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Help me! I think I've got a dud!

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krevo

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Well...


After searching for some cheap stuff to test out not only S939, but also PCI-E and SLI...I decided to get this NEO4 from work. Ofcourse I got it at cost, and it's completely returnable, but for some reason I'm coming to the same dead end with it for a week now.




I just read on newegg, in a review for the MSI neo4 about not being able to take the FSB over 220. I'm now starting to have questions because I've had an issue w/ no boot after 219 FSB. Does anyone here have any idea why in the world a perfectly good board running a 3000+ @ 1.8ghz stock wouldn't let me get the speed above 1.9ghz. I was easily capable of taking the MSI Neo2 939 board I got at first well above 230 at stock vcore/htt etc.

The only reason I exchanged it was that I got a 6600GT (used) at work in a trade for 100 bucks.



Why in the hell won't this board let myself (and countless others) get the FSB past 219.

From a newegg review of the Platinum/Ultra version of this board, which most here know is not at different from the standard chipset board. A tech at work and I went through the process of modding a NEO4-F board for SLI/SATAII and it worked well. (another reason I bought it)

Reviews:

N/A,4/11/2005 3:26:03 PM
Good board with lots of features. Doesn't overclock in the BIOS over 119 with my winchester core though.

N/A,3/19/2005 7:50:26 PM
Stable at stock but don't overclock more than 220Mhz via BIOS. Very good extras however.





I'm running a 3000+ Winchester, 512 Mushkin Enhanced, 350w Antec w/ plenty of cooling in my TT Tsunami Dream and Zalman 7000BCu.


Any ideas? Thanks in advance...
 
that's the nforce 4 non-ultra. It uses buggy A1 or A2 silicon, while the ultra and SLI boards use A3 silicon. The problem with the first two revisions involves the HTT speed - it's not stable at 5X (1GHz) so it has to run at 4X (800MHz). Because of this, I'm not surprised the OCing is bad. I'd return it if I were you. If you want a really nice board, the MSI Neo4 Platinum, Asus A8N-E, and DFI Ultra boards are supposedly great, and in the $130-150 range. They will OC way better, plus you get a better hardware firewall and SATA-II. On the budget end, you can get Chaintech's VNF4/Ultra for like $90 at newegg. It's a full fledged ultra, but it doesn't have too many extras like firewire or extra SATA controller, but it's tough to beat at $90. It OCs like a champ, too (see sig) provided you update the bios (the 1.0 bios blows monkey nuts).
 
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