PC Stats has put up a MSI 648 MAX-L Motherboard review

I was really excited about sitting down and testing this SiS 648 based motherboard. From what I've read the SiS 648 chipset is supposed to be a full-blown i850E/RDRAM killer and I really wanted to test this out first hand! In terms of feature the motherboard has onboard 5.1 audio albeit from the AC-97 codec; 8X AGP, Gigabit LAN (10/100/1000), six USB ports (four rear, two USB 2.0), six PCI slots, and three DIMM's that support upto 3GB of PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 officially and PC3200 (DDR400)... unofficially that is! The SiS 693 Southbridge supports UDMA133 as well, but not IDE RAID is not an option here.

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