KR7A-RAID & MSI 6380 KT266A RAID Pro RU owners, What do you think about your board ?

PowerMarkymark · February 20th, 2002, 08:20 PM

Hi Guys,

I'm thinking of putting together a new sytstem and because my current system has a triple monitor set up I wanted to do the same with my new one.

I plan on using Windows XP:

AMD Athlon XP 1700 CPU
MSI 6380 KT266A RAID Pro RU or Abit KR&A Raid MOBO
512 DDR PC 2100 RAM
GP3 TI 200 64 MB VID CARD AGP
G550 Dual head PCI VID CARD
ATI tv Wonder PCI
WESTERN 60 GB 7200 HD
LITE-ON 24X CD-RW

Sinse this is my first power computer (my IBM dosen't count) I want to get a Mobo that is fast yet reliable. Will eventually want to do the overclocking thing.

Any advise?

MrBlues · February 23rd, 2002, 09:42 PM

I have an MSI motherboard and it has been very solid. I'd buy another one.

poopeyhed2 · February 24th, 2002, 10:52 AM

If your going with the KR7A-RAID mobo, you should consider the KR7A133-RAID, because all IDE channels are ATA 133, not just the Raid controllers in KR7A-RAID...

Welcome to Techimo!

Inferior · February 24th, 2002, 11:24 AM

I'd go with Abit, speed and reliability are what they are known for!

(Triple monitors? kewlies

)

**phenious** · February 24th, 2002, 11:28 AM

I just bought the MSI board

love it

dont have any thing USB 2.0 to test on it though. I got my AMD XP 1800+ up to 1.66Ghz via Fuzzy Logic

Running Sweet with the CPU above and a ATI Radeon and 512MB DDR ram

with that I get around 8500 3dmarks

if that means anything to ya, but I also havent tweaked it much really

Fuzzy Logic is cool and OCs the FSB while in windows until it crashes then sets your FSB to the fastest/while stable FSB setting

-: phenious :-

brandon184 · February 24th, 2002, 11:35 PM

When it comes to custom building systems, I'm all for ABit performance coupled with quality and reasonable cost make these guys a winner with me.

All Abit motherboards in any system I've got... (That isn't a Dell of course....

)

- Brandon
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radio1_mike · February 24th, 2002, 11:50 PM

I have that MSI board you mentioned. Excellent board, best board since my original Abit KT-7.

You can go wrong with Abit, either. But, I would give the edge to MSI because it does have USB 2.0 built-in. And of course, the snazzy red PCB board...!

zen · February 26th, 2002, 04:02 PM

I'm looking at that same MSI board. All the reviews on it are excellent. I was wondering if you can use the promise raid controller ide ports for 2 hardrives not in a raid array, to give you an additional two ide connections? Or must they be used exclusively for raid array?

poopeyhed2 · February 26th, 2002, 04:29 PM

You can use the Raid channels as regular IDE channels with a jumper..

Neutrino007 · March 2nd, 2002, 06:26 AM

Excellent Mb no question.