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Company(s): MSI
Product: Motherboard
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Author: Michael (Oreo) Falcon
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Supplier: N/A
Date: 5-28-02
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Final Impressions
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MSI has done well with their first Dual AMD Platform. Its performance in our real world testing was also excellent. Running the K7D Master as a workstation for over a week and a half helped to further its appeal. General tasks performed ranged from surfing, browsing our forums to gaming with such titles as Unreal Tournament, Serious Sam and of course NASCAR 2002. Concerns with the results of the DroneZ test were quickly overcome as the framerates and smooth performance obtained while gaming made for an enjoyable morning of fragging and an evening of online head to head racing. Other tasks the K7D Master faced were editing and writing articles, compiling review results as well as building graphs all with the use of Microsoft Office. We were even able to get into a little heavier work by editing photos, building a photo gallery of my daughter's third grade field trip using Photoshop and playing with producing avi's of races from our online 24/7 NASCAR 2002 server.
The MSI K7D Master has proven itself against a pair of Tigers and has stepped up to take its place in the world of Dual AMD Platforms. MSI has produced a solid contender in the race for performance. Whether it's running in a workstation at the office or as a home use system, the MSI K7D Master is a solid platform that will fit the needs of even the most stringent of users.
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© 2002 Michael (Oreo) Falcon
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| -CPU AMD
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| 2600+ and below |  |
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| P4/XE 2.4 & up |  |
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| -Memory pc133 |  |
-Hard Drive IDE (60G and lower) |  |
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| -LCD monitors: 15in |  |
| -LCD monitors: 17in |  |
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AMD Motherboards
XP:nForce2,VIA KT600
Opteron: nForce3, AMD8000
64: nForce3, AMD8000, K8T
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Intel Motherboards
Latest Chipset: 875P
w/Graphics: 865G
VIA: P4X
ATI: 9100 IGP
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