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

[bluspikez]

bluspikez: I'll try upping vCore first, but will keep NB in mind. When I was running at stock, upping NB even a little caused my computer to crash often with blue screens. With my current overclock, I've certainly tried upping NB, but it never had an effect that I could notice, so I put it back to 1.25, which was the minimum I needed for pretty clear stability. I continued having booting problems despite having higher NB volts.

I'm not sure if it will help in your case, but it definitely helped me. Also, going too high on the nb caused instability for me, so keep that in mind. 1.35-1.4v seems to be the magic range for me. Removing the circupipe and reseating it also helped with stability a lot for me as well; seeing as you mentioned it you might want to strongly consider doing that.

@dogg - Glad that I could help!

[Fiskbit]

I'll be reseating the pipe soon; just need to have a good block of time to take my computer apart and do that. I'll also be taking the opportunity to resolder some wires in my computer case for the temperature monitor. As good of a job as this case does with cooling, its quality control is shoddy at best. That's a word of warning for you, loonym; be careful messing with this case, since wires and pins will break if you look at them.

I'd love to get a Missile Command at some point, but they're not exactly cheap. I have a ton of circuit boards and a generic cabinet for the bulk of them, as well as another more specialized one. I'd love to get some older games with unique controls or vector monitors, but my biggest interest is the deluxe sit-down games. They're a pain to move, but a blast to play. Great stuff.