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

[BababooeyHTJ]

Did you sent it to MSI (City of Industry, CA) for RMA?
It's remarkable how similar were both cases, and also RAA here in the forum who had a similar problem, bad consignment i guess.

Yeah, thats exactly where I sent mine. MSI's customer service may kind of suck but they will make things right.

As far as the boards dieing, Im not sue weither I should blame MSI or Nvidia. Im sure that its a problem with the chipset. When I got my board back it looked like they had replaced the northbridge. I sold mine recently and the guy that I sold it too seems to be haveing good luck with it.

I hope that everything works out well for you.

[stickboy00]

its taken me months to finally dial this board in and get it stable at 400FSB with a e8500.... the board is very finicky but once you get it stable, its a rock.

[dogg]

In these days my MOBO has 1st birthday / or better say anniversary /.. I must agree with bababooey and stickboy, that it's about little play with voltages, but since MSI did a very good job with MOBO's BIOS, it's much more easy to find a stable setting.. I did no cooling modifications and it's stable /e8400 1760 FSB, e8600 1732 FSB/ for 24/7 use.. I, somehow, like to keep 1:1 DRAM:FSB ratio on this board ..
and gl Litri..

[loonym]

In these days my MOBO has 1st birthday / or better say anniversary /.. I must agree with bababooey and stickboy, that it's about little play with voltages, but since MSI did a very good job with MOBO's BIOS, it's much more easy to find a stable setting.. I did no cooling modifications and it's stable /e8400 1760 FSB, e8600 1732 FSB/ for 24/7 use.. I, somehow, like to keep 1:1 DRAM:FSB ratio on this board ..
and gl Litri..

Mine has run with a q6600 oc to 3600 at 100% load around the clock crunching WCG for the past year.

[dogg]

Mine has run with a q6600 oc to 3600 at 100% load around the clock crunching WCG for the past year.

Hi loonym, I'm glad to c u here again..U are our guru ...Nice new rig u got there.... I didn't mean to post some world record of OC.. just let Litri know,that this MOBO realy like oc... I'm keeping FSB there, cause my RAMs like that /11150 read, latency 47.7/.. when higher, RAM performance droping 1000-2000 read, latency to 51.. I made some changes in hw as well.. I gave up 8800GT SLi and changed it to single ULTRA, which is keeping that SLi thing between PCIe slots cooler, and my power supply bit more warm.. I'm really happy with this board and some issues I got before was not MOBO related /for example, SATA problem was there because of Seagate crappy firmware/...