MSI KT3 Ultra Questions

Armageddon415

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How does it compare to the Epox 8K3A in terms of overclocking and stability? Does it read temps from the internal diode of the XP's? Finally, are there any major problems with this board?
 

Pacinamac23

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I have one, my first one was DOA but thus far this one is working great.

It does read temps via the internal diode, I havn't tried OCing yet so I couldn't tell you but thus far its as stable as a rock.
 

Regalk

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I just picked up one (no-raid) real cheap. I know it lacks USB 2 and raid but I just wanted to replace my A7S333 since the SiS745 chipset is basically toast now - they should abandon that chipset.
This board is the best Sock A I have ever owned and that is a long string of boards.
I am running my Tbird 1.333 at 1.512 and that is at 168 x 9 only because my generiic DDR PC266 is holding me back. I saw 180FSB for a while until my RAM crashed out. My Sandra scores are 2459/2349 and quakee 3 is literally flying. Only using a GF2MX since this is not my main machine.
Biggest strong point is the 1/5 and 1/6 PCI divider at 152 and at 200FSB speeds.
Simply awesome for a cheap board.
 

Dan

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MSI boards are great; I have 3. (KT3 Ultra-ARU, K7T266 Pro2 and a K7T Turbo.) One of their strongest features, IMHO, is the ease with which you can update the bios, drivers, etc.

I use the KT3 Ultra-ARU on my system. It's extremely stable and I can overclock my Athlon XP 1900+ to 1.76GHzt. It does have USB 2.0. The only drawback I've encountered so far is that it doesn't support separate IDE devices on channels 3 and 4. It supports RAID only at this point. However, my understanding is that this will change with a future bios release.
 

Warin

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I'll also chime in with support for MSI.

I've never personally had an MSI board fail. I am currently running on the K7 Master, but have an MSI KT3Ultra-ARU on order, should be here next week.

Spend the extra on the ARU to get the USB 2.0 support. It will save you the expense of adding a 2.0 USB controller later. IDE RAID is really a non issue, but this board just rocks. It also supports reading from the onboard thermal Diode as well. read Anand's KT333 mobo round up... this was one of their top picks. And I prefer MSI to Asus (my old fave) by a large margin.

All they need to do now is release a CNR riser for LAN in the red colour so my system will all be sitting on red PCB's
 

mechBgon

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Does the temperature reading rise and fall in real time when CPU load is added and removed (meaning, within 5 seconds or so)? I was disappointed with my Asus board, which "privately" monitors the thermal diode for overheat, but only reports plain old socket thermistor temperatures in BIOS or in Asus Probe for the end-user to see.
 

Warin

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Not sure. I'll let you know Thursday or Friday...

Unless someone who already runs the board can pass the information along.