MSI X58 Platinum thread

[FabricioGS]

can you help me out and post you complete bios setting having trouble breaking 3.8ghz stable.

Well.. I won't remember everything but, a few things I did wrote down:

vCore: 0.230+
vQPI: 0.220+
PLL: auto
PCIE@ 37.3
Disable spread spectrum
EIST disabled
C-state disabled
Turbo boost disabled
QPI: fullspeed
Leave it at 4.8gt

Anyway.. it was worthless. I remember it crashed just a few minutes after that screen shot. That was the closest to 4GHz stability ever with this board.

If you want to find the stability point on the range of 3.8~2.9Ghz, I suggest you use the 19x mult, and up the vQPI a lot, all up to about 0.230+. This also helps to save some vCore against the 20x mult.

My settings for 3.8Ghz are: vcore 0.080+, qpi 0.160+
For 3.9GHz: vcore 0.110+, qpi 0.220+
Both with HT off. With HT on it requires way much more vcore.
PS: This two settings are 20x Linx stable.

[FabricioGS]

Some news about the board: now the bios 1.20 and 1.30 are oficial and are availible on the public site: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?f...1&prod_no=1696

Honestly this 1.30 bios is the most crappy I have tested so far. It just freezes on POST under high overclock. Using the 1.34 beta for now.

Some updated drivers are also availible now: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?f...1&prod_no=1696

[sinister1st]

How do I get the 21 multi to stick in 1.3 official using intel speedboost? This bios has more features than the last one I used. Im working on 24 hr settings, I have got the multi working but it backs off to 20 when at full load even with 1.5vcore so I know its not that and ram is 100 percent. Im not going to test the 134beta right now so thats not an option.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=403 hmm is this a bios issue or Im I just not getting the correct setting in this new bios? If i remember correct bios 1 official was able to lock 21 multi. Well anywho Im 24 hr Wcg stable with 1.3 off and pain in the ass. If you cant run wcg you arent stable Im working on higher 24hrs but for now heres 3.8ghtz settings Ill post pics later when I have time since testing this board is a pain in the ass and there is a million settings I havent figured out yet.

cpu v .160
cpu pll 1.85
qpi .150
nb 1.27
Ich 1.35
ram ratio 4 ddr31333 @1520ish
ram volts 1.54 (very cheap low volt kingston)

Got my true so I had to retest everything and Im loving this heat sink so Ill be working on 21 turbo mode this week run wcg if it fails your not stable, I have ran linx and passed and Imo its better than prime 95 the only thing I DONT like is it unloads the core after a while (unless theres an option to keep it going and going?) I hope I dont have to reflash to get turbo back, Im pretty sure I havent topped out @3.8 to get higher is alot of vcore/ still testing but I think theres some things were not getting in the bios that are untested to many people are getting way high suicide shots so theres more ways to get there soon well all know, keep em comming.

[jcniest5]

You guys suppose we can cross-flash the Platinum SLI with the BIOS of Eclipse?

[jcniest5]

Time to bump this thread as deservely so...

[Shadowmage]

I'm thinking of getting one of these boards. How does it compare on air/water to the more expensive boards? Are the voltage options good?

[sinister1st]

Guys I just picked up a kit of OCZ gold ddr3 2000 and they are worth ddr 1600 with tight timmings anthing I tried after 1800 I had to use 2T well I have another years of testing since getting these new chips sooo I shalt be back

Oh bios 1.5beta1 is pretty good but if you go waaay to high unstable it can corrupt your bios and ask to reflash, just ignore it and hold the powerbutton down untill pc shuts off pulll power courd and reset cmos and the bios will be fine., first time it happend to me it scared me i thought for sure dead board.

Well Im going to test these stick as far as they go and they have some nice tight timmings and love volts also. Then im testing them with my old sticks for 12gbs well see the outcome when i get more free time but I shalst be back.
so far been running 88824 1.64v @762 3.8ghtz cpu IM going to bring them up to a full 1600 then move on to 1800 one thing I already know is they are fasst .

[jcniest5]

I have an OCZ Platinum 1600 kit and it is worth crap. It's not really compatible with MSI boards, as far as I can tell. I can't get it to work on Eclipse Plus at their claimed spec at all (1600). I went out and bought a Corsair kit (same speed) and it works flawlessly using the same setting. I am RMAing my kit to see if OCZ can send me a better/more compatible kit. Hope a new one is more compatible.

If you can return yours, do it. Get something else (different brand).

[sinister1st]

jcniest5 you are right these are a nice pain in the ass just like this mb! you have to burn these three little bastard sticks in badly for them to work right I guess they just need some punishment. Well I was not expecting 2000 and Ill give them more time I still have a few weeks and if not Ill send em back. Seems like Im getting them worked in with upping my vcore a bit and backing off to 1.64 on them, been going for over 8hrs wcg so well see tommorrow around lunch time if there still crunchin. It is a paaain in the ass to get 20 passes out of these with Linx. If yours are knew you can try burning them in about 1.70 did wonders for my kit.

Has any of the OCZ boys had anything to say about these rams>? on here besides it being msi?

[jcniest5]

Sinister, they didn't say anything other than just issuing me an RM# to send them back. It seemed they got worse as I attempt to make them work. Right around the time I stopped trying, they couldn't even work at 1333 timing! That's horrible. I'm just gonna sell my kit when it gets back from RMA. Probably they may work better with a different brand of mobo. Obviously, not with MSI (particular my model).

[FabricioGS]

People, I'd like everyones opinion on what is the best bios version to overclock this board (beta or not).

I've tested almost every bios released and in my opinion versions 1.27b and 1.34b are the best. The official bios usually are very crappy to overclock and keep the system very unstable including the lates 1.50.

[sinister1st]

well those settings were not stealth but I did pull 20 passes out of them at 762 the model I have are OCZ3G2000LV6GK I DO NOT like them as for now.

IMO the 1.34b is the most stable with 19mulit and high clocks it seems to overvolt more or keep voltages on spec but I changed since I changed ram and Ill go back to it If i have to. I havent tried the 127 beta. Heres what Im testing right now 190cpu 180qpi 1.63v ram 777-25 HPET is enabled and I wish I could know if this little setting is helping me or now but It seems to help. Ill be testing some more at a different ratio soon to pull some more out of these ram I better get at least 1600 out of them.

[sinister1st]

Well I decided to give both sets together a shot and 12gbs is a go on this board simple simon BUT for some reason I had to insert one stick at time and then cmos would accept. I was able to boot 10-10-10-28 1T still testing, just wanted to see what would happen just in case Im stuck with 12gbs for now and no action on these ocz.

[sinister1st]

Well I got this mb totally stable server stillie sorry bout the small dam imaged from photobucket but I cant figure out how to get em bigger. Multi 21 turbo boost at 3,9 ish so stable you can play donkey KONG while primen the primer.

Heres a couple screenies for noobs who get their dirty lil hands on this board off ebay for way less than 2 Cnotes.

I will be back with some more screenies with just the OCZ ram running alot higher than this with 6gbs. When I popped In both kits I just fell in love and had resent for not getting 2 6b kits cause 12 gbs matters my friends, especially with vista. 12gbs is the way to go so I might just keep the low ram speed just to enjoy 12gbs since I wont be buying any more ram for now. Pretty good for non DO cpu for 24-7. Alot of time took to get this dam board running 24-7 I can grid all day and run benchies @ 4 ghhts but full stability takes alot more time.



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[screwtech02]

Any chance on gettin a 920 & 12gb stable @ 4.0/1600 on this board??? I can get it to post fine, but it wont attempt to boot into windows. Any hints on voltages??

[screwtech02]

Ok, let me re-phrase that, any chance on getting a 920 & 12gb stable at 3.8/1600?? Any input on voltages/uncore/skews??? It seems to run fine 3.8/1200, but there is much better bandwidth to be had @1600. While at 1600 and doing a everest bandwidt test, it hard locks on the level 3 cache 2nd test. I have tried lower/higher voltages, to no avail, am i missing something???

[sinister1st]

I dont think your missing much, my ram has a sweet spot @tras 24 with both kits combined i have a handicap but you should most likey hit 1600 with those gskills, my board likes under 1.60v (with both kits)

on another note I havent tried the new bios 3.5 I believe, using only my ocz 2000 kit yet but when I have time Im going to see what they will do alone.

I think the trick with this board is to keep qpi under 1.70 and DISABLE AUTO DISABLE DRAM/PCI setting in bios and lock @37.3.
There is more bandwith to be had and Im wanting more I will post screen when mine are fully stable @1500ish with both my ocz and kingston kits. I did pull 666-24 out of both kits @585 ish for 24-7.

[screwtech02]

Flashed my board to 3.5 last night. On a side note, it seems all of my ram issues went away when I installed win7 Ultimte. Currently @ 210bclk/19 multi, mem @ 841.9/ 8-8-8-21, 2n. Was not able to even get even near stable on Vista....

[TheGoat Eater]

has anyone else put this board under Sub-Zero, got any settings ?

[TheGoat Eater]

I tested this board with a W3540 and did quite well - see my results here got up to 5.1 ~ benchable

[TheGoat Eater]

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[sinister1st]

Niiice Ive been waiting for someone to freeze this board it looks good, where u going over 170 on qpi? Theres a new bios out been out for a while 3.6 i believe and it says more ram compat. so im gonna give that one a shot to see if I can get some bandwith out of thiese sticks or just the ocz.

[Saabjock]

If this board...MS7220 X-fire edition ver.1.0....gets flashed to SLI ver.3.0, will you lose the ability to run ATI cards in X-fire format or will you gain both?

[screwtech02]

No, you can run either......

[Saabjock]

I went for broke a few days ago and flashed mine to SLI with the v3.6 BIOS. I used AFUWIN440 for the flash...it was very easy. I was able to borrow another GTX275 for testing to verify. It works flawlessly. From 1.5 X-Fire version to 3.6 SLI version. Prime stable for 48 hours@ a mild o/c of 3GHz....(I did'nt need anymore than that for what I'm doing). The later BIOS adds a few entries that are not in the original X-Fire version. This has proven to be one stable board for me. I have not had one single hiccup since it was built in January and I use it every day.