They day Dell sells an AMD CPU is the day Intel stops giving them Free CPUs..........LOL
It will never happen..
I love AMD and dislike Dell because they're Intels best buddie and wont sell AMD based systems.
"anyone here use the retail hs for the A64? does that also require messing with the motherboard like taking off the backplate and stuff?
I am thining of using the reatil heatisnk until the SP-98 comes out for it."
I used the retail fan and heatsink. You dont have to modify anything if...
XP booted so fast the first time I turned it on yesterday that I thought XP crashed on boot up... I thought it was going to pop up a blue screen stop error.. Because the "XP Loading" Screen came on....went off after like 2 seconds and I was like (!!!!!!!!!!) and then it went into...
WinXP boots in 5 seconds with my new upgrade....(OS is on a Raptor 73GB drive)
So far im quite pleased with this motherboard.
The fan connectors are somewhat of a pain but it turned out ok for me with my case because of where my fans are....it was perfect. But normal cases having the 2 fan...
The d-bracket is not required and I did not install it... My system posted fine the first time.... I've used other MSI boards that come with the d-bracket...again half of them I didnt install it and they all work fine without it.
Its only for additional USB ports and the lighted diagnostic...
I got my system going last night... I ran into one problem so far.. I set the "Halt On" errors to "ALL" (Its default is "All, but keyboard" And I get an error that the Keyboard is locked....
Im assuming this is a bug in the bios. Someone else that got this board can you test this theory for...
MSI had a class action law suit against it? Because of bad capasitors?? I have not sold many MSI board but I used to sell lots of Soltek motherboards and I've had TONs of them with bad capasitors....Slot A motherboards, Socket 370 motherboards....just those two...
Oh and recently i've run...
Well my motherboard arrived at my apartment...but i am at work so UPS wasnt able to deliever it yet argh!!! Im going to have to have them change the address to my work address and hopefully they'll get it here (at work) tomorrow..................*Sigh* Unless I can pick it up from UPS my...
CPU Support documentation: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_cpu_support_detail.php?UID=572
Link came from the left columb "CPU Support" link from this link: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=572
This board should support...
I was hoping to upgrade this weekend as well..............BUT...........all I have to say is at least this board came out this week instead of another week or two..... :)
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