MSI K8N NEO4 the Platinum sample board publication

[johnnyliu3377]

MSI K8N NEO4 the Platinum sample board publication, the first in kind sample test,

the content renews as necessary! !

Uses newest nForce 4 Ultra chip the main Engineer board: MSI K8N NEO4

Platinum (MS-7125) this but the entire Taiwan only has this to be possible to

Operation the sample, because is the ES1 project sample, therefore on M/B has jump

the line, the market version cannot have.. Asks user to feel relieved....

The motherboard complete picture, picks the black is PCB


Nearby PWM Japanese electric capacity


16X PCI-E VGA slot


Silicon Image 3114 4 port chip SATA RAID (supports 0,1,0+1)


Double Giga LAN


ALC850 7.1 ch sound chip


Supports SATA II nForce RAID


Brand-new V-core PWM IC, did know allows easy mod & to be stable? !


Looks at " RD SAMPLE" This inscription word


The back plate disposition, supports SPDF



to be continue

[eva2000]

very nice toy to play with there

[aonic]

nice, they improved the layout

[saaya]

thx a lot for sharing those pics with us jonny!

3 phase design with 9 mosfets mmhhh nice

[jjcom]

looks nice...should give nice stable Vcore...hopefully. Layout is pretty good, altho I would have prefered the SATA connectors up farther and and the right edge of the board. But otherwise thats a nice board. Must hope its another NEO 2 in terms of overclocking.

[johnnyliu3377]

Thanks everybody, the happy goods must share the my good friends

Test environment:
CPU:AMD athlon64 3500+ (clawhammer core L2:512KB)
M/B:MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum (nforce 4 Ultra)
RAM:TCCD 256MBx2
HD:Quantum AS IDE ATA100
Power: Reaches 250W COOLER:
Hyper 6 8*8 2500rpm FAN


Oh! ! 24PIN SERVER uses ATX the power plug? Has not related 20PIN to be also good! !


Starts the picture, has been short NEO2 illusory image LOGO...
May see edition V1.0B11 DATE:10/15 bata BIOS


INDEX... Basically with NEO2 similar, below abbreviates with the NEO2 hypothesis page post


IDE function hypothesis... In has SATA which constructs II RAID hypothesis


This is RAID establishes the detailed item


onboard device
SIL3114 RAID & MARVELL G-LAN


PCI Express enactment


Hardware monitoring: Has similar Q-Fan the speed control


to be continue .....

[nordik]

nice stuff

[johnnyliu3377]

BIOS Core Cell:

CPU FSB may adjust 400Mhz


HT percentage:


May adjust upward perhaps to under 8&16,This adjustment has stable OC the effect !


DRAM timing parameter: Really complex!


The FSB : DRAM ratio


1T/2T Option


Dynamic OC frequency


NV/ATi Speed Up


SATA Spread Spectrum(SATA II > SATA)


PCI-E Spread Spectrum((16X > ?)


SSE/SSE2 Instructions.....about SSE3?


CPU frequency multiplication option


CPU V-core min 0.825v


CPU V-core max 1.55v


But V-core set 1.55v*1.1(10%)=1.705V max


V-dimm max 2.85v


AGP voltage? ? Or PCI-E 16X voltage?


PCI fix frequency 33.3Mhz


OK!! BIOS OC overview


to be continue .....

[Sgt_Strider]

When is this board going to be released?

[xgman]

Looks like the older sata1 3114 silicon image controller. Wonder why they didn't use the newer 3124 sata2 one?

[Dumo]

Early Dec?

[conrad.maranan]

I'd like to see a shootout between this board and the DFI NF4 when they're released. The BIOS options looks really good on the MSI (I wish they would have considered implementing these options on the Neo2). But if the DFI 754 is an indication of anything, the 939 board will have BIOS options galore that will keep most tweakers up all night. The Holidays looks to be a very promising time for us to look forward to.

[althes]

This board looks really nice, a couple mods and using the booster could give the dfi a run

[jjcom]

yep, looks like these boards will be alittle more than just AMD64 boards w/ PCI-E. More boards with more tweaks and more ways to overclock. Ya! Go MSI, DFI, and all the like. As for SSE3 thats more of a chip funtion than a board funtion. We'll have to wait for the...I believe its the rev. E chips for that. PCI-E, and more on its way. AMD's got it going good and they'll be sticking to it, it appears.

jjcom

[esdee]

Thanks everybody, the happy goods must share the my good friends

That's the spirit!!

Nice BIOS-layout ... now how good it clocks?? :-)

[johnnyliu3377]

This nf4 chip is" ENG SAMPLE" The A02 edition, beginning of next year will sell the edition could be above A03 (because A02 will carry out nTUNE... no to be stable)

slightly tests OC 300MHz the ability


run SUPER PI 1M


Similar condition OC 310MHz (DDR620), felt is good more advantageous than NEO2 to overclock!


At present clockgen has not supported NEO4, so only can use the BIOS adjustment

[rabeb25]

Thats quite the chipped core on the NF4 chip, you got there.

[johnnyliu3377]

Thats quite the chipped core on the NF4 chip, you got there.

Mmm! But it can't affect operates this M/B

[p4z1f1st]

are that >300MHz-results 1:1 ?

[johnnyliu3377]

are that >300MHz-results 1:1 ?

That is does no problem , another day will try 0441SPMW 3000+ on nf4
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...943#post602943

[Psilonaught1]

don't suppose you would have any freon equipement like a Mach 2 or Vapochill LS to test it on?

There lots of users on here who cannot use their Winchester core cpu's correctly with the current s939 boards (especially the Neo2) so it would be great to know if the Neo4 works correctly at sub zero temps!

[johnnyliu3377]

BIOS updata, the nf 4 frequencies may upward arrive 370Mhz+