What do u guys think about the MSI K7T Turbo Raid?

[Joony]

I am planning to get one and i would like to know if this is a better board then the Epox 8KTA3... iam planning to overclock at Duron 800 to a 1 ghz...

 

[Hawker]

Take a look at this review:

http://www.templeoftech.com/articles.cfm?ArticleID=49&PageID=1

 

[Rand]

IMHO, Yes it is a better board than the Epox board.

 

[joeblo123]

I don't know much about the Epox board but I think the K7T-Turbo is a great motherboard. I have the raid version and it's as Stable as a rock...

I'm currently running my Duron 700@866(133x6.5). It's stable at 933 but temp gets over 50c. Hasn't crashed on me yet.

 

[bonkers325]

i prefer abit and asus i heard the msi is bad with the fsb and multiplier thing

 

[ivanov]

i like my msi k7t turbo raid... it's stable as hell though some review sites have benchmarked it to be slower than the asus and abit mobos... but i think it's fast enough for me... runs my tbird at 7.5x145 @1.8v without a hitch... idle temp 41C, full load 45C... the beta overclocker bios MSI has now is kinda buggy, but once they fix that up, this should prove to be an awesome mobo plus it's cheaper than other equivalent Raid boards too

 

[Regalk]

Right now it is a toss up between EPOX, MSI and Iwill - get the cheapest they all have the same features (Iwill has the newer version of the chipset) and exhibit the same problems.

 

[Dulanic]

In Tom's it performed dead last in most the benchmarks... not a good sign.

http://www4.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q1/010221/index.html

If it was just a bit slower I wouldnt be worried... but it performs horrid in Toms benchmarks.

 

[RoboTECH]

Tom is using a bios without 4-way memory interleave

makes a big difference

also, for some strange reason, AGP and IDE performance is fuxored unless you go in and manually enable DMA and fart around wth AGP settings in the BIOS

at least that's the way it is for the Pro2a

 

[RBuck]

I wish someone would clarify whether the beta bios can be used with the RAID K7T Turbo. I am terrified to flash it, and terrified to toggle the 133fsb jumper on my 1gig tbird. So Im running stock