MSI 975X Platinum and E6400 Results

[Elfear]

I haven't had a chance to play around with this board much but the results so far look pretty good. It's up to 400x8 so far at stock vcore (1.3V). It's dual 32M stable and I'm dual Priming right now. I'm hoping for a stable 425-450MHz fsb but we'll have to see if the board can handle it.

Bios is a little buggy. Sometimes I'll restart the computer and it will hang upon reboot. Hit the reset switch and it works again. I think with a more mature bios MSI will be able to work out most of the kinks and this will be a very good board for $50-70 less than the Asus P5B Deluxe or Intel "Bad Axe". I'll add more results along the way for anyone who is interested in this board. For those that are, make sure you get the Power-Up Edition v2. It should say Ver. 2.1 on the board just above the first PCI-E slot.

 

[Madellga]

Great news. I was looking for this board but it not yet available here. I went with the Gigabyte DQ6. The MSI is better priced and has the possibility for XFire, I would have gone for it.

Now its too late....

I'm doing also 3.2 on the DQ6 at 1.3625VCore.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: Madellga
Great news. I was looking for this board but it not yet available here. I went with the Gigabyte DQ6. The MSI is better priced and has the possibility for XFire, I would have gone for it.

Now its too late....

I'm doing also 3.2 on the DQ6 at 1.3625VCore.

Very nice. That's the same reason I wanted to go with the MSI, Crossfire support. Without that incentive I think a D3 or D4 would work just fine and for less money.

 

[FranksAndBeans]

I got this same board with a E6400.

I'm up to 2.93 on the stock cooler, dual prime stable, no glitching, stock vcore.

At 3.0GHz the windoes loading screen starts to glitch a little, and I'm not that speed hugry so I'm going to stay at 2.93. I also put a fan on the chipset, cuz that little ah heck was getting awfully damn hot.

I have the same problem with restarts. Full power off then start is ok, but restarts either hang or the video doesn't initialize, one of the two.

Anyone has some tips I'd appreciate it.

 

[lopri]

I'm hearing that SLI will eventually come to 975X.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/931/5/page_5_final_thoughts/index.html

Very nice overclock, Elfear. I think everyone should check this out and change their minds from E6600 to E6400. (or E6700 if you really want 3.6GHz) Retail E6600s' OC'ing has been disappointing so far.

 

[Elfear]

Update: Board seems very stable at 440x8@1.45V. One core failed Prime after 1.5hrs so bumping vcore to ~1.47 should do the trick. Dual SuperPi 32M resulted in sub 17min times. This chip is crazy. I imagine it will be bench stable at 3.6-3.65Ghz without going too crazy on the voltage.

Originally posted by: lopri

Very nice overclock, Elfear. I think everyone should check this out and change their minds from E6600 to E6400. (or E6700 if you really want 3.6GHz) Retail E6600s' OC'ing has been disappointing so far.

Thanks. I was deadset on getting an E6600 and I bought this E6400 to tide me over, but I think I may just stick with it after seeing the results people are getting with the E6600s.

 

[gario1]

Wow, I see plenty of people getting some good OC's out of this board. I am stuck at 350 fsb with my E6300, I don't know if it is my processor or the board, but anything over that will fail some stress testing or just plain crash. Would any of you guys mind posting your BIOS setup detail?

I believe that I have everything set up right.. I am running the 715 BIOS, disabling C1E and Speed Step, disabled Spread Spectrum. RAM is running 1:1 and I enter in manual timimings. My ram is PC 6400 1.9 volt, so no need to over volt. When my vcore is set to auto my bios reports it as 1.35, is that high for the default? I can get to 350 FSB just leaving Vcore at auto.. I have gone all the way up to 1.43 trying to get it stable at 360 and it just wont take.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: gario1
Wow, I see plenty of people getting some good OC's out of this board. I am stuck at 350 fsb with my E6300, I don't know if it is my processor or the board, but anything over that will fail some stress testing or just plain crash. Would any of you guys mind posting your BIOS setup detail?

I believe that I have everything set up right.. I am running the 715 BIOS, disabling C1E and Speed Step, disabled Spread Spectrum. RAM is running 1:1 and I enter in manual timimings. My ram is PC 6400 1.9 volt, so no need to over volt. When my vcore is set to auto my bios reports it as 1.35, is that high for the default? I can get to 350 FSB just leaving Vcore at auto.. I have gone all the way up to 1.43 trying to get it stable at 360 and it just wont take.

Here are the settings I have that may help you:

Auto Detect PCI Clk: Disabled
PCI-E Frequency: 101
PCI-Express Voltage: 1.6V (this actually controls your chipset voltage)
CPU FSB & PCI-E Clock: Async

What timings are you running and what ram do you have?

 

[Corporate Thug]

Elfear, why 101 on the PCi-e freq?

 

[Pabster]

Will be nice to see more results with this board.

I swore off MSI years ago and I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. But more selection is a plus.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
Elfear, why 101 on the PCi-e freq?

Just an old habit from my A64 days. From my understanding it locks the PCI-E bus although I've heard most modern boards don't scale the fsb and PCI-E bus together. Should be what "CPU FSB & PCI-E Clock: Async" does but like I said, old habit. I'll try it at 100 and see if it makes any difference in stability.

Originally posted by: Pabster
Will be nice to see more results with this board.

I swore off MSI years ago and I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. But more selection is a plus.

Same here. After fighting a losing battle against a Neo4 Platinum that had issues with the PCI bus not locking properly, I've stayed away from MSI. Seems like this one is running quite well though for being an immature Conroe board.