Re: Any known issues with MSI K8T Neo F* VIA K8T800 Socket 754 Motherboards?

ANTant_at_zimage.com
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:04:17 -0500

> > Hello! It is that time of the year to upgrade my aging gaming system to
> > an AMD Athlon 64. I need to know if these two MSI K8T Neo (FIS2R and
> > FSR) are good for my setup. They are VIA K8T800 and Socket 754.

> I would strongly recommend you *NOT* buy any system based on a VIA chipset.
> At best you'll end up with a mother board that does not preform as well as
> an nVidia system. Typically, however you'll end up with a system that has
> all kinds of fun "quirks". I know that MSI makes a couple of nice high end
> system boards based on the nForce3 chipset, if you want to get one of their
> bords I would suggest you look into one of those. Right now I'm running a
> Chaintech ZNF3-250 and am fairly happy with it.

Aren't all nForce3 chipset require they require 939 CPUs? Those CPUs
cost too much especially 3500+. I'm not that rich! :) 

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