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PRODUCT FEATURES:Integrated audio10/100/1000 LANSerial ATARAID function Product Description: MSI K9A2 CF-F V2 - motherboard - ATX - AMD 790X Product Type: Motherboard Form Factor: ATX Dimensions (WxDxH): 12 in x 9.6 in Chipset Type: AMD 790X / AMD SB600 Multi-Core Support: Dual-Core / Triple-core / Quad-core Max Bus Speed: 2600 MHz Processor: 0 ( 1 ) - Socket AM2+ Compatible Processors: Athlon 64, Sempron, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 X2, Phenom X4, Phenom X3 64-bit Processors Compatibility: Yes RAM: 0 MB (installed) / 8 GB (max) Supported RAM Technology: DDR2 SDRAM Storage Controller: ATA-133, Serial ATA-300 (RAID) USB Ports Configuration: 10 x USB Storage Ports Configuration: 1 x ATA, 4 x SATA Audio Output: Sound card - 7.1 channel surround Networking: Network adapter - Realtek RTL8111B - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
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 "Very good old model ..." 2010-02-08
By JESUS (VENEZUELA)
this motherboard to buy for a gift to a friend what I can say is that it works very well, you install two graphics cards ATI 4670 ...



esta tarjeta madre la compre para un regalo a un amigo lo que si me dijo es que funciona muy bien, le instalo dos tarjetas graficas Ati 4670...

 "The less bells and whistles the better board it is" 2009-09-22
By A. DANILOFF (USA)
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a brain dead gaming addict nor MS Windows slave. So, people from this category please walk on by. I'm not going to brag about how your "beloved" MS OS or whatever game flies or rather gloriously smokes on this board.



I purchased a couple of these boards to build a cheap High Availability Linux Cluster without breaking the bank and to reliably run my Web, Mail, MySQL, SVN and other server applications in 24x7 operation mode.

The set of requirements was to find a general purpose motherboard which will sustain a high I/O throughput with good reliable componentry, and with minimum to none set of unnecessary features like EEE1394 / FireWire, Optical SPDIF outs, IEEE1394 ports and so on.

MSI K9A2 CF-F V2 has perfectly met these requirements. The only two wasted features were sound capability of ALC888 chipset and CrossFire capability of 790X main board chipset. Which is nothing compare to what would be wasted, had I chosen a different, more expensive board.

MSI built this board with long life solid capacitors which prior were used mainly on the server grade boards. Solid capacitors can outlast any conventional electrolytic capacitors by ten fold, which is very important for long term reliability of servers and HA clusters.

K9A2 CF-F V2 board supports up to 8GB of DDR2 533/667/800/1066 memory that is more than enough to have in every single node of the HA cluster or in light to medium duty general server.

The only noticeable drawbacks of this board were its el'cheapo aluminum heat sinks with that goofy and useless heat tape. The major cause of electronic componentry failure in almost 65% of the cases is insufficient heat transfer. So, I had to remove all the heat sinks, lap them, then polish, and then re-install them using an excellent Arctic Silver-5 heat sink paste.

I have my own well developed procedure how to drastically increase thermal conductance of any heat sink. On average 11 Centigrade temperature drop of the heat sink protected components was achieved in this case. I have to praise this board BIOS flexibility and intelligence. Due to the space limitations, I had to install Promise SuperTrak EX8350 Raid controllers in the first PCI-Ex16 slot and nVidia 7200 video cards in the second PCI-Ex16 (practically Ex8) slot on all these boards. K9A2 CF-F V2 handled this unusual arrangement without a hitch. While comparable and more expensive ASUS motherboard failed to recognize either Raid controller or video card, didn't post, and just produced some error code in the series of beeps.

So far, all five initial cluster nodes I built using this board are functioning admirably as they should. The best thing, that by choosing this inexpensive MSI K9A2 CF-F V2 board I did not exceed $1,050 price tag per each cluster node loaded with 8 x 0.5TB SATA hard drives, 8GB of RAM, EX8350 Raid controller, 9600 X4 Phenom CPU, e.t.c. Had I chosen a different mother board I would have spent at least $100 more with questionable hardware compatibility and potentially other problems as well.

In short, MSI K9A2 CF-F V2 is an excellent board to build a server or HA cluster to run your business or applications. Again, I don't give a damn about it's MS Windows or gaming capabilities - please see my disclaimer.

 "9 months using" 2009-08-12
By Frank (FL)
I have a 9 months using this boar never given me a problem with the games rather stable (Win XP) I do not understand as there are people who have problem.



For my part I recommend + + +

 "Excelent motherboard." 2009-04-04
By Jose Sanquiz (Venezuela)
Excelent motherboard, it work perfect, i OC my phenom 9950 125 watt to 3 GHZ with no problem. Right now i have 8 gb ram OCZ 6400 installed and 2 1 TB seagate hard disk.

 "First one was DOA - Had to RMA" 2009-01-04
By Alejo Aguirre (San Jose, Costa Rica)
The first one I received did not post at all. Had to return it. The second one was fine and I can tell this is a good motherboard. Easy to set up and boots vista ultimate in no more than 45 seconds which is much better that the 1.5 or even 2 minutes i'm used to with other boards.



Outstanding customer service Amazon. Product was replaced immediately and before Christmas. One day delivery. Very pleased with the RMA procedure. 5 Stars for amazon






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 "Nice, inexpensive board" 2010-01-30
By M. Carpenter
First, I received this motherboard a day sooner than the soonest date in the delivery window and in good shape! The purchasing process was seamless and the service was excellent.



As for building my system around the MSI K9A2, my goal was to replace a relatively new but dead motherboard with something inexpensive. So price was a major factor in my decision to go with an AMD-based board. At the same time, I did note the K9A2's support for 4 SATA drives, 8 GB of RAM, and so on. I decided to go with an AMD Athlon X2 dual-core CPU only after I ordered the motherboard. The idea of two cores was appealing and the processor was also relatively inexpensive. Keeping with my money-pinching approach, I also ordered the MSI nVidia GeForce 8400GS PCI-Express video card because it's inexpensive and reviews well; note the K9A2 does not have integrated video on it, so a separate video card is needed.



I planned to reuse as much as possible from the system I already had. For those of you planning to do the same, I note that the re-usable hardware included a mix of IDE and SATA drives, a CD-ROM drive, and a power supply. But there are some considerations I failed to account for until after the fact. First, the memory on the dead mobo was incompatible with the K9A2, so I had to order some DDR2 memory (a 2 GB Corsair DDR2 dekstop memory stick). Second, the K9A2 has only a single IDE interface. So, if you have more than two IDE drives as I did, you're not going to be able to use them all without an additional IDE controller card.



Unfortunately, I ran into a little trouble getting everything going and my system looks like a science project for the time being. To make a long story short, the system would reboot any time the CD-ROM spun up in the CD-ROM drive so I could not boot from or otherwise read from a CD-ROM. After a process of elimination that included purchasing a new SATA DVD burner (thus alleviating my problem of having more IDE drives than IDE interfaces), ripping everything out of the case and re-assembling on a bench, and raising the ire of my spouse, I concluded that the re-used power supply unit wasn't hacking the new system's energy demands. In fact, the mobo manual recommends a 350-Watt supply, so consider re-use of your old PS.



Anyway, I ordered a 400 Watt Diablotek DA Series power supply. Again, inexpensive component with good reviews. I plugged the supply in and - viola! - the K9A2 works like a charm and the CD boot/read issue gone.



All that's left to do is to re-assemble the science project into the case. Assuming nothing is damaged when I

eventually put things back together, it'll be a sweet system, Had I noted _all_ the details regarding the mobo requirements, I would've had the system built in a straight shot! :-)

 "Great board missing SLI bridge..slots are further apart than standard." 2009-10-11
By Mark L. Love
I would buy this board again worked perfect. The only thing to watch out for is the SLI bridge does not come with the motherboard and SLI slots are pretty far apart. My SLI bridge that came with my other MSI board was too short. So I need to find a larger bridge one should have come with board

 "The less bells and whistles the better board it is." 2009-09-23
By A. DANILOFF (USA)
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a brain dead gaming addict nor MS Windows slave. So, people from this category please walk on by. I'm not going to brag about how your "beloved" MS OS or whatever game flies or rather gloriously smokes on this board.



I purchased a couple of these boards to build a cheap High Availability Linux Cluster without breaking the bank and to reliably run my Web, Mail, MySQL, SVN and other server applications in 24x7 operation mode.

The set of requirements was to find a general purpose motherboard which will sustain a high I/O throughput with good reliable componentry, and with minimum to none set of unnecessary features like EEE1394 / FireWire, Optical SPDIF outs, IEEE1394 ports and so on.

MSI K9A2 CF-F V2 has perfectly met these requirements. The only two wasted features were sound capability of ALC888 chipset and CrossFire capability of 790X main board chipset. Which is nothing compare to what would be wasted, had I chosen a different, more expensive board.

MSI built this board with long life solid capacitors which prior were used mainly on the server grade boards. Solid capacitors can outlast any conventional electrolytic capacitors by ten fold, which is very important for long term reliability of servers and HA clusters.

K9A2 CF-F V2 board supports up to 8GB of DDR2 533/667/800/1066 memory that is more than enough to have in every single node of the HA cluster or in light to medium duty general server.

The only noticeable drawbacks of this board were its el'cheapo aluminum heat sinks with that goofy and useless heat tape. The major cause of electronic componentry failure in almost 65% of the cases is insufficient heat transfer. So, I had to remove all the heat sinks, lap them, then polish, and then re-install them using an excellent Arctic Silver-5 heat sink paste.

I have my own well developed procedure how to drastically increase thermal conductance of any heat sink. On average 11 Centigrade temperature drop of the heat sink protected components was achieved in this case. I have to praise this board BIOS flexibility and intelligence. Due to the space limitations, I had to install Promise SuperTrak EX8350 Raid controllers in the first PCI-Ex16 slot and nVidia 7200 video cards in the second PCI-Ex16 (practically Ex8) slot on all these boards. K9A2 CF-F V2 handled this unusual arrangement without a hitch. While comparable and more expensive ASUS motherboard failed to recognize either Raid controller or video card, didn't post, and just produced some error code in the series of beeps.

So far, all five initial cluster nodes I built using this board are functioning admirably as they should. The best thing, that by choosing this inexpensive MSI K9A2 CF-F V2 board I did not exceed $1,050 price tag per each cluster node loaded with 8 x 0.5TB SATA hard drives, 8GB of RAM, EX8350 Raid controller, 9600 X4 Phenom CPU, e.t.c. Had I chosen a different mother board I would have spent at least $100 more with questionable hardware compatibility and potentially other problems as well.

In short, MSI K9A2 CF-F V2 is an excellent board to build a server or HA cluster to run your business or applications. Again, I don't give a damn about it's MS Windows or gaming capabilities - please see my disclaimer.

 "excellent mobo" 2009-06-08
By Roger K. Garcia (venezuela)
well this is a excellent MOBO, you can use the lastest AMD CPU Phenom AM2+, the only cons, is that you need to buy a graphic card because don't have internal graphics.

 "Excelente Tarjeta!" 2009-04-29
By Clemente Perez (San Felipe, Venezuela)
Esta tarjeta es excelente, lo unico es que no trae video integrado y hay que comprarle una tarjeta de video a juro para ponerla a funcionar, pero eso es lo de menos.



Puedes tener 2 tarjets de video a la vez y OC para sumarlas y el rendimiento es excelente.


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 "Beware of quality issues with this board" 2010-01-07
By MW (Miramar, Florida United States)
I had to return the first one I purchased because it would not recognize the A1 RAM slot. I tried switching the RAM modules around and also tried another brand of RAM; same issue. I also tried tweaking the BIOS; no luck. The replacement board is working fine so far.



This is a quality control issue with this board....look this model up under the subject line within the Asus forum on their website and you'll see that failure to recognize RAM installed on the board is a problem that many buyers have experienced. Hopefully my replacement board will continue to work, but after the problem with the first one I'm worried and wish I had gone with another brand. I had to unhook everything, including un-installing and cleaning the CPU/CPU cooler, to return it. Of course, then I had to put everything back together again with the replacement....what a pain.



I have a friend that ordered the Asus Rampage and it worked fine, so if you want to go with Asus I would try that model or another one and shy away from the P6T Deluxe V2. It's just not worth the gamble that you might end up with one of the defective boards.



I contacted Asus via email regarding the problem with the first (defective) one and got a copy/paste, stock answer, telling me "Typically memory issues are cause by either bad RAM or the motherboard not auto-detecting the correct memory timmings. Sometimes manually setting the CAS Latency timmings will correct the issue."



Don't believe it; this was/is an Asus manufacturing issue that they need to correct. The exact same setup on the second board worked fine. I only wish I had read the comments on this model in the Asus forum before I made my purchasing decision. I am writing this review so maybe you'll be more fortunate.

 "Great motherboard" 2009-12-19
By Genclaymore (usa)
I got this board else where 4 months ago when I sold my Q6600 motherboard and ram to go I7. This is a good board, overclocks very nicely. Didn't have a issue of getting my I7 920 to 4ghz. I didnt have any missing memory or other memory issues.

 "Come for the speed, stay for the tech support." 2009-10-29
By T. Savage
I actually don't own this board. I own another ASUS board. But this is relevant.





ASUS tech support is ASTOUNDING. The best I have ever used by far. Right off the bat: they don't try and hide tech support phone numbers like SOME companies. No going online and all that (that's always bothered me-- if I need tech support chances are I CAN'T GET ONLINE!) It's on the first page of my manual, right there. They answer quickly-- I've never held for more then 3-5 minutes-- and when they do, oh boy. They hire people with real, serious tech training. They listen carefully and know problem causes by heart-- they're not using an automated troubleshooting system. They suggest a solution and then wait on the line while you try it, so you don't have to go to the trouble of calling back. They don't retreat after 2 minutes to telling you that come component X is no good and you need a new one, like so many tech lines. I've been using the same MOBO (A Striker Extreme) for three years, and their support is to thank for that. Additionally, they can help the tech-unsavvy and the tech-savvy in different ways. I'm pretty in-tuned, and when the tech I spoke to realized this he told me to grab a multi-meter and start poking around, which prevented us from having to test hunches in indirect ways, saving a lot of time.



I'm posting here (and on a few other asus board reviews) because I want people to know how awesome their support is and buy their stuff for that reason. I want the top guys at ASUS to see that this business model (spend more on keeping customers happy, make more on repeat sales) can succeed in a market where it is so rare. We need to show corporations that we respond well to being treated well, and maybe one day amazing tech support will be the standard.



I'm serious: I will never own a main-board other than an ASUS as long as they keep this level of customer respect.

 "Bugged MOBO" 2009-10-09
By Law Baby (Stockbridge, GA, USA)
After a bit of research, all the reviews on this board indicated it was great and just the thing for me. Board was very easy to install, however, when I powered up, nothing happened. An ASUS technician told me the board's BIOS was incompatible with the CPU (Intel Core I-7, 920#. Replaced the board and powered up only to find the SATA ports were defective #would not detect any internal drives). EXPRESS GATE is impressive. I plugged two external drives simltaneously into the USB ports and had no problems viewing/editing photos. It was so impressive that I intend to try a third board. Amazon responded within minutes when I informed them and replaced the board a week before promised.

 "Excellent as usual" 2009-10-06
By Loma Rica (Foothills, California)
I have used Asus MB's for the last four systems I've built. As usual, Asus has once again produced an excellent product. Well made, nicely laid out and many USB and Sata connections. Asus is normally a bit pricey but I don't believe you can beat the Asus quality. Amazon had the best price at the time of purchase and the 2 day shipping is always a nice bonus.


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 "Good beginer/Intermediate Board" 2008-08-04
By David E. Vandeburg (C Springs, CO)
I received the board in excellent condition. It works well, but does not perform as fast I would like. It serves my needs (backup to a backup) but I wouldn't recommend for anyone wanting real speed and computing power.


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 "Excellent!" 2010-03-14
By E. Meiners (Mesa, AZ USA)
I am a 1st time overclocker and this mobo has made it easy! I am running an i7-920 @ 3.5 ghz rock solid for more than a year on this mobo. You can't go wrong with this, my compliments to ASUS for the best mobo I have ever owned. And I have had quite a few, but this is my 1st ASUS.

 "First Asus board I have bought that was stable out of the box" 2009-04-12
By Peter D. Mclinn (Londonderry, NH)
1st of all the packaging is second to none. The manual was very clear and concise and I have to believe that this is the best product I have ever purchased, as far as MOBO's are concerned. ASUS has delivered an incredible product.


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