MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R Opinions?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri May 28, 2004 10:52 am

I know a few of you have this mobo and I'm looking for opinions on it, or other alternative AMD 64-bit mobos.

I'm not really sure I want to upgrade yet - everything is running well on my AMD 2400+ system - but I'm getting the itch and I'm researching a possible upgrade.

Interested in the MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R because I've read some good reviews on it and a couple of people here have spoken well about it.

I like MSI boards and I read a good review of this board on Motherboards.org.

Some other questions:

- What would you guys say is the price/performance 64-bit CPU right now? I'm looking at the AMD 64 3000+ or 3200+

- What speed RAM am I going to be running on this mobo? I'm not clear on this. I am NOT interested in overclocking so what's the default RAM clock speed for these CPUs?

- Is anyone running WinXP 64-bit and if so, is it worth it to do so? For now I'm assuming I'll be running standard WinXP Pro on this system.

Thanks....

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Fri May 28, 2004 11:28 am

ddr 400 runs in sink with the cpu.

both Vid and I run that board with a 3200+ and it is very fast. I run mine with samsung 3200 ddr 1g

Greg

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Fri May 28, 2004 7:53 pm

nice layout
stable
lots of features
fast

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Fri May 28, 2004 8:23 pm

3200+ w/ 1MB cache = best price/performance AMD64 CPU.

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sat May 29, 2004 10:37 am

I have the K8T NEO FSR with an A64 XP3400+. Real stable board once you find some compatible ram for it. You can't go wrong with either one of the K8T NEO boards.

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 2:29 pm

is it worth running 64Bit Winblows with this setup?

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 9:18 pm

Originally posted by DaMaN
is it worth running 64Bit Winblows with this setup?

Dunno yet. I have it here ( beta release ). Stop down and we'll try to get it on here.

I have it ( XP64 ) dnloaded but somehow I fubar'd the burn to cdr. Have to try it again. There's no driver for my sound card yet either so that's why I haven't rushed to install it.

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:08 pm

Nice avatar

grumpy 1 · Post by **grumpy 1** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:47 pm

fp hold off till socket 939 materialises
but if you got he itch to upgrade soon
ive been using the gigabyte k8vnxp the via chipset solution and am hugely impressed
I took the advice of a number of knowledgable ppl on amdmb forums
Truly impressive board
Just lately im real impressed with gigabyte
Cheers

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