MSI 975X Platinum PowerUP Ed..anyone?

[pcdoc1]

Huh?

[dogsx2]

Do you see anyway that MSI could not have known about these problems?

12v+ reads just a wee bit high.

Your right on one thing pcdoc, this board will wear you out trying to set a clock.

[pcdoc1]

Do you see anyway that MSI could not have known about these problems?

12v+ reads just a wee bit high.

Yea I saw the 14.22, I want a PS like yours..... Have a good time, you're just gonna love that board!

[pcdoc1]

Your right on one thing pcdoc, this board will wear you out trying to set a clock.

Yea, I put it on the self... It'll make great board to run a celery or someting, maybe worth more for parts...

[Pacification]

So what are the biggest issues with this?
Can I run an e6600 on this without overclocking without issues?

[dogsx2]

Have a good time, you're just gonna love that board!

Right now I'm happy that I can just oc by the bios.

Two DS3 boards would not let me set even 267 in the bios and post.

This board has a lot of bios work just to be good.

[cupholder2.0]

So what are the biggest issues with this?
Can I run an e6600 on this without overclocking without issues?

At stock it should be fine. My PD950 runs fine at stock. I can even overclock beyond 5 gigs but it asks for insane amounts of voltages. There is also no vMCH yet, this should get us much better OC once added.

[dogsx2]

There is also no vMCH yet, this should get us much better OC once added.

What makes you think they will add it? I've had a few MSI boards and they are very slow at bios updates.

[cupholder2.0]

What makes you think they will add it? I've had a few MSI boards and they are very slow at bios updates.

thats not good

[dogsx2]

400 fsb @ 1.4v is really stable. Room temp was 83F with tower 120 cooling. I'm now wore out for awhile but still have prime running. Whoever said they should call this board power down was sure right.

[alternaria]

Does anybody have any suggestions for other boards. Looks as we all have to live with the lesser of evils as early adopters of Core 2

[5-Clicks]

Looks like the P5B Deluxe is doing quite well with AndreYang's 550 FSB mod.

[Core2Extremist]

god all this is terrible, obviously oc'in with this thing is outa the question without problems right now, so can someone tell me will it run fine without any OC at all? Im even talking about readings in the bios, i saw someone mention that sometimes it wont show the correct info like fsb or something, wrong 12v rails, etc...

im still waiting on my conroe with this crap sittin beside me for the last week, just wanna know if I should be going for a next board already.....can deal with no oc till a bios update but cant deal with a ton of issues at everything on stock.

[NickS]

I'm a member @ MSI's Global Site because I registered my Neo4 Plat there, and I have contacted them with this letter...

Dear MSI,
The whole enthusiest and overclocking community at many online forums such as XtremeSystems.org are eagerly awaiting a new BIOS for this board, as they believe as do I that this motherboard has some serious potential, but overclocking is severely limited at the moment because of a very buggy BIOS. Could you shed some light on the situation? Are new, better BIOS' in development? Thank you,
Nick

I'll post back any responces.

I posted this in another thread too btw.

[5-Clicks]

Yeah, I saw that Nick. Thanks

But I doubt one letter will do the trick. Even if we just copy and paste Nick's email and send it again and again and again, it might get through to MSI that they need to get on the ball.

And Nick, would you mind sharing what email address you sent that to?

[NickS]

It's not an email address but a submit form like Giga-Bytes support. You can go here. http://support.msi.com.tw/index.php

There is also a thread going @ tehir forum.

http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=99769.0

But sadly, not much attention.

[Core2Extremist]

just submited a form and droped a line in the forum, everyone in this thread should do the same.

[cupholder2.0]

god all this is terrible, obviously oc'in with this thing is outa the question without problems right now, so can someone tell me will it run fine without any OC at all? Im even talking about readings in the bios, i saw someone mention that sometimes it wont show the correct info like fsb or something, wrong 12v rails, etc...

im still waiting on my conroe with this crap sittin beside me for the last week, just wanna know if I should be going for a next board already.....can deal with no oc till a bios update but cant deal with a ton of issues at everything on stock.

Its 100 percent stable at stock. My PD 950 will now do about 4.2 Ghz on all stock voltages, from there the problems start for me. The incorrect info being shown in bios is nothing major for me. The 12 volt is just read wrong in the bios but it is read correctly by Dual Core Center in windows. For stock use it should be fine for now. I really hope a new bios will allow us to OC better.

[NickS]

just submited a form and droped a line in the forum, everyone in this thread should do the same.

I agree.

[cupholder2.0]

BTW I emailed MSI as well, begging them for a bios update. I think you guys should also email/call them.

[alternaria]

I just did the same.

[Sumanji]

Likewise

[ZBr]

It seems like my 12v rail is being raised along with my vdimm on my ram.

vdimm 1.8v
12v rail:12.15

change my vdimm to 2.0
12v rail is 13.9

I get this as well, I can't believe that it's actually at 13.9, anyone w/ multimeter confirm this?; H/W Monitor will freeze on me w/ ram/cpu settings on auto if I let it idle for 2 minutes or more

I'm really concerned about this, it seems like such a nice board with such a poor bios.....

[dogsx2]

I would sure like to measure some voltage if anyone one knows where the points are. I'm almost sure that it's just being misread.

[alternaria]

A BETA bios is available at the end of this thread (need to PM the moderator)

http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=99678.0