The MSI Neo2 Platinum Owners Help Thread

hi i have one of these boards and wonderd if ANYONE has got the 3700 SD working

and how well it clocked on this board
 
Anyone know if, with this board, does it help a lot if you have the chipset watercooled? Would it help increase stability at high fsb?
 
Is this board Venice-ready out of the box without a BIOS update? I say this because I've just taken delivery of a Neo2 plat + AMD 3200 Venice core CPU. I don't fancy building it only to find out that the mobo doesn't support venice CPUs without a BIOS flash.

Can anyone help me clarify this, please?
 
DasFruitMachine:

Can't answer your question as you don't tell us what version of BIOS you have.

And as you need to plug the CPU in to either get a BIOS version or update it, just plug it in. Will probally be fine. ;)
 
DasFruitMachine said:
Is this board Venice-ready out of the box without a BIOS update? I say this because I've just taken delivery of a Neo2 plat + AMD 3200 Venice core CPU. I don't fancy building it only to find out that the mobo doesn't support venice CPUs without a BIOS flash.

Can anyone help me clarify this, please?
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Yes you'll be o.k mate.check here
 
Can I just ask, I have a Neo2 with all 4 IDE slots filled up (2 slots x 2 connectors), can I use SATA at the same time aswell? I dont want to buy a seperate ide/sata card and I need another drive fitting.

if so, which of the 4 SATA connectors should I use?

Thanks.
 
If you are not overclocking the motherboard, then you can attach 4 PATA and 4 SATA all at the same time. Total of eight IDE drives. :D

When overclocking it is worth noting that only SATA ports 3 and 4 are locked. Not sure about the PATA IDE connectors with overclocking. No doubt mentioned in one of the FAQs.

In my case I am weird... with all those available IDE/SATA connectors I just turn 'em all off and use SCSI instead. I often wonder about the cost of the wasted silicon on there... :)
 
Yeah, SATA 3 & 4 are indeed locked, while 1 & 2 are not.

If you are sticking with a non-overclocked box, then you are fine with the 4+4, if you are clocking then its SATA 3+4 only.

As a thought, I have had to add an IDE card anyway, so I am using both the SATA ( 3+4 ) and the full OnBoard IDE and I have one of the 4 IDE Card Ports free only.
 
slatey said:
im after 2gb of good fast memory for this board any recommendations?
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if i get 2gb of cas2 with lower timings rather than cas 3 with higher timings will i notice a difference in battlefield 2 or any memory intensive game?
 
slatey said:
if i get 2gb of cas2 with lower timings rather than cas 3 with higher timings will i notice a difference in battlefield 2 or any memory intensive game?
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From messing with 2.5 and 3.0 I find that there is very little true difference for my RAM, in games, however, I have not truthfully gone out just to compare 2.5 v 3.0.... But, there is a noticeable difference in desktop use, with moving between apps etc when its loaded up.
 
Ok i read through this thread and completed the following last night.

Move Memory to Dual Channel slots 1 & 2.
Set AGP Freq to 67 ( lock AGP & PCI ) (PCI card in bottom but 1 Slot)
Change Multi to 10
Change FSB 250
Set HTT x4
Set 1.60vcore
SET Mem 2.65
Move Sata to 3&4 (Locked SATA channels)
Memory timming now 2-3-3-7

However anything over 220 FSB even with a divider (166) my PCI wireless card dies? the CPU is good up to 2.6 GHZ but PCI dies at 220 any ideas?

Also how do i set the MEM to 1T???

HAve read that Tictac bios enables 1T with a san diego but official Bios doesnt??? correct???

Im using the latest official bios........... PLease help me out thanks a lot :)
 
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