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@bert: i'm not planning to overclock. i want this board cause it's cheap, has pci 2.0 16x and i can tune my pc l8er with i.e. more ram, better cpu, ...

@oska: straight power BQT E5-450W

1. There is almost no difference between pci-e 1.1 and 2.0.

2. Ok, PSU is nice.

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im waiting on my quad 2 q9450 to arrive

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No it doesn't (in sense of whole corporation, not particular mobo).

If u ever owned a MSI product and had no problems,i gues u were just pretty damn lucky...I hold a personal grudge against them that goes way back and never again will a MSI product enter my pc.

until now, my mobo and the geforce 4 ti 4200 of my bro work fine since ages.

I had their burner and it died pretty quickly.It also trashed alot of cds before it died.They hurt me the most cause they made a KT333 board and advertised it as an overclocker board but it was far from that,so it was false advertising and I cant forgive that.The board made me lose alot of hair,if u went on to raise FSB,PCI and AGP bus freq would also go up which caused alot of ppl dead hardware.They advertised that the board has a PCI 1/5 divider meaning u can clock to 166 FSB with no problems,if u tried to clock a 133 stock FSB cpu on that board if u set FSB at 166 MHz the PCI would be at 41 MHz and AGP bus on 83 MHz.This would never happen if the board really had a 1/5 divider,the pci and agp would stay at 33/66 MHz.I had luck that I didnt kill anything,they also didnt mention that usb kybrds dont work on that board,altho u have the option in bios,which in reality has no effect.When I contacted them about those 2 problems I never ever got a reply.So lets see...
- false advertising
-crappy BIOS support
-not caring about their customers
This experience was enough for me to say goodbye to MSI.