MSI K8N Neo4-F Moddable to SLI and SATA II support

[bpt8056]

Apparently, someone has successfully modded the MSI K8N Neo-4F to support SLi and SATA II. All it requires is a pencil to bridge the resistor on the NF4 chip (brings back the old days of Athlon chips).

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[imported_Kensai]

Damn. That's nice.

 

[Trente]

It seems the board is made in China... that is the reason why it's so cheap.

 

[gvayl]

So what are the differences between the F and the Platinum. Also how can you mod it to work with SLI if it only has 1 pci-e 16x slot?

 

[bpt8056]

Originally posted by: gvayl
So what are the differences between the F and the Platinum. Also how can you mod it to work with SLI if it only has 1 pci-e 16x slot?

He used the pci-e 4x slot for the second video card.

The difference between the F and Platinum are features like Firewire which isn't offered for F. Reading in the other forums, it appears that the Platinum and the F use the same PCB and that you can use the Platinum BIOS files for the F motherboard. Sounds pretty sweet so far.

 

[tr1kstanc3]

i picked up the neo4-f and it is pretty much identical to the platinum. did not have any issues overclocking from within the bios either. running a 3200+ at 240x10 although there is a cold boot issue. dont know why because my tagan 480 seems to be giving it stable voltage. waiting on a few more beta testers to mod it to SATA2 and SLI =)

 

[bpt8056]

Originally posted by: tr1kstanc3
i picked up the neo4-f and it is pretty much identical to the platinum. did not have any issues overclocking from within the bios either. running a 3200+ at 240x10 although there is a cold boot issue. dont know why because my tagan 480 seems to be giving it stable voltage. waiting on a few more beta testers to mod it to SATA2 and SLI =)

Is the cold boot issue common for the ne04-f? I'm curious...thanks.

 

[SPQQKY]

It's important to note that rev 2 is plagued with problems and also, the mod only works on the rev 1 because they have used an enamel to protect the chip from being modded on the new revs.

 

[tr1kstanc3]

Originally posted by: bpt8056

Originally posted by: tr1kstanc3
i picked up the neo4-f and it is pretty much identical to the platinum. did not have any issues overclocking from within the bios either. running a 3200+ at 240x10 although there is a cold boot issue. dont know why because my tagan 480 seems to be giving it stable voltage. waiting on a few more beta testers to mod it to SATA2 and SLI =)

Is the cold boot issue common for the ne04-f? I'm curious...thanks.

i upped the chipset voltage from default 1.5 to 1.55 and haven't noticed any cold boot issues so far. hopefully this fixes the issue.

 

[krevo]

how do you find the revision number?

 

[krevo]

bump...

how do i find revision number, guys...

i wanna know if this mod can be done...


Cpu-z? Bios? Etc?