are there any other mods for this board? i suppose mine will arrive tomorrow
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are there any other mods for this board? i suppose mine will arrive tomorrow
There is a Vcore Mod I believe, but I think they are still working on an OVP work around..
I'm hoping to figure out the vdimm mod asap..
Vcore mod is same as the Epox 8KDA3+ i think ( same chip , so give it a try ;) )
Jasonxxx , Vdimm is maybe also the same ?
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...0&pagenumber=1
Come on guys! Is there no VDimm mod for the K8N Neo? My board will arrive tomorrow and I need a high Vdimm because I'm using BH5.
So please work on a VDimm mod! :toast:
well hellfire, my board is in transit to you now so we can get this thing cracked:banana:
it'll be there Tuesday:toast:
Sorry guys, I have been so busy lately... work and school and the 4th...
This week end I should be able to take some voltage, continuity, and ohm/resitance readings and get back to hell-fire.....
He seems to know this chip.....:D
with mine, when i set memory to 2.85v the msi utility always shows memory at 2.7v, i cant get above 210 @ 11,2,2,2 while i was 230 on nf7s @ 3.02v, v-mod is badly needed.
I noticed that if your not running your memory about 210mhz or above it lowers your vdimm to 2.7v, but if you run your memory at say 220mhz it will allow 2.85v vdimm..
TARZAN,
Here is couple of things that may be limiting you:
-Use 3 & 4 SATA ports (Next to AGP), not 1 & 2
-Set LDT Multi to 4 or 3
-turn off Cool N Quiet
-set mem to normal
-disable any overclock setting( i.e. private etc..)
-set cpu multi to highest available (default), and not on startup
-set APG to 67mhz
-Set memory to 200 instead of Auto if you are going to run 1:1
If you run the memory Async the MSI doesn't like boot with a different cpu multi other than the default....
hi, yep, im already doing those things, im running 240/200 same as yourself so ill try and change the timings and try running 1:1 to see if that works, its early days anyway, hopefully there will be a v-mod soon.
I got the OCZ 3700EB I ordered and it runs 250mhz 1:1 now, but I need more vdimm to tighten up the timmings...
I swear I can't get enough...:D
Hell -Fire will have my Neo Plat by 3:00 tuesday evening. The mods are coming.
Outstanding:D My iron's already warming up....:D
Roger that Jess....look forward to working on it. I am 100% certain that this is a remarked IC as I cant imagine they would produce their own chip.
Jason, I hate you....but only because you have the 3700EB and I want some...lol. :hehe:
I will start on the board hopefully Wed if I get it tomorrow as I have several other things to finish up and ship out. I will take some preliminary readings to see just how hard the mod will be and if its indeed a Winbond IC.
I will keep everyone up to date on this as I move forward with the board. Also note that although I may be able to do a Vcore mod on it, I have no way of testing it as I dont own a A64 setup and therefore no CPU to test with.
Doing the Vdimm and Vtt is possible without the cpu obviously.
It would be nice to have more vdimm, maybe I would be able to drop the multi and run the memory@ 278mhz:D I can only hope:banana:
hi jason, yep booting at 217, 1:1, my voltate was 2.85, i was able to windows overclock up to 239 before it froze, i tried setting memory to 166 again and voltage stayed at 2.85, dont know why, i htought i d try running 1:1 at 230 see how that was but pc froze as soon as core center started, so went back to 166 again and volts have gone to 2.7, it seems a bit quirky, i dont know why, but im going to uninstall corecenter in case its something to do with that, max clock for hte board seems to be about 250, where are the frownies?
seems fine now at 230 1:1, havent had much time to test it, difference in sandrta between 200, 11,2,2,2 1t and 230 11,3,3,2 2t is about 150mb/s, which seems a bit off.
Good luck with the volt mod Hell-Fire and Jasonxxx for being persistent. I definitely need this mod as my memory at 2.85v is definitely crippled with both Corsair XL and old Corsair XMS 3500 being limited to less than 220 at tight timings.
It would be nice to see if VTT tracks VDIMM as
1) It is one less mod to do.
2) People buying the OCZ booster will not have to do any other mod :)
Regards
Andy
Before I got the EB3700, I was using Corsair PC3500 BH5 and my max stable was 228mhz w/ 2.5, 3,3,10 (1t)..... It gave me about 3450 or so in Sandra...
I would try not to use (2t) if possible it is a big performance hit, and it drops Sandra about 300 points....(That would explain you getting about the same Sandra score between the two settings..) Try 2.5,3,3,10 timmings and see how that works for you at around 230mhz...;) ;)
About the voltage thing, the voltage is capped at 2.7v below somewhere around 210mhz probably because they figured you would not need more than that at that frequency... That didn't bother me, as It didn't cause me any problems.. NOw if I was trying to run 220mhz + and it was still capped at 2.7v vdimm I would be pissed....:D
the corsair bh5 is what i have, (ver 1.1) on my nf7s when set to 2.9v whey would run at 3.02v, i was able to benchmark them (2x256mb duel) at 239mhz 11,2,2,2, never had a option to set 1t 2t command, i wasnt sure if they would run so well with a64, but is very nice couple of peices of memory, i cant go higher than 250fsb with my board, dont know if you have adifferent bios? i read it might help but i havent been able to change it, ive been runnning at 246 for the last 4 hours while ive been gaming and it seems happy, i though i might have problems becauseit always freezes when it hits 250, really wish i could go higher because with the divider memory is at 204mhz and id love to run them at 230 with tight timings once i we have the volt mod, theres no happy ground for me i either have to run memory or cpu below thier capablility, at the mo i have my a64 3000 at 2460mhz which is nice, the board has been faultless since installed, just a shame about the fsb, man id love to get 270-280, then i would be happy.
This EB 3700 I am using for the first time tonight is strange stuff, at default 2.5-3-2 it would do 238 maximum at 2.85v. However it does 255 at 3-3-3 and will do 233 at 2.5-2-2 !! So 2.5-2-2 it is at present.Quote:
Originally posted by Jasonxxx
Before I got the EB3700, I was using Corsair PC3500 BH5 and my max stable was 228mhz w/ 2.5, 3,3,10 (1t)..... It gave me about 3450 or so in Sandra...
I would try not to use (2t) if possible it is a big performance hit, and it drops Sandra about 300 points....(That would explain you getting about the same Sandra score between the two settings..) Try 2.5,3,3,10 timmings and see how that works for you at around 230mhz...;) ;)
About the voltage thing, the voltage is capped at 2.7v below somewhere around 210mhz probably because they figured you would not need more than that at that frequency... That didn't bother me, as It didn't cause me any problems.. NOw if I was trying to run 220mhz + and it was still capped at 2.7v vdimm I would be pissed....:D
I do not have the 1T / 2T option in the BIOS, so that is strange, it is in the manual ...
Regards
Andy
Hell-fire
Did you recieve the mobo, it should of been there yesterday.
Yepperz...got it yesterday and havent looked her over as of yet tho bud.
I am gonna fire it up later tonight just to see if I can figure out what Vreg is controlling everything.
:cool:
just glad 4 the moment that you got it.
Good luck:rolleyes:
Ok, identified the Vtt controller, working on Vdimm action now.
**UPDATE**
Ok, I am tired and will recheck this tomorrow, but I am pretty certain that MSI remarked the WinBond W83304D Vreg and stock that CoreCell sink on it.
I did some checks and am pretty certain of this. Connectivity between the FET reading Vdimm, and a missing (+) solder pad of a cap all point towards this conclusion.
Did I mention that I hate black pcb?