Ready to buy MSI NF4 Ultra

[rugrat]

After all of the reading I am ready to pull the trigeger on the MSI NF4.

I do not want to get old outdated product. Is there any new revsion I should be looking for or is there an older board revsion that I should avoid?

 

[imported_llama]

i think they are all Rev1, but why an MSI board? the DFI are much better

 

[The Pentium Guy]

MSI => Loud Northbridge fan

 

[rugrat]

After reading reviews ... DFI seems to require a lot of tweaking, and is picky about memory.
MSI while it has it 's problems seems to be the most stable of the bunch

 

[Narkoticz390]

I'm also leaning this way. I plan on buying from NewEgg. And no, I absolutely will not be buying the DFI. Actually right now it's between the MSI and the ABIT for me. I would very much like to know if there is a specific revision to look for. I think I read in one of the threads that Rev2 is supposedly coming out soon?

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

Some people are having problems overclocking the MSI K8N Neo4. It seems that with some processors the board will not boot with a reference clock past 220MHz.

As far as I know this issue hasn't been fixed yet.

 

[doinmybestatlast]

I have the MSI board is a nice choice for the moderate OC system maker. Limited RAM voltage to 2.8, limited FSB. They have this no-brain OC function in BIOS. Private, Seargent, Captain etc levels for beginners makes this very, very easy OC. If I had to do it over I would get the DFI. The reason is the OC ability. Now that I have a watercooling system I want to bump up the memory voltage over 3. Maybe this will change in the next BIOS revision.