Highlights
Quality
- internal inputs are available for additional 3 usb ports, firewire, optical sound, cd-in, chassis intrusion switch, serial po... Read More
Very good motherboard and easy to assemble with amd phenom ii quad and kingston hyper x 1600(oc)8gb memory chips.
- this motherboard doesn't support ddr2, if you have some ddr2 modules lying around from an older build and would like to use t... Read More
I have swapped out external drives several times, and each time the bios changed the boot order - a couple of times to an unbootable drive.
Price
Now i run an awesome pc for less than 900 bucks!
It would have been equivelent to a $200 quad.
0 is still a new technology, so when it's available it's going be very expensive and won't be free from errors for a while.
Packaging/appearance
It worked right out of the box, wasn't dead on arrival - i didn't have to rma it, came in wonderful packaging, and had all the ... Read More
Competitiveness
Amd and intel will not support usb 3.
I decided to give msi a try as i had some serious issues with gigabyte and asus motherboards in the past.
If you have a bit more money, the fx model has better graphics and 2 x x16 pcie multi-video board support.
Overview
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great, two, ii, available and still. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 10 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 20 2024.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Bios updating can be done after the os has been installed but it would be better if you do it before
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Mbs ati integrated graphics is outstanding but i added an ati 5700 series graphic card and an asus 2434 lcd monitor to the combo
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I didnt buy this mb despite having used msi main boards in my homebuilt personal computers for years
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The problem is theres a discrepancy between the title and the technical details
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The title says this is msi 790gxg65 meaning that the north bridge is supposedly populated with the amd 790gx chipset
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However the technical details say its using 790fx
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Com resulted in the agent telling me she would have the matter investigated
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I ended up buying the athlon x4 which dont get me wrong still is a quad and still is fast but for the same price i could have gotten the phenom and unlocked it