The OFFICIAL MSI K8N Neo2-939 tips and tricks guide thread

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11-22-2004, 02:01 AM
saaya

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Originally Posted by Orker

awesome thanks :) im selling my EB for some of that Rev2 goodness

EDIT: anyone else ever get problems with the core temp monitor on this board? whenever i restart i get the "driver not found" and a couple of other errors... i tried to format but that didnt do anything

READ!!!! :P

its a known issue, the temp sensor doesnt work right.
11-22-2004, 04:08 AM
Orker

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Originally Posted by saaya

READ!!!! :P

its a known issue, the temp sensor doesnt work right.

Yeh ive picked random pages in this thread to read.. its a bit daunting to read the entire thread

anyway thanks for the answer.. hopefully msi release a patched version soon
11-22-2004, 10:09 AM
Sheik

OK freaky stuff ! I got my PQI working and how ? I changed the CAS to 3. Now it does 289 MHz with 2.7 volts 3-3-3 :rolleyes:
11-22-2004, 10:43 AM
Byron

And how much was the membandwidth performance sacrifice?
11-22-2004, 11:11 AM
Sheik

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Well CAS latency has zero affect on Athlon64's luckily so it is not an issue. Bandwidth in Sandra is 7500. I also did 300 MHz but 3-4-4 sucked.

My OCZ3700EB did 237 MHz on this board as well.
11-22-2004, 11:39 AM
Blue078

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Originally Posted by Sheik

Well CAS latency has zero affect on Athlon64's luckily so it is not an issue. Bandwidth in Sandra is 7500. I also did 300 MHz but 3-4-4 sucked.

My OCZ3700EB did 237 MHz on this board as well.

Yea CAS isnt as important as it used to be. BTW Nice clocks Sheik :toast:
PQI is looking good.

Just got a new MachII GT and it's letting me get a bit more top end from 3500+. But cant tak full advantage of it because now the old Ballistix is holding me back. I'm gona have to get some ram that can do at least 280. PQI might be the ticket.
11-22-2004, 11:50 AM
Sheik

Thanks :toast:

Well I hope to get my FX55 in the Mach2 soon as well so it is looking like 2.9 GHz 1:1 (PQI failed SuperPI at 295 MHZ) but I would have prefered 300 - 310 MHz x10 which seems the average FX55 + Mach2 OC. I love this RAM :)
11-22-2004, 11:54 AM
Blue078

What do you think about that gskill stuff ?
11-22-2004, 11:57 AM
Sheik

Well it was a toss up between the GSkill and the PQI, but as neither are available locally and I had to import, the PQI won as my regular supplier did not stock the GSkill otherwise I might have gone with it. My PQI is doing exactly what I wanted though so I have no complaints.
11-22-2004, 12:11 PM
Blue078

Good to hear. I can get the PQI from a store close to me.
11-22-2004, 02:53 PM
Orker

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sheik

Well CAS latency has zero affect on Athlon64's luckily so it is not an issue. Bandwidth in Sandra is 7500. I also did 300 MHz but 3-4-4 sucked.

My OCZ3700EB did 237 MHz on this board as well.

Thats an awesome oc with EB, considering its not rated highly for this board. i cant get passed 220mhz.. im changing to some tccd ram.. ocz 3200 rev2
11-22-2004, 03:34 PM
longshot

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Originally Posted by Orker

Thats an awesome oc with EB, considering its not rated highly for this board. i cant get passed 220mhz.. im changing to some tccd ram.. ocz 3200 rev2

my 3700EB does 250 in my Neo2 with no problems.
11-22-2004, 03:40 PM
Byron

what timings you are running the EB's longshot?
11-22-2004, 03:42 PM
longshot

stock timings. 2.5,3,3,7
11-22-2004, 06:12 PM
yuri

Here is the max i can get with my bh-5 on the msi neo2 plat :D

http://24.158.153.163/images/279fsb.jpg

here is my chipset also

http://24.158.153.163/images/chipset.jpg
11-22-2004, 10:23 PM
Sheik

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Originally Posted by Orker

Thats an awesome oc with EB, considering its not rated highly for this board.

Well I read a review the other day of this MSI (can't remember where) but they used OCZ3700EB and got 240 - 250 MHz. Some sticks of EB are definitely better than others. Both my sticks max out at 260 MHz in single channel.

My PQI TCCD is actually doing better on this MSI in Dual Channel than on my DFI NF3 250 in Single channel. Good going MSI !

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what timings you are running the EB's longshot?

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stock timings. 2.5,3,3,7

Huh ? Stock timings for EB are 3-3-2-6 not so ?
11-23-2004, 02:45 AM
funkflix

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Originally Posted by yuri

Here is the max i can get with my bh-5 on the msi neo2 plat :D

Nice one! :) How much Volts for ur BH5?
11-23-2004, 05:15 AM
yuri

3.8VDIMM :eek:
11-23-2004, 05:20 AM
No Mercy

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Originally Posted by yuri

3.8VDIMM :eek:

and which bios are you using ?
11-23-2004, 05:22 AM
funkflix

:eek: :eek: Thats enough! ;)
11-23-2004, 12:33 PM
yuri

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Originally Posted by No Mercy

and which bios are you using ?

1.36b thats the only one atm right :p:
11-23-2004, 02:43 PM
Kriller

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Originally Posted by yuri

Here is the max i can get with my bh-5 on the msi neo2 plat :D

:banana::banana::banana::banana:! Thats good, booster for 3,8v I presume?
11-23-2004, 08:33 PM
Orker

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Originally Posted by longshot

stock timings. 2.5,3,3,7

Thats pretty nice.. but im running 3-2-2-10 and even with a ddr booster at 3.1v i cant get past 220mhz
11-24-2004, 02:17 AM
van Basten

I hate this board

OMFG - I had to assemble three Winchester Rigs over the last week and this board is just pure trash.

All of the three rigs don't do their work properly - even with tons of various hardware being used (by me in order to find a solution). I swapped RAM, HDDs, PSUs and just about anything else you can imagine.

One of the boards made it into BIOS twice, once into Windows and died

Another one was doing fine for 1 day - and after that it was BSODing all over the place

The other one was simply DOA

And (just about last week) I ordered one for myself, which was a mess too.

This is so frustrating - I tried just about anything....(and I was using only really nice components - like the OCZ 420W PSU for example)

I was the one proposing to use the MSI instead of the ASUS to them, since those customers like to overclock and are willing to buy RAM and other stuff (from me :D ). Now I'm sitting here with those three ducks in front of me and have to figure out a solution.

It seems as if the people who are getting a decent one might be happy with em, but this is definitely the last time I ever proposed to someone to buy an MSI-Motherboard. Their Quality Department must be sleeping or taking some pills :stick:

Anyway, just my 2 cents
11-24-2004, 08:01 AM
Garrett

I have no problems whatsoever, only problem I have is that I have a not-so-good cpu stepping I'm afraid, 0441 TPAW, it does 2.7ghz PiFast @ 1.74v @ highly unstable :D

The board doesn't give me any headaches :)

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