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- Sep 26, 2007
So I've been looking at an MSI P7N-SLI-FI board. I don't need the SLI capability, but the x16/x8/x8 PCI-e slot arrangement looks pretty good for my plans of adding a RAID card and perhaps a second (non-sli'd) video card for a third monitor. So at least going by the spec sheet, that MSI board looks great. I've heard that the X38/X48 boards don't do well with hardware RAID cards, and I don't like the crippled x8/x8 PCI-e arrangement on the P45, so that kinda rules out an Intel-chipset board. And anyway, even if an X38 would work, they're all about twice the price of the MSI 750i board.
However, I know the spec sheet is only part of the story, and with what I've heard about the 600 and 700-series I'm hesitant to trust an Nvidia chipset. Some of the complaints I don't care much about, like the poor overclocking on quad-cores and troubles with the onboard fake-RAID, but other things do concern me, like the video corruption issue. (I know that particular issue was supposed to be fixed, but I heard rumblings that it wasn't 100%.)
So what would I realistically be getting myself into if I bought that MSI board?
However, I know the spec sheet is only part of the story, and with what I've heard about the 600 and 700-series I'm hesitant to trust an Nvidia chipset. Some of the complaints I don't care much about, like the poor overclocking on quad-cores and troubles with the onboard fake-RAID, but other things do concern me, like the video corruption issue. (I know that particular issue was supposed to be fixed, but I heard rumblings that it wasn't 100%.)
So what would I realistically be getting myself into if I bought that MSI board?