Is anyone happy with their K8N Neo Platinum?

[EtOH]

All are chipset SATA, think it supports 4. I don't have any other drivers but the nForce drivers and don't see any extra chips for it.

 

[Illissius]

The nForce3 250 supports two SATA ports natively and two more can be added via an external PHY. AFAIK, though, the only board that actually does so is the reference - the rest use the two native ones and add a seperate controller chip for the rest. Too lazy to check, though.

 

[Bar81]

You're misinformed.

 

[EtOH]

The MSI Neo has 4 SATA ports and in Device Manager all SATA controllers show up as "NVIDIA CK8S Serial ATA Controller".

So to me there are 4 via the chipset, 2 may well be through a PHY, but there are 4 SATA ports and no other controllers on board.

 

[einsig]

Originally posted by: scoughlin1
Just got my board and cpu on Friday. Been having some minor problems with temp misreadings, choppy/stuttering graphics in games such as CS and UT2k4, and I get an NTLDR error if the cdrom isn't set first on the boot order and doesn't have a bootable cd in it. Other than those things, solid board. Not one crash yet.

Is this with SP, actual online multi or both? If it is just online are you using the hardware firewall?

 

[hokahknow]

I would take a MSI board over an ASUS board anyday. My 2 cents. I have built over a hundred PCs and the boards with the least problems were the MSI. The boards with the most problems were ASUS and ECS.

So guess what I have on order?? MSI K8N Neo Platinum. Will be building it for myself later this week.

My dilemma is which video card to get. Probably the 6800GT the way it is looking.

 

[TBKona]

I've been running my 3200+ at 2.4GHz for a while with no problems what-so-ever.

 

[jmaker]

I just ordered the MSI K8N Neo Platinum along with an A64 3000 and the 1GB Corsair3200XL Pro memory. Those beautiful items should be here tomorrow. I already have a 9800 Pro to go along with those. Now is that memory going to be fine with this setup? Because after all I've been reading about RAM compatibility issuses, I'll be pissed if it doesn't work. I'm getting tired of my old 1.4 Athlon/256MB slow comp I've got now.

 

[JackHawksmoor]

If I ever actually take the plunge, I'm getting Crucial RAM. The performance benefit from pricy Corsair stuff is miniscule, especially with an Athlon 64. And Crucial's less than half the price, and people actually seem to have fewer problems with it. Of course I'm not going to overclock.

 

[EtOH]

Mulltiple sticks of the cheapo ($77 last I checked) 512 MB sticks of Mushkin from Newegg work GREAT

 

[webie]

Just setup my K8N Neo last Friday. This is my first MSI product and has been been rock solid (Running FarCry for hours...), one week by now, without any hang, blue screen, or setup problems. I run it on stock for 3 days, then slightly overclock my A64 3200+ (Newcastle) to 11x219 = 2.4 GHZ (11x200 = 2.2GHZ default). Sure depending on the CPU core you could have the temperature misreading problem, which is the only problem I have.

I haven't try any other FSB setting, just jumped strait ahead from 200 to 219 since I was aiming for a 200MHZ increase. But since I have the temperature misreading problem I'm afraid to overclock more, this should be solved in a future BIOS revision. Also I read (Don't remember where) that overclocking to a high HT frequency could corrupt the RAID array; and I'm not in the mod of reinstalling my PC. I'm just waiting for an official BIOS revision that address the temperature problem, making a good image backup of my drive, and then then maybe I would try overclock more.

So, if you follow some setup guidelines, and chose the right components, this MOBO should work pretty well. My best advise: Browse the forums and learn the problems and solutions before setup. You can start by the following thread at MSI forums (http://msihq.designlab.info/thread.php?threadid=51994)

 

[jmaker]

I just wanted to say that I'm loving my setup so far even though I haven't started to play any games yet. I've got the 2 sticks of Corsair RAM in slots 1 and 3 and that seems to work great. Thumbs up to MSI.

 

[FiberoN]

I love mine.

 

[Tremulant]

I love mine.

Just got it in this morning (along with the rest of my rig..) and it's working without any problems. Then again, I built this system to be stable, not really to OC (well.. not yet).

I haven't had any problems with it.

 

[singhcr]

Honestly I don't know whether I should wait for the K8N-E or not. I have a A64 2800+ sitting in my closet right now because I had to return my Aopen AK86-L board (never going to buy that brand again) and I can't find a good 754 motherboard. I'm looking for stock speed and stability, amd I have heard mixed reviews about the ABIT and ASUS boards.

I want an NForce3-250 chipset, but I have never bought an Epox or MSI. So for you guys, is the MSI stable at stock settings, or should I wait for the Asus K8n-e and drop the $180 on it?

 

[Cybercraig]

You notice Newegg has a no refund policy on this board. There must be a reason! I built a Chaintech VNF3-250 a few weeks ago with no issues except the temps reading wrong, soon to be fixed with BIOS updates. I had another MSI 875P board that would not run dual 512 sticks at a 200mhz FSB. They would drop down to 333mhz and force a 5:4 ratio, no matter what or which sticks I stuck in there. I E-mailed MSI and got the response back, "What is this 5:4 ratio you are refering to?" WTF!!!!! That's about it for me and MSI! You guys will recall that the first review boards were sent out in April with a pending May release date. I wonder what delayed it almost 5 weeks? More of MSI's famous BIOS issues? Proceed at your own risk!

 

[gw2000]

Would this board work if I setup 2 hard drives on SATA ports 1&2 in a RAID 0 config, and had a single data drive on one of the other SATA ports?

 

[webie]

Originally posted by: gw2000
Would this board work if I setup 2 hard drives on SATA ports 1&2 in a RAID 0 config, and had a single data drive on one of the other SATA ports?

The only problem that may arise for a RAID 0 in 1+2 is if you try to overclock FSB. Some users are are getting boot locks and other problems on ports 1+2 once they start to go above 210-220MHZ. Moving the RAID to 3+4 gives them better FSB overclocking. So if you don't plan to overclock using 1+2 will be just fine. Anyway once setup, you can always change from 1+2 > 3+4 without loosing your data or maybe this problem will be corrected on a future BIOS revision.

 

[FiberoN]

This board is ownage.

 

[DreamInBlue]

i understand this board has a working agp lock but does it have a working pci lock.

 

[Illissius]

PCI is automatically half of AGP from what I understand, so yes.