The OFFICIAL MSI K8N Neo2-939 tips and tricks guide thread

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Wow, how about that.. before my board would not do 250.. and now it can boot 300*9..

here is a screenie before i made the chages in the bios
http://aonic.net/~oc/300.JPG

it wasnt stable @ 2.7 ghz with stock cooling and 1.744 vcore.. but it booted :p

Im also curious, what did you do in the bios?

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Well i was determined that my Neo2 was a dud so i decided to get a new one.
I picked up today Neo2 and 3200+ 90nm cpu, while i was there i thought ahhh why not. I was really after the 3500+ 90nm but unfortunatly Aus wont have them for another month atleast and my 3500+ 0.13 couldnt do 2.6 stable (0.5 Version).

Neo2 Ultra chip
0420A2
Korea

3200+
0441UPFW

So im expecting alot out of this combo, a guy in ocaus forums picked up a 3200+ 90nm and was able to do 2.75 stable on air.

Ill report later with few screenies just waiting on the xp-90 and Vantec Tornado Fan to arrive.

EDIT: Is it fine to put some AS5 on the NB? Should it cover the whole chip?
It doesnt look healthy what MSI uses

[stealthbomber]

So im expecting alot out of this combo, a guy in ocaus forums picked up a 3200+ 90nm and was able to do 2.75 stable on air.

Ill report later with few screenies just waiting on the xp-90 and Vantec Tornado Fan to arrive.

EDIT: Is it fine to put some AS5 on the NB? Should it cover the whole chip?
It doesnt look healthy what MSI uses

I have pretty much the same setup as you (replaced the tornado though), cleaned the NB up on my Neo2 board (so little paste!) and covered the whole chip with ceramique paste before refitting the stock HS/fan.

Once you have managed to find a stable overclock post your full load temps!

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I have pretty much the same setup as you (replaced the tornado though), cleaned the NB up on my Neo2 board (so little paste!) and covered the whole chip with ceramique paste before refitting the stock HS/fan.

Once you have managed to find a stable overclock post your full load temps!

Yeah i will post with my results, temps, issues and etc...

So you used ceramique paste, do you think arctic silver 5 will be alright to use on the NB?

[Perc]

anyone have any wierd psu problems with this mb? i woke up this morning and my msi-fx system wont boot?? the psu is fine cause im using it in my intel system as i type this but it wont power up my msi anymore??

please see my thread if you have had any issues with your psu. im going crazzy trying to figure this out. the damm thing ran fine all weekend all i did was shut it off and go to sleep for 5 hours then when i woke up it wouldnt turn on??

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=45896

thx perc,

[stealthbomber]

anyone have any wierd psu problems with this mb? i woke up this morning and my msi-fx system wont boot?? the psu is fine cause im using it in my intel system as i type this but it wont power up my msi anymore??

please see my thread if you have had any issues with your psu. im going crazzy trying to figure this out. the damm thing ran fine all weekend all i did was shut it off and go to sleep for 5 hours then when i woke up it wouldnt turn on??

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=45896

thx perc,

I'm having the same problem, see here: http://forum.msi.com.tw/thread.php?threadid=66540

I figured out why not disable the USB keyboard and mouse support in the bios, seems to work so far...

[stealthbomber]

Yeah i will post with my results, temps, issues and etc...

So you used ceramique paste, do you think arctic silver 5 will be alright to use on the NB?

Yeah should be ok as long as you're very careful not to shorten the board with AS5, I used ceramique for both the CPU and NB since it's fully non conductive and many have found the performance is pretty much as good as their own AS5.

I don't think the NB chip is 100% flat so I applied a tiny bit extra paste at the centre and refitted the HS/fan before pushing down on it to make sure the paste would spread evenly, not safe if you are using AS5 since it only takes a tiny amount of excess paste to shorten the board.

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Yeah should be ok as long as you're very careful not to shorten the board with AS5, I used ceramique for both the CPU and NB since it's fully non conductive and many have found the performance is pretty much as good as their own AS5.

I don't think the NB chip is 100% flat so I applied a tiny bit extra paste at the centre and refitted the HS/fan before pushing down on it to make sure the paste would spread evenly, not safe if you are using AS5 since it only takes a tiny amount of excess paste to shorten the board.

Fair enough, ill use AS5 on the NB, ill just spread it using thin plastic or something.

[swetmore1331]

Is there a way to control this with software?