Can anyone tell me where I can find a guide for understanding MSI bios terminolgy?

[LAsick]

It seems like MSI is more confusing to overclock than other board makers.

 

[n7]

I'd go with Gigabyte being the most retarded for layout/wording.

What are wanting to know about?

I suspect if you post your exact mobo model & what you don't understand, someone here could likely help.

 

[LAsick]

I have a MSi K8N NEO nforce 4 standard(skt 939)
AMD x2 3800+
MUSHKIN enhanced performance DDR 400 2-2-2-6 (2X512)
120 gb SAMSUNG H.D>
EVGA 8800 GTS 320

 

[996GT2]

I have a MSI K9N Platinum and I find that the BIOS terminology is pretty easy to understand. What particular items are you confused on?

 

[LAsick]

Memory and cpu overclocking. The little differnt names it seems to give everything. I dont belive it uses memory dividers right?

 

[996GT2]

MSI's memory dividers are stated in terms of speeds. In my BIOS, at least, you select the divider by selecting a RAM speed. In my case, it's either DDR2-400, 533, 667, or 800. Each of these speeds corresponds to a different divider. For example, selecting the 800 MHz divider with a 1.9 GHz CPU will result in a /5 divider, since 1900 MHz/5=380 MHz, and 380MHz *2 is the fastest usable speed under 800 MHz. Selecting the 667 divider with the same CPU would result in the /6 divider, since (1900/6)*2 is the largest value that does not exceed 667 MHz. However, selecting the 533 divider with a 1.9 GHz CPU would result in a /8 divider since the /7 divider would produce a RAM speed of 552 MHz with a 1.9 GHz CPU...over the rated speed of 533 MHz.

That's how it is on my Socket AM2 K9N Platinum, anyway...it could be slightly different on your K8N Neo.

Also, if you took some pictures of your Cell menu, that would help since we could actually see the options present.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I assume your using DDR memory.

Your divider settings should be
DDR400 or 1:1
DDR333
DDR266
DDR200

Should be listed as memory frequency or memory speed


And the CPU setting to change is HTT or HTT frequency. And you need to change the HT mult to 4x, or 3x if you get over 250mhz HTT.