Something to keep in mind should your MSI board ever kick the bucket. […]
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Something to keep in mind should your MSI board ever kick the bucket.
There are a number of late Athlon XP boards that have the 4 pin +12v connector and its worth seeking one of these boards out as the +12v connector makes getting a PSU for Athlon setups as easy as grabbing any ATX PSU . .even modern ones will work as long as they have that 4 pin 12v plug.
As an example the Abit NF7-S 2.0 has the 4 pin socket, you can see it in the link below as the little 4pin socket next to the ATX connector, these boards seem to be fairly easy to obtain on Evilbay at reasonable prices.
http://hw-museum.cz/mb/12/abit-nf7-v2-0
This is also the board I use as its a rock solid Barton board, some here might not agree as its got a Nforce chipset and has a few issues with DOS compatibility due to that, but for a Win98se/WinXP box its pretty much perfect. (Not sure why people would use a Barton CPU for DOS .. its overkill)