Is the MSI K7T Turbo-R any good?

[judgmentday1]

Any problems with it? or can you direct me to someone who has reviewed it? Thank you.

 

[MullySculder]

It's pretty good.

I have one.

Go to www.anandtech.com

review is over there.

 

[hokahknow]

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.

 

[judgmentday1]

Thank you for your advise!

 

[Herkulese]

In Anands roundup, he mentioned that the Limited addition "Red" board was not as stable as the standard boare.

 

[kylef]

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...

 

[iamthesystem]

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.

 

[Energenie]

I thought if the cpu was a 266mhz chip this wasn't an isssue, is that correct??

 

[SiRu]

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...

 

[codeyf]

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.

 

[kylef]

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.

 

[steve62]

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.

 

[nicowju]

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