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MSI Neo2 Plat AGPboard... is it the limiting factor?

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BoboKatt

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using my AMD X2 3800+ and having issues going over say 2450 stable (10X245). I'm reading about these incredible overclocks and I thought it was my CPU. I brought it over on my friend's nominal Gigabite board (KN8 ultra SLI) and it freaking smoked. I honestly thought all this time it was my CPU that sucked but now i am thinking it's my board obviously. I also had thought his crap Gigabyte board was not suited to ocing.. since I always felt you needed to spend well over 200$ for an ASUS A8R32-MVP DELUXE or ASUS A8N32-SLI-DX or ASUS A8N-SLI Premium or any of the really top end DFI boards to get any sort of better overclock.

Anyhow I can get this -- ASUS A8R-MVP at an incredibly low price. Comparing this board to say the Gigabyte my friend has, which would folks suggest? Is it really worth it to move up to the ASUS A8R32-MVP DELUXE JUST for overclocking and NOT what they throw in?
 
How fast did your cpu go on your friends board?
Were all the settings the same or close on both boards?
Have you tried lowering memory speed way down then clocking the cpu to be sure you don't have a memory issue?
 
Were you running any sata drives on the board? If so, you need to use the 2 headers below the cpu, the other sata headers are not Pci locked. Could be the problem.
 
Maybe the Gigabyte puts out a different default voltage, or even a different voltage from stated? You should also be able to figure out the max HTT speed of the board by factoring out the CPU.
 
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