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MSI K9VGM-V (MS-7253)
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3 46694 04-21-2011
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67% of reviewers $90.00 6.0



Description: Basic motherboard for AMD Athlon 64/FX/X2 processors. VIA K8M890 chipset (northbridge) and VIA VT8237A (southbridge).

Integrated VGA and all basic stuff (COM, RJ-45, etc.).
Keywords: motherboard, amd
/sbin/lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 3230 (rev 11)
04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)
Chipset: Northbridge: VIA K8M890


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Old 02-19-2009, 03:46 PM   #1
sci-mike
 
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 0

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Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid? (in USD): $90.00 | Rating: 0

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution: ubuntu 08-10, 32b, or 64b



I am a programing/Linux newbie.
Very quick on WinXP, will not load Ubuntu at all.
 
Old 04-09-2009, 02:31 PM   #2
shane_kerr
 
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 12

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 6

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.28-11-generic
Distribution: Ubuntu jaunty beta


Seems to mostly work. I am using a separate PCI-E video card. On-board sound, USB, SATA, and Ethernet all works. lm-sensors gives bogus temperatures (it is *not* -3 degrees in my computer case), although apparently this may have been fixed in the 2.6.29 kernel.

Be careful not to go over 2 GB of RAM - the system will try to run, but will fail in various strange ways.
 
Old 04-21-2011, 12:39 PM   #3
pi3832
 
Registered: Jan 2008
Distribution: Ubuntu and Fedora
Posts: 0

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Distribution:


>Be careful not to go over 2 GB of RAM - the system will try to run, but will fail in various strange ways.

It may not be the motherboard. There's a problem with AMD CPUs and trying to run more than three sticks of RAM at more than 533 MHz. I can run 4 GB of RAM, but only at 533 MHz single-channel mode. In dual-channel mode (800 MHz) the mobo won't even boot with 4 x 1 GB installed, but runs fine with 2 x 1 GB installed.

This is from memory. I don't have the time at the moment to track down confirmation links. I'll try to get back to here in the next few days to do so.
 




  



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