What a difference a board makes

just some FYI for anyone struggling with the MSI X58 Platinum. I had a board that would NEVER run ram >1150mhz out of the box. I think I got a defective one. Tried 6 different sets of memory, so it wasn't a compatability issue. Even though cpu might have been issue, but wanted to try Asus P6T first before sent cpu back.

P6T is awesome in comparison. First I was able to use my watercooler with the standard 775 layout, as the board has both optoins for S775 and S1336 mounting. 2nd, alot more overclocking options :)

At 195bclks now with 1.425v on 920 cpu and low 50C's load temp on Swiftech Apex watercooling kit.

Yeah it can be reversed other way around ofcourse, users struggling with brand A can be perfectly happy with brand B and vice versa...

For your I920 is that with 20 multi ? try an odd multi eg 19 and you will notice for the same clocks you will need less voltage...

Anyway glad you got it sorted, but keep your posts as much as possible in the same thread you started ( 775 mounting holes...)

Yeah I'm loving my P6T, for the price I don't think you can beat it.

I've had a similar experience with Core2 boards. Board A would max out around 470fsb and I had to use high NB voltage, board B is running 500fsb without any voltage increase. Both P35 boards using 4 sticks of ram. Board A just couldn't handle 4 sticks.

I"m running the multi at the "turbo" setting which is 21, at least for one core. Not sure what the other cores are running at, as I heard the turbo is just core 1?????????? Then I heard later that some Asus bios's run all cores at teh Turbo setting.

anyone know?

2 P5K-Premium boards. Both with Xeon 3110.

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...T2008/full.jpg

One makes 8 X 500 = 4.0Ghz with 1.35v. 4 X 2048 8500C5 @ 1000Mhz
The other makes 450 X 9 = 4.0Ghz with 1.33v. 4 X 2048 8500C5 @ 900Mhz.

Second one will not make 500FSB stable even with 1.45v.