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Is the MSI K7T Turbo-R any good?

It is pretty good and stable. Try to get the Limited edition one with the RED PCB if you can find one.

Anandtech just did a round up of the KT133A boards and the TURBO is in there and one of the recommended boards.
 
In Anands roundup, he mentioned that the Limited addition "Red" board was not as stable as the standard boare.
 
I have to say that I haven't been that impressed with the onboard Raid controller, which uses a Promise chipset. The RAID bios is a "lite" version which seems to be slower than the "full" version on the Fasttrak PCI controller.

However, I have heard that there is a hacked bios out there that replaces the "lite" version with the full and speeds up disk access considerably.

Personally, I don't think fooling with a hacked BIOS it's worth the effort to get it working the way it should right out of the box. Go with the K7t-turbo without built-in RAID and splurge on the $35 IDE RAID controller if you want or need one later...
 
If you are planning on overclocking at all, I would personally recommend against buying the MSI K7T Turbo--it has the 133 "issue" that makes it extremely diffcult to run at a higher fsb...

just my personal opinion--i own one.
 
I think I would agree with iamthesystem's comments above. I also own a K7T Turbo (minus RAID) and have already encountered the '133 MHz Issue', and I don't particularly fancy the task of butchering the L6 bridges on my Duron in an attempt to boot at a lower clock multiplier. On the other hand, all reviews I have read would suggest this board to be one of the most stable available; for me, I think this is more important than squeezing every last HP out of the system...
 
Remember, the "133 issue" all depends on your chip. It shouldn't be a prob if you're already running a 266 fsb chip, or in my case, a 200 fsb AXIA. I upped the fsb to 133 and am just running at default multiplyer (it's a 1ghz chip) and it boots no prob.
 
I think, as others have mentioned, that the "133 issue" matters only to the following people:

those who are overclocking and have 200 Mhz FSB Duron or Thunderbird CPUs.


Personally, I am interested ONLY in stability and I do not overclock. Therefore, I am exceptionally happy with my MSI K7t Turbo-R since it has not ever crashed on me since I first turned it on a few months ago.

However, getting the RAID drivers working correctly was another story.
 
I own both a K7T Turbo and a K7T Turbo R
The Turbo R is running a modded 2.70 Bios (full Fastrack Raid capable 0,1, 0+1) And Yes, the hacked bios has sped disk access up considerably.

Both boards are stable in the extreme. I haven't encountered the "133" issue as I am running an 850 Duron (slightly overclocked at 910 using Fuzzy Logic III)...

I would recommend MSI's boards to anyone looking for a fairly quick and extremely stable platform.
 
I had a K7T once. I traded it away and got an Asus A7V133, becuase I had problems with the multipliers and the BIOS on it (and I also broke one of the HSF retention clips), but otherwise, it was a pretty stable and good board
 
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