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Socket 478 Special!
MSI’s Prescott Ready FSB 800 Motherboard.
MSI’s new PM8M-V Socket 478 motherboard meets the huge demand for affordable
platforms to launch today’s extremely powerful systems. This best-selling
Micro-ATX motherboard is a perfect fit for Intel’s quick, powerful Pentium
4 CPUs up to 3.4 GHz and Celeron processors to 3.2GHz. Based on the super-efficient
VIA P4M800 chipset, the MSI PM8M-V supports up to 800MHz FSB, DDR SDRAM memory
to 2GB, AGP 8X, Integrated VIA Unichrome 2D/3D graphics, SATA, 6-channel audio,
SPDIF-out, Ethernet LAN and USB 2.0.
Plug and Play Bios.
The PM8M-V Socket 478 mainboard boasts some of the industry’s best system
management tools including Plug & Play BIOS that automatically detect the
peripheral devices and expansion cards. The MSI PM8M-V also provides an innovative
Desktop Management Interface (DMI) function that records the motherboard’s
specifications.
Whether you’re building a masterful gaming rig, a high-performance business
computer or a magnificent multimedia outfit, MSI’s PM8M-V provides an extraordinary
foundation at an affordable cost. Order now, while supplies last.
A Closer Look
What's Included
- MSI PM8M-V Via Socket 478 MicroATX Motherboard
- User's Manual
- Drivers & Utilities CD
- Via SATA RAID Driver Disk
- SATA Cable
- Power Connector
- IDE Cable
- FDD Cable
- I/O Back Panel Shield
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Latest Owner Reviews
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| REVIEW BY: Max Reviewed
May 26, 2008 |
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| Mine started acting up after the warantee expired also. Sound has a lot of ''buzz''. Board runs hot and shuts off at bios highest setting. |
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| REVIEW BY: Andy Reviewed
Jun 01, 2007 |
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| Great replacement MB. Replaced my Fry's bundle ECS 848P-A that would NEVER initialize the video properly. Only two hours to replace, boot and configure. SATA works right off the bat (no need for drivers, BTW who uses floppy's ???) if one setups it up in BIOS (mentioned by previous reviews), and eventhough an older SATA150, it screams. Loved to boot from CD-ROM option when installing OS. Only compliant would be that user has to choose either front panel audio output or from back, not both.
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| REVIEW BY: carl Reviewed
May 16, 2007 |
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| I was disappointed with MSI, they don’t include the SATA drivers on floppy. So if your running SATA hard drives you’re going to need to go online and download the drivers, which can be a pain when your comp is broke. Board was easy to install and now functions great. But MSI by trying to save $0.25 on a floppy turned a 2-3 hour job into 2 two day swearing contest. |
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| REVIEW BY: chris Reviewed
May 13, 2007 |
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| ran good for about a month, if that, then started getting all sorts of mobo errors. returning now, if MSI will accept it. boo. |
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| REVIEW BY: Gary Reviewed
May 09, 2007 |
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| There is a reason that the factory only gives this board one year of warrantee while many others back theirs with 3 years. Mine lasted just about 14 months before it died. Otherwise, it is a good board with reasonable abilities. |
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| REVIEW BY: esindave Reviewed
Apr 29, 2007 |
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| I bought this in a mobo, great board! Put a P4 3.0 on it and 1gb ddr. Through the whole thing together and up and running in less then 2 hours. Not the best for gaming but does super for everything else I have throwin at it... Will make a great second when I upgrade!!! Great service with tiger too!!! |
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| REVIEW BY: kameleon_o Reviewed
Jan 26, 2007 |
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| Great board. Everything went real easy. Had better instructions than my last board and was easier to connect all the peripherals. One mistake I made was that I took the 24 pin connector apart, plugged the 20 pin connector into the mobo and then took the 4 pin plug that was left over and plugged that into the 4 pin plug on the mobo. Didn't work. My PSU had another 4 pin connector and when I plugged that in, it fired up. Also, the previous reviewers were right. You have to go into ''integrated peripherals/Via onchip IDE Device/ Enable''. Then change the SATA mode from Raid to IDE. It also kept telling me that my floppy disk failed. I don't have one hooked up so I just disabled that in the Advanced BIOS. |
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| REVIEW BY: philr25 Reviewed
Oct 21, 2006 |
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| Board was bad out of the box. Tiger replaced with another then it appeared the CPU was bad. By the time I could verify that the CPU was good and the replacement board was bad, Tiger would not exchange again or replace with something else. I've submitted MSI's warranty request at least 3 times and never gotten any kind of reply and I have no idea how else to reach them. I'd have preferred to flush my 50 bucks down the toilet so I at least knew where it went. |
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| REVIEW BY: fallen4her04 Reviewed
Oct 18, 2006 |
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| The best board I have ever installed and used. Easy and quick to install and get running. I have had it running for almost 3 months now and haven't had a single problem with it, and for the price you can't go wrong. |
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| REVIEW BY: kokopat Reviewed
Oct 18, 2006 |
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| Great replacement for an E-machine. Dropped in the cpu - memory - hooked up the cables and she came up running. No complaints from the owner since 1/06. |
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| REVIEW BY: nac Reviewed
Oct 18, 2006 |
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| These boards are a really good product. |
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| REVIEW BY: david.j.brown@cox.net Reviewed
Oct 17, 2006 |
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| I bought this product two months ago and decided to write this review after a good burn-in period.
Quite frankly, this was a truly a value for money combo. The installation into a new case, fitting all connections,CPU, Cooler fan etc was a breeze. I was not disappointed with the speed of the CPU and went for a 1 GiG memory chip so I can upgrade later. The only thing to be aware of and that is if you change out your hard drive to a new motherboard and you are running XP you will need to reload XP and get a new number from Microsoft. I am sure there is an easier way to do it but I learned the hard way.
I am very, very pleased though with all the products that I purchased without question. David J Brown. ukoilman@gmail.com |
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| REVIEW BY: rgrcommo Reviewed
Sep 08, 2006 |
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| Product will not POST - has no display -- before you buy make sure you Google on this MOBO.. there are lots of issues with it not able to POST. ie. there is no display - nothing comes on screen. |
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| REVIEW BY: PanamaTiger Reviewed
Aug 23, 2006 |
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| Fantastic board - easy installation and configuration. I've been using SOYO M/B's; and will be using MSI from now on. |
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| REVIEW BY: James Reviewed
Aug 21, 2006 |
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| Extremely nice for the price. Set up quick and works very well. With the same CPU/Ram/Hardware, my computer seems twice as fast with this MB. |
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| REVIEW BY: RC Reviewed
Jun 22, 2006 |
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| Nice MB. Easy to set up. Had no problems at all. Purchased as part of a barebones kit that assembled really quick. MSI makes decent components. Tiger was quick to ship all my items. I would purchase from them again. |
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| REVIEW BY: edward Reviewed
Jun 21, 2006 |
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| A++. no problem. MSI has a great software (MSI LIVE) that updates drivers and bios in a very user friendly software. recieved item in perfect condition. |
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| REVIEW BY: Mud Reviewed
Jun 09, 2006 |
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| as stated below great board. Replaced another board that had gone bad. I had no issues with compatiblity
Detected everthing right away and was simple to install. Being ordered on a three day weekend it was still here in three days Thanks Tiger |
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| REVIEW BY: ne4ious Reviewed
May 23, 2006 |
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| will recommend to a buddy that loves to game FPS. Overclock features is what make it shine, and well for the best bang for your buck, look no further. My current specs: P4 w/HT @ 3.2GHz OC to 3.4GHz and 800MHz FSB; 2GB PC3200 @ 400MHz Dual-Channel OC to 433MHz; BFG Tech 6600GT OC GPU; WD Raptor @ 10K RPM 37GB; Seagate @ 7200 RPM 250GB, Maxtor @ 7200 RPM 40GB; 500W ULTRA PSU.
This Mad_Rig is still going to take it for a long haul before I decide to upgrade to SLI PCI-Express video. |
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| REVIEW BY: Dan Reviewed
May 06, 2006 |
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| Good board, well worth the 64 bucks paid.
*for people that will be using a SATA drive as their master*
In the BIOS go to..
Integrated Peripherals/Via onchip IDE Device/ Enable ''onchip SATA'' and SATA Mode to IDE.*
I was about to return my SATA Harddrive cause I didn't figure that out at first. |
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| REVIEW BY: Digital Nightmare Reviewed
Apr 21, 2006 |
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| Awesome mobo. Very easy to install, instructions were a lot clearer than others I've installed. What really impressed me is how well the IGP runs. I've been running Doom3 and Half-Life2 on the IGP with almost no lag. Very impressed would buy again. |
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| REVIEW BY: dallasdol3 Reviewed
Apr 05, 2006 |
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| This motherborad rocks for the price. It has everything I needed & more. |
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| REVIEW BY: Mike in CO Reviewed
Apr 03, 2006 |
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| The mobo of my Shuttle shorted out, so I got this to work with the Aspire SFF case. A great combination! I am running an AGP videocard and wireless PCI card. Lots of hookups for front of case USB - I am very happy |
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| REVIEW BY: Roger Reviewed
Mar 28, 2006 |
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| Super awsome product! Easy to install, the layout simple. Customer survice has a lot to be desired for. I needed tech support and spent a while on the phone only to have to leave a message. Props to them for calling me back. |
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| REVIEW BY: Dee Reviewed
Mar 08, 2006 |
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| Received this mobo in a combo package. I have not had much time to work with it, but the installation was easy. The only problem I had was when I added a video card i had to remove one of the mobo mounting screws since it was right in the path of the card slot. Nothing major. Overall a great deal for the $$. |
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| REVIEW BY: jawofech Reviewed
Mar 02, 2006 |
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| No problems, just needed a newer mobo with something other than onboard graphics and that was able to handle my P4-2.4 CPU and the newer 8x agp slot...Once again, another pleasant shopping experience along with prompt delivery. |
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| REVIEW BY: Eric D Reviewed
Feb 28, 2006 |
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| No problems whatsoever, got this and the Celeron D 2.93 Ghz bundle. Great value, speedy little computer. Celeron has definitely grown up from it's earlier days. Mobo comes with a much needed backplate, manual is decent, the LiveUpdate feature is great for updating the BIOS and other mobo related software. Def. recommended for budget systems. |
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| REVIEW BY: MazeMann Reviewed
Feb 23, 2006 |
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| Exceptional value: absolutely stable running P4 at 3.2 gHz, cool running, quite fast, super low cost. I mounted the board in an Antec Aria Micro ATX cube type case and prayed the CPU would not melt down. But, CPU stays under 120F with a Cooler Master copper heat sink and CPU fan at 3K RPM. It's so fast that loading up MS Word is almost like flipping a light switch- click the mouse and it's loaded. Highly recommended. |
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| REVIEW BY: mwolfe83 Reviewed
Feb 09, 2006 |
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| Great board. I dropped it into the case crossed my fingers....perfect! thanks tiger for another great product. |
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| REVIEW BY: bestsportnascar Reviewed
Feb 07, 2006 |
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| Great board for the money. Have always liked MSI boards. |
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| REVIEW BY: mike54703 Reviewed
Jan 31, 2006 |
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| Board came as part of a kit. Assembled easily. Powered up as expected. Running with Celeron D 3.93G, 512M, 20G IDE drive, 80G Sata drive, Windows 2KSP4. All appears normal. First kit I've assembled.
The Northbridge chip, the VIA P4M800 is running about 57-58c, VIA website says their Northbridge chips should be run at 55c or less, so I guess this is pretty close. Doesn't seem to move much with load. MSI tech support told me it was okay as long it doesn't get over 60c. |
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| REVIEW BY: Bud Reviewed
Jan 22, 2006 |
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| I installed the board with a new Intel Celeron D and 3200 DDR Ram Card. The computer will not shut off. When you click the turn off in XP it just restarts--even with the restart ant power switch removed from the mother board.... |
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| REVIEW BY: Wingnut30941 Reviewed
Dec 27, 2005 |
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| I like this board a lot. Easy to work with, great features, supports a P4 up to 3.4 ghz. I'm not wild about imbedded audio/video, but it also gives you an AGP port for your own video card and the audio is better than my SoundBlaster on my Dell. USB 2.0 and what more could you ask for for under $50.00 I'm buying another one. |
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| REVIEW BY: elliott78212 Reviewed
Oct 19, 2006 |
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| I just put one of these together in a bundled kit came with celeron 3.2ghz by the way these new celerons are actually the old P4's with HT deacivated but they still use netburst technology out clocked my Medion P4 2.8 without a hitch this board was installed and updated using MSI liveUpdate what an awesome tool no searching for updated drivers added a dvd dual layer burner, 180gb hard drive and 1gb of ram. Awesome video ripping and divx encoding speeds makes a nice mutli-media and gaming pc added a MSI 256gb agp video card WHAT A DEAL!!! I would have given it 5 stars but I made this one to sell and it did for over Six Hundred dollars. |
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| REVIEW BY: Shmanda Reviewed
Jul 02, 2006 |
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| Great board. I do have to agree with the other poster about SATA. I use an IDE drive as primary and then connected two SATA drives for storage. The PC wouldn't turn on. After I changed the ''SATA mode'' to IDE in the BIOS, they were recognized. |
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| REVIEW BY: rufudufus Reviewed
May 31, 2006 |
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| Didn't recognize my SATA drive until I changed SATA mode on BIOS from RAID to IDE. Other than that, no problems. Nice, compact board, no issues getting my Radeon and sound card installed. Pretty good overclocking features.
Cons: BIOS doesn't have useful help docs, board manual describes different version of BIOS than what's installed. Just be very careful changing any settings. |
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| REVIEW BY: mattman245 Reviewed
May 08, 2006 |
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| pretty darn good little board, easy overclockimg fetures, pretty decent bios layout. If it wasnt for 478 nearing death ide put em in every system i build.
AGP slot has been a bit fussy for me but nothing that couldnt be overcome, seems to prefer ATI, for me anyway.This prescott ready board might help this system live long enough to see what intel comes up with next. |
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| REVIEW BY: Gac Reviewed
Apr 23, 2006 |
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| MSI Makes a very good product from Graphic Cards to Motherboards at a medium price range. I'm pleased so far with this board. Lots of bang for the buck!
I didn't give it 5 stars because of a couple buggy boot-up problems. The BIOS is touchy and works best using the default settings. If you need to disable the SATA do so after defaulting it. I still get a ROM message at boot up now and them but can't seem to read it as it goes by to fast and it doesn't seem to impact performance.
I checked for an update from MSI, none was available. The memory slots are very tight, this makes seating the stick critical or you won't get it to boot up either. If it doesn't boot the first time take the sticks out and install them. The USB 2.0 drivers are dependent on XP SP1 being installed.
Overall good value for the money and once you get it setup, it seems to blaze! |
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| REVIEW BY: Nolan Reviewed
Mar 07, 2006 |
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| works great no problems at all. |
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| REVIEW BY: Jayarrl Reviewed
Mar 02, 2006 |
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| I like it it works great only problem i've had with it was the sound isn't working i'm not sure if it's the mobo or if i installed something wrong.. and yes i did install the drivers so it's not that other than that great board it's currently running world of warcraft awesomely! |
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| REVIEW BY: Stingray Reviewed
Feb 25, 2006 |
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| IT IS MSI, what do you think. I have never had a problem with any MSI product, and this is no exception. The only inconveince, hence the no fifth star, is where the floppy is at, it comes with plenty of cable, but at the bottom?? Some one had a brain fart, oh well, still a great board |
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| REVIEW BY: Stormswynd Reviewed
Jan 19, 2006 |
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| Used this board to replace a blown amd athalon xp motherboard/cpu in a compaq 5200cl. During the windows xp home recovery install, it hiccuped on the 4 in 1 usb drivers--but it was a simple matter of ignoring the errors until windows started and running the motherboard driver installers. Hardware install took less than 15 minutes. The only reason the board didn't get a 5 rating was the floppy connector is in an odd location--on the outside of the expansion slots, which forces you to go over/around the expansion cards (needs a long cable or no expansion cards). |
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| REVIEW BY: emailmaomao Reviewed
Jan 07, 2006 |
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| The system shut off right after Window's 1st installation screen. All parts were either new or swapped from other healthy computer. (Tried 3 differnent RAM, 3 Hard Drives, 2 Video Cards,...)
Ususally I can build computer from ground up in about 30 mins, but this one is a pain.. |
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