Anybody ?
Anybody ?
Changed hosts for my site, but got my spreadsheet back up. For convenience:Quote:
Originally Posted by widdyst
http://www.borecraft.com/files/P7N_D...m_GTL_rev2.xls
Now that is excellent . What a stunning but of work by that man right there
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
i AM GUESSING THE THREE BLUE SHADED COLUMNS ARE FOR Q6600'S
Yessir. Hope it was useful to you. XS was down a bunch so this is the first time I've been able to successfully check back. Glad to know you managed to get it before the downtime! :D
Has anybody tried the new 1.4b1 bios?
How is it? Any improves?
Where can we get them?
Quote:
Originally Posted by x-built-Stan
rapidshare link in the first post - 1.42 beta
http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?to...5073.msg864765
I did not try it, yet..
2nd P7N Diamond DEAD!!!!!!!! This is incredible. 4 months the first one... 3 months this one. I really can't believe it!. If this motherboard is going to fry when overclocking, then this board is not for me. Will not RMA'it since I live 15000km from city of industry. MSI board never again.
I really think that it's an issue with the northbridge. Mine died in a very similar way to yours and I could clearly tell that they replaced the northbridge. I blame Nvidia but knowing what I know now I would have poped some aftermarket cooling on the chipset like the Enzotech sinks that I have on my P5Q Deluxe.Quote:
Originally Posted by FedericoUY
WOW - How hard are you guys pushing the NB? My system has been running now 24x7 100% (crunching) since I built it over a year ago. I did pull the heat sink and replace the purple junk with some ceramic, I also added two 30mm fans attached to the heat sink radiators. Since I run a liquid system, I was not getting much air circulation at the radiators by the CPU. I do push 1.425v on the NB.
Hi. I don't think I've been too hard on my NB. I used it all time at 1.45 vNB to don't push it too much. With my q9450 I was able to reach 3600mhz, but I needed 1.50 of vNB to get stable, so I left it on 3550mhz at 1.45. I also attached a fan to NB to prevent hot temps. NB temps were good, never go beyond 60ºC. My board has been that way for the 3 months I have this second one. I think I treated well my mobo, and it died anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by x-built-Stan
1.45v is alot on an already hot running chip and 60C isn't even the NB sensor, it's a sensor near the northbridge so I'm sure that your northbridge was running considerably hotter than that. Mine never toped much more than 50C and I was running 1.4v which I probably didn't even need (we all have to learn somehow) and it died. I also replaced the TIM with MX-2 and straped a 40x10mm fan to the NB sink. I really think that with good chipset cooling we wouldn't be hearing about these types of issues and the sad part is that the stock chipset cooling is miles ahead of the heatsink that was on my P5Q Deluxe. Like I said I wish that I had known better at the time, since I had pretty good luck with this board. It's not just the MSI board I hear alot of stuff like this about refrence 780i boards as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by FedericoUY
Ok, my NB never went beyond 60, i mean it always were around 50-55. That's not a high temp for this chip, and i don't think 1.45 it's a voltage to burn out this chip (impossible to reach 435+fsb with lower vNB), so.... I also had a fan blowing directly to the Nb, and I replaced the hard TIM with MX2 too. Anyway I'm thinking about RMA'it againg, but my shipping charges are too high, so I don't knowm since I already bought another motherboard, and I'm waiting it to arrive.
Where are you NZ? I'm 25 miles from City of Industry, but I never had to RMA anything with them. Isn't that always the way?
Not that this is apples to apples but my quad with a higher fsb and 4x2gb sticks of ram on my P5Q D which is very stressful on the northbridge and never toped 38c "motherboard" temp and that thing had a very subpar stock cooling solution compared to the P7N. I rember touching that NB sink, it gets hot. What are your ambient temps like? I think that mine died because I was living on a third floor apartment with no A/C and it got pretty hot in the summer, that with 2 GTX260s in the case didn't help with heat. I also noticed that you have a GTX285 with a nonrefrence cooler in your sig. Does it exhaust the heat? I am running a GTX280 and when I poped on an HR-03 I notied that my "motherboard" temp went up a bit, not much but some and I have insane airflow in my case.Quote:
Originally Posted by FedericoUY
I'm not defending the board but I think that most of the odd problems that poped up in this thread were heat related. The refrence 780i boards are no better from what I hear. Anyways, I'm glad that I replaced this with a nice P45. Which board did you pick up?
I'm in Uruguay, so last time I had to send my board it was complicated, because I had to ask my ant (who lives there) to send it back to me. Yes, when you ask for RMA, if MSI approves it, they ask you to send it there. I can send the board to City of indusrty, but when they replace it, they ask for a USA address to send it back. I don't want to bother my ant again...Quote:
Originally Posted by x-built-Stan
Sorry my english
When my board arrived from city of industry, three months ago, here in my counrty (Uruguay) was autumn and temps were higher than now. Now we are in winter and temps are lower, around 10º-15º. (Here seasons are backwards from there). I have a Antec 902 case, wich has an excellent cable management and really good airflow, so I still don't think my problem was a temp realted thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by BababooeyHTJ
I picked up a ASUS Rampage Formula, which is arriving on sunday. I expect to have more luck.
*Edit: My GTX285 works at really low temps, even overclocked at 756/1620/2808. Really not much heat goes to inside de case I guess...
got my board back from rma. they sent me a new one. now with bios 1.3 official it gets past the loading bar in vista ultimate 64 bit and xp home but then reboots or freezes.
it loaded vista a few times. but it froze after a few minuites of use.
xp wont load at all the farthest I got was the login screen and then it froze. it wont even get to the loading bar in either without an overclock. however the hightest fsb I can reach is 1198. after that it wont boot and I have to hit the CMOS clear switch.
xp safe mode seems to work. no keyboard of mouse support though.
vista safe mode freezes durring loading
if someone could explain what the voltage settings from NB Memory reference voltage and down Id appreciate it as I'm lost here.
thanks,
rage10
Rage - what are you equipment specs? CPU, Power, memory, etc.
oops. I knew I forgot something...
Q6600 G0 (1.31 or so vid)
4x1 gb ocz reiper @ 5-5-5-18 at 1150 max. (800 @ 4-4-4-12 usualy on p7n sli fi.)
corsair 750 TX psu
1x 640 GB saegate HD
4x sony IDE disk drives
hope that helps.
thanks,
rage10
EDIT: I tried a few random FSBs above 1200 and they all reqired me to reset the cmos switch.
well I got the diamond to load vista. it takes 8 or so minuites to get from selecting vista from the boot menu till the login screen. it freezes shortly after loging in though
x-built-Stan can you tell me some of your settings please.
thanks,
rage10
I would bump up a little the vSB, to about 1.55. Seeing you have all 4 dimms populated, you should bump up your vNB too, try it. Lower your memory settings to 800 5.5.5.15 until random freezes stops.
well it loads vista now and doesnt crash it although it takes about 8 minites to get from os select to login. it has a hard time running applacations and almost always crashes them. desktop frequently crashes.
8 minutes to get to login screen?! Somethin ain't right. I had some trouble with the default vista 64 sata drivers and had to install the latest nforce drivers to work correctly with my Seagate 1.5TB.
Rage,
Try bumping your power to the CPU, NB, and Memory. When you starve the system it will take a long time to come up. Once its up, everything will tend to run slow. Look for things like the desktop icons appearing very slowly, apps loading slow. Eventually you will open enough apps to crash the system - not enough power fo the CPU load. During your initial tunning its better to overpower slightly and backdown once stability is achieved.
Some additional info that might help:
I had the same problem when running XP - the splash screen would come up very slowly, almost like fading in. After my system was stable @3.6GHz, I loaded Vista. Appearntly Vista puts a heavier load on the CPU and I was forced to up all my voltages. Just recently switched to Windows 7 which does not load the CPU as hard.
Give it a try and let us know
Hey guys, somewhat long time reader, first time poster. I currently have an E8400 with my P7N Diamond, but it's a dud at overclocking, maxes at 3.3GHz and refuses to even start anything past that. Voltages were also in the silly numbers to get that small overclock. I've ordered a cheap Q9450 that suddenly appeared at OcUK and was hoping to OC it to atleast 3.0GHz at first, see how it goes with my current cooler before pushing it further. I was just wondering which BIOS version you guys would recommend for easier overclocking?
I just hope it isn't the board that limits the overclocking, I'd hate to have to get a new one.
What is your cooling setup? The P7N definitely requires decent cooling to keep it stable especially for the northbridge.
I don't have any fancy cooling for the motherboard, standard fan set-up in the Cosmos S, and getting a NH-U12P for the CPU. I'd stick a small fan on the Northbridge, but both my current CPU cooler and my GPU prevent me from mounting one.Quote:
Originally Posted by stickboy00
A decent cpu cooler makes a huge difference.... the Xigmatek I have made a world of difference with the cpu temps. You also really need northbridge cooling to get decent overclocks with the P7N (at least on mine anyway). Without the 120mm side case fan my rig was very unstable when trying to overclock past 1450 FSB. With the side fan, it easily does 1600 and its rock solid. I also have to give the NB lots of juice. At 1600 i need at least 1.425 to be orthos stable. I give it 1.45 and as long as its not 100 degrees outside, temps are under control.
Try increasing FSB term to its max amount and giving SB some more volts. And loosen up your memory timings so you don't have to worry about that being an issue and then just raise them once you get it stable.
Of course, if you've done all this already, then you just may have a dud of a cpu and/or board. It happens.
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5...t5cachemem.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by ijyt
I have CM cosmos S too, no added fan on NB /all stock cooling on board/.. Cooler on CPU was some copper Zalman horizontal to board .. NB on high temps /70-75 in game/ but stable.. I installed all 3 top fans and 3000rpm fan with reg on back/usually 2000-2400/.. 2x fan on disc cages from the front..
I think that an HR-05 would make a huge difference on this board, tbh. You should atleast replace the TIM and slap a fan on the northbridge sink if you start pushing the Northbridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by ijyt
Also, I have read through a good part of this thread but does anyone know of anyone overclocking a quad with 8gb of ram with any sucess?
If you want to reach 3.0ghz with Q9450/P7nD, that's possible with no extra voltages. If you are going to go beyond 3.5Ghz, stay away from this combination. Overclocking capabilities are a joke compared to other solutions. NB temps are painful, and high FSB's (Q9450 will need) require high vNB to run proper. Very limited vFSB on 1.313. Hope it helps.Quote:
Originally Posted by ijyt
P.S.: I have had Q9450/P7nD and burned two boards.
Interesting quad-cores with 8 GB of RAM should come up now. I've got mine almost stable. Perhaps people have some ideas I could try. This is my current set up:
Q9450 at 3.5 GhZ (1750 FSB)
8 GB 1066 RAM at 875.
CPU Voltage: .125
RAM Voltage: 2.1
NB Voltage: 1.325
NB GTL Ref: .865
FSB Term: 1.25
I've tried turning up the CPU voltage, the NB voltage and both simultaneously to no avail. As well as messing with the FSB term both up and down. From what I've seen, changing anything from these settings results in more frequent crashes. As is, I can usually make it through ~1 hour of 4-core primality testing before an error. I'd like to get this entirely stable (or, better yet, entirely stable at 3.6) does anyone have any ideas for what I should try from here?
Temps certainly aren't a problem. I have a good CPU cooler, each core stays below 60c under load. Two fans on the NB a 40mm blowing air towards the CPU cooler and a 50mm blowing air "down" towards the motherboard. Case has good airflow. "MCP" (I've read that this is both southbridge and northbridge and thus don't know what it actually means) does report rather high temps under load, sometimes hitting 71c. But that still seems reasonable.
I also don't think it's a RAM issue as I have loosened the timings a bit. (Worth noting that it won't do 1066 at stock, though.)
My Q6600 on this board is very picky about what settings I use, it took me a month of testing to get just the right combination. Most people won't have that much trouble as I feel I got unlucky with my chip, but I can share some of what I've learned about the board's nuances.
I find that FSB Term directly relates to the FSB; you will need a certain amount to do a certain FSB. The NB voltage, on the other hand, seems to have an ideal value whereby a notch higher or lower can cause instability for a given FSB Term. For example, max FSB Term allows me to hit 3.15, but only one value for NB voltage is stable at those settings. If I lower my FSB, it makes sense to lower FSB Term as well, but then I find the NB voltage reacts differently. I have tried both 4GB and 8GB of RAM with my sets, and both work at the exact same settings, but I do require a higher base NB voltage with 8GB.
Ergo, you want to take a pseudo-traditional route of finding the proper FSB Term and NB voltage combination for the given FSB by removing any potential interference from other values (set them to obviously stable settings). The way I managed this was to max out FSB Term and then push NB voltage up until it went from getting more stable to getting less stable (or no more stable), then at the best value I lowered FSB while maintaining the two. Your case would be a bit different, assuming you can hit the desired FSB, in which case I would do this in reverse - lower FSB Term until more instability is seen, pull back and then work the NB voltage in the same way.
Second, the GTL voltage was critical for me as only one value worked well with the other settings. If you now have the good NB voltage and FSB Term, you can then slowly raise GTL at your desired CPU speed until the system is stable.
Well this is weird. After installing the Q9450, one of my RAM sticks dies. Thinking nothing of it, I go to i37 LAN, where my CPU apparently idles at 60C and freezes up the system while gaming or stress testing.
I run MemTest86 to check if it might be the other RAM stick, no issues.
I buy two new fans at the LAN to try to get more airflow, but it doesn't help much, so I go ahead and buy the NH-U12P and mount it at the LAN. I add an extra Noctua P12 fan to it, and use MX-2. What do I get? 50C idle temps with the Q9450. I pass this off as warm ambient temps, but the system still crashes.
I'm back home, my room's ambient temp is aroun 18-20C. I boot up the system, and the bios says the CPU is idling at 28C. However, CoreTemp, RealTemp and Hardware Monitor all report 50C idle temps. The system also freezes during Test 3 of Prime95's Small FFT test. The CPU heatsink is cool, and the Northbridge isn't so warm I can't hold my fingers on it. Any ideas?
I dropped my RAM (http://www.corsair.com/_datasheets/T...-6400C4DHX.pdf) timings to 5-5-5-18, and downclocked it from 800MHz to 667MHz. This stopped the crashing during Prime95.
However, there's still the issue of temperatures.
CoreTemp, RealTemp, Hardware Monitor all report idle temps of ~51C and load temps of ~65C.
HOWEVER, MSI CoreCenter, which I presume takes readings from the BIOS, shows idle temps of ~28C and load temps of ~40C. What?
Core Temp and Real Temp read sensors within the cores inside the chip, while most motherboard CPU sensors (including MSI's) read the temperature outside the chip. Typically, there is a difference of 5-10c on a well cooled chip, and that difference is largely attributable to the IHS that covers the base CPU silicon.
You may want to check the mount between your processor and CPU cooler. Are you sure it is seated properly? Is the correct amount of TIM used? You may also want to inspect the chip's IHS. The flatter the IHS surface, the more effective your cooling system will be at pulling heat from the CPU. If your IHS has convex or otherwise odd shape, it may not be properly transferring heat between the cores and your cooler, resulting in the temp differences.
Just checked the cooler, it was seated correctly. But I reseated it anyway to check the paste, it was spread evenly and not too thin/thickly. The CPU seems flat enough. I'm going to blame this on faulty sensors, so I'll RMA the CPU anyway, just to be safe. If the new one they send harbours the same temperature readings, I'll be at a loss.
Also, system freezing during Prime95 stopped when I downclocked my RAM to 5-5-5-18 timings and 667MHz frequency, so I'll be RMA'ing both the dead and apparently-not-dead-but-somehow-faulty sticks.
Any chance of the MX-2 paste having an issue? :p:
I would play around with vNB and the nb GTL since that could be due to MCH stability and not your ram. Also set your trfc to 55 and the vDRAM manually.Quote:
Originally Posted by ijyt
Wut.Quote:
Originally Posted by BababooeyHTJ
This board is kind of famous for not being stable at "auto" settings. Most of the people having those problems are on Quads like yourself. Quads are more stressful on the northbridge than duals. I would play with the northbridge voltage and the nbGTL to see if you can get things stable before sending your ram in for an RMA. At least run Memtest one stick at a time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ijyt
I already ran MemTest why would I not RMA both sticks if I know they're dead?Quote:
Originally Posted by BababooeyHTJ
I think he was just saying that the RAM may not be dead and to test them one stick at a time. And also that Memtest doesn't really tell you much if the board is unstable to begin with.
Thanks for the suggestions, XavierMaxx. I've since tried them, but haven't had much success.
What I have seems to be the most stable NB / FSB term I can get. Changing the NB and CPU GTLs doesn't seem to help from here. I'm starting to think it may be one of the voltages that I haven't touched that's causing the issue.
I've ruled out Southbridge, since that one's easy enough to test. So I'm thinking I should start with either: NB Ref V, DIMM Ref V / Mem Term V (almost certain it's not the RAM, so I doubt I'll bother with these,) or PCI Expander PLL V.
Maybe PCI expander (I would hope that I wouldn't have to change reference voltages,) but my BIOS (1.23 performance, I've had serious cold boot issues with 1.3 and 1.4) doesn't always display numbers as the first character for that voltage. Which is somewhat concerning.
So, anyone have any tips on what I ought to try from here?
what is the deal with this board?? i cannot overclock well at all with my Q6600 max is 3.6 and not stable for benching latest beta bios and on my m aximus 2 formula i cvan bench stable at 4.1GHZ
I've tried multiple Bios revisions, but I can never get anything stable. Right now, I'm running v1 bios with the following settings:
FSB: 1333
Dram: 889
CPU Ratio: 9
CPU Volt: .0500
Dram Volt: 2.20
NB Volt: 1.35
SB Volt: 1.550
NB Mem Ref Volt: 1.095
Dimm Volt: 1.425
Mem Term: 1.050
CPU Ref: Auto
NB GTL: 0.842
FSB Term 1.230
With the newer bios, these figures are converted to meaningful numbers. However, for the life of me, I don't know how to properly translate what I have to updated figures, and then play with it from there to achieve stability. Can anyone help? I've had this thing over a year and have pretty much given up on using a good, updated bios because I can't get the thing to run stable, even with default values and not OC'ing at all...
Overclocking quads on intel chips is extremely easy, ANYONE can do it, at least normal levels, but nForce chips 780i and lower are much more difficult, and won't overclock as high as intel ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by overclocking101
I'm having odd issues with this board. I'm using a Q6600 which would appear to be a good clocker (3.6 with only +0.1v) and 2 x 2gb Reaper X 800mhz 4-4-3 sticks. Problem is I cant get windows 7 Enterprise x64 to install even at stock speeds? This is a second hand setup that was fully working with Vista 64. I get a reboot at some point during "expanding files" during setup.
I can however pass memtest @ 3.6/1600/800 4-4-3 using +0.1v cpu, 2.10vddr, 1.425vnb and 1.312vfsb. I can lower vnb, vfsb and vddr a fair way and still pass memtest - I've tried all sorts of different voltage combinations.
I've also tried ram @ 5-5-5-18-2T, eist on or off, HPET on or off, changed secondary ram timings to slackest possible, moved around hdd and dvdrw sata leads, changed PME wakup from bios to OS and back again, PCI latency timer @ 32 and 64, with and without soundcard (sb audigy). Only thing left to try is to disabled the network cards i suppose?
If I have the FSB at 400 it fails quicker than with the FSB at 266. It made it all the way to 97% at 266, only lasts to 35-45% at 400mhz.
Any other ideas I can try? Wits end!
I even went to replace it with a P5B Premium which seems to have expired whilst in the box on my shelf as it now wont post, just spins fans at max speed.
I'll check this thread later tonight, gonna swap ram and attempt another install like that but if nobody has any more ideas i'll try with Server 2008 x64. 7 would be ideal though as I need to run VMs and if necessary game on it (ie if my main gaming rig is in bits).
Odd, I would try a different DVD drive or try updating the Firmware. Also what bios are you on?:shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by PiLsY
Not had chance to look at it last night, will try again over the weekend. Interesting point about the dvd-rw - its a brand new sony so should be good but... Also burned another disc just incase its that.
Bios version is a variety of 1.3 - not sure exactly which. Theres no way im tryng a bios flash with it failing to install windows though, if its instability causing the install fail I can kiss goodbye to the board if I try a bios flash on it.
Had to stick GTL voltages to maximum for both nb and cpu, then it installed win7 but failed prime95 almost instantly.
Managed to get it stable enough for a bios flash to 1.40 whgich has made a big difference - enough for it to be stable at default clocks and auto voltage settings anyway. No attempt at overclocking yet.
Real weirdness - its going into standby regardless of load. It kept going into S1 shutdown while running prime95 on all 4 cores. Had to change the win7 power options.
Also notice that with EIST on in win7 im getting it clocking back to 7.5x and 8.5x on occaision. Didnt think half multis were supported before wolfdale?
i need help , I have update to bios 1.3 , now I can overclock without changing cpu voltage to (3.9ghz) , I let it on auto , got no crash , i have e8600 ,p7n diamond 3 giga ddr2 (corsaire pc5300 x2 , kingston pc6400), i cant go 1600 fsb (4.0ghz), i think my memory are not enought good, i m gona buy pc8500 or pc9600 ddr2 to try more oc, I try to oc from auto voltage to 1.40v , still crash , can someone help me. And i can t update to 1.4 bios , my floppy disk dosen t want to boot , im on xp. And my dual channel does not work got crash, i did not try dual channel on bios 1.3 ( i was on 1.2 bios) .
i just flash the bios to 1.4 , I am trying to oc 1600 fsb , i raise nb voltage ftom 1.200 to 1.250 , cpu to 1.288 (0.05000), (vdrop 1.272 , 1.264 ) what is cpu vid ? when i was on 1.2 bios my cpu vid was 1.1000 and with 1.3 , 1.4 i am at 1.2500 and i have better oc , less voltage. My mobo is almost stable 4.0ghz . i m gona try 4100 and 4200 mhz
is anyone having issuess with the board reporting your powersupply voltages incorrectly?? like the 12v mainly?? mine is using 1.4B1 bios and it shows my 12v rail at 5v?? is this normal on your buys boards or is my psu dieing??
My power supply readings also seem way off. OCCT reports my 12V rail at around 3-5V. Seems like a bug... I wouldn't worry about. There's no way my GTX275 would be functioning properly with those ratings.
Glad to see this forum is still in use as I desperately need help. I purchased a second hand Q6600 on ebay but I have tried all day and cannot get it work. The furthest I got with it was the windows log in screen and then the computer just restarts. It also did the same while trying to install a fresh copy of windows 7. I have now rebuilt the computer with my old processor and it works fine. So it doesn't look like any of my other hardware is to blame. The only thing I can think of now is the BIOS needs updating. I am currently using the offical V1.2 BIOS. Thanks in advance for any help.
Have you tried backing off the RAM speeds and testing with memtest86 with the quad installed?
The auto settings had the ram running at 800mhz anyway for some reason. I guess I could try underclocking it a bit more. So far my only idea when I have chance to try again is to tweak the voltages and clocks of everything and hope I can get it stable.
These nforce boards tend to perform better with the memory set to 1:1 anyways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobo888
You say you have 3GB of memory? So you are running unmatched modules? Could be a factor.
You would think but it works fine with my current processor. Surely that means it will work with the new one.
have you tested with just one module? i've had ram work with one cpu and not with another. sometimes, its just voodoo
Finally got it working. Not sure exactly what fixed it but I think it might have been the cpu voltage. As it appears to have an incredibly low Vid which is maybe too low to be stable. I also decreased the cpu multiplayer to 6 to enable a 1:1 ratio with the ram without overclocking, which may have helped. Thanks for the suggestions guys.
Anyone out there still tuning in?
Does S3 work on this board? I can't get it to work. S4 works fine.
edit: it works if the board is at stock speed but doesn't when overclocked.
hey guys I built this PC back in 2008 and always had a problem getting my Q6600 stable at 3.6ghz or above. Well today i decided to test my ram with memtest86 and got reboots with both sticks in no matter what speed. Then I took one module out and had no problems at all with it installed in any slot. I tried both sticks again in other combinations and always got the reboot. Has anyone had a problem with rebootiing caused by using 2 sticks of ram? What would cause this? bad board?
problems OC with both sticks of ram, memtest86 passes each single stick individually, but fails with both
thanks
OCZ GameXtream 850w
MSI P7N Diamond
Q6600 G0 1.325vid
OCZ DDR2 1066 reaperHPC 2x2gb
EVGA 9800GTX
Seagate 1TB 7200rpm
Cooler Master V8
Windows XP 32
I had the same ram on that board and it didn't like anything other than 1:1.
Guys, my P7N stopped working and wouldn't post so I RMA'd it and replaced it with a P45 mobo. If anyone is interested in the board when i get it back in a week or so, let me know. I'll let it go for 70 bucks + shipping (15 bucks).
marsmayflower@gmail.com
I could not find a topic about the P7N Sli platinum. It has the 750i chipset. Is this a good overclocker? And what about RAID 0 performances?
Okay I'm cool with that dude but as to which performance Bios can I still use?..Performance BIOS P05?Quote:
Originally Posted by loonym
or Performance BIOS P07 for a Kentsfield Q6600Go SLACR @3,6Ghz normal vid 1,325 I guess.. cooled by Antec H920 on an MSI P7N Diamond
MOBO with 8GB dual Channel KHX8500D2K2/4G DDR2 PC2-8500 2x2G 5-5-5-18-2T and still 2 XFX9800 GTX+'s in SLI mode powered by an 750W HX Corsair PSU.Because I myself noticed the whole sytem running more stable like as to where you only have to input the right vcore voltage like 1,4-1,45
CPU GTL REF :65
FSB TERMINATION: 25
leaving everything else on auto is much more simpler than trying to mess with the normal +1.0 +2.0v settings or not..?
and supposedly putting NB on 1,425 with an extra fan on the NB will that help..?
WHat more can I or do I have to do instead of tweaking all the voltages except CPU GTL Reference or FSB TERM?Because with the 123 bios or p05 Bios it should be simpler right...?Plz tell me what I can do to get an stable gaming rig, Because the normal setting of 65-25 or 70-25 isn't enough..Or should I try with 400 x 8 to downclock to 3,2 Ghz with Performance Bios P05? Since you're the one to ask, could you tell me where to get it..? Or can I ask you to mail it for, cos I can't find it anywhere..I see some forums with the bios name in it but no upload or download link..Many thnx in advance ^^