The MSI K7N2-L - how does in measure up?

[Apotherix]

I'm building a computer for my friend, and he wants the cheapest nforce2 motherboard that he can get , for a 2100+ and a Radeon 9100. The MSI board is below 90 at newegg, and I'm thinking that is the way I'm going to go. What do you think?

 

[DieHardware]

Have you read Evan's 6-way Nforce2 roundup?

 

[Apotherix]

Yes, and I figured that the MSI board was a pretty close match for 60 bucks less. Please tell me if I'm wrong.

 

[NesuD]

I think it is pretty decent. I like mine. A word of advice though. The board is picky with Ram. Don't necessarily rely on MSI's reccomended list. I did and its still didn't like the ram i had(kingston pc2700). It ran with that ram but did lots of strange things. I am using a Giel dual channel pc3200 memory kit now and it runs very nicely that way. Post a thread asking what brands and types of ram people are using to find out what really works well.

 

[Gerbil333]

I'm not liking mine. Get an Abit, Epox, or Asus 🙂

Check out my big thread about nForce 2's (also in Mobo's section).

 

[Krueger81]

do not get an MSI I just had to RMA two of them since they had a BIOS Faiklure. I changed info in the bios and it's having troubles writing to the bios causing the computer not to boot.

Phil

 

[elkinm]

I recently noticed that when I change my ram voltage to 2.7 or anything, at restart it is still at the default 2.6. The other problem is that my voltage used to be set to 1.7 and it stayed at 1.7, but I am trying to overclock a little and I tried raising the voltage. The voltage read around 1.85 at a 1.8 v setting. I tried lowering it to 1.75, 1.7, 1.65 and 1.6 but with each one the voltage displayed is still around the same 1.85v in the bios even though the BIOS does remeber the CPU voltage setting.

Krueger, should I be considering an RMA soon and feering a dead system or am I still OK?

Thanks

 

[MARMADUKE]

8RDA @ NEWEGG $85😉

 

[NS80]

I've had great luck with the one I put in my gf's new pc. I have an 1800+ running at about 1900mhz with the ram at 1:1 and it's completely stable. It get's about 12200 in 3dmark 2001 with an overclocked GF4 ti4200. The ram I bought for it is Newegg part# 20-141-302.

 

[Doh!]

Cheap & stable but lacks OC features. Performance is more or less at par with other nForce2 boards.