MSI K7T Pro 266 Raid DDR

[doublec16]

I'm looking for a DDR motherboard and I think it might be a good idea to get a RAID board. Does anyone have this motherboard? How do you like it? Have you had any problems with it? What are its strengths and weaknesses compared with other MBs you have used? What is a good price? Thanks in advance.

 

[doublec16]

Nobody has this motherboard?

 

[krakerman]

doesn't look that way ;p

 

[App]

Yep, I've got this board running since a week now. Before I had the K7T Turbo. This board has good OC'ing features, all handled in the BIOS and I'm able to run my TB 1200/100 at the BIOS 133 FSB setting, at 137 FSB. The K7T Turbo had a 100/133 FSB jumper and I was not able to reboot it at the 133 jumper setting (known issue).
I did run Sisoft Sandra 2001 on both boards and the CPU Benchmark as well as the CPU multimedia benchmarks show more or less the same results (VIA KT 133A vs VIA KT 266). The memory benchmark increased about 15% versus the KT 133A.
The K7T Pro 266 is running stable as the K7T Turbo did and the only thing I noticed is that my OC setting in the BIOS of 137 FSB changes back to H/W (determined by HardWare) after I shut down the computer for a day. I have sent MSI an e-mail about this issue.

 

[doublec16]

That's great. Thanks for the info. I think I don't have to worry about the FSB being reset after a day of it being shut down, because I am building a Linux box which will be running all the time. I have a question though: is that a one-time thing or does it happen every time you shut down for a day or so, and does it reset anything other than the FSB? Could it possibly be a weak battery? I know that's unlikely, but I was once shipped a computer with a weak battery and every time I unplugged it, it would lose time, and then it died and every time I shut it off I'd have to reset everything, which really sucked, because that happened around the time that windows decided to quit working and started continuously crashing. Perhaps what you are experiencing is a symptom of a similar problem.

 

[App]

Thanks for the hint regarding the battery. I've checked this, but the battery is fine (3.18V). Must be something else and I'll wait for MSI's reply. Yes, the FSB resetting to the standard value of 133 happens every time when I shut down the computer completely, so not after a warm reboot. The FSB resstting is the only thing I noticed. All other OC adjustments I made (multiplier setting, Core voltage increase to 1.825 V, CAS 2, controlled by SPD and 4 way interleave for the 512 mb Crucial DDR, etc) remain as I adjusted it.