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

[bluspikez]

It's hard to believe I haven't posted here in over two weeks, but I did promise I'd post back with my SLI results.

SLi works great for me in everything BUT 3DMark06. I haven't been able to figure out why, either. I can run Crysis on Very High in DX10 and get 40-50 fps average, and can run all my other games (UT3, GRID, COD4, Assassin's Creed, Hellgate London, etc) on the highest settings with the highest possible AA and AF with no hitching whatsoever. Before when I ran 3DMark I got just over 17k as my highest; now when I run it with SLi enabled I get around 10k. If I disable SLi, I get 12k. I'm not sure what the deal is, since it worked properly before, but now it just doesn't cooperate. I'm guessing it is a driver issue, but I am too lazy to deal with uninstalling/reinstalling my drivers just to get one stupid benchmark to work when all of my other games work great.

As for the hardware front, after removing the circupipe and cleaning/reseating and finding stable settings, my compy is happily chugging along at 3.6ghz and I have yet to have it crash because of my cpu/fsb overclock. 4ghz is easily attainable as well, but requires a bit more voltage than I like.

@Bababooey - I have heard that the included sound card causes issues...I haven't seen any with my machine, but there is a good possibility that it is causing problems. I would try it for a bit longer with the included sound card, and if it keeps acting up then either take it out or try with a different sound card to see if it was the cause.

Oh yeah, does anyone know what happened to theYipster? Seems like as soon as I stopped lurking and started posting he vanished, and then only appeared to b**** someone out and then vanished again. It would be nice if we could update the first post to include our findings after he vanished...