MSI MBOX G31M3-F Intel Socket T(LGA775) Intel G31 Black Barebone - Retail

Seemed like a nice unit for the money, Loade the system up with an Pentium D 945 1.5 gigs of DDR2-667 loaded operating system and software. All was fine

Put on the shelf back in the box to resell and 8 months later went to start it up and no post, no nothing except fans running. Motherboard went bad. Replaced the MoBo with a MSI P4M900M2 and back in business, but lost any chance of making a profit....

up and running in >30 mins drivers installed fast everything already connected already

very flimsy metal ; i can seem to get the front headphone jack to work idk prolly just me not taking of any eggs for that as its prolly somthing on my part

I bought this to make into a Windows Home Server. I was looking for the smallest case which would take 4 hard drives. I also wanted it to be silent. The power supply fan is very quiet, so only the case fan required a Zalman controller to temper. A...

As the other reviewers have noted, the case is thin metal, and the motherboard flexes quite a bit. Take this into account when you select and install components. No big heavy heat sinks, and I would stick to low power CPUs. If you intend to put in 4...

very nice feature set, lots of expandability, nice looking case. Very good value for a average system. Also find MSI's overclocking program neat (although probably not worth that much, don't know enough about overclocking to say authoritatively))

case is on the cheap side - be careful removing drive blanks or you could warp or bend the case. would like another pci slot (but cant hold that against them as I knew what it came with)

very nice feature set, lots of expandability, nice looking case. Very good value for a average system. Also find MSI's overclocking program neat (although probably not worth that much, don't know enough about overclocking to say authoritatively))

case is on the cheap side - be careful removing drive blanks or you could warp or bend the case. would like another pci slot (but cant hold that against them as I knew what it came with)

Plenty of room. Power supply good enough to run 5 1T hard drives and assorted fans

Mounting slots on the external 3.5 bays do not line up with hard drives. Only one case fan in the back with no way to mount one in front of hard drive cage

Box came with all cables attached all i had to do was install CPU, Ram, Drives and go. System fired right up

Sort of flimsy design. Very light

I love this MSI barebone system! It came with all cables attached to the motherboard so all I had to do was install the CPU, RAM, drives, and go! The case is simple and lightweight with lots of space for drives and cards. It fired up right away without...

Motherboard is a bit dated, only supporting 800 Mhz bus instead of 1066 or better, but I knew that when I bought it, and cannot expect the best for only about $100 for the case, PSU, and mobo!

Assembled in 10 minutes. Everything was there. Fastest build and install I have done to date thanks to my version of XP with SP 2 slipstreamed.

none so far

Price! color and shape. Lots of room for expansion. Instructions are very thorough. All drivers were included and installation was a snap. The stock heat sink and fans included blow nice cold air - even under load.

The blue light on the front of the box is mighty bright. The VGA outlet feels pretty wobbly, be really careful and make sure it is firmly attached. There was only 1 SATA cable included, last I checked it takes more than one SATA cord to build a...