The OFFICIAL MSI K8N Neo2-939 tips and tricks guide thread

[Perc]

The one that this thread is about unil NF4 boards start coming out. I don't think DFI will be out till Dec. Highest bios vdim option of any of the 939 boards is about 2.85 which is max for tccd anyway.

yeah good point i have some sweet arse adata pc4000 that will run 280 1:1 in my DFI 250UT mb at 2.8v i could try i also have some EB3500 but i dont know what chips they have? these TCCD chips you speak of what memory do i have to buy to get those chips? i get the FX-53 chip this up comming week so i will need to get my situated real quik... ALSO if i want to run BH-5 in this MSI board? how does the OCZ booster run with this mb?

thx perc,

[xgman]

these TCCD chips you speak of what memory do i have to buy to get those chips?

Use bios 1.36. You will not need the booster with samsung tccd chips. They are on OCZ 3200EL Platinum and 3700EL Platinum. They are on less expensive Gskill ram (do a search on this forum). I am sure some others too, but I have the 3700ELplats and others with the Gskill 4400 are doing even over 300htt at 2.8v and lower.

[rick_fx]

My fx-53 and msi neo2 plat are on their way next week.
I want to buy some gskill for my setup but gskill isn't shipped to Canada.
Could anyone buy the gskill for me?

pm me ... thanks for helping out

[Perc]

Use bios 1.36. You will not need the booster with samsung tccd chips. They are on OCZ 3200EL Platinum and 3700EL Platinum. They are on less expensive Gskill ram (do a search on this forum). I am sure some others too, but I have the 3700ELplats and others with the Gskill 4400 are doing even over 300htt at 2.8v and lower.

cool thx man you have given me hope at first i wasnt too sure about this msi board but now i think it might not be that bad.. my fx-53 chip will be here this upcomming week so i need to get this msi ordered and some of that g-skills memory and ill be set.... thx man

peace perc,

[arj]

My fx-53 and msi neo2 plat are on their way next week.
I want to buy some gskill for my setup but gskill isn't shipped to Canada.
Could anyone buy the gskill for me?

pm me ... thanks for helping out

Have you tried excaliberpc.com? I just ordered a pair and it will be delivered to Malaysia. I'm sure they can deliver to Canada.

[Minnyboy]

Got a few questions here that I need some info on....

What's the max volts for aircooling??
I'm @ 1.8v ATM (1.55v + 10%), it should be 1.705v but the vcore fluctuates by .03v to .12v, is this usual for this board??

I'm using the Hyper6 + 2 fans... 35-38c idle & 55c under load...Using MBM 5.3.7.1...

Caper ,
I haven't tried any more than 242MHz on my BH5's so far...OCZ MemTest86 v1.0 reports 2980MB/s @ 2-2-2-6-7-16-1T @ 3.2v (DDR Booster)...

It was only stable for 3.5 hours Prime95 @ 10.5 x 242 @ 1.7v (darn thing fluctuates badly)....

Gonna try lowering the HTT to 241 & see if it's Prim95 stable. Gonna at least let it run for 5-10 hours first & lower the multi to see what my 2 x 512MB BH5's are capable of...

Off topic:
Funny thing is: I got these 2 x 512MB modules by luck... I was at my local store a while back & some idiot came in & returned these sticks because they "wouldn't" run at 2-3-3-7 on their mobo/cpu combo... Back at a time when it was so god damn hard to get 512MB BH5's in AUS... Nowwhere had them... Right time & place .

ALSO if i want to run BH-5 in this MSI board? how does the OCZ booster run with this mb? thx perc,

It's a tight squeeze with my XMS3500 in slots 1&2 & the Booster in slot 4 but it works real well here... In my case anyways... Both 256MB & 512MB modules....

Cheers,
Minnyboy

[xs64]

Hi guys , i have a problem here

Corecell shows 40'C when idle and MBM5 shows 36'C ..... Which one is right ?

And with the Zalman 7000Cu/ AS5 i just can @ 220x11 , Vcore DF
I can not run prime95 in 2 minutes with 225x11 ??

[xgman]

Got a few questions here that I need some info on....

What's the max volts for aircooling??

probably 1.75v

I'm @ 1.8v ATM (1.55v + 10%), it should be 1.705v but the vcore fluctuates by .03v to .12v, is this usual for this board??

Yes, at least on mine.

Caper ,
I haven't tried any more than 242MHz on my BH5's so far...OCZ MemTest86 v1.0 reports 2980MB/s @ 2-2-2-6-7-16-1T @ 3.2v (DDR Booster)...

It was only stable for 3.5 hours Prime95 @ 10.5 x 242 @ 1.7v (darn thing fluctuates badly)....

Gonna try lowering the HTT to 241 & see if it's Prim95 stable. Gonna at least let it run for 5-10 hours first & lower the multi to see what my 2 x 512MB BH5's are capable of...


Set LT to X4 or even X3 to run higher HTT.

answers above.

[xgman]

Hi guys , i have a problem here

Corecell shows 40'C when idle and MBM5 shows 36'C ..... Which one is right ?

And with the Zalman 7000Cu/ AS5 i just can @ 220x11 , Vcore DF
I can not run prime95 in 2 minutes with 225x11 ??

I have heard that MBM is more accurate as to how it is reading vcore on the NEO2.

[LilGator]

how about SpeedFan ? I idle mid-30s...

[charlie]

....finally I'm getting mine fired up with a 90nM chip, can someone provide link to the best BIOS? 1.36B right??? And some notes on how to FLASH.
thx!!!

C

[xs64]

I have heard that MBM is more accurate as to how it is reading vcore on the NEO2.

Thanks man , i quit the Corecell with the stupid system temp = 9'C
MBM5 works good now

[Dputiger]

Not to double post...

But are any of you in this thread aware of this?

http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=616

[charlie]

Not to double post...

But are any of you in this thread aware of this?

http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=616

yeah, old news

We've know about the 1/2MT issues for months.... you just put it into words/graphs, congrats!

C

[mike.elmes]

....finally I'm getting mine fired up with a 90nM chip, can someone provide link to the best BIOS? 1.36B right??? And some notes on how to FLASH.
thx!!!

C

I'm getting ready for the same thing, anyone have a link to this BIOS?

[p4z1f1st]

could someone tell me, which program of the msi-cd you all use, to get the DRAM-voltage, etc?

is it core-center? or something other?

[Dputiger]

Heh,

Someone should've told me (or another website).

That's a MAJOR party foul.

[p4z1f1st]

Heh,

Someone should've told me (or another website).

That's a MAJOR party foul.

another question: is there any possiblity to flash the BIOS of the Neo2 while running windows? (like on the Lanparty-UT?)

don't want to search my old floppy

[xs64]

another question: is there any possiblity to flash the BIOS of the Neo2 while running windows? (like on the Lanparty-UT?)

don't want to search my old floppy

Perhaps no ..... i searched in MSI website and there is no soft can do live up Bios

[p4z1f1st]

damn.....so, could someone explain me, how to flash it

the last time, i flashed a bios via the manuel-way is 9months ago with my Epox 8K3A+

[xs64]

Here u go
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=44481

[xs64]

WOW I HATE this board! Everytime I try to go into the HT options it gives me a blank blue box and freezes bios, I tried this with 1.35 and 1.36 and both are giving me this.

Add to that it takes about 10 minutes for the stupid bios to get out of post mode, and then windows now takes another 10 mins to boot, I have to clear CMOS for it to boot normally.

I don't know what the heck I did here but this board has issues.

Holy hell, most half assed board I used. And to think I'm still using stock clocks and volts! Oh and look the stupid chipset fan stopped running out of the blue. I think some gasoline on this board would make it work better.

On the contrary , my NB fan is too lould , seems there is a helicopter in my case

[arctic-k20]

well my neo2 plat arrived today - and the install has been interesting thus far - winxp sp2 would not finish its install on the original bios - so i had to flash to 137 and xp is installing now....hopefull that is the only gremlin i come across...

the reboot bug was in full effect - hoping the 137 fixed that !!

[p4z1f1st]

hm, guys, is it normal, that the post shows always the bios v1.3, doesn't matter, if i flashed another bios?

i flashed (i think i flashed) v1.36b but the post doesn't changed.....still v1.3

[CTKP]

Uh there is an auto flash utility, it should be somewhere in the MSI directory, in the "pheonix" (sp) folder- I think its winflash.

When I flashed, post screen shows 1.3b6. Reflash and see if it still shows.