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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    sounds like you have a bad board or bad vid card. Can you try the vid card somewhere else?
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    OK I finished some testing on Friday and here is what I found. I am doing it all with clockgen to up my FSB to find the best results. I am on 1.24 BIOS My Basic BIOS settings are FSB = 219 HTT = 4x Mem at 166 Voltage at 2.85 Mem Timmings at 2.5-3-2-8 1T CPU 10x startup - cpu-z reports...
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    Painman do you know which sata ports are locked? I have had some boot problems but can overclock nicely in windows.
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    Thanks I will have to look at the numbers next time the cover is off. I would really like to have the safety of having it monitored. I might have to get a different fan. Although it is nice and queit.
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    Is the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum right for me or us?

    Nope the motherboard is pci-e I am running a X800 XL and I am very happy with it.
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    Is the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum right for me or us?

    If you have no interest in SLI look at the MSI K8N Ultra. At stock speeds mine has been rock solid and a very nice board. I have a few overclock issues right now but so do the DFI side of things. Overall it is a good running machine and is so far cool even with mild overclocks.
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    The correct way to compute memory speed for AMD 64's

    Also it would seem the NvTune is wrong as well. I assumed it would be correct since they make the chip set. They just base the divider on the clock feq not the actuall CPU speed.
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    Hmmm ok I stand corrected. Sorry for the miss information.
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    The correct way to compute memory speed for AMD 64's

    Ok I understand what your saying now. I am still kinda new to some of this and the AMD64 makes things a bit trickier. Also I get different values in software too - like between Nvtune and CPU-Z
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    The only way you might have a performance gain is if the device was faster then the IDE interface. A DVD or CD drive is not even close to the bandwidth provided by IDE. And yes you can use any of the 1-4 for any SATA device. There might be some differance on cpu ussage between the two but I...
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    You have 8 SATA ports on the board. I believe 5-8 are for raid only but I am sure you can use any of 1-4. So unless you have more then 2 hard drives you should be fine. BTW - there is no performane gain on a dvd burner using SATA. The cable setup is better but IDE works just fine for a DVD...
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    The correct way to compute memory speed for AMD 64's

    OK I just did the math and rounding is a problem here. 1) 2400/133 = 18.045 (not 19) 2) 2400/18.045 = 133 (133*18.045=2400) 3) 133*(300/200) = 199.5
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    Issues with NvTune and CPU-Z

    Yes I would normally agree but have had some post problems where I can overclock much higher in windows and the same settings in the BIOS will result in no post.
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    Issues with NvTune and CPU-Z

    Anyone else run into the differances?
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    The correct way to compute memory speed for AMD 64's

    So I take it that CPU-Z displays the correct results and NvTune shows wrong values. NvTune just takes the clock rate mult x 2 to show ddr vale of ram.
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    Does the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum have a noisy chipset fan?

    Mine isnt all that noisy. Not something I notice above the overall system noise. And I think my system is pretty quiet. I have heard others having problems with chipset fan noise though. I think they have a few noisey fans running around. Quality control issue more then design
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    Just one more part to the post above. The max cpu temp I saw was 35c. Does heat or voltage reduce the life of a chip? If it continues to run cool can I push a bit more voltage through it? I am running a Thermalright XP-90 which seems to work great. Also my panaflow fan shows zero RPM's...
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    Issues with NvTune and CPU-Z

    In overclocking my MSI Neo4 Ultra I have come across some things with software. NvTune doesnt seem to show the correct core voltage. It always shows 1.45. CPU-Z does show what I figure it should be based on BIOS settings. Also CPU-Z seems to calculate the memory speed incorrect. It seems...
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    Well last night I had more then 30 minutes to play with my new system and I have learned a few things. First most of my overclocking I did in windows. I have had post problems while doing it in the bios so I decided to set the basic bios data but leave the FSB at 218 which will always post...
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    How is 1.21 working and what chages have you found in it? I wish they would allow more memory voltage.
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    Question about K8N Neo4 and TWINX1024-3200XLPRO ram

    It is my understanding that using 4 double sidded chips in any nforce 4 board will cause some timming problems that can be solved by reducing the memory speed to DDR333. Which is just slowing the clock rate down for the memory. Now depending on your memory you can still get DDR400 timmings or...
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    btw this memory issue I believe to be true with any nforce4 board not just msi.
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    MSI K8N Neo4 - not booting...

    Hmmm that is interesting. Those of us having some overclock stablity problems might try removine USB plugs and seeing what happens
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    Hey Phil, Thats great although from the reading I have been doing some people are able to get high clock rates and some are not. The question is what are the differences. What is the rest of your system? You are not the only one to get good results and there are many of us who have had some...
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    Returning DFI Ultra-D

    I have the MSI neo4 ultra and with no or mild overclock it is great and rock stable. I have had some problems pushing it so I can not say yet if it is the board or other parts. But it went well and as long as I dont push things it has been great
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    What seems weird is things dont seem consistant. I will try lowering my htt mult and see what I can do. And I am not sure why you can overclock in windows at a much high level then hat you can boot into. Makes finding a sweet spot really hard.
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    Actually no I havent tried going up that high. I have alot more testing I need to do. I am also uncertain about the SATA lock issue. Ports 1-4 are all part of nvidia chip but you cant boot from 5-8. I dont think that is my problem because others have gone very high with simular hard drives as...
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    MSI K8N Neo4 nForce4 Ultra

    I really like the Modstream power supply. I am not sure about using it for a SLI board. It powers my system just fine and seem stable. I am having troubles overclocking my system but I dont think it has anything to do with the power supply.
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    No I only have 1gig Total. What I dont get is that I can get it to run when I overclock in windows. So I know the ram can handle over where it fail to post. It will fail to post even if I have a 166 mem divider setup. So the memory is well under 200mhz. Although I have found that just...
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    Ok here is what I have found so far. I have played with my system for a while now and have had mixed results. I went through the isolation of FSB,CPU,Mem and my board fails to post when ever the fsb is higher then 235 htt 4x. When the fsb is between 220-235 it will post sometimes if I...
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    Scoobydoo - Do you know where in the BIOS the pci locks are set and how to insure the SATA locks are in place?
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    Think I found close to my best performance for my K8N Neo4

    Hey I have had problems getting mine to run above 230. Where in the BOIS do you set and turn on the PCI lock and which SATA ports are locked? I am wondering if that is my problem. whenever I turn up my clock above 235 the system will not post. Even when my CPU is at 8X and my memory is at 166...
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    I love my K8N Neo4 Platium, uh...thread? heh

    I wish I could come close to that with mine. I have had problems getting the board to post above 235 even when I turn the HTT to 3x and run the memory at 166 and 8x cpu mult. Something seems to be limiting me with my board. I can run rock stable at 200 htt 5x
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    MSI nForce4 Neo4 "Ultra" owners - what ram are you using?

    I am running OCZ Gold Series Dual 1GB DDR PC-3200 at 2.8 volts. I have gotten it up to 2-2-3-8 1T at 230 FSB at 1:1 with no problems at all. I know I have lots more room to go up but right now something is keeping me from moving my FSB past 230 even if I slow the CPU and Memory way down and even...
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    *** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

    Well here is what I have found so far. I have had a problem getting my fsb above 230 so I decided to isolate the HTT and the CPU and the Memory to see which was giving me the problem. So I started with the HTT. I set my cpu mult to 8x and my memory to 166 and 2.5-3-3-8 2T and started pushing...
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    ATI X800 XL

    The reason they think the price is sky high is that ATI has a MSRP of around 300.00 and has been listed in the few reviews I have seen for the X800XL. So anything over 300.00 seems high. I bought one because it was 60.00 or so cheaper then a 6800GT and some reviews showed it to be a touch faster...
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    MSI K8N Neo4 nForce4 Ultra

    I need to take some time to sort things out as I see many people have gone very high with the board. Last night I upped my fsb to 235 and I got a few memory errors with memtest. So I rebooted and was chenging my memory timmings. I was at 2-2-3-8 1T and changed to 2-3-3-8 1t and still had a few...
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    ATI X800 XL

    I have my card tweaked to mem clcok 514 and mem at 415 and I am now getting 3dmark05 of 4775. I think I should be getting a bit better then this but not sure. Anyone else have results with this card?
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    MSI K8N Neo4 nForce4 Ultra

    Hey xjoe What is your voltage settings? Are you prime95 stable? I have something that limits my system and I am tring to figure out what it is. My memory runs fine with memtest so I dont think that is the issue. I am only up to 1.41 volts and my system seems fine at 230 with htt 4x.