2- The current MSI family of motherboards DOES NOT work on any other strap than 800 (200 FSB) for the E4300 processor, this means, plain simple, no more than 265 FSB overclock, we are reaching the limit of the Chipset on that strap. A change to 1066 (266) is required for this processor to overclock as it should.
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4- The majority of the MB makers implement a strap detection base on the BSEL state of the pins, the combination of High-Low on these pins tells the motherboard which strap to choose on startup. for THIS series of motherboads, the BSEL detection is useless, since the motherboard configures the strap based on the processor model instead of the bsel pins (totally akward to me) hence, even if you change the strap on the pin level, the motherboard may had already boot up using the strap based on the model and FORCE the FSB then, based on the pin (totally useless) since you will get a freeze on the system, for that reason, read the point 5.
5- DO NO, I repeat DO NOT pin mod any processor on this motherboard, is totally useless.
So, our requirements for MSI are pretty simple, GIVE US the correct 1066Mhz strap for E4300 once they reach 266FSB consecuently putting this motherboard in the same category of the rest, since there are also pretty basic 3 times more cheap motherboads that can easily reach 3ghz with a 1333 pin mod (motherboards with no overclocking options) this is really a shame for motherboards of this category.
DISABLE the freakking model routine detection, does not help the community and in fact, impedes them to tweak their systems as they want and since the rest of the MB makers just use the BSEL state to set the strap, this routine is more than UNNECESARY.
DISABLE the stated message of "This is a 200Mhz processor, the current speed is not supported..." we don't need this kind of warnings on a High End motherboard.
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