Motherboard: MSI 645E MAX2 LRU Review :: Installation

Installation was easy. If you don't want to overclock, just plug everything, put the CPU and power it on. There were no jumpers on the motherboard other than board saving Clear CMOS jumper. If you want to fiddle with settings, you can do it by disabling "Detect CPU FSB Clock" and enter the Clock you want limited to 200 MHz. To pump up necessary power for overclocking, the BIOS gives you the CPU and memory voltage settings too. Just AGP Voltage Setting was missing. You can use Fuzzy logic III utility which you can play with setting in the comfort of Windows GUI. But the best thing is the Live BIOS and Driver update utilities which you can update everything effortlessly. I saw a new TSR Utility, which monitors, if your driver and BIOS are updated or not. It continuously monitors those when you connected to internet.

IDE and Floppy connector locations and other connector locations on the motherboard were designed properly to maintain airflow inside the case and make maintenance easier. Just power supply connector place was not quite right.

The AGP Card, when installed, was blocking the installation of additional memory. The AGP Card locking mechanism secures the card in its slot from bumpy roads and an uncomfortable delivery to your house.

The drivers were amazingly stable and worked fine other than one performance issue that I'll write in performance page. You have to install SIS AGP Driver (We used 109f) and IDE Driver for this chipset.