MSI Neo-FIS2R Motherboard

Pros: One of the fastest P4HT mobos. Easy overclocking. Lots of hardware/software included
Cons: HDD LED doesn't work with SATA harddisks. Documentation needs work. Not enough fan headers.

I bought this mobo (and a P4 at 2.40GHz with hyperthreading, and 2 matched sticks of Kingston 256MB DDR400) a couple of months ago, after I saw reviews in magazines and on tomshardware.com, and I like it very much. In the following review I will try to ...

Pros: Very nice price/performance/features.
Cons: Poor overclocking and stability. No DOT as advertised. BIOS needs work.

I purchased my MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R 5 months ago for use in a new system. I wanted performance and reliability for computational use (not games). The on-board features of the Neo2, the performance reviews and the not-excessive price made a compelling ...

Pros: A very fast and very well featured mainboard
Cons: Overclocking is not great, but suitable, stability could be better

I first purchased this board in september 2003 and built up a system with a 3GHz P4 and 120GB SATA hard drive. However soon after I experienced blue screens of death, system restarts, and applications crashing to the desktop. The motherboard then died and had to be replaced. I was infact reluctant to get the same motherboard again but now I have it and I love its features and the performance is decent, if not superb. I do recommend it to anyone wanting to build a solid spec P4 system, although stability can be a little iffy. It can use ECC RAM too which is a feature few chipsets support on the consumer 'desktop' PC market. Running this system with Dual Channel PC3700 RAM gives me a highly commendably fast set up. I like this motherboard despite my earlier anguish.

Pros: good features, are they worse it, that's up to you.
Cons: DO NOT USE IT WITH PRESCOTT!!

I bought the MSI 875P Neo FIS2R about a year ago after a long research on the web (anandtech.com, hardwarezone.com and so). I must say I keep all the drivers and BIOS up to date.
Recently I decided to move from my old P4 2.8Ghz 800MHz 512KB L2cache processor to the P4 Prescott with same configuration, instead 1MB L2cache.
Here's when the problem started. On MSI web site it states that the mobo supports Prescott processor upto 3.4GHz? Well my 2.8GHz started running way warmer the its predecessor. About 20-25°, up to 75° celcius. I use a big air case, two rear fans one front fan in addition I added the Gigabyte 3DCooler-Pro PCU21-VG P4/K7/K8 Heatsink, which is not the best on the market but at full blow I should have help.
Well nothing happended. Same Temp. contacted MSI tech supp USA and Taiwan. No reply.
I think it's time for me to move to a different mobo and this is my first and last MSI product.
PS: tried the Prescott P4 2.8GHz 800MHz 1MB L2cache on an Asus P4P8X, and guess. It runs fantastics.