Micro-Star NFORCE4 SOCKET 939 ATHLON64FX ( K8N NEO4-F )

by MSI

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007XXHLE
• Item model number: K8N NEO4-F
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 24, 2005

Product Description

MSI (K8N-NEO4-F) ATX Athlon 64 939 nForce 4

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Right Choice, August 11, 2005

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Wally Gator / Lagarto Juancho (Caracas, Venezuela) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Micro-Star NFORCE4 SOCKET 939 ATHLON64FX ( K8N NEO4-F ) (Personal Computers)

This board is excelent. All devices work like a charm and it's good looking too, for those of you who mod cases and all that.

I upgraded from a MSI K7N2 Delta (the premium type, ILSR I think) and this one got most features the other one had with the notable exception of dolby audio and firewire (which I didn't use in the first place) and the plusses of more SATA ports and SATA/PATA RAID (nvRaid).

Something important to note: plan ahead the kind of expansion cards (TV cards, controllers, sound, etc) you're going to use with this or any other amd64 mobo, specially regarding 64-bit driver availability. My TV card for instance, A MSI TV @nywhere Master, doesn't have 64 bit drivers yet for Win64.

In any case, you can still use a 32 bit OS and it'll run perfectly, you just won't be using the amd64 to it's full potential, but still you'll have a quite speedy 32 bit system, due to the outstanding memory controller of this babe.

Little note on 64-bit OSes: WinXP for x86-64 is, IMHO, not a too smart choice at this time. Either stick to 32-bit XP, wait for Vista (aka. Longhorn) or if you know how to use it effectively, install Linux. Ubuntu works very good on this setup, sans minor driver/kernel hiccups, you know, the usual kind.

The other major components I'm using on this setup along this mobo are a MSI GeForce NX6600 (not the gt type), Athlon 64 Venice 3000+ and 1024Mb (2x512Mb) of Mushkin PC3200 blue line memory @ CL2. All works great.

Performance-wise, it beats the stuffing out of my former setup, which was the MSI K7N2 Delta mobo, Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, 1024 Mb PC2700 CL2.5 and a GeForceFX 5700

For the price, this Mobo is a lot of bang for your buck, and I totally recommend It.

5.0 out of 5 stars Last of the 939., January 14, 2007

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J. Hogg "FoilHat" (FL, USA) - See all my reviews
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Get one now, before they're gone. I installed a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 2 sticks of 512mb DDR400, nVidia 7200 PCI-e graphics card. It runs perfectly. I had a little trouble installing drivers, but MSI's website is good, they had everything I needed.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good motherboard, not so great service, November 12, 2006

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B. Eastwood "Teancum74" (Orem, Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Micro-Star NFORCE4 SOCKET 939 ATHLON64FX ( K8N NEO4-F ) (Personal Computers)

A few days after the 30 day warranty expired from Computer Brain the PX Express Slot died, they wouldn't take it back and so I had to deal with the manufacturer directly. I had to pay to ship it back to MSI, they replaced it and then sent it back to me. Overall the board works well, but the service hasn't been wonderful