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MSI P35 Neo2-FR best choice for my needs?

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markrb38

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I am looking for a new motherboard with a few specific needs and the MSI P35 Neo2-FR seems to fit the bill. I am just asking to see if there are any others that I should consider that have:

1 x 16 PCI-E
1 at least X4 PCI-E

No need for onboard RAID
No Need for firewire

Some Overclocking, but I don't care about having the best overclocking board.

Thanks,
Mark

 
Looks good! I've been running the P35 Neo 2 for a bit over 4 months now, and it's been a great board.
 
The Neo2-FR has raid but no firewire. You might be able to save some money and pick up a board in the $100 range, like a Gigabyte G35S3L or an Abit IP35 E/V. I love the neo2fr though and if you dont mind MIR, you can get it for the same price as the other boards and get extra features.
 
Originally posted by: Gillbot
My Neo2-FR has been an excellent mobo but not the best for overclocking. If you want a good stable board, grab it. If you are looking for a great OC'er, get the Abit IP35-E.

My experiences with the Neo2-FR: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=29&threadid=2125293
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If the requirements were
1 x 16 PCI-E
1 at least X4 PCI-E
then they are not met with the abit IP35-E which only has one pci-e x16 and two pci-e x1 slots.
 
the Neo2-FR is an awesome board, don't get me wrong. Many rave about it but my experience has been less than stellar thus far. If I wasn't trying to OC, i'd be extremely satisfied with this board but I got it because it was supposed to rival the Abit IP35 series and hasn't lived up to that yet.
 
Originally posted by: Jman13
Looks good! I've been running the P35 Neo 2 for a bit over 4 months now, and it's been a great board.
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Jman13, i am a newbie in these MOBO matters, but am having difficulty with installation that rather seems to be understanding the pigeon english and conflicting front panel wiring installation. I just bought this MOBO you say is a great board and I believe it, but need some advice about hooking it up. Can you help?
The supplier who also tried hooking everything up may have made a mistake so I doing some of my own homework here.

 
Manually set RAM voltage and timing to specs. Use 1:1 memory divider. Raise Vcore to VID plus 5 to 10%. Bump up the FSB to overclock the CPU.
 
I was thinking of this motherboard as well, I'm stuck between it and the Gigabyte P35 DS3L... I probably won't end up using the onboard RAID 5 support on this mobo, but I might eventually. Same with overclocking -- not right now, but in a month or two when I get around to it I'll probably look into at least a mild overclock on my e6750. Are there any significant pros and cons I'm missing, or is it pretty much that either of these boards will work just fine for casual gaming and general use?
 
Mine has been looking up as of late. After I found out most of my issues were ram related, everything has been running great.
 
i'm at 501 not but it failed orthos after 15 minutes. I'm trying to figure out why. My board is acting a little flaky though. For some reason it changes the vcore on it's own and doesn't save my settings. It also is changing the NB Voltage to 1.45 and the SB I/O power to 1.8 on it's own no matter what I manually set them to.

I'm gonna play a little more though but i'm extatic @ 500fsb really.
 
Plot Vcore vs core speed on linear graph paper. You should see 90MHz CPU core speed for each +0.04Vcore. If the plot is still linear up to 500MHz, then the bottleneck may be RAMs or MB. My IP35-E does not need a lot of voltage at NB/SB to hit 490MHz FSB.

CPU instability will often result in BIOS corruption. The easiest way to fix this problem with IP35-E is to reflash BIOS using the WB boot switch.
 
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