Micro Crap International

[Arcanedeath]

I've had awful luck w/ MSI and not just bad support but NO support. admititly it was a long time ago but I still stay away. Had an orginal socket A KT266 (not KT266A board) die 3 times on me and the reseller I purchased it from folded and MSI wouldn't RMA the board even though it was still under warrenty. I ended up using a cheap ECS K7S5A for years due to all the issues w/ the MSI board. $150 paperweight due to MSI so I'll still pass on them.

 

[Ben90]

I don't know if this is standard on AM2 boards, but I bought a MSI k9n a long time ago and the memory slots were the wrong color. In order to get dual channel RAM you had to put a stick in the orange, and a stick in the green.

 

[mfenn]

I don't know if this is standard on AM2 boards, but I bought a MSI k9n a long time ago and the memory slots were the wrong color. In order to get dual channel RAM you had to put a stick in the orange, and a stick in the green.

That's not wrong, and in fact it is more technically correct. MSI (and others) used to color code by channel, thus to use both channels you would need to put one module in each color DIMM slot. I agree that it is more confusing to novice builders, which is probably why they stopped doing it.