My input about this board after several months of hell and "support" from MSI - tried every trick in the book and had everything RMA'd 2x
MSI P7N Diamon, Nvidia 780i
Problem: takes 3-5 times to boot successfully on average, freezes and locks up randomly, BSOD rebooted boot ups, random rebooting when the PC doesn nothing
Other: Ran more stable when OC'd - has had muiltiple BIOS's tried and tested along with drivers and several other things that MSI suggested when they could be bothered answering their tech support
Best mate got extremely fed up with it. Bought him a new Gigabyte P45-DS3R which unfortunately took a direct Thermaltake leak all over it while it was on. We dried it out and 30mins later, powered back on perfect, no errors and then OC'd the Q6600 stable 2nd time round to 3.6GHz.
Offered to ebay the board, RMA it. Friend wanted none of it. Never wanted anyone to suffer such a pain ever again..... So it went under the knife like the Asus board did.....
You can see MSI forgot to take the protective strip off the mosfet cooler and there are signs of burning...
Burning confirmed...
We decided we'd seen enough of this board and it's problems....
This is what it gets for crappy CPU support! (most reports showed it worked on 45nm duals but never a case of 65nm quads)
This wasn't enough....
It wouldn't die from me standing on it, we got some better hard hitting tools (we wanted a sledge hammer but reckoned we'd get stopped when carrying it home and that the neighbours might complain)
SAY GOODBYE MSI!!!!
1 happy customer - I've never seen him so happy about this board
For some of you lucky viewers you will have been online and on MSN where the webcam was live for us splitting the board in 2 - bits flew everwhere and it was utter lol!
Original images are still available for anyone who wants to photochop or add captions
Pictures taken by : Bex
Smashing done by: Decilete, Mike & Bex
Board donated by: Decilete
Board quality control by: MSI / Nvidia
~Bex
EDIT:
My reply to MSI's tech support...
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