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

[AaronYuri]

I have to agree with loonym. I don't see how two mainboards with the exact same chipsets can get such a score difference. Run them both at stock...

[nugzo]

I have to agree with loonym. I don't see how two mainboards with the exact same chipsets can get such a score difference. Run them both at stock...

Well believe it. I had the diamond installed for a lil over a week and i must have ran 100+ benchmarks with different OC settings on 3 different windows installs with different video and chipset drivers. I tried everything because i wanted to keep the diamond because of being able to us my Xonar with tri-sli. As soon as i yanked it and re-installed the striker my benchmarks jumped back up to what i posted. My 9800 GTX's will be sent off starting monday back to EVGA for step-up to GT280's. When they arrive i will try the Diamond again with the GT's. I may keep the diamond anyways because the loss of the 1k vs the awesome sound of the Xonar is worth the synthetic benchmark loss. I didn't see any noticeable loss in games with the Diamond, only the synthetic benchmark loss. I havent ran either of them at stock settings so i dont have numbers for stock. I will run them at stock settings once the new cards get here. I will also do single and dual card runs on both.