlier one particular. A lot of upgrade choices considering that it supports AM3 processors. Great choice for an HTPC. Shipped with existing BIOS Ƙ.2). No eSata; no sideport memory -- though I knew this going in, so it's not a surprise. I am very satisfied with this board, and MSI in general. I have 2 MSI boards at the moment, and both are winners (including this one particular). I have attempted Asus and Gigabyte, but simply have had far better luck with the MSI offerings, specifically in the HTPC arena.As far as the eSata miss -- I just bought a sata to eSata connector bracket. Issue solved, ŭ bucks on a well-liked auction web site. It would be nice to have it on board, but this is no longer an issue for me.

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Stable, rapidly, integrated HD GPU, Straightforward Install, and Built-In Overclocking up to 20% LAN driver I had to replace a new ASUS mobo due to it constantly powering down. I only place this MSI mobo in with identical exact hardware and got faster and more stable functionality. On the other hand, MSI always has an challenge with LAN drivers so be cautious if you set up on a LAN.

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When I bought this, it was a fantastic value for the tech involved. It has all the ports I wanted, except for e-SATA which was not a deal breaker but would have been good. The manual is above average for a spending budget board, they truly are lousy these days. Even so the manual will not inform you how to get the most out of your mobo.I like the msi reside utility in windows, it performs properly. MSI is a trusted organization for me.Seems to be high quality components, the caps and heatsinks are nice except the southbridge has a normal light aluminum HS, but does a fine job maintaining the technique temp cool. The northbridge HS is robust. As other folks have pointed out its a very aesthetically pleasing board, would be nice for a windowed case. All round, a winner in my opinion. The BIOS is a funky beast, I hope they update soon. The board I just bought has the only BIOS accessible Ƙ.), so I don't believe its been upgraded however. At times the BIOS just locks up, like when seeking at the CPU specs (MMX, etc).(?) Often a soft reboot will restart, occasionally a hard reboot is needed. NOt precisely the way I want to exit the BIOS!Difficulty in navigating the BIOS menu, I don't really care for the AMI BIOS in common. I have not been successful in my attempts to unlock my Sargas 140, I only mention this mainly because the board utilizes the ancient CMOS jumper to reset BIOS and you have to reset every little thing just about every time. Most of the boards I've used in the last 3 years have the capability to restore BIOS settings following a failed post. For a new board, this is disappointing.There may possibly be a workaround involving a USB drive, but it should be formatted making use of fat or fat32. ugh It seems probably that if you employ 1066Mhz memory the board will default to 800Mhz speed. I struggled for some time with adjusting the speed, I was finally in a position to do so by setting the FSB/Dram ratio to 1Ɇ.66. Not the way most AMD boards do it but ok.Also the voltages ARE adjustable in BIOS. They don't seem to be so simply because they are grayed out, but if you scroll down to them you can use the +/- to adjust. I set up WHS on the motherboard, but got BSOD's every time. I had to adjust the ram back to 800 speed and the install went as it should. Quirky but overall a good spending budget board, if you have a bit of encounter. I suggest this for sophisticated customers hunting for a deal on 785G. AMD Sargas 140this boardOCZ Reaper 1066 memTheramltake 430 W PSUWD Grren 500GB

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It boots, it came on time. I have been a buyer of Newegg given that 2002 and they have been great to deal with. Front Side Bus Multiplier only goes up to 11X.The CPU that I bought is stock with an 11X multiplierThe board I am replacing is an Abit board that went to a 18X FSB multiplier. You can only step up the FSB by 20% by way of dip switch which is seriously lame. If you are looking for overclocking possible look else exactly where. I don't like overclocking through software . Go for a Gigabyte or Asus that has some possible for a decent overclock. 1st and final MSI product

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Modest board with a lot of connections. It supports a great quite a few AMD chips (a veritable army of selections), and in my case it operates completely with my old Phenom X4 9600.Don't be discouraged by the onboard chip, it functions effectively and unless you're arranging on gaming it's fantastic. If you want to game there's a 16x PCI express slot readily available. The essential thing which tends to make this a pro is that it's best for small tight instances exactly where acquiring the added card with the added heat is not an solution. This is a near excellent board for HTPC setups.MSI tools are really excellent. They don't get enough praise but imo very easily outshine Asus.Operates completely with Linux. Only 2 memory slots.Onboard Graphics card could be far better I also decided to go straight linux with this box which I'm making use of for streaming audio and video to my property theater system and it operates like a charm. I was certain prior to I bought this that I'll want to upgrade to a committed gfx card but right after putting in Ubuntu ten.10 on it everything works like a charm at 1920x1080.

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~Two easy OverClock switches above the PCI-E X1***~A lot of other possibilities for OverClocking.~An selection to unlock cores if you want to attempt but it's not generally a higher percentage of operating.Ӳ SATA ports, much more then sufficient for me. ~NONE. ***Running a AMD II X2 250; Depending on the three choices you have each 5% enhance raises it .2 GHz 20% being three.6GHz.

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Built a program with this for a buyer, i have an ASUS 785 so i trust the AMD architecture. It's a good board. I got it in a genuinely very good combo deal, which is the only purpose i got it actually, i prefer at least 4-slots for RAM, whether or not the process is for me, household, or a customer. Aids future proof a little for upgrades.Onboard graphics is under no circumstances going to be the ideal, but ATI's have the greatest onboard I've observed as of late. Operates great on sims3 and Globe of Warcraft, at least; which is the a single game my client asked me to install for them. Regular tasks are about the very same, screen saver, youtube, HDmovies. If you use this board for gaming an addon Graphics Card would be much desired. Only came with 1-sata cable. I more sad about this than anything. I'm so employed to board coming with at least 2, i didn't bother to examine how a lot of it came with. I had to purchase an added and tag on four much more bucks to my clients original invoice i quoted to them, which isn't horrible, just bothers me. two sata cables is not so challenging to include things like.forgot to make a video review D: MSI AM3/AM2+/AM2 785Althon II x4 two.9Ghz AM32x2 DDR2 1066 Ram640G WD sata II HDLG Sata DVD burner

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This board does specifically what I will need it to, and does it without having issue. All characteristics (that I've attempted so far) operate as they must. Plenty of headers for every thing, great placement of SATA connections, in case you have a lengthy GPU and the rear ports are adequate. Help for just about any AMD chip you can get is excellent. Installed Windows 7 RTM just fine employing a 3.0ghz AMD Regor 250 cpu and 4gbs of Gskill. I'll be able to upgrade the cpu simply. The color even matches almost everything else in my program, thought that's hardly a valid judging point. Just a bonus. You can use DDR2 ram, which is nevertheless a bit less expensive than DDR3, and you might have some from one more build lying around. That tends to make this a excellent backup/replacement board even though also affording you a decent upgrade path. Needs a couple much more fan headers, and at least two much more USB ports on the rear I/O panel to best it off. It would also be really good to see four Ram slots instead of just two, although if you're developing a program that's going to will need eight or much more g's of ram you'll be seeking at a larger finish MB. A 2nd SATA cable would be thoughtful, since you can't quickly install an OS onto a hdd in a new build with no both hooked up, but most of us have a spare lying around. These aren't major challenges, and the cpu assistance, along with the smooth set up/performance so far, is nicely worth a fiveǛ for me. In particular at this price tag!NOTE: If you're attempting to get into the bios, hold the "delete" essential when you see the MSI splashscreen on startup, following. The fan headers and usb ports are a fairly minor thing, but I gave it fiveǛ due to the fact it's a fantastic product and has just a pinch of wiggle room for any meaninful improvement. If they added these two products it would be a massive cherry on top rated.Thanks Newegg for acquiring it to me rapid, as usual. And thanks to MSI for making a decent item at a decent value! Would I get it once again? Hell yeah I would.

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has all the features i required right after about a month of use. i can no longer do anthing but surf internet any load crashes comp. hyper transport flood error . i swaped out cpus and each other componet. got to be the board.was told a capisitor probly failed i have usually utilized msi boards,no massive deal ill get a replacement

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was a wonderful board whilst it lasted (see other overview) Dunno what happened. just stopped booting. switched over all other components to yet another motherboard and worked fine, no choice but to blame the motherboard. figures itd die 2 days soon after the 30 day warrenty from newegg expired. hope MSI is friendly.

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Killer combo deal with X2 555 none Purchased elsewhere but content with board general, operating with 8800gt 512mb and 2gb kingston1066 pulled 16200 3dmark06 score!! Not bad for spending budget board with cpu unlocked to four cores operating 3600mhz!

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Low cost and ati 4200 Wouldnt boot up with two sticks of ram and is sata ports are in a horrible location. Never ever will acquire MSI

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Fairly fast My friend presented to assemble my laptop or computer for me, he did a great job and it worked just fine, but this motherboard said it supported a split monitor and it is not working for me. I know my know-how with computers is incredibly limited but I asked him to take a look at it and he had no luck either. I bought the adapter and it hasn't worked, even attempted a unique adapter. I will likely have to send it back. Disappointed, my initially expertise with Newegg.com and MSI in which each of these firms/producers have left me feeling like I wasted 踰 (just in parts of course) for a new pc that does not assistance 2 monitors (which was the most important purpose I even bought a new computer, so now it sits to the side. Wonderful). Just disappointed by each of these.

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Good MB for the value and plenty of energy (when it was alive), I purchased the open box of this motherboard back in Oct 2010, its now twoት and i am with no a computer system, A capacitor at the bottom of the board leaked out and fried my board :( began smoking and died... scared me, my only believed was what if this would have occurred when i was asleep. luckily it occurred appropriate immediately after operate... Can not RMA due to Open Box policy, though the MB and accessories were untouched and sealed... Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Consumer,We would like to apologize for the problem you have skilled with this particular mb. Please email me straight via usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial quantity and your full make contact with information, subject heading "EAH785GTM". I would like to help you get this resolved.Best Regards,User SupportMSI Item Assistance

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Cool overclocking attributes (not that they worked). Supposedly the greatest IGP out there (not that that worked, either).Also, Newegg's shipping was great, as constantly. Like you guys. Pleased New Year! Properly, let's see... For starters, I was not able to run my 1066MHz-rated RAM on this 1066MHz-rated mobo at 1066MHz. I had to run it at 800MHz. And yes, I Memtested. Secondly, overclocking did not operate properly. Even though the BIOS would see my CPU at 2.9GHz, any operating system I loaded would see it at the stock two.6GHz. That was sort of a bummer.Thirdly, the IGP is a discomfort. I had some critical complications with it while trying to run my RAM at the advertised 1066MHz speed. Blue screens, all more than. Furthermore, and most frustrating, is the reality that after using it for a handful of days, it fried my monitor more than a VGA cable. A VGA cable... that's ridiculous. Now my monitor does not function, nor does my motherboard. I'm certain I just got a defunct unit. That doesn't modify the fact that I now have 1 less monitor (which just occurred to be my principal display). I bought this mobo since of all of the other wonderful evaluations. DO NOT Less MY MISFORTUNE Transform YOUR Acquiring Decision. NO MATTER WHAT YOU Buy, YOU WILL Often RUN THE Danger OF Receiving A DEFUNCT UNIT.

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Board seemed Ok even though it was running Could not get the USB ports to work. Reloaded drivers and anything showed OK ,but every time I plugged in a flash drive got an error message saying it wasn't there. Even got a PCI USB card and it would not operate either. Finally gave up and returned the board Consider I'l stick with Gigibyte boards.

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Not precisely DOA. Did (kind of) boot. NewEgg Client Help. Never ever acknowledged the PS2 kb or mouse. Was never ever capable to get into bios. Tried out of box build, nevertheless no go. RMA with shipping on my dime. Second board, very same signs and symptoms, but this time did boot out of box. Fixed some grounding, booted once then video died. No video even with a video card. RMA once again, but NewEgg sent me a label. This was portion of a combo deal, so even after reading the evaluations I was willing to take a opportunity. NewEgg help is the best! Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Client,We would like to apologize for the problem you have knowledgeable with this certain mb. Please e mail me directly by means of usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial number and your complete make contact with facts, topic heading "EAH785GTM". I would like to help you get this resolved.Finest Regards,User SupportMSI Product Assistance