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

[loonym]

You want to run at stock that's your business but you must also be experienced enough after a few builds to know when flexibility is required for stability's sake. This isn't xtreme stock pc's. The forum was built around learning to run out of spec. MSI won't officially support issues encountered while running your system out of spec, that's why there are places like this for us, however they will support all these issues people seem to have while running stock speeds and default settings.

[wolf1974]

hey fiskbit, have you looked into the pci-e titainium x-fi i am using it in place of the one that came with the board it realy is a nice card and for once the drivers work,,,,,imagine that, but even if it dont fix youre reboots is worth getting it,,also have you tried every thing auto/default but use 1333 fsb i have read several times this has fixed the 6600 insability with this board, oh and to all i am now on my forth replacement from msi my last board was great for 2 weeks then my 2nd pci slot died and i had to move down to the 3rd slot witch is fine but i will be running 3 9800gtx+ cards as soon as my trade up is done with bfg so i will need that slot,,well good luck,,wolf

[Fiskbit]

Fourth? Ouch. I hope the newest one works out well for you.

I'm definitely planning on using a different sound card, but not yet sure about what I'll go with. The Creative PCI-e card is appealing, though I'm not keen on picking up hardware with the Fatal1ty branding. I plan on water cooling my GPUs when I have more money to put into this machine, which will free up my PCI slot. If I do that, a lot more sound card options become available, including using the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum card from my previous build.

I might give 1333 FSB a shot, but I'm worried about how much heat that'll produce. I'm still running stock cooling. I was planning to go with water for the CPU, but the Danamics liquid metal CPU cooler that should be coming out later this year looks really appealing and may be worth waiting for. I'll wait until my next reboot and forgo the RAM test for now in favor of seeing how things run at 1333 FSB, assuming I can figure out good settings for that and chip doesn't run too hot.

Thanks for the suggestions!