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MSI 870A-G54 ATX Mainboard (AMD 870+SB850 Chipset)

by MSI

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  • AMD 870 Chipset/AM3/ATX
  • Exclusive Military-Class Components/Auto OC Genie/OC Dial/APS/Icy Choke/Hi-c Cap
  • CrossfireX ready/Up to 16GB DDR3 RAM
  • Lossless 24-bit Audio/7.1 Channel HD
  • USB 3.0/SATA 6Gb/s
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MSI 870A-G54 ATX Mainboard (AMD 870+SB850 Chipset) + AMD Phenom II X4 965 AM3 3.4Ghz 512KB 45NM 125W 4000MHZ
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Technical Details

  • Computer Cpu Type: AMD Athlon 4
  • Processor Socket: AMD - AM3
  • Computer Cpu Manufacturer: AMD
  • Form Factor: ATX
  • RAM Memory Technology: DDR3 800;DDR3 1066;DDR3 1333;DDR3 1600;DDR3;DDR3 1800;DDR3 2000
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Product Details

  • Product Dimensions: 12 x 8.5 x 2.5 inches ; 2.8 pounds
  • Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
  • Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
  • ASIN: B003NYDTJY
  • Item model number: 870A-G54
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: October 22, 2009
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Product Description

With the newest AMD 870 chipset at its heart, the MSI 870A-G54 motherboard is the best place to start when building your multi-media PC system. Military Class Components such as APS, Icy Choke, and All Solid Cap enhance your system performance, while MSI-exclusive technology such as Unlock CPU Core and Auto OC Genie can boost up system performance by up to 148%. The 870S-G54 supports the newest 120W AMD CPUs, and CrossfireX technology lets users take advantage of multi-GPU scaling performance from ATI graphics cards. Lossless 7.1 surround sound HD audio provides the fullest experience for games, music and movies, while USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s ensures the fastest peripheral connectivity.

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I won't go into the features list since it's available on the MSI website as well as the description.
JediGuitarist
Sorry for the digression, anyways I think that this board is the best value you can get at the moment if you want to build and AMD system.
N. Aounallah
I replaced the CPU with a Phenom II 965 which solved most of the problem, but I still had occasional failures to POST.
Dave

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful By N. Aounallah on September 19, 2010
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I am someone who looks for value and longevity when I buy a product. While today most people replace there computers/ipods/ipads/cell phones on a yearly basis, I guess I am more conservative in my approach to electronics. The last computer I built before I bought this motherboard was in 2002. It had an MSI motherboard with a Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz chip. It still runs great to this day even thought it has been 8 years. Needless to say I can't vouch for the 870-G54 just yet, but I am pretty confident that it should last just as long if not longer considering the advances in capacitors and other integrated chips since then.

Sorry for the digression, anyways I think that this board is the best value you can get at the moment if you want to build and AMD system. Some key features that drew me to this board instead of others were:

1) 2 USB 3 ports
2) 2 PCI Express ports that support CrossFireX (Either 1 card at 16X or 2 at 8X)
3) Gigabit Ethernet
4) 7.1 channel Bluray Audio (24-bit/192KHz sample rate) which includes a S/PDIF port
5) SATA 6.0 Gb/s support
6) DDR3 Memory support

I don't think that at the time of this review (September 2010) you will find another board that has these features for under $100.

I just thought I would comment on a few other features that I have played around with, but are not necissarily too important. The first is the ability to manually adjust the cores on your processor. If you buy a multi-core processor, you can actually control which processors you want to use. Two possible ways this could be useful: 1) You buy a 6 core processor and want to save energy so you disable 5 cores or 2) You buy a 2 core processor that can be unlocked and re-enable 1 or more disabled cores.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful By JediGuitarist on February 20, 2011
I won't go into the features list since it's available on the MSI website as well as the description. I wanted a board that had expandability. Like a few other users, I don't upgrade every time new tech becomes available. I'll stay on the same machine for a few years and upgrade components as I go.

The MSI 870a-G54 fits that profile. Once USB3 starts to become mainstream, I'll be able to use it. As of this writing, there's only a handful of devices that can even use USB3, but at least you'd have the capability if you wanted to get a jump. The SATA6 is there if you need to get a drive that utilizes it in the future.

All-in-all, I'm very happy with the board. I was able to over clock a Phenom II 965 up to 3.8ghz on stock cooling and let it run for 48 hours straight at an average temp of 46c. I keep it at 3.8ghz as my normal speed. I didn't want to go past that with the stock fan, but I've heard people getting into the 4.0ghz range with a better cooling system. There are knobs on the board that let you dial in the over clock. I didn't use the bios to over clock.

The only read drawbacks I see is with crossfire since one of the PCI express lanes is 16x and the other is 4x, but since I don't run crossfire, I can't give any real useful info, and there is no firewire port which I don't use.

Here's my system specs so you can get an idea:
MSI 870a-G54
AMD Phenom II x4 965 oc 3.8 w/stock fan
Antec 550w 80 plus PSU (I don't know which model off hand)
8gb Gskill DDR3 1333 oc/1600 (or what ever it is for over clocking... lol )
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 1gb video card
3x Seagate 7200rpm, 32mb cache 750gb drives
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful By Thant on November 25, 2010
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MSI over any other mainboard anyday. It's always a joy to build a computer using an MSI mainboard knowing it will run and last long no matter what.

The guy above me has already given you tons of tech info so I'm not going into it. Well, I bought an AMD Phenom II X3 740 (Heka) and was successful with the unlocking- so my X3 has turned into an X4.

Long Live MSI!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By Michael J. Bradley on January 6, 2013
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Please forgive me for starting with some general info about computer product reviews on Amazon by non-experts. It's difficult for a non-techie to gauge the quality of a review, since there's no requirement that the Amazon reviewer be a computer professional, let alone an expert. Best to rely on computer expert reviewers such as Tom's Hardware Guide, or CNet (although even CNet sometimes gives amateur quality reviews). Many times a bash by a reviewer will be due to the reviewer's own amateur expertise in being a system builder, trying to integrate non-compatible peripherals, like trying to make a Sound Blaster II from his Pentium 4, 1.8 GHZ system work in his
new 3.4 GHZ mainboard.

MSI products are top-notch. This board and competitive boards were about $90-150 when boards with USB 3.0 and SATA III (6Gb/s) were first introduced. I just bought one for $50 from Amazon (minus shipping), along with a 3.4 Phenom II 965 4 core for $85 from Tiger Direct, and 32GB DDR3 from Amazon for about $ 130. (I'm building a new Hyper-V server to host 5-10 Windows Servers.)

I make my living as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, not a game player. But to be able to build a system capable of running 10 servers for under $ 500 is nothing short of amazing. I currently have an MSI 870A-G45 (770 southbridge, USB 2.0, SATA II (3Gb/s) with 12GB DDR3 hosting up to 4 VM's no problem.
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