HardOCP has posted a review on the MSI KT7 Turbo-R motherboard
The K7T Turbo-R is a Socket A motherboard, featuring a 6/1/1 PCI/AGP/AMR layout. It utilizes VIA´s VT8363A Northbridge, the VT82C686B Southbridge, as well as the Promise PDC20265R RAID chipset. The 363A Northbridge, or KT133A, brings with it official 133MHz frontside bus support, while the 686B Southbridge supplies the ATA100 IDE protocol we´ve all come to know and love. Other then that, you´ve got your 4 USB ports, 2 RPM monitoring fan headers, and the 45 degree offset northbridge chipset MSI is famous for. Oddly enough, MSI has chosen to buck the trend of placing an active cooling solution on the Northbridge. Instead, they placed a gold version of the typical green heatsink most of the other OEM´s are so fond of. Aren´t they crafty...Read more
