Official MSI P7N Diamond (780i) Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread

[nugzo]

I haven't had any luck obtaining a decent OC with any of the 6 or 7 series MSI nforce boards. I haven't seen where anybody has had much luck. MSI has been disappointing with the these. I wouldn't touch one if my intentions were to OC.

[loonym]

I haven't had any luck obtaining a decent OC with any of the 6 or 7 series MSI nforce boards. I haven't seen where anybody has had much luck.

Unfortunate you didn't get good results with the P7N Diamond but I know it oc's very well because I do get good results and I've read lots of good results from others in this and other forums. It really took a lot of tinkering and learning the kind of weird bios though, not for the impatient, gimme results now crowd.

Bababooey, I wouldn't put too much faith in the ps efficiency readouts in hw monitor. It's really only been kinda sorta accurate in 1 or 2 bios releases I think. Don't stress over it. Have you tried clearing the cmos to solve the stock speed problem? Are the settings all bios defaults when you get the blue screens? If so it might be your ram settings need to be set up manually.

[jdfloresd]

Anyone has a Q9300? Obtained any results? I have not been able to even post doing the slightest overclocking...

Anyone else has a q9300? any results?

[BababooeyHTJ]

Unfortunate you didn't get good results with the P7N Diamond but I know it oc's very well because I do get good results and I've read lots of good results from others in this and other forums. It really took a lot of tinkering and learning the kind of weird bios though, not for the impatient, gimme results now crowd.

Bababooey, I wouldn't put too much faith in the ps efficiency readouts in hw monitor. It's really only been kinda sorta accurate in 1 or 2 bios releases I think. Don't stress over it. Have you tried clearing the cmos to solve the stock speed problem? Are the settings all bios defaults when you get the blue screens? If so it might be your ram settings need to be set up manually.

Yeah I cleared cmos and everything was at the stock settings that I had used for about a month I know it was accurate in bios 1.0 I am usin 1.1 nowwhich didnt give me too many problems but I am very afraid to flash if Im not stable at stock speeds. The blue screen error I am getting is a hard drive error and I am using raid0 with two WD caviar 250gb drives I think it is the onboard raid controller not geting enough voltage but the added voltage to my NB causes it to be stable enough not to crash. Im afraid to run it for too long

[BababooeyHTJ]

My hw moniter says
3.3v = 3.280v
5v = 4.198v
12v = 11.968v
Icore = 13.000a (average)
I12v = 1.480a
efficiency = 22% (average)

[Kyros]

I "think" I may have got it running stable. I found an article and kind of went by the spec that they had. Amazing the damn thing won't run stable at default speeds. I had to OC it to 3 GHz and 444.4 on the RAM and now it's not crashed yet *crosses fingers".

I hope I didn't OC things too much. I really don't know what I'm doing hardly, but all my core's seem to be running around 40 degrees celcius according to Core Temp.

Anything I should pay attention to to make sure I don't fry my system?

[Fiskbit]

Bababooey: I don't know how much this matters, as I don't have hat much experience with it yet, but your 5v looks way too low. It's off by 16%. I don't know what in a computer uses 5v (12v is the most important one), but I can't imagine it being off that much would be good for it.

Anyway, I've not done any OC'ing yet, but my P7N and various other parts are lying in wait for me to put them together tonight or tomorrow. I intend to go with water cooling eventually (probably in a couple weeks), but in the meantime I'll be using my processor's stock cooling. I have a Q6600. I'm a bit curious how far I'd be able to safely push it on stock, and am also wondering if anyone has any good ideas on how to keep my harddrives safe while trying to find a stable overclock. Additionally, if I'm clearing CMOS before doing stuff, I'm losing my harddrive settings every time, right? Is it easy to restore those by hand afterward?

[BababooeyHTJ]

Unfortunate you didn't get good results with the P7N Diamond but I know it oc's very well because I do get good results and I've read lots of good results from others in this and other forums. It really took a lot of tinkering and learning the kind of weird bios though, not for the impatient, gimme results now crowd.

Bababooey, I wouldn't put too much faith in the ps efficiency readouts in hw monitor. It's really only been kinda sorta accurate in 1 or 2 bios releases I think. Don't stress over it. Have you tried clearing the cmos to solve the stock speed problem? Are the settings all bios defaults when you get the blue screens? If so it might be your ram settings need to be set up manually.

I set my ram settings manually but it did not help. Have you ever seen hw moniter off by that much? Should I just try Prime 95 at settings that I know it runs well and if thats stable not worry about it?

[loonym]

I haven't had any luck obtaining a decent OC with any of the 6 or 7 series MSI nforce boards. I haven't seen where anybody has had much luck. MSI has been disappointing with the these. I wouldn't touch one if my intentions were to OC.

I know I shouldn't feed this but I have to answer this post one more time. Have you had a P7N Diamond? If so what were your oc issues? I've had this same board since I bought it in feb and it's run at full load 99.9% of the time perfectly stable for the most part with a q6600 @ 3.6ghz on air. I just last week decided to try a new 45nm quad and that's worked pretty much flawlessly too at the same full load 24/7 @ 3.83ghz. I've never run this board with stock settings so I can't comment on any issues people may or may not have while trying that. I ran some quick benches just now, on air since that's all I have, to illustrate overclocking potential. No tricks, no mods, just straight up runs back to back.