Testseek.com have collected 21 expert reviews of the MSI K9A2 Platinum and the average rating is 76%. Scroll down and see all reviews for MSI K9A2 Platinum.
March 2008
(76%)
21 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Abstract: A well laid out board packed with future-proofing features, including support for AMDs latest Phenom processors and - if your wallet will allow it - up to four graphics cards. MSI - K9A2 Platinum price Buy MSI K9A2 Platinum securely online at a barga...
o Passive heatpipe cooling, o Crossfire X support, o eSATA connections, o Great motherboard for cheap X2 processors (OC),
o A little pricy at about 1100 DKK
Because this is the MSI Platinum motherboard, nothing is missing. Theres a broad variety of BIOS features for overclocking, fan control and control of temperatures etc. The motherboard overclocks well with a small and cheap X2 processor from AMD, whi...
It's already part of your existing system, why buy another board?, Excellent Phenom II overclockability, Feature rich and mature BIOS, 6 SATA ports, Four 16x PCIE Slots, Cool running chipset and PWM, even when overclocked, Plenty of room to install la...
Hard to find on the retail market, Fairly low CPU FSB overclock, Extremely poor USB controller, Only 2 SATA RAID ports, Hitech Legion Editors Choice Award
When I was approached and asked to do this review, I was extremely apprehensive. I reminded the boss of his past experience with this motherboard and the Phenom I CPUs. His assuring me that things have changed was not enough, I had to see it to believe...
However, by investing in K9A2 Platinum, you will have with high quality platform for later upgrade, as well as solid base for good performances and moderate overclock. AMD 790FX is stable and reliable chipset, that is capable of extracting maximum fr...
MSI has done a wonderful job with their K9A2 Platinum motherboard. The performance is higher than the last AMD motherboard we did the Gigabyte GA-M69GM-S2H motherboard back in September. The ability to do Quadfire (Four ATI cards in Crossfire) is excel...
Abstract: What we end up with here is a very capable Phenom/Athlon motherboard that offers an excellent variety of features, tweaks and stability to make any AMD-user happy with the purchase. I think at the end of the day, however, the main drawback to this or ...
Overall, the MSI K9A2 Platinum was a mixed bag. As shown through our benchmarks, at stock speeds, the K9A2 Platinum was rather speedy and very solid. We did not have any stability issues, even under full load. The translation lookaside buffer issue ne...
Abstract: This board provides support for AMD’s latest AM2+ processors as well as being fully backwards compatible with all AMD’s AM2 Athlon and Sempron CPUs. It’s also a first in that it supports Quadfire (four-way Crossfire) and SAS (serial atta...
Abstract: AMD 790FX chipset (AMD 790FX + SB600) Our recent research (as well as observations of our colleagues and users, who already tried these processors) proves that its practically impossible to find real applications to detect the notorious TLB error in t...
