Advise On MSI Board

[anu76]

Hi Everyone
I am thinking of buying 845 Ultra-ARU from MSI for P4 . I would like to have sugestions on this board if anyone has the same board and if they have any problems or issues with it.
Thanks

 

[harbinger52]

I own the AR version and It runs great. A friend of mine has the ARU and loves it.

 

[anu76]

Hi
Do you have the board with DDR and RAID or just DDR.
Thanks

 

[optimistic]

They both have RAID. Only differnece among the board is "U" co notates usb 2.0.

 

[CoDerEd]

just wonder, how's the overclokability on that board

 

[LouPoir]

Super board.

 

[sbp123]

I'm runnin my p4 on 845Ultra ARU at 133 FSB (Can go higher, waitin for cooler) @ 1.650vcore...

Super stable, prime95 24hrs no probs at all...Didnt have any lockups or random reboots so far...

 

[anu76]

Hi sbp123
What's your P4 speed on MSI ultra and how easy it is to overclock the chip on the board.And how is your system running with DDR and RAID onboard

 

[vancenase]

is it worth getting this board if one will not overclock? or should they go w/ something else? (i'm going to get the AMD version)

 

[anu76]

Hi Everyone
Is it easy to overclock the P4 with A besides the speed or it doesn't matter for example 1.6AGhz VS 1.6Ghz.
Thanks

 

[Pauli]

Hey anu76 - I got my MSI 845 ARU/1.6A combo running at 133Mhz bus for 2133Mhz. It runs stable up to 135Mhz bus at default voltage, but I haven't had any luck beyond that (I haven't tried too hard). I am happy with this speed for now - easy overclock. Many others have reported great success with the ASUS boards - both the 845 and SIS 645 versions. You're probably better off with one of these because there is much more experience to draw from here.

 

[anu76]

Hi Pauli
Thanks The MSI Ultra comes with 845 chipset I ordered that one today. What the difference between
MSI 845 ARU/1.6A and MSI 845 ARU/1.6 .

 

[sbp123]

<< anu76 asked: What's your P4 speed on MSI ultra and how easy it is to overclock the chip on the board.And how is your system running with DDR and RAID onboard >>



The speed is 2409 MHz. I'm a 'n00b' overclocker (Well, not so n00b, but not an expert eirther ), and it was a piece of cake.

Bout RAID - I'm not using it (Only 1 HDD) - I would probably go with Non-Raid Ultra if my retailer had that mobo.

 

[CoDerEd]

<<What the difference between MSI 845 ARU/1.6A and MSI 845 ARU/1.6>>

1.6A is Northwood and has 512 L2 cache while the one w/out "A" has 256Kb