Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
I was curious about onboard graphic results so I ran 3DMark06 on four different Systems also added our previous results:
Whoa man thanks for the testing!

My scores the lowest, yep
I can't open GPU-Z and ATiTool etc, my GFX crashes
It should not be 57MHz though, I'm pretty sure that's 2D mode clocks.
Note: M2A-VM shows 57MHz for the GPU also, the Turion Notebook with the same gfx chipset shows a correct frequency. I used 8.4 CAT on both 1250 systems.
Hmm.. I tracked a program running at startup which set "ATi mode changes" - possibly something to do with that. Your scores are still very close by though for both runs.

So that means 1250 chip is equal to 740G I guess.
Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
Are those screenies both idle (desktop vs CnQ)? If so desktop temp seems abit high.
What do you get under load?
Yep, Sandra has to put load on or it can't fetch temps, thus what you see is slightly loaded temps [+2-3C from idle] - ambient was high.

I've been able to troubleshoot and found EVEREST also picks up BIOS temps, CPU and GFX-NB temps, as does EasyTune, it just labels them wrong way round. Here's real idle temps in both states->

"Motherboard" in EVE is CPU in BIOS as you can see through EasyTune and "Aux" in EVE is GFX-NB labeled as System in BIOS/ET.
+2.5v rail is actually the DRAM voltage, real is slightly lower [-0.016v]

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Stock max fan - CnQ max fan [ambient is 18C]


CnQ + fanspeed = below 100RPM

BTW, two of my old gen PATA Maxtor drives, still living, one of them beats all of my WD SATA II-> [all settings are same]

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4x WD SATA II [all same] - Old Maxtor PATA 1 - Old Maxtor PATA 2

Quote Originally Posted by SocketMan View Post
the HT rate/multi setting gave the clue, since NB must be >= then HT.
I figured adjusting the HT ratio/multy will make the board adjust the NB as well or
it will never boot to windows, or even post..
Thanks for the tests mate
Problem is they are independent settings, like CPU and NB speeds, even though they have a relationship

It shouldn't be changing, if MSI found out, they'll take BIOS down and replace it with one that doesn't touch NB. I tried to check it out yesterday but the MSI didn't want to boot 9850 so I left it.
Oh, also I think (this one I am not 100%) the ganged/unganged setting is messed up:there are 2 options there but both give me unganged
You disabled Unganged mode?
Its worked in all BIOSes since the first but I've not tried the latest.
The HT stays @ 1800 on the boot up, but is changeable with AOD
Then MSI messed up; they labeled it HT link multi but the register its changing is NB multi not the HT multi

Any more confirmations that BIOS 1.4 has NB multi?