The MSI K7T Pro 2-A was tested with the following system:
AMD Thunderbird 700
Micron PC-133 SDRAM
IBM 30 Gig ATA100 Hard Drive
Creative GeForce2 GTS
Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value
First of all I have to say this is one stable motherboard to use if you're an overclocker. When overclocking AMD CPUs it's always best to do so with multiplier adjustments instead of fooling around with bus speeds. This is because the KT133 chipset is not stable at anything over 112Mhz. With that in mind I took my unlocked Thunderbird 700 and proceeded to increase the multiplier in the BIOS till I got this.
1001Mhz! Has a nice ring to it doesn't it? The only other Athlon motherboard able to do the same feat was the much more expensive Abit KT7-RAID.
As you can see, the Multi-Media benchmark is right up there with the best of the best.
If there is one area where the K7T Pro 2-A falls short is memory performance. There are some memory tweaks in the BIOS but it's not as much as what can be found in the Abit KT7-RAID. As a results, the K7T Pro 2-A lags the Abit KT7-RAID by up to 30%.