MSI K9A2 CF-F Socket AM2+/ AMD 790X/ DDR2-1066/ CrossFire/ A&GbE/ ATX Motherboard

[jjmIII]

Has anyone tried this board??

MSI K9A2 CF-F Socket AM2+/ AMD 790X/ DDR2-1066/ CrossFire/ A&GbE/ ATX Motherboard

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Looks like a great deal on the 790x chipset based boards.

I was gonna try a 5200+ in it.

(I already own e2140 and q6600 systems, and just want to play.)

 

[Sylvanas]

I have the K9A2 Platinum (which I talked about Here) which is the one just above the CF and in all I think MSI have done a great job with these boards, I own an Intel setup aswell and I'll say this one is more fun to OC AMD Overdrive is great.

 

[jjmIII]

Funny, not much info around on these boards...

 

[Sylvanas]

Not many people have them your best bet is to check XS.

 

[jose073]

Hi

I'm going to buy this motherboard, homever, before purchase, anyone knows if this mobo carry the same 95w cap as the CF vanilla model?

Thanks!

 

[v8envy]

Yup, that board does NOT support 125w processors according to MSI. Plenty of stories of it physically bursting into flames when people tried using a 6400+ with it.

The plantinum version does not have that limitation.

 

[jose073]

Originally posted by: v8envy
Yup, that board does NOT support 125w processors according to MSI. Plenty of stories of it physically bursting into flames when people tried using a 6400+ with it.

The plantinum version does not have that limitation.

Thanks!

I've ended buying a Biostar 7050, i don't plan to use Phenom for some time now, i've just sold the crappy asus M2N-MX (really, not crappy, but it's very mobo intel-like, with near zero OC). Those Biostar T-Force motherboards have great reputation on its own. Hope mine doesn't end burning in flames :laugh: