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

[BababooeyHTJ]

Yes. It runs 24/7. I have had my Q6600, E8400, and QX6800 chips running in it without issue. Really the only issue I had was when I upgraded the BIOs and they changed the voltage settings. I had to retune everything - a real pain in the butt. Its a good board. I did pull the NB/SB heat sink and cleaned it up. Used Arctic Silver Ceranique and dropped my temps by about 5 degrees C. Also starting using it on my CPU heat sink - temp dropped 3C. I spent some time modifying my case to add a 250mm side fan to cool the NB/SB heat sink. That has worked well. I still continue to experiment with different configurations when time permits. How is your rig these days, booey?

The board died on me after 4 months. It froze up one day and just didnt want to post afterwards. I sent it out for an RMA and they gave it back to me with half of the heatsink missing, but to be honest I thought that I had voided the warrenty when I pulled off the heatsink and replace the TIM with MX-2 which is nesessary on this board. I havent even tried it out since. Ive replaced the board with an Asus P5Q Deluxe and I love it. It was worth the lose of sli. Its good to hear that the board is treating you well.
@Raa- That sounds alot like how my board went out. MSI's QC is pretty bad, it wouldn't surprise me if they missed something.