Really Annoyed at MSI and planning to complain

[alanbjames]

I have MSI Flagship AM3+ motherboard which is the newest version 2.2.

Here is the board..
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/990FXA...l#/?div=Detail

As u can see it has the 990FXA chipset on it so its the latest chipset board.

When i was thinking of upgrading my processor i was going to go for one of their 9000 series CPUs and after reading articles like this i thought all will be ok.

http://www.pclaunches.com/processors...5ghz-speed.php.

So i went to the MSI website to get the latest bios as it was required and i could only find one that supported the 8000 series chips. Feeling a little confused i posted a question on the MSI forums only to be told by an MSI moderator that the board does not officially support the 9000 series processors so as u can imagine im a little annoyed. After all its their Flagship AMD AM3+ board. The likes of Gigabyte, ASUS and Asrock support the 9000 series processors on their 990 chipset boards.

Ive used MSI products for many years since Socket 7 and the AMD K6-2 processors and have always been happy but this has put me off a bit.

his info may be out of date http://www.techpowerup.com/188144/ms...processor.html

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http://www.pclaunches.com/processors...5ghz-speed.php

[alanbjames]

Yes but what im saying is there is no bios to download to support the 9000 chips.

[qasdfdsaq]

MSI have been doing this for a long time.

The same thing happened on their AM2+ boards.

[damien c]

I would strongly advise against buying one of the 9590 or 9370 series cpu's and a MSI board.

If you do want to buy one of those cpu's then you would be better buying a Asus or Gigabyte board as they have better, VRM's and the VRM design is alot better as well.

Those 9000 series cpu's draw that much power that they can quite easily burn out motherboards which is, why they were initially not going to be sale for the general public and were only going to be available, to system building companies who could put the time and effort in to build a proper watercooling loop for the cpu and motherboard.

If you really want a 8 Core AMD chip then grab a 8320 or 8350 and overclock it to 5.0ghz since most hit that, speed whilst staying cool and not needing a custom waterloop.

and it saves a fair bit of dosh

[damien c]

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

and it saves a fair bit of dosh

Yep looking on Scan you can get a 8350 and a Corsair H100i for less than the 9590 on it's own, and you will save electric if you leave it at stock speed also.