277€95
Very good support despite my many requests for quote modifications according to my budget. They were there and gave very good advice from A to Z.
They didn’t try to inflate prices with cutting-edge performance proposals, but really adapted the solution to a realistic balance between budget, hardware upgrades, and usage.
Works great.
Despite choosing Chronopost, a very incompetent company, and receiving damaged parcels, I approve of the motherboard, which is excellent and allows for overclocking.
When I first unpacked the system, I found an SSD heat sink that moved around inside against the card. It took me a while to work out how to fix it back in place, it's a screwless trick that's not explained in the manual and is not trivial.
Next, fixing the radiator... I took a Dark Rock Pro 5 bequiet, which comes with screw-in spacers. I found it worrying that there were tracks around the fixing holes where I was supposed to tighten a metal spacer, which would have ripped everything out and short-circuited it. So I put in M3 8.5mm cardboard washers to insulate. I don't know which of the two (fan/motherboard) is wrong about the spec, but one of them could have supplied the insulating washers.
As for the BIOS... it ignores the boot order settings (F11 mandatory for USB), CSM absent, so old PC upgrade impossible. It doesn't know the OS boot path (only /EFI/bootx64.efi detected) so you have to fiddle with it. I'm sorry, but I knew that MSI wasn't the best.
Fits the description and the product is functional. I took it for an upgrade with a Core Ultra 7 265K, 2 Trident Z of 16 GB each and a Noctua NH-D15 ventirad. Everything works well.
The card does its job. On the other hand, the BIOS menu is unintuitive, not to say obscure. I also have a problem with the configuration not being retained. It loses the language set. And when it loses power, it loses part of the configuration. For example, it resets the SecureBoot which prevents my Linux from booting.
The instructions for installing the M2 card are not clear. There's a piece of rubber that you have to remove (or not), but then the card isn't in contact with the thermal paste...
Linux: The ethernet card is not recognised by default (Debian) but if you download the right driver, it works, Wifi/ethernet/Bluetooth.
Very satisfied with the sales welcome and the availability of the LDLC team. At this stage, I am also very satisfied with my order and the responsiveness of my new PC!
Great product, great price and fast delivery. As usual just perfect. I recommend this product.
Always at the top, quality products, on-time delivery, very attentive to advice. I would recommend them 300%.
Very good product, but beware:
1/ the drivers are only available for windows: the integrated network card is not recognised under libux (debian 12/13 or ubuntu 22/24).
2/ you need to upgrade the bios AND the firmware, otherwise you'll lose the bios configuration and the TPM.... certificates at every reboot, and the boot process will take much longer: preboot on the bios side + return to the default configuration then reboot.
