MSI Motherboards
MSI Socket A Motherboards
Info on MSI socket A motherboards
MSI make great solid motherboards that are well known for peformance and reliablity. They have very high manufacturing standards and have built up a steady reputation with their customers and fans a like. Socket a motherboards by MSI are typically built with VIA chipsets. MSI apparently have a good relationship with VIA so it makes sense to implement their chipsets where ever they can. With a msi socket 462/a motherboard they will most likely three dimm slots that will most likely have a max speed of 333mhz (pc2700) and the usual features that you would expect from this type of motherboard such as an 4x AGP slot and FSB 200/266/333MHz. MSI Socket A motherboards are some what old technology, so buying one would require some knowledge of that. It's usually a good practice to flash the BIOS to the latest when buying a new motherboard, especially if it's of an older type. These motherboards require an AMD socket 462/A cpu, so basically an athlon, athlon XP, duron or sempron CPU that is PGA 453-pin.