Dude, have you started clocking yet? Let us know how you get along! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by RAGING DRAGON
And whereabouts in the UK are you btw?
[edit] And what RAM are you using?
[edit2] CCL now have the board for £112.51 :eek: !!
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Dude, have you started clocking yet? Let us know how you get along! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by RAGING DRAGON
And whereabouts in the UK are you btw?
[edit] And what RAM are you using?
[edit2] CCL now have the board for £112.51 :eek: !!
Got the msi board & G. Skill in today, the E6600 came yesterday. The northbridge does have a massive heatsink but I'm gonna get the glue gun out and mount a 60mm fan on it to start. I'll be using an entry level watercooling that did well with my opteron. Also to start, I'm not gonna install in a case. I'm gonna use an open test bed with fan blowing across to eliminate any heat limitations in overclocking. Too often people report high bus clocks but neglect to inform others that the system in not in a case.
NewEgg has them in Stock right now.
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Originally Posted by Sumanji
I'm checking to make sure everything is working properly. I've just finished installing Win XP Home and I had to get my copy validated over the phone.
Everything is in the case and I will start clocking her soon.
Had a bit of trouble sorting out my DVD writers but it's all sorted now.
I'm running on valueram at the moment but hopefully I'm gonna get some good clocking RAM once I get my next cheque.
I'm giving everything a wearing in period for a couple of days first :D
Two things which the bios fixed for me:
My max FSB in bios is now 550 instead of 265 :)
And the bios works very smoothly now, before it was kind of slugish and slow.
Have not tried much OC, I just booted at 4.74 Ghz looked around and went back to 4.5 Ghz.
I'm still running the shipping BIOS (7.00) and I had a quick nosey around in the BIOS and the maximum FSB is 550.Quote:
Originally Posted by cupholder2.0
For you the max is already 550 because you are running a non netburst CPU (Conroe). I am running a pentium D 950 ES, so initially the bios only allowed me to go to 265, I had to clock using clockgen. Now I can do 550 in bios. I tried 420x12 with my 950 and it started and ran for about 30 seconds in bios before freezing.Quote:
Originally Posted by RAGING DRAGON
My board has a heatsink and fan arrangement.
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/6492/dscn0536zh5.jpg
You may notice the northbridge cooler looks the same as the ones used on the Neo4 Platnium series, but its not, has a thicker base and whatnot.
375FSB is good for me too, with factory passive NB cooler - can run couple benchies, Cinebench 9.5 & 3DMark06 at that FSB speed.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottFern
BTW, anyone here running 64bit XP on this board ?
lol where did you dig up the 2.B? wouldnt you want the newer revised 2.1?Quote:
Originally Posted by JasonDTM
Each one that I look at doesnt list as core 2 supported, thats why I thought they released 2.1, is it tho?
Purchasing from master OPB. Plus its already modded. :S
According to coolaler 2B and 2A are incomplete versions. But I don't know how much worse they are compared to 2.1. How much it cost you :)?
Whats the most reliable way to flash the bios on this board, the manual does'nt tell much in this regard...:(
I will not disclose price in open forum.
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Originally Posted by IluvIntel
I use winflash (The one which comes with MSI liveUpdate 3). Much faster than the floppy IMO.
Well, thats a problem with x64 Windows XP - none of those vendor utilities run properly....:mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by cupholder2.0
Then I guess you could use floppy, Usb flash drive or a cd? I havn't really used anything but Winflash with this board so I am not exactly sure on how to use the others.Quote:
Originally Posted by IluvIntel
When I had Asus LGA775 mobos, you could use AFIDOS or EZ-Flash, but this board has me a bit confused with this procedure & x64 windows if doing from there...:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by cupholder2.0
Update on my overclock
bios 715. CPU 1.40 V, PCIE 1.55 V Vdimm 2.0V
I know I sound like a broken record, but has anyone upgraded their NB heatsink?
Anyone else try the 715 bios? I haven't yet. :stick:
My max FSB is now 400 because of better NB cooling.
Monday I am shooting for 420FSB. By the way I have not touched the PCIE voltage. It's my belief that better NB cooling works better than simply upping the PCIE voltage. Just a theory.
All right. Finally got my rig up and going. Specs are the following:
MSI 975X Platinum 2.1
OEM E6400
2x1GB Patriot PC25300 LLK
I was aprehensive about using this board from the mixed reviews I've read in this thread but so far I've only run into minor problems. With the factory 7.0 bios I got it dual 32M stable at 385x8@stock vcore. At 395MHz I couldn't get the bios settings to stick. I'd set it in the bios, reboot, and either get a hang on a black screen or get into Windows only to discover the fsb is back at 266MHz.
Flashed to 7.14B and things got a lot better. I'm now dual Prime stable at 400x8@stock vcore and I'm dual SPi 32M stable at 425x8@1.4V. Still have some testing to do to find the max but so far I'm impressed with this board. I was running a DC Opteron@3.05GHz and switching to this Core 2 Duo dropped my 32M time by 11 minutes! Crazy.
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Originally Posted by ScottFern
I have not upgraded my NB heatsink, instead I just have a large fan blowing on it. I have currently using 715 bios.For higher FSB you need to increase PCIE voltage, because it is the same as VMCH. Can you post screenshots of your OC?
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Originally Posted by Elfear
425x8 SPI 32M stable? Not bad at all :). Looks like the bios update helped a lot. Kudos to MSI for getting those new bios's out. We still need the final versions though.
Sweet, seems MSI have gone against their usual trend and been a bit speedier with BIOS releases. Good on them :D
I still want 445x9 capability.. hopefully the bios on my 2.b is good enough to run the circus. :D