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

[Yoosty]

Your actually right. I read all these rave reviews around the arctic cooling freezer 7 pro, and its actually showing very similiar temperatures to the standard intel cooler. Im very very dissapointed. Although it is quiet. Anyone got recommendations for a decent cooler for the P7N2 and Q9450?

The Xigmatek 1283 HSF is currently one of the best, do not forget to get the Xigmatek Retention bracket. That way you can screwed it down, instead of using the push/pin method for better cooling.

[FedericoUY]

Hi PCgamerX and Overspeed: I have had the same issue that you have. I have 3 HDD's connected (2 in raid) and some USB devices. The only way I could find to get stable was upping a little the SB to 1.6, and as I have 4GB of ram, i upped a little NB too, to 1.3. On this values none of those chips are giong to get hot, not even close to that. My Pc is now very stable, and I'm using 1.2b2 bios as I found it to be good.

[dogg]

I agree with FedericoUY.. NB at 1.6V is fine with a 42C temperature /sensor sticked on the hottest place I found on passive cooling above NB/..
I'm using 3 x Raptor and 1x Barracuda /no raid/, SATA optical drive and the last sata slot for external eSATA connector... So my SATA onboard slots are full...
I've experienced some scary moments with it after my discs was disappearing one by one after 1 or 2 hours from a system and at the finish disappeared system disk as well.. There was no disks showed in BIOS... but it was vista/nvidia sata driver related problem / I think/..
I needed to clear cmos to get Vista instal on IDE disc.. /without it it freezed always on the same spot somewhere in the middle of installation/.. After, when Vista was on IDE, I was connecting SATA discs one by one to the board... I was trying to find which disc is broken and started that disaster, but all of them was ok and without any data lost... Reistaled system on SATA anyway /clean instal solved some minor issues as well/... and now everything alright...

Just something that could happen...
There is some nVidia something, that makes Vista show SATA devices as SCSI, so SMART is not working properly..
I decided to start backup external to IDE just to make it more easy when..just in a case...

Federico,
I got some video corruption issues before, but not in a games, just in video and it allways caused bsod after corrupted video appeared, I've seen exactly the same on asus 780i board as well.... That was solved somewhere around 1.16, and in 1.2B2 it comming back after 10min of playing video.. In the beta 1.2B3 is no problem even after 10 - 15 hrs playing..

[FedericoUY]

Dogg, I agree with you. I've never had problems on games, and I play a lot (Assassin's creed (finished), Cod4, grid, etc). My only problem were video related, but this problems persisted with 1.2b3 bios on auto voltage (I've tried this bios). Thank you, regards.