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So my son decided that he liked the graphics on my XFX GeForce 7950GT. So I decided to see if it would work in his system. It currently has a PCI card - Pny GeoForce 5500 or 5200. When I first got the MSI K8N MASTER2-FAR motherboard in his system, it would not boot a PCIX card.

Well, I got it to boot this one. I ended up flipping their SLI/non-SLI card thing and it was a pain. It was hard to insert correctly. And form web searches I'm not the only one who had problems with both it and getting PCI Express video cards working.

Anyway, I couldn't get the drivers to install on the card. It would get almost to the end and lock up. I'm pretty sure it was changing video modes to one higher than my monitor supported. And unlike X, I couldn't reset the mode via a keyboard. With the aid of XFX Customer Support, I did everything - all to no avail. I was happy with their support.

I'm pretty sure it is the MSI motherboard. After I got the card booting into low res, it started to complain about "Other PCI bridge device". And I think that was something to do with their little SLI/non-SLI card. Their manual sucks about explaining it - the pictures show it oriented in the same way for different textual positions.

And their driver disks still look exactly the same. There are two of them and they are not labeled as to what they contain. I could go on - I don't plan to buy from MSI again.

But I would buy XFX again.