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

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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?

[mad mikee]

Is there a way to control this with software?

Works fine for me.

[swetmore1331]

I hooked up the Northbridge fan on my Fan Controller and dropped the RPMs. Added a huge glob of heatsink compund. All is nice and and stable. I hate fan noise. I am running an Aquirius 2 water cooler on the CPU and 9800. This little water cooler works really well on this rig. I even crank the rpm's down on the radiator fan. Ahhhhhh quite. Only noise I hear are my hard drives. All is stable and quite.

3200 Winchester, MSI K8N Neo2
250 x 10 @ 1.7 volts

[funkflix]

I've made an little Overclockingguide for MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum. There are
so many questions about it (not only at this forum), that i thought it's an good
idea.

Here ist the link (right klick and download/ use WordPad or something to open it): http://people.freenet.de/funkflix/ocgk8n.txt

It's not very good, but i think some "newbie" should help this a bit!