Reviews for MSI K9A2 Platinum

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Overall 10
10

all mine

Newegg
05 June 2008
  • Summary: no u cant have it. its mine errr.
  • Pros: it worked right out the box. a no problem build even with vista.
  • Cons: out dated bios. no prob i will just update them b4 i go quad.
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Overall 10
10

Performs as MSI always does

Newegg
05 June 2008
  • Summary: I'd buy an MSI board again most definitely. I'm happy with the product, however if you're going for a rebate, be prepared to WAIT...i put in a rebate in January and di...
  • Pros: Excellent board, typical MSI product. This replaced an Asus M2R32-MVP board and I'll admit that the quality of board, and amount of peripherals blow the competition aw...
  • Cons: They have this MSI circular heat tube module SO close to the first PCI-e x16 slot, so hopefully your card isn't one with the heat tubes that MSI makes (aka what i have...
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Overall 10
10

Great board!

Newegg
04 June 2008
  • Summary: Make sure to enable the IDE setting in the bios peripherals section even if you DON"T plan on using IDE devices! Drove me batty for 4 hours!
  • Pros: Nice Bios layout, the heat pipe system seems to cool the northbridge well (it gets the hottest). Promise raid was easy to set up.
  • Cons: One heat pipe going from the north bridge to the south bridge actually touches the video card, could have been moved a little closer to the MB. I'm not to keen about c...
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Overall 2
2.0

DOA

Newegg
15 June 2008
  • Summary: submitted an RMA request and am going to send it in for replacement Monday.
  • Pros: was easy to install and the component layouts are easy to find and install. Nice clean looking board.
  • Cons: DOA (dead on arrival) was expecting so much.
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Overall 8
8.0

Good mb, but ...

Newegg
14 June 2008
  • Summary: Put an AMD 64 x2 4850e on this mb with Scythe SCASM 1000 cooler. Running multiple instances of Prime 95 torture tests pegged the CPU for 36 hours but never went over 3...
  • Pros: Worked fine right out of the box. Lots of connections (USB, SATA and PCIe).
  • Cons: Be careful if you plan on running two PCIe cards. Although there are 4 PCIe slots, if you have long graphics cards like the Radeon 3870 or 3850 the card covers up the ...
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Overall 10
10

Solid board

Newegg
14 June 2008
  • Summary: I you have a windowed case be warned. There are 3 really bright LEDs. A green, white, and orange one. So if you like lights they might interfere with scheme you might ...
  • Pros: Board works fine. Everything plugged in easy. I have had no problem overclocking or it miss detecting RAM
  • Cons: The heat pipes are in the way of the PCIe-1 slot. I have a HD3870 and it won't fit in that slot because of the pipes
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Overall 8
8.0

Kevin e

Newegg
13 June 2008
  • Summary: I hope they make a new one with SB750. Also Hope they give us PCI-Express 3.0 like they did with the K9N2 Diamond.
  • Pros: cross fire X 6 sata pci-x 1 2 pci slots
  • Cons: Sb600 sucks board only go's up to 212 with Phenom's recomned getting a be with unlocked multi's I have a cheap sempron that will clock to 300htt/fsb on this board. Phe...
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Overall 2
2.0

One of the least reliable boards I've ever owned...

Newegg
13 June 2008
  • Summary: I switched to the ASUS 790FX motherboard. Booted properly first time, the BIOS is a lot nicer and more organized, and the power circutry on it is excellent. 9850BE @ 2...
  • Pros: 1st one worked... only recognized 3gb of ram under vista x64 bit. Updating bios didnt help. 2nd one worked properly at first. Wouldnt run ram at 1066, and died in 2 we...
  • Cons: The quality control on these motherboards is really hit or miss. I seem to have gotten the worst luck both times I purchased these motherboards. If you get a good one,...
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Overall 10
10

Very nice board

Newegg
11 June 2008
  • Summary: My last MSI motherboard (kt4-ultra) lasted over 5 years of 24/7 duty before retirement, so hopefully this one can do the same. All the ddr 1066 ram available right now...
  • Pros: Everything just worked for me on first boot. Phenom 9850, 4gb GeiL DDR 1066, radeon 3650, 3tb esata soft-raid array, pci ide raid5 controller. Running vanilla linux ke...
  • Cons: There is a very bright led on the board. The back panel has a lot of empty space, would have been nice to run the serial port header up to it opposed to leaving empty/...
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Overall 10
10

Great Board!

Newegg
11 June 2008
  • Summary: Choose your board and processor at the same time. Also make sure your power supply has SATA connectors as well as the 4 pin or you will be putting out extra cash for c...
  • Pros: I purchased this board with an AMD Phenom 9850 processor. Another board could be bundled with the processor, but I opted for the additional expense. On the AMD site, t...
  • Cons: The small metal shield was flimsy, but they all are.
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MSI K9A2 Platinum
8.4 out of 10

MSI K9A2 Platinum

Key components status hardware monitor. Monitor the Dual Core CPU each unit status. Optimize System status define. Auto speed up with system loading change. The MSI Live Update online is design… Read more

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