MSI 890GXM-G65 thread - w/ official support

[Meaker]

The 960T should be.

BTW you can increase voltages on hex cores on this board beyond 1.475v by using the fine adjustments to above it.

(CPU VDD = 1.475v, CPU voltage = 1.5v)

[Meaker]

Currently testing:

310mhz HTT, 2.8ghz ish HT, 2.8ghz ISH NB, 610mhz 6-6-6-30-1t ram.

1.425v CPU core, 1.325v NB.

[Polizei]

Does anyone have measurements for the NB and MOSFET cooler mount holes? I'm looking at watercooling the board and need to know the measurements in order to find waterblocks.

Also, are there any programs out that measure the NB temp? HWMonitor and the "Control Center" program on the driver CD don't display it, nor does Everest.

[kms108]

has anyone done any settings for their rams on this motherboard, I cannot seem to set my ocz rams at frequencies 1600.


kms

[kms108]

does anyone use the core unlock feature on this motherboard, and have had problems with the feature not working after the pc has been turned off.

I sometimes get the message ( not word for word)

CPU and ram settins change

press Del to enter bios setup
press F1 to use previous settings
press F2 to used safe default settings

[insurgent]

has anyone done any settings for their rams on this motherboard, I cannot seem to set my ocz rams at frequencies 1600.


kms

I manually entered the timings for my G.Skill Ecos, DDR3-1600 CL7, but kept the ram voltage at 1.5v

[charged3800z24]

has anyone done any settings for their rams on this motherboard, I cannot seem to set my ocz rams at frequencies 1600.


kms

Sorry man, I have been real busy and don't have this board on the bench right now. I'll throw it on tonight and snag the setting from bios i used.
I know they are 8.8.8 24 32 2t 1.65v. I had everything else auto and they were stable. I can't remember tthe exact location of each setting in the bios.

[charged3800z24]

My bios settings for OCZ BE 1600 CAS 8 modules.
If you want 1600mhz depending on your OC method, the MEM divider will vary. If not HT Ref clocking, just set it to 1600. Other wise you will need either 240 or 300 HT Ref (at least what I have used) to get 1600

follow the screen shots for the settings.

[Polizei]

For those who are interested in watercooling this board, I talked with Jeremy at Danger Den today about possibly getting a waterblock made for the MOSFETs and possibly a NB/MOSFET combined block like you see for other boards. Show your support if you want something for this board!

They only block I could find that fit was a "universal" one from some company in Germany at a cost of 38 euros, plus shipping.

[kms108]

@insurgent and charged3800z24

The info helped me alot, I did manage to get it upto 1600mhz (cpuz show 800mhz), but it was unstable, I have found out that my cpu x2 555, one core out of the four all show errors, so I will have to get it changed.
now I might get the 960T or 1055T, hopefully the 960T is still available in china, since it's been comfirmed that retail sales has been cancelled.

[e-Killer]

anyone have had luck with unlocking Athlon II x3 435? i have 1 CACYC (deneb core, unlock to x4 + Cache L3 is possible with this chip) but i didnt have any luck unlocking the 4th core and/or L3 Cache.

[TheGoat Eater]

got new software for this board - will give you a sneak peak in a few minutes

lets review what this board has done so far -
On the AMD800 platform MSI was:

- 1st to unlock a 4-core into a 6-core

- 1st to do unlock from the BIOS without any additional chips

So would you like to unlock core/s when you need it in windows with a "click of a button" ? I know I would

[TheGoat Eater]

Using standard HTPC/Daily OS (7 64bit Ultimate)

Looking at my info, not too sure what to call the application so until I get the final app name I think I will refer to this app as "MSI Windows Core Unlocking App" for now

= In order to use the new MSI unlock technology you need to download the latest BIOS for your MSI AMD mainboard =

-=- Supported MSI 800 Series AMD boards -=-
890FXA-GD70
890GXM-G65
880GMA-E45
870A-G54

=Optimized Defaults loaded=

opened two instances of CPU-Z and the new "BIOSUnlockCPUCore" app (just copied the name of app- ?may change?) - this is what it looks like at start


CPU Core Control switched to "manual" now shows both CPU cores enabled


- Now I forgot to take a Screenie of the app after switching "Unlock CPU Core" option to "Enabled" ... It had shown only three Cores (Core 1,2,and 3) before it prompted to restart. To check what had been changed automatically in BIOS I went in - Before going in during the restart I got the familiar Red text "things have changed" Post screen knowing things had changed by seeing the B55 as CPU and pressed F1 as usual to continue - then it restarted again and posted as a B55 again and went into BIOS with delete during POST.


This is what it originally looked like - all 4 cores changed over to unlocked


As you may or may not have know, I have trouble with core #4 of this booting into my regular HTPC/Daily OS so I made the change to disable core #4 only (leaving everything else alone)


Opened things up again and everything looks good!


Definitely a good option for those not too familiar with BIOS and core unlocking, making this a useful app for those wanting to unlock without messing in the BIOS - gets a thumbs up from me

[TheGoat Eater]

does anyone use the core unlock feature on this motherboard, and have had problems with the feature not working after the pc has been turned off.

I sometimes get the message ( not word for word)

CPU and ram settins change

press Del to enter bios setup
press F1 to use previous settings
press F2 to used safe default settings

Thought I had posted about this - after enabling core unlockign it will restart come up to that message (in Red) and you want to press F1 , then it restarts again and then go into BIOS or do whatever you need - so after core unlocking you must F1 past the red message and it will restart - then go about things normally

[kms108]

I get the message whether there is changes in the bios or not, I thing I have a cpu with problems in core 2, 3 and 4, i'm taking it have it checked.

[TheGoat Eater]

The windows app is now available for unlocking cores in windows is up for DL here

-=- Supported MSI 800 Series AMD boards -=-
890FXA-GD70
890GXM-G65
880GMA-E45
870A-G54

[Smartidiot89]

I can't find anything negative about this board... It's just awesome, seriously MSI has done it again. They succeeded with MSI 790FX-GD70 and now this board is beyond amazing with pure stability, great OC, CrossFireX with an mATX formfactor. OC Genie is really great, I never expected overclocks like these and low volts with an automatic function AND being 100% LinX/Prime95 stable.

The only bad is the 4-pin CPU-connector but that's not really a big deal...

[Smartidiot89]

Review is up... Using Google Translate Swedish -> English.

AMD Forum's MSI 890GXM-G65 Review

We have a problem of the images overlapping with our current theme but this will be fixed in about 1-2 weeks when vBulletin 4.0.4 arrives For any swedish readers there is a temporary fix by using the theme "AMD Forum vBSEO theme". Changing theme doesn't seem possible when using Google Translate so for anyone interested in seeing all the pictures and graphs as a whole has to go through the original URL, change the theme and take a peak: In Swedish

Feed back is welcome, and congratulations MSI for a very solid board! Really I've never experience such stability when tweaking clocks as I did with this...

[dennish]

To whom it may concern.
dude please help me..i have this board and running windows 7 32 bit..
i would like to know if this is really the limit speed of my system..if not please advice some overclocking configuration..
i tried to overclocked it...my processor is from 2.8 GHZ to 3.6 GHZ...i just set the the multiplier to 17x and FSB to 212..set the ram timing to 6-6-6-18 and
adjusted the ratio to 1:2:66 and also set the northbridge to x11...
i already test that setup with amd overdrive stability test for 20 minutes and it works fine..

but when i am going beyond that overclocking config. i may be able to
boot to windows but when starting stability test my system will reboot..is that the max performace of my system and this board?

here are my stuff..
processor:AMD phenom II x3 720
CPU Cooler: cooler master V8
Board:MSI 89gxm-g65
Ram:Hyundai 2Gb ddr3 1333 9-9-924
hard disk: Hitachi 7200 RPM
PSU:GENERIC 600watts for now.

[ZenEffect]

well, my board just gave up the ghost. was priming ~3.4ghz and then it hard shut down, wouldnt boot back up.

1055t w/ dip switches to ON for ~3.4 1.35v all else on auto.

be careful with this board and x6 cpu.

[ZenEffect]

*update*

just exchanged the motherboard... hopefully this one wont die. I did notice quite a bit of 12v ripple on the last board... this one is rock solid so far

upon inspection of the pwm i noticed a bit of solder bridging 2 of the fets. HOPEFULLY this is what caused the previous failure.

currently testing at the exact same settings that killed the last mobo. going to let it run for 24 hours on small fft.

[Polizei]

What voltage are you running your 1055 at for 3.4ghz?

Post back when that 24hr prime run is done... when it is, I'll feel much better about the PWM setup. Right now I'm kind of nervous because my heatsink gets kind of warm.

I think most of the heat in the PWM heatsink is from the NB, (via heat pipe) which I find gets pretty damn hot.

[kms108]

i'm using the X4 965 at the moment, PC on 24/7, and the cpu stock heatsink and heat pipes are running cool, not even warm.

[ZenEffect]

just passed 24 hours of small FFTs w/ 0 issues. The last board must have been a defect. Wish i got a pic of the pwm area but it seriously looked like solder got splashed on and it bridged 2 of the fets.


this buid was for pure simplicity and ease of use as it is going to a customer and if the bios were to reset, the pc would be a piece of cake to restore the proper settings... as you are prompted in post that something happened i.e. cmos reset or failed oc, you can hotkey in a profile and boot from it


settings:

3359Mhz - flipped the 2 dip switches on the motherboard
DRAM - 8-8-8-24 @ 1.65v 1600
everything else AUTO

pwm heatsink got to 70c - measured w/ VA8090 (thanks ryan!)

case: Lian Li - PC-A05nb
case fans: 2x Thermalright TR-FDB 12-1600 63.7cfm *advertised cfm, no way to check actual*
Lian Li - BS-08B pci cooler w/ stock fans
cpu cooling: CoolIt ECO ALC - attached w/ 1 of the thermalright fans, sucks air in from back of case

CPU - AMD 1055t Phenom II X6 2.8GHz @ 3.359Ghz
Motherboard - MSI 890GXM-G65
HD: Hitachi Deskstar 1TB 7200rpm
RAM: OCZ AMD Black Edition 1600 8-8-8-24 1.65v
GPU - MSI 5770 Hawk - 950 core 1300 mem 1.2v (no voltage adjustment was required for this oc)
PSU - OCZ ModXstream 600w
Small FFTs 24hrs


3DMark06


SuperPi 32m


Turbo Core in action

[Polizei]

Awesome. Glad to hear it.