Ok I´m going to go s939 next week and I´m still unsure about the board. The MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum seems quite nice to me but I´m not that much into s939 yet. Is it worth buying it or are there any better ones?
Ok I´m going to go s939 next week and I´m still unsure about the board. The MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum seems quite nice to me but I´m not that much into s939 yet. Is it worth buying it or are there any better ones?
Last edited by ant1; 09-18-2004 at 06:42 AM.
well teh 754 version of that bpard is teh bad, i would stay away from msi mobos at least.
try an asus, but id stay away from abit their latest boards have been juust terrible.
or wait for dfi, but i do mean wait
your sig says 35s superpi, well you should be expecting that to drop to around 32s or lower i got 36s at 2.5ghz
I´m really lost atm. I got the choice between:
Abit AV8
Asus A8V Deluxe with Wifi
Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP
MSI K8N NEO 2-54G Platinum
The abit seems like a no-no in any way.
The Asus with wifi doesn´t have agp/pci locks (?)
Never read anything about the Gigabyte...
The MSI looks ok but some people seem to have troubles with it.
what ram do you have
I've tried all these boards, and I can say NOOOOO to the abit for sure. NOOOO to the Asus for you, only b/c in europe it won't have locks unless you can get a non wifi rev2 board. That leaves teh others, and the MSI is ok, but has some issues with certain rams.
it's never fast enough!
2x512 Kingston Value BH5
hrm
I haven't tried bh-5 in this board, but I Think you should be ok, but I wouldn't expect high 1:1 speeds, you will need to use ram divider to reach higher HTT speeds.
it's never fast enough!
So MSI would be your choice?
yes, I believe given your choices the MSI would be my choice then. I think you may want to consider getting some different ram though down the road.
it's never fast enough!
I find that I can get very stable with stock cooling to 270 htt with the MSI but I cant get it to do T1 memory timing at anything. Now the abit I can do T1 timing stable 250htt but cant get much over that stable. I used Corsair 4000pro on both boards. I find the Msi much more stable a board However. I have not tried either with the phase change cooling or anything as of yet.
Asus rampage III
i7 950
corsiar dominators 3x2Gb
Evga 280 gtx
silverstone 800 watt power
ssd 6Gb/s
Water cooling
BASS ALE COOLENT FOR ME!
heat
I had two of the Abit boards die on me with in a month, so I cant recomend Abit.
The MSI K8N NEO2 has been the best A64 board I've ran in the past year.
Like JNav89GT says it's like all A64 mobo's pretty picky about ram.
But all in all it's a good board for every day use
Last edited by Blue078; 09-19-2004 at 12:16 PM.
I'm running the
MSI 1:1 @ 215mhz 2.5,3,3,7 timings 1T
Took some time to get everything sorted out properly, but works nicely now
Waiting on some PC4000 Ballistix 2x512 memory to see how far I can get 1:1 (crossing my fingers for 11x230+)
Please let us know how it goes with Ballistic. I am thinking to get a pair of these as well. Thanks.Originally Posted by Levish
Last edited by H2OGun; 09-20-2004 at 06:37 AM.
Ballistix is woprking fine for me to about 262 cas2.5-3-3-7-1t for every day use.
Well, I ordered the MSI so... :p
@_@Originally Posted by Blue078
I can only hope to close to your results (but with W/C)
I'd be happy with ~230x11
the sticks are here (just now ^_^ )
I was able to get a solid {stability wise} 250x10 out of the 3500+/Ballistix on W/COriginally Posted by Levish
I think you may be suprised
Good Luck, may the OC gods be with you
What bios are you all using to get T1 memory timings? Seems no matter what I do I cant get it to post with A T1 timing and my corsair 4000pro even at stock speeds yet the abit board will do T1 with the same memory. Am I missing something here?
Asus rampage III
i7 950
corsiar dominators 3x2Gb
Evga 280 gtx
silverstone 800 watt power
ssd 6Gb/s
Water cooling
BASS ALE COOLENT FOR ME!
heat
try the other 2 dimm slots, but mine worked T1 with both 1.1 (shipped with board) and 1.2Originally Posted by thesaucier
Just not on Dimm's 1&2
Board requires a lot of very finicky settings, but once setup the way it likes it's quite good ^^
If you look at the slots there is a channel A and B you must use both a and b two get daul.Originally Posted by ojdr2001
Asus rampage III
i7 950
corsiar dominators 3x2Gb
Evga 280 gtx
silverstone 800 watt power
ssd 6Gb/s
Water cooling
BASS ALE COOLENT FOR ME!
heat
Havent tried anything but the shipping BIOS 1.1
I had mucho problems with the BIOS setting "agressive timings" after setting that to dissabled, then 1t has never been a problem.
Dissableing "agressive timings" only affected Sandra mem 130 or so points, so for me that is an acceptable loss, because I can run 1t and 262htt 1:1
Originally Posted by ojdr2001
No all you need is two.
Asus rampage III
i7 950
corsiar dominators 3x2Gb
Evga 280 gtx
silverstone 800 watt power
ssd 6Gb/s
Water cooling
BASS ALE COOLENT FOR ME!
heat
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