MSI 785GTM-E45 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

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update on the rma i received so i get the rma, get the hdmi working following substantially fuss, then go to reboot ***no signal to monitor*** soon after a handful of rounds of the same i'm carried out with this board.... have built many,several systems so i am not new to thisi can honestly say i am accomplished with msi (shoulda stayed with gigabyte

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I build a lot of machines for friends and neighborhood company. The 1 big factor that I like about this board is the strong caps. It does have a few non-strong caps on it, but they are not genuinely in a high threat/temp location and could trigger an concern down the road. This board has every thing on it other than firewire which most of the individuals I build a pc for don't want so that is okay. I tend to bounce around with motherboards from MSI, to Asus, and occasionally gigabyte. Usually I go with MSI since of the excellent in the board. no firewire, but seriously not a large issue. These boards operate well with Adata memory. I have not tried any other brand as of however, but I do have some wintec memory coming, but I don't see any issues. I have not built quite a few gameing machines so I am not certain about the overclocking potential of this board or what it is capable of in games. It makes a very good operating workplace system for the specs.

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price. 785G. lots of video out options. overclocking tools available. supports dual displays. none really. have these in five small business builds operating 32-bit windows 7 pro. it's been about a year. no complications so far. it's seriously great that you can run dual monitors. commonly i have to add a ~贄 graphics card if a person desires that. working with it in much more builds this year. considering that it's not a household or house theater machine i have not tested the overclocking features or the advanced audio capabilities.

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Almost everything went in effectively, got all elements hooked up, booted suitable up. Installed OS and applications devoid of incident. This was for a relatively spending budget construct, so I did not try overclocking. So far so fantastic......except for a single problem(see Cons) Runs good, but motherboard temp sensor stubbornly reads high. Within minutes of booting, MB temp runs to C. Processor temp reads 33C, Phenom Core 1 16C, P/S 28C and HDD 30 C. Making use of an 18" table fan brings MB temp reading to 92C, processor down to 27C. Core 14C, P/S 23C and HDD 25C. Really most likely, it is a malfunctioning MB temp sensor, but I don't really feel comfy about giving the personal computer to a person else. I found out about the sensor reading really a while right after I bought the MB, due to the fact I didn't get about to installing it for a although, so RMA'ing was out of the question. Knocking off 1 star for this problem. MSI 785GTM-E45, AMD Phenom X3 8450 򜰴 Mhz, two x 1024 MB DDR2 OCZ High Overall performance Dual-channel kit, OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ600MXSP 600W, SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA, Asus DRW-1814BL, Windows XP SP3.

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This board is a excellent board. I had no troubles with doa or any failures and appears to overclock great. Only poor factor is I feel I have the wrong chipset?? I have to amd id9601?? not the 785 and the southbridge is ati 750 not 710???? A buddy purchased the similar board and unlocked his phenom ii x2b555. So i got the identical board and cpu and have issues and it looks like all the chips are diffrent. Anyhelp :( Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Buyer,We would like to apologize for the concern you have knowledgeable with this certain mb. Please email me straight via usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial number and your full get in touch with information, subject heading "EAH785GTM". I would like to support you get this resolved.Greatest Regards,User HelpMSI Product Help

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Great when it worked. Soon after three months now it won't post. Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Buyer,We would like to apologize for the matter you have experienced with this distinct mb. Please e-mail me directly via usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial number and your total contact info, subject heading "EAH785GTM". I would like to assist you get this resolved.Very best Regards,User AssistanceMSI Product Help

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I like the 785 chipset normally - works fine right here. This is one particular of the 785's that supports DDR2 and two PSǘ external devices (the move toward only one PSǘ connection can be inconvenient. I like that there is a PCIx x1 slot - that gets dropped out on a number of boards. For those preparing on a high finish GPU, the front facing SATA ports can be a plus. Board layout is not all that good. The front panel headers are in a location exactly where you seriously need to connect things prior to installing the board. The front facing SATA ports mean it is much less difficult to cable ahead of installing the board. The manual is a bit much more obscure than other people (and sadly that's saying a lot as manual writing is an increasingly lost art). I'd choose an 8 pin ATX power connector and four memory slots, but this board is not intended for overclockers and high finish systems. The Overclock dipswitch for FSB Ɛ%, ზ%, მ%, რ%) is a bit of an odd strategy. I got this board as part of a combo from a neighborhood retailer that often does interesting pricing (in this case essentially the board was no cost with a competitively priced AMD 955).

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the board will self adjust voltage to processor if you transform values on fsb. it's magic! it freaks out if i have my western digital externa difficult drive plugged into usb. hangs on boot untill i unplug and reboot. no probs then. weird. took my triple core phenom to 3. ghz and board automaticly upped the vcore by.1 volt. now my 710 runs stable and cool at three. ghz at 1.35 vcore.

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Decent mobo for the price tag, lots of featires, pretty rapid capacity 4 FB RAM, only2 slots Very speedy delivery, straightforward installation

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Wonderful overclocking features which are simple to use. Works ideal with the AM3 CPU. MSI have completed it!!! I use an amd PII X4 925 2.8 overclocked to 3.. Temp stays under 27c Have to update the bios before to the lasted ahead of operating properly. Use an AMD AM2+ CPU to update the bios if not confident how to do prior to installation. Difficult to maintain a 125w cpu cool unless you acquire the new amd 100% copper heatsink. Use a cpu up to 95w max.

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very good entry level board, great for standard computing and even moderate gaming( with an proper video card of course ) Put two computers together with these, one for me 1 for my brother. The one particular that had complications was the one particular for my brother which I had sent overseas(Scotland) Immediately after trying to troubleshoot his sync flood error troubles to no avail I had him bring it back when he visited. Soon after searching it more than I noticed that those clowns at MSI had set the two microswitches (used for overclocking) to complete overclock ྴ%) Switched them back to exactly where they really should have been set from the factory(no overclock) and every little thing has been fine ever due to the fact(about five months) Why do they even have microswitches for overclocking when you can do it by means of the bios? Hope this aids someone out there with the exact same challenge.

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boots up appropriate awayACC feature unlocked my low cost sempron 140 to Athlon X2 4400e stableCPU OCed to 3.6Ghz 鵋X13.five) stableMemory OCed to 1066Mhztemp about 40 degree non so far good board with fantastic characteristics

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Feature wealthy, hdmi, 785g chipset, 710 southbridge. I gave it 5 eggs, but actually wanted to give it 4.5 I got it for ๋ shipped and for that price tag i consider it does its job nicely enough for a very good rating. Can\'t manually adjust chipset, memory, cpu voltages -- unless there is a way to unlock them. they are set to auto and greyed out. I ordered this motherboard with an amd 550 be with the hopes that it would unlock to a quad core. it unlocks but then wont boot into windows even with a low two.4ghz clock speed. This motherboard automatically bumps up the voltage with the FSB and you dont have the potential to manually set voltages in the bios unless im missing a thingI have my multiplier set to 16x and my fsb to 230 -- which isnt a bad overclock -- but i couldnt get the computer system to even boot at 240fsb with a lower multiplier. (to overclock my memory) even my ECS ic780 would do that...

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Superb item! Works terrific. none Discount the rebate! MSI seems to not honor their rebates. Newegg partners with them by advertising a rebate that I, and almost certainly they, suspect will by no means materalize. Google MSI and their rebate program. Brings their integrity into question.

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Great searching board ,everything seems to be layed out genuine good,booted proper up for me working with vista residence prem 32bit,For now im making use of the onboard graphics and it actually functions fairly well,played WOW at 60FPS.I will be obtaining a card soon tho. when I tried to install the drivers that came with the board win would freeze up when using automobile run exe, So I identified the graphics driver on the CD and immediately after I installed it the automobile run worked fine. This board is working well for me im content with it, I was able to unlock all 4 cores in the bios on my Callisto 550 but wasnt able to boot up so ill just have to be content with dual core...reside update was uncomplicated.

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this is the second one of these that I have purchased from the Egg! Wonderful board, straightforward to configure, HDMI, and looks great. These boards also support ACC for unlocking cores in the AMD x2 Phenoms, (although chips will vary). ATI 4200 was very easy to set up running the newest Catalyst drivers. Not a factor so far. Great board with a ton of BIOS alternatives! Incredibly reasonable priced for the stated possibilities. Just supports a single video card, but with currently's great video cards; is CrossfireX or SLI actually a will need? If one is employing this as I have for a second HTPC system, it works excellent. Has the onboard HDMI for great image excellent and sound!

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Bouth it for my residence teather, rapid mobo setup, oc jumpers are excellent, effortless to get 4th core on AMD BE CPUs, onboard video 񢫨) plays BDs and common DVDs and some games. Conected to my 42" HD Westinghouse 1080p monitor. Tv imediatly indentified as hdmi 1080p input. Amd Phenom II 720 wǚth core enabled, four GB Patriot ddr2 1066, HD: 2X WD 16OGB Raid program, 1x Wd Green 640GB single raid storage, LG BD dvd, 512 shared video memory, Coarsair 8GB Prepared Boost USB flash stick. If you want to use double width PCIe video card, you can not have a PCI sound card. It blocks air flow to video card. Did'nt let me set Wd green 640GB Sata2 up as Raid Ư. I hope future Bios update will do that. You get what you paid for. It is not a high finish game mobo, but it does everythig else, and it does it excellent. I will purchase another any time if I want 1.

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This is a wonderful little board. I wanted some thing smaller than the full ATX board I was working with and this genuinely fit the bill. It's got a great chipset, although I have not tried the onboard video.Onboard sound is outstanding.It has six *well positioned* SATA ports (why do they insist on pointing them straight toward the apparent place for a video card anyway??).The heatsinks are nicely thought out and not in the way. I use a Sapphire HD4870 card with a significant aftermarket cooler and have no clearance issues of any kind. I was shocked at the speed of this board. I just replaced an ASUS M4A79 Deluxe with this board, all other hardware is the very same, no software adjustments even, and there is a perceivable raise in the speed that programs open and in tough drive access occasions. Only two RAM slots, but I was only employing two anyway. By the time I want to upgrade to 8GB of memory, 4GB RAM sticks will be low-cost. No eSATA, but I can add that with a low-cost add-on card. This board even looks excellent. It is going in a custom scratchbuilt case, which I've spent nicely more than a hundred hours on now, and the black and gray setup is best. Now I don't even have to cover it up. (Unlike the Asus I replaced.)

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fantastic value did not perform and I ordered two of the exact same mother board the very first did not come with any cables and the second did but did not work at all either.

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Functions great with Unix/FreeBSD. A lot of SATA channels Ɩ). Has built-in RAID, despite the fact that I don't use it. Plenty of USB ports too. None that I've identified so far. I got this board over a year ago to rebuild my FreeNAS sytem. It has worked great for me and I've had no issues with it. I noticed that a number of people had been giving the board negative critiques mainly because of ATI's problematic video drivers. That's not MSI's fault, it's ATI's and not every person buys these boards to run Windows on them. ;)

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- Excellent Price for this little guy.- 786G chip set works excellent !- zero difficulties setup, all bios worked great, ram, cpu all looking good- HDMI! Only two Ram slots would have liked 4.Only four rear USB slots. Man i enjoy this board. I bought it to replace a dead P4 board that went out following 7 years. Also upgraded the CPU & Ram. This was suitable in my price range, i already have a sweet gaming Computer so this is mostly for little stuff and the on-board video works great, hooked it up to my HDTV through HDMI and it looks super superior. It even works with my old power provide which only has a 20 pin atx energy connector. BOTTOM LINE: I would buy this once again and advocate it to friends.

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Good look. Has the capability to unlock cores. Nice audio attributes and excellent onboard chipset and graphics. HD4200 graphics chip was totalled. VGA output was the only one to function. USB controller failed after a couple of hours, so any keyboard I applied could no longer input commands throughout boot up for the BIOS, CD drive, or something else you can feel of. Seemed promising at initially till it showed it was a dud.

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it booted up no complications on day 1 It died on day 31, no RMA for me!

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Build an HTPC working with this MB... I initial tested the on-board graphics (Radeon HD 4200), but opted for discrete graphics to drive 3 monitors (well, two monitors and an HDTV)... I am able to record two unique HD channels whilst watching recorded shows (and play/work with stuff on the other two monitors)Has performed every little thing that I have asked for a very reasonable cost None yet I am surprised how small processing power the HTPC functionality essentially takes working with a separate card (HD5670)...

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*I was seeking for a 785 chipset as I had a couple Sempron's laying around and my daughter required a PC for school. For ฿ I was able to unlock my Sempron to an Athlon II 4400e which is essentially the exact same as an Athlon II 240. So, I'm happy!*Very pleased with the HD4200 integrated graphics. Imore than enough for house workplace work, web surfing, movies, and simple graphic games like Plants vs Zombies. *Rich BIOS featured will please any overclocker.*I like that he SATA connectors are at a 90 degree angle. i have a gigabyte board exactly where the SATA connectors are flush and they interfere with a graphics card. The suitable angle keeps the SATA cables out of the way. *The BIOS function set is a small convoluted for the avg Joe. I like Gigabyte's and ASUS BIOS superior. This has every little thing you need, it just took me added time to figure it out. Not worth knocking off an egg. *The boot screen doesn't tell you how to enter BIOS. How difficult is it to say "press Del (or whatever) to enter BIOS" on the boot screen? Very good mobo, especially on sale.