msi 790 fx-gd70 thread

[gOtVoltage]

Just got this board and finished putting everything together. So far no issues, have the X4 955 clocked@3.6 with a slight core voltage bump (1.376 according to CPU'z) NB and HT are both @2.1Ghz currently after some very quick bios fiddling, anything more on either and prime would fail, will test more combinations later. Bus speed is set to 300Mhz, 12x multiplier.

I had some Intel kit tri-channel OCZ3G1600LV6GK running two of those (of course) @1600 8.8.8.24. I had to bump the voltage up to 1.7 from their default 1.65 otherwise things were not 100% stable. So the memory is okay I guess, I have not been able to take it past 1600Mhz in quick testing.

So this board looks so far to be pretty decent, I would like to go much higher on the NB clocks, will have to play with all the combinations of settings. BTW, I went to use the built in BIOS flash utility, going from 1.1 to 1.3 it complained about a ID mismatch, so I flashed using the AMI utility, didn't want to risk bricking a new motherboard.

Using a Coolermaster V8, about 57 degrees after an hour of prime, 26 degrees ambient, good enough cooler for me for now.

Have you tried to bump the NBvid or NBvolts for CPU from 1.1v to say around 1.2vid-1.3vid for 2600mhz NB.

You can clock High CPU(955) 3600mhz on stock Vcore(1.35volts),,but when combinned with High freqency ram and Higher NB you will need to add a little volts to the Nb/CPU,,then the CPU will be more than happy to do what you want

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Play around with the NBvid first , while keeping CPU where its at. Dont change CPUvcore. Just raise NBvid a hair. You problem should go away.

If not then you can try setting NBchipset on Mobo to 1.2v(default should be 1.1v) since your @ 300x12..This will help with ram also.