MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

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I absolutely loved this board! Very compliant with what needed to be build. Paired it with 8gb 1066 DD2 and an AMD 9950 BE. Runs like a champ, and many great features too. Not to mention plenty of fan inputs for controlling via software. Thanks!

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The Dual-core Cell is amazingly quite. The circu-pipe and it's cooling system can be CPU controlled or manually controlled but it maintains a very cool temperature I almost didn't get a cooling fan system. SLI Interface is what makes this stand out. It is basically compatible with every kind of connection there is!! Please just get this.

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I bought this bundled with the AMD Phenom X4 9500. My main concern were finding the options that I wanted on the MB. Upgrding from a PATA system to SATA system and needed the IDE headers to migrate my existing hardware. This board was way ahead of simularly price boards where optins are concerned. Board did arrive missing the SLI Bridge, but a simple call to MSI tech Support was all that was needed. The bridge was in the mail the next day. I love this board! Suggestion: The Manual that comes with the board is sparce. Go to the MSI site and download the the manual. AMD PHENOM 9500 2.20 GHZ PSU Kingwin Mach 1 600w +12V @22 DOUBLE RAIL MSI K9N2 SLI PLATINUM BIOS 3.4 2GB OCZ SLI @1066 5-5-5-15-22 2T 2.1v 250GB HD SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.10 16MB 250GB HD HITACHI DESKSTAR 7200 8MB REALTEC HD AUDIO LITE-ON DVD-ROM LG DVD-BURNER w/LIGHTSCRIBE GH22LS30 EVGA 9500GT 1GB G95 ACER 19" OS WIN XP SP3 32BIT

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The BEST mobo I have ever seen, let alone used or owned, hands down. OC Dial, so you can overclock at the push of a button. Solid capacitors are semi-standard fare these days, but still nice to have. The mobo has a built-in POST diagnostic LED, so if something goes wrong, you don't have to use a possibly expensive PCI POST diagnostic card, you can just read the LED display. Power and reset buttons built in to the motherboard as well as normal case button connections, for diagnostic purposes. Extremely efficient power-wise. Two PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (adjusts to x8 slots if all two are being used for CFX). Too many other pros to list. Best AM2 motherboard on the market. I would buy again!

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That's what we all want right? bought 1 a few months back, for a new build, it was my first MSI board. Loved how easy it was to setup, overclocking, not a problem. liked it so much I bought another for another new build. looks nice too, lights up like a christmas tree. easiest board I've ever worked with. Thanks TD

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(note: I use it for gaming and multimedia)Has a easy to use BIOS, is SLI ready, good mobo for my first built computer, for gaming!!! has plenty of slots for SATAs 2 IDE heads, good for gaming also for you guys that want to attach so manny hard drives, 7.1 surround so i can add a blu ray player whenever with a 9600 gso. BUY THIS!!! for multimedia, and gaming!!!

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Boy I almost sent it back,coudnt get it to post but then I realized I didnt have the atx power connection plugged in right.Now its smoth sailing on the high sea with this baby.Only thing is that theres no ethernet driver for XP-64 bit.so I had to go with VISTA-64 insted.Great mainbord buy it you will love it !!!!!!!!!

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This is awesome , msi is just the best . It easy to install and if i will have to buy this mobo again , i will do it right away .

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this mobo work good, phenon 2 x4 3.0 ghz- 2 sli grafic card xfxgeforce gddr2 at 768mb 9600 gso. 8gb memori ddr2 at 800mhz run fine , on play running smooth,i have 2 more mobo from msi, they work good for a 3 years, but this one men i recomend for game

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Junk!!! first one failed as soon as I fired it up.. bios wouldnt hold memory.... replacement failed as soon as if fired it up... video port was fried... dont waste your time or your money!!! I bought a Gigabyte MB instead and worked right out the box with NO issues... Ken Spring

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love this mobo, i have a amd phenom x4 9850, 4gb corsair pc-8500 and a visiontek hd radeon 3870 OC, and they are working great...MSI ROCKS!!!

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idk what happend to the others but i bought this befor xmas and it worked fine the only problom i have is that if you want to install two gtx280 the only one will fit, the other dose fit it just dosent go down all the way because of the pci slot below it but all together it works amazingly

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three msi motherboards in 1.5 years all of them junk!!! k9 diamond failed in 48 hours 2nd k9 diamond replacement failed in 6 months 3rd k9 platinum replacement for the diamonds faild 11 months will never buy msi again warranty tech support non-existant

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OK, just built a smokin' fast system with this board last weekend. I was so impressed that I bought another board, and lo and behold, it won't POST! An early reviewer had the same prob, 4 red LED's. I even swapped out, one at a time, DDR2, CPU, Grafx card(s) to no avail. An educated guess would be that MSI had a bad batch of AM2 sockets. The CPU jumped at me when I lifted the lever on the ZIF (Zero Insertion Force) socket. And yes, I know how to install a CPU, it should fall in and out. I put an X2 5200+ in after the 7750 failed to init, and it bent 2 pins! Tiger is sending a replacement mobo, tho, thanx Tiger!

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This was a dream build. Very nice cmos setup. This mobo recognized everything I threw at it for a MONSTER gaming rig. Make sure you get the RAID controller floppy d/l's from MSI b4 you set up this bruiser for an array. RAID5 was seamless. Couldn't believe the speed with an AMD X2 7750 AM2+ and 4GB OCZ dual channel platinum PC8500. Great price, outstanding performance, bye-bye ASUS. Out.

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it a very good motherboard good for overclocking i got my amd 5200+ up to 3.2ghz before crashing woth buying only draw back is that if you use a cooler like the ruby orb cooler it a sung fit.overall good broad.

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This mobo is AWESOME. i just got this as a x-mas gift and i am thouroughly impressed. The overclocking is a little wierd so im stayim away from it for now but the manual has great info for it. i love the diognostic lights, they are soooo helpful and look great if you have an all blue case like mine. get this if you dont have much cash and want a great motherboard. (my specs) AMD athlon 6000+ 3.1 ghz MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum Motherboard 4gb 800 mhz ddr2 sli ram 2 9800 gt's in SLI 500 gb WD caviar HDD ultra 650 watt PSU

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had no problems what-so-ever putting this board together, and booting up. will be trying to overclock after my water cooler gets here on 12/4/08 but have been in bios and it looks like an overclockers dream!, hunders of options and it looks like you can overclock everything! Bought because my old board blew up due to power surge, put origional harddrive back in and booted back up to where i had it the day it burned up! thanks tiger!!!

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This is the First MSI MotherBoard that I have ever bought and I have to say that I have never been more dissapointed. The logic board was bad and the computer was totaly usless. When I cleared the CMOS as I was told by tech support it said the the CMOS checksum was BAD!!! Meaning that this Motherboard is built more for Looks rather than quaity. I can not strees enough to you DONT BUY THIS MOTHERBOARD!!! It is junk. P.S. I was told by my fellow computer experts not to go with a MSI motherboard for this very reason. I figured that the odds of it happening to me were to reomote. Aparently not.

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First cpu build, phenom 9850, 8800 GTS... Issues with this board are 2 very minor points. #1} The placement of the 6 sata ports. The ones perpendicular to the board physically prevent the installation of the video card if there's a cable in em. The parallel sata ports: I couldn't put in due to the hard drive slots in my UltraXblaster case. Removed the HD slots but have only 1 Hd bay now. Have 4 sata to work with due to video card. 2 IDE's, atleast 4 fan jacks. Put a maxorb on it with little difficulty (32-42C) #2) The DVI-D out. Potential disaster: No VGA adapter. It's not DVI-A, which all the stores carry. That means if you need to go to VGA, or anything but HDMI for that matter, get A DVI-D to VGA adapter from tiger when you order this mobo! (The videocard thrupassed the signal for me, and I had an adapter for the video card to vga) All in all, good board for the price. I romped on this board a few times with the memory and fan... I thought it was strong.

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I received this board about 2 days ago, and I must say, MSI has failed to let me down once again. Fired right up after install without a hint of a struggle. Great bios. Great software for easy CPU overclocking and fan contols. Great features. This is by far the best motherboard under 150 bucks. I highly recommend this board. Works fantastic with my AMD Phenom. A++