Good design, good overclock, good pipe-The MSI P35 Neo2-FR overview

[Dazman]

New to this forum.

Just built new rig using v1.1 Neo2-FR running the B09 bios, also tried 1.5, 1.6, 1.7. Think I finally have it stable on my E6300 @ 3428Mhz, OCZ Reaper 9200 (the black kind with the heatpipe riser) running at 1175Mhz 5-5-5-15-32. Was running memory at 2.3V in Bios but speedfan 4.33 reporting Vram at 2.45V??? Changed it to 2.1 and speedfan still reported Vram as 2.45V, no change. This mem is rated up to 2.4V so it is a bit over spec but it runs fine at the bios setting of 2.1V. I suspect speedfan is reporting incorrectly so would like to poke around and get the real voltage with my DMM.

Also the vCore selected in BIOS differs ALOT! I have to select 1.525 to get 1.5 idle then that give me Vdroop to 1.46-7 at load. I am aming to get only (Lol) 1.45-6 after vDroop but it just doesnt seem to be possible with any bios vCore selection with any of the Bios I have tried.

Also, trying to run 2 Powercolor PCS 3870s in Xfire. Singly the cards run at least as 880/1251... but in Xfire if I move the mem settings at all it becomes quite unstable. Wondering if any of you have a similar setup and/or expierence similar problems. For info I have the Moles plugged in to the M/b, Use a Thermaltake Power Express GPU PSU for one card and on 6 pin PCIe power lead from a Hiper Type R 580W, set 2nd 4X Pcie @ 100, 104, 110 also tried sing bridge and bot bridge dongles at same time. Also the X4 slot doesnt seem to communicate well with the x16 slot, very bandwidth limited. Very frustrating!

Thanx for any help with either issue!

Daz