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MSI K7N2G-ILSR nForce2 Motherboard Review
MSI K7N2G-ILSR nForce2 Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
Well equipped with SATA/IDE RAID, 10/100 LAN, IEEE 1394, USB 2.0, 6-channel audio, TV-out and of course nVIDIA's integrated video.
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External Mfg. Website: MSI Feb 19 2003   C. Sun  
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The K7N2G-ILSR BIOS:

It looks like MSI have done away with AMI BIOS's and moved to the more popular Award BIOS. We still have all the usual tweaks we come to expect from a performance motherboard though.

In the Advanced Chipset Features, I was surprised to find overclocking options. The K7N2G-ILSR allows users to chose any FSB between 100-200 MHz but unlike most other motherboards we can't input the FSB we want - the user must scroll through the numbers which can be a bit annoying. There are a whole slew of FSB/DRAM ratios which is extremely helpful, but to be honest they a bit redundant because the AthlonXP cannot use that much bandwidth.

We have the usual memory tweaks we expect and there are also a few AGP tweaks here as well.

In Frequency/Voltage Control we can set the AGP speed to anything between 66 and 120 MHz. The AGP voltage can be raised to 1.7V and the DIMM voltage can go as high as 2.7V. There are multiplier controls for unlocked Athlon processors and the CPU voltage can be raised as high as 1.8V.

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Contents of Article: MSI K7N2G-ILSR
 Pg 1.  MSI K7N2G-ILSR nForce2 Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  Close up with the K7N2G-ILSR
 Pg 3.  Around the Socket: Heatsink Clearances
 Pg 4.  — The K7N2G-ILSR BIOS:
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks: SysMark2002, Winstone2002
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: Winbench99, SiSoft Sandra 2003
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: PCMark2002, 3DMark2001SE
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: QIII and Conclusion

 
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