MSI G31TM-P21 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

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This is my third MSI board and all have worked well. Loaded Windows 7 and all the drivers were in the OS. Plenty of slots for expansion. Good performance.

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I bought this for a Windows 7 media PC and it has worked well. It had the PCI-Express 16 and SATA ports that I needed. The onboard video was not good enough to run Blu-Rays but my intent was to use another video card for that anyways. It's a good board

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Works well for my HTPC, also runs some really good games, better if I had a gaming card, not a HTPC one. You can make a mid-range gaming machine for cheap with this board being it will host high end cpu's (775 socket) and has a pci-express 16x lane.

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The only bad thing I have to say about this board, and it's not really the board, is that it came to me brand new with a bad bios battery. This caused me quite a lot of grief over the next few days until I finally diagnosed the problem and replaced the battery. It is now running very well.

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No issues at all. On board video performance was better than expected. PNY 800MHz ram worked with-out issue or config necessities. Used the E7500, combined with this motherboard, just a solid performer for the price.

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We used this mb to swap with what was current in my sons pc. WOW! He's a gamer and it's performing very well for him.

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I ordered this motherboard when i got it did'nt work and was not able to return it just the processior and now i'm stuck with a none workin motherboard that i spent $90 dollars on

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Works well so far, BIOS is very straightforward. Comes with CD's, but no Win 7, which you can just download online anyways. Last time I built a system was 4 years ago, and this Board was very easy to figure out.

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I got one of these with a 2.8g pentium 4 E6300, 4GB of ddr2, a 9500 gt graphics card, and a sata 250GB hard drive. I put it toghther, Loaded windows 7 and had no problems with it. It made a great little machine for surfing and such and even running some decent games. I didn't build a top of the line system out of it, But for what it is and the price, You can't go wrong. Very, Very happy with MSI support as well. Great experience all around! A word about support. I used MSI's liveupdate feature to update my bios and a few utilities. It woked perfectly and I really didn't have to do anything. I think I'll be going with MSI for a while after this. Highly reccomended!

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Well, i bought this board as an inexpensive rebuild for my wifes pc. First board i got wouldn't post, ok, borrowed a post code detector since it didn't come with a pc speaker or post display. No big deal. Turns out the board is dead... ok call up this company who promptly send me another one and rock the stuff with their awesome customer service. Second board i get within 3 days hook it up following all ESD preventative measures and lo and behold its dead too. it powered on, all fans were spinning (i.e. the psu fan and cpu fan) but nothing on the screen. frustration really sets in at this point. the realtek audio chip becomes instantly hot to the surrounding area of the board, i mean you could feel the heat radiating off the board. sent it back and switched it out for a XFX board whom i know for a fact has awesome products. Needless to say i was not too happy with MSI after this. i'd avoid this board, but perhaps i just got the ones from a bad batch. buyer beware

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I bought my son computer parts for Christmas and we put his new computer together today. I had bought an MSI motherboard for my daughter's computer a couple of years ago and haven't had any problems. This motherboard works great as well. Easy to install and loaded Windows 7 on it with no problems. I definitely recommend it for the price.