TweakTown has posted a review on the MSI K7 Master DDR motherboard

MSI have been a supporter of the AMD K7 line of processors from the beginning. MSI´s first AMD motherboard was a Slot A motherboard called the MS-6169. This board was based on AMD´s Irongate 750 chipset and was one of the very few to actually use the AMD 756 Viper Southbridge. This board like most of the AMD 750 based boards had problems working with the GeForce video cards at AGP 2x. MSI released a newer version of the MS-6169 called the MSI K7 Pro. This board once again featured the AMD 750 chipset and changed over form the 756-viper Southbridge to the VIA VT82C686A Southbridge. Also on top of this the K7 Pro featured the new C5 stepping of the AMD 750 chipset. This new stepping chipset allowed what AMD titles "Super By-pass" which greatly increased memory performance. This was the last Slot A board made by MSI, skipping the whole KX133 phase. When KT133 chipset and the new socket A architecture came out MSI immediately designed and released the MSI K7T Pro, This board we reviewed a while ago, the K7T Pro featured a 6PCI, 1AGP 4x slot and 1CNR slot with onboard sound was a well featured board. When the Overclocking options of the Socket A Athlon and Duron were found by overclockers on the Internet MSI took the K7T Pro and added the ability to use the AMD overclocking options and called it the K7T Pro 2. This board was identical in layout to the K7T Pro only difference was the new overclocking options to allow the user to change the clock multiplier of the CPU. When VIA released the 686B Southbridge which added native ATA-100 support, MSI took the K7T Pro 2 and changed the Southbridge from the 686A which the K7T pro and Pro2 used. This board was then called the MSI K7T Pro 2A, which we also reviewed earlier.

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