MSI K9A2 Platinum V.1 + Phenom II overclocking?

[Final8ty]

yeah kara, most k9a2 owners want to lower the NB multi. Sucks that we cant.

Before my platinum bit the dust i was able to get the NB down again by loading Fail safe defaults.
But then i had the overclocked profile without the raised HT Multi to load back in after the reboot.

[batmang]

Before my platinum bit the dust i was able to get the NB down again by loading Fail safe defaults.
But then i had the overclocked profile without the raised HT Multi to load back in after the reboot.

I'm talking about being able to lower it and keep it low. Say... around 8x or so.

[Smartidiot89]

Sure this mobo works for a 940BE, but for a 920 its nightmare due to the NB multi

[batmang]

^^^ True. It makes things A LOT harder. The max I'm going to be able to get on my K9A2 is 3.7. I won't really know until the rest of my water setup comes in.

[Final8ty]

I'm talking about being able to lower it and keep it low. Say... around 8x or so.

I know what you mean.

[Smartidiot89]

I'm talking about being able to lower it and keep it low. Say... around 8x or so.

I am using a Phenom II 920 which forces me to clock through HT, and without being able to lower NB multi you get the image. Got my new DFI board today will install it later...

[Governator]

I'm using the 1.7 Beta3 BIOS, it will properly recognize the Phenom II otherwise it looks much like the 1.6 version.
It can be downloaded from http://www.msi-forum.de/thread.php?threadid=35629, you'll have to register first though.

The NB multiplier cannot be adjusted with the beta BIOS, however there is a way to change it. I changed the HT multiplier to 10 and suddenly the NB was running at 2000 MHz while the HT Link still was at it's original 1800 MHz.

A little warning here, now I'm not able to lower the NB multi regardless of the setting of the HT multiplier, looks like it's a one-way adjustment.

Ok I've registered, just need to know which one is the most desirable to d/l? Do I want A7376AMS.174.zip? BTW this board will be used as a dedicated folding rig, anyone here using it for this purpose? Thanks everyone.

[jonspd]

Mine folds 24-7 with a 945 np at 3.6ghz with 1.73 bios I haven't tried the 1.74 ones yet.

if you dl them can you host the file?

[Zorachus]

Yea the V1 board is funky to say the least. Pox on Tomshardware for saying it was a good board. The features on other boards blow this one away. *sigh*

I was able to get some decent clocking, but WTF is up w/having 3.5ghz stable at 1.38vcore and 3.6 stable at only 1.52vcore???

[Karaya]

Ok I've registered, just need to know which one is the most desirable to d/l? Do I want A7376AMS.174.zip? BTW this board will be used as a dedicated folding rig, anyone here using it for this purpose? Thanks everyone.

According to the German speaking forum at www.msi-forum.de some people have had problems with 1.74 and are actually suggesting that 1.73 is more stable.

I could be wrong here since my knowledge of German is only half decent, mostly gathered at various bierstuben in Munich and the surrounding areas

[MonsterMash]

My system and my OC are:
Phenom II 940 Black Edition: CPU: 247x15 = 3705mhz; NB: 247x10 = 2470mhz - Vcore: 1,45V; VNB: 1,4V
MOBO: MSI K9A2 Platinum
RAM: 8GB 2 X G.Skill F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ @ 988Mhz
Video: ATI HD4870
HD: RAID0: 2XHitachi Deskstar T7K250 250gb SATA2
PSU: LC Power Arkangel 850W
Liquid Cooled by: Ybris K11 Top1 + Ybris Keops K5 ATI + WaterStation HomeMade: Double Rad tri-fun + Pump Swiftech MCP655

I'm using k10stat to customize my pstate. Here they are:




Everything absolutely RS. Using bios beta 1.74.

[Governator]

How can I unlock the 4th core of my PII BE 720 on this board anyhow? Also, I thought that MSI had a win based bios flasher?