K8N Neo Platinum (socket 754) is it any good to oc?

I am planning to build AMD 64 system, and that socket 754 is suitable to my budjet.
But is that board easy to overclock? i have been thinking to get an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ prosessor on it... any better ideas near that price?
And what about those athlon's multiplier, can it be chanced lower from bios or is it locked?

If you don't need the extras like firewire, 4 sata and 7:1 audio then get the Neo-FSR. I have both the Platinum and FSR and the FSR smokes my Platinum. No problems running 250 1:1 or 300htt using the divider. The FSR is also newer than the Plat. were there is no need to set agp bus at 67 or 68 to get your max OC, leave it at 66 and enjoy.
My FSR also seems more friendly to different types of ram chips, like Samsung TCCD, Micron 5G or Hynix chips.
Also the price of just over $100 makes it a nice buy. If you order one I suggest any ram with Samsung TCCD chips will give you the best performance. Note I have not tried any bh-5 chips on this board.
Also you could save the extra $20 and put it towards a 3200+, I say this cause the 11x might come in handy instead of the 10x on the 3000+ to achieve max OC on your cpu. Newegg had some nice 3200+ NC(512) CG cores that will do 2.6 on air pretty easy. I have one and does 2.75 stable under my waterblock.

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Bios from my Msi k8n Neo Platinum (socket 754)

Wich is the last beta bios from my Msi k8n Neo Platinum (socket 754) ?
And where download?
Thanks

A thread here , from when 1.56 appeared:
MSI K8N Neo Plat Beta Bios 1.56
and when 1.55 appeared:
New Bios For MSI K8N Neo Platinum [ 1.55]
Seems to me that the 1.5x series were focused on chipset timings and ram .
Another thing is that i can boot from a usb pen with this one .(never got it to work with others) .
Beta bioses don't come with a changelog , they leak out . So any complete
list of changes is not possible to provide.

K8N Neo Platinum BIOS 1.4 temperatures

When I upgraded my K8N Neo Platinum from BIOS version 1.3 to 1.4 temperatures jumped up by 7 to 10 degrees and average vcore dropped by about .03 volts (both read from Core Center).
Both readings reverted back when I switched back to BIOS 1.3. I'm just concerned as to which is more accurate. I was planning on doing some mild overclocking on this system, but if the 1.4 readings are right (51C idle) then I don't have much room.
Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any idea on which temps are more accurate?
My system:
K8N Neo Platinum (socket 754)
A 64 3400 (Newcastle)
Enermax 550 watt power supply
Thermaltake Venus 12 CPU cooler

If you check around you will see, especially as applies to Neo2s the temp numbers are all screwed up. With all prior bioses my computer showed temps ranging from +175 to -128 irrespective of load.
This is especially irksome as I am vapor cooling and know from an external temp probe I installed right on top of the heat spreader on the CPU that I am running well below zero even under full load.
I cannot comment on the 1.41 bios yet because my board decided to blow up a capacitor last week and I haven't received my replacement yet.

K8n neo platinum dead? please help urgent

Hello everyone... Yesterdey I was working with my computer, transfering normal stuff from my mobile to the computer and suddently my monitor went black, then I restarted my computer, but my monitor was still black and my d-bracket was all red lights, so I shutted down my computer to change my grafics card an see what the problem was, but it would never turn on again... it startind turning on and off every half second non stopping.. so I went to borrow other power supply but when I try again to turn it on, it was simply dead and with my old one was still dead. Is my mobo or processor fried??? :( please help...
Msi k8n neo platinum socket 754
revoltec power supply 450 watts 25 amps in 12v rail
2 gb kingston pc400 ram
80 gb sata hd
120 ide hd
ati radeon 9600 xt grafics card
athlon64 2800 processor
pinnacle pci tv card
hp dvd
philips dvd

Quote from: rubengomes on 14-January-07, 22:00:09
thanks for the reply... butt it still does not work...
take CPU out and find a way to test it somewhere else. if CPU is fine, then must be failure mainboard if we dismiss PSU factor(you have already tested with 2 PSU's good ones)

The same old problem with temperatures (K8N Neo Platinum)

I have problems since bios v1.0 on my K8N Neo Platinum with temeparutes.
I have installed a Prometeia Mach II St colling unit
I Tested the v1.0 official bios, the temperature was allways -65º full ou idle, what it is impossivel.
In the moment i flashed the bios to v1.2b5, temperature changed to 49º, and I did not move in nothing. The same temperature appears in all bios since v1.2b5. Now I have the v1.4b2 bios
Sorry the Bad English

Here are the instructions to reflash the BIOS for your K8 Neo. I am currently running ver.1.4 with little problems. My only snafu is the LED for my optical mouse stays lit even when system is off, however I have no RAID, Ethernet, onboard sound, or SATA drives. I have just a simple basic system, and I don't overclock. My board is the K8 Neo Platinum socket 754, with an AMD64 3000+. YOU MUST HAVE A FLOPPY DRIVE CONNECTED TO SYSTEM FOR THESE INSTRUCTIONS TO WORK!.
Flashing BIOS on K8 Neo per MSI. READ ALL instructions before starting.
1.Check your BIOS for flashing protection and disable it.
2. Know your board model#. a. Open case and find model# on the board between the PCI slots, or b., boot system and at first DOS screen you will see 'W7030ver1.4122101'. This means you have a MSI model 7030 motherboard with BIOS version 1.4 issued on 12/21/01.
3.Download the Bios that matches your motherboard model and version#.(I believe the Neo Plat had two versions, 1.0 and 1.1). I have 1.0. It will be found between the PCI slots. Create a folder on C: drive labeled 'C:\TEST'
4.EXtract the BIOS file to C:\TEST folder.
5.Create a boot floppy. For XP, at Desktop double click My Computer, right click floppy drive, click Format to format the disk, then click 'Create MS-DOS Boot Disk'.
6. Set boot order to floppy. Hit F11 to select boot device.
7. Insert boot floppy and restart system.
8. At A:\ prompt type in the following,
C:\ (enter)
cd\TEST(enter)
awdfl833c(space)w7030nms.130
The w7030nms.130 is the BIOS file name you downloaded to C:\TEST. Keep in mind you're dealing with DOS file names, so you may need to open a DOS window in Windows, and search C drive for the TEST folder and write down the DOS file name of the BIOS file BEFORE you start the BIOS update.
9. Reboot when prompted. It shouldn't take more than 10 seconds to update the BIOS.

Socket 754 K8N Neo Platinum

Guys I need your help.... dudes it's been a rough night. Last night I ran the MSI Update program and it found a new BIOS for my Socket 754 MSI-7030 MSI K8N Neo Platinum. So I installed 1.90 and rebooted, well tried to. The shutdown was ok and the reboot consisted of the drive lights going on, drives whirring, and then going off. That was it.
I reset, the same thing happened; I cycled the power the same thing happened. I went to bed deciding I would crawl around looking for the CMOS reset jumpers in the morning. I couldn't sleep so I got my pocket PC and did some searching and found some similar problems on the web.
I got up and hard reset the BIOS. It started and I could get as far as the BIOS but not boot Windoze. I reset BIOS to defaults, no joy. I turned some extras off like USB storage support, no joy. Eventually I remembered someone on the forums saying that he changed his memory to 333 bus speed from 400 and it boots for him (he also has Corsair memory). So I did this and now I am booted into WINDOWS!
I tried to flash the BIOS to the 1.50 version (I have no floppy drive so I use the MSI version of Winflash) it errored half way through :-( So I tried to run the updater and try to install 1.90 again so that the reboot wont bork my PC with half a BIOS. The flash is very slow then I get a verify error at 2%.
I am now worried, very worried. I don't want to shutdown the PC
Heeeellllppp!!!!
Fairy
Athlon 64 3200+ 2.2GHz 512k/
2x512Mb Corsair 3200XL/MSI K8N Platinum/
XFX 6800GT/Audigy 2 ZS/
Diamondmax 10 SATA 300Gb 16Mb Cache/Diamondplus 9 SATA 160Gb 8Mb Cache/
Sharp LL-172G-B 17" TFT

Hi
Sorry to hear that you rebooted, but this can hopefully be a good thing for us two guys stuck with our systems on...
Can you please try a bios rescue floppy disc? As far as I have read, this is simply just a bootable DOS disk with the award
flash utility and the MSI bios added to the autoexec.bat file. Apparently the bootblock in your bios will try to boot your
floppy disk, and will run the flash command in the autoexec.bat file and will flash the bios. You wont be able to see anything
on screen, but you should see the floppy disk reading.
Official details of how to do this are in this forum sticky:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=81017.0
It has links to bootable floppy images, and links to procedures.
Please let us know if this worked, and the exact procedure you used, we would be very grateful
Jooppy

K8N Neo Platinum 754 1t/2t

Hey guys,
This may have been answered, but on a K8N Neo Platinum 754 with 3200+ Athlon, how do I access my 1T/2T Ram timings? Also, is the BIOS fixed yet (1.5) for this motherboard, or do you know where a beta can be found without the bugs, suchs as non adjustable HyperTrans speeds and unstable system performace. Thanks all!!!
BJ
Athlon 64 3200+ , MSI K8N Neo Platinum, 160gb SATA Hard Drive, 160gb USB External HD, 1gb PNY PC4000 DDR500 Memory modules (w/LEDs), PNY Geforce 6800 Ultra 256mb, Creative Audigy 2 ZS, ATI HDTV Wonder, Ultra X Connect 500W Power Supply

True, after 2 dead msi neo fsr boards i finally decided to go for a platinum board wich turned out great
Just love my mobo & ram ^^

Any problem with Gainward 6800GT & K8N Neo Platinum? (sock754)

Hi all! I want to buy the k8n neo p., was reading this review:
http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=6&id=1247&pg=12
The author write:
"One of the problem we encountered was the transistor positioning near the AGP slot. With extremely lengthy AGP cards, one of the capacitors located in that area may obstruct certain components on the graphics card. As such, users with large graphics cards might want to first test the installation of a graphics card before purchasing this motherboard."
I have a Gainward 6800GT Powerpack Ultra/2400 Golden Sample, the red model with double red fans, visible here http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/gainward-ultra2400.html
Approx 21 cm lenght. There is any mounting problem with this graphic card and the K8N NEO Platinum?

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Originally posted by ozzimark
currently all 6800gt's and ultras are based off the same reference boards, so they're the same exact length as the one you linked to in your first post, however, i also have the stock cooler.. the gainward has one that is significantly larger, but i feel that there isn't anything in the way of mounting that card.
In fact this is my fear
The cooler on my card is very big, but i don't want to eventually modify it in the future because it's in warranty. Someone know what is the height of the three damned capacitors? If i know the height, i can estabilsh if this gfx card can fit without troubles in the motherboard. I want an MSI don't want to buy an Asus

Any MSI K8N NEO Platinum Edition S754 nForce3 users?? Need advice..

Hi, thinking of building a budget system around a S739 Clawhammer 3700 with an
MSI K8N NEO Platinum Edition S754 nForce3 board. But have a few concerns..
- Will this board run on this chip or will it need updated BIOS to do so?
- Will it work with crucial 3200DDR memory.CL=3 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR400 • 2.6V • 64Meg x 64 ?
- Can it take an extra (3rd) 512 stick of this ram?
Thanks.

I have ran the Neo s754 model with 2 * crucial CT6464Z40B 512MB cas 3 modules and never had one single problem with the combination
of A64 GC version , mobo and RAM .
Three modules is tough on the single channel memory controller though , as it would have to deal with 6 banks
and you probably see the ram max speed as DDR333 and 2T commandrate is what it can cope with.

K8N Neo Platinum 754 Rocks!

Just replaced my K8T Neo with the K8N Neo Platinum. This board rocks! Running 6-3-3-2 1T with Corsair Twinx C2Pros w/LEDS(2 x 512 Meg) @ 11 x 228 in Slots 1 and 3. MSI Rocks!
Very Happy K8N Platinum Owner,
Psygnosi

True, after 2 dead msi neo fsr boards i finally decided to go for a platinum board wich turned out great
Just love my mobo & ram ^^

MSI K8N NEO Platinum Edition Low Benchmark scores

Hi, can someone please help?
I have these details of my friends new PC :
MSI K8N NEO Platinum Edition
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.2 GHz Socket 754, 512 KB cache
Corsair Value S. PC3200 DDR-DIMM 512MB
I have run a sandra memory bandwidth test on it and I think he gets really low scores for his spec.
int buff'd 2657
float buff'd 2656
This is the scores he gets un tweaked and not overclocked. Do these sound like reasonable out of the box scores??
Any information would be appreciated

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Originally posted by tritium4ever
Who cares, Sandra is a completely synthetic benchmark with absolutely no relevance to real world performance. Don't believe me? Put a 3.0C up against a 3000+ S754 with the memory bandwidth benchmark. The 3.0C will own, but the 3000+ will perform better in most real world apps. Bottom line: don't sweat the Sandra results.
not 100% true either beacuse if you then run encoding apps etc which are mem bandwidth dependant the 3C would own. it is not true to say they are not real world results, just games and most apps dont bottleneck on the mem bandwidth.....now that is will be different on 64-bit coding but of course the A64 would still own the 3C on them.
just for the record i would never buy an intel.

Turn on PC with keyboard [K8N Neo Platinum]

Is it possible to turn your pc on by pressing a button on your keyboard? I have a friend with an old pc (1,5 ghz P4), and he claims that he can turn his pc on that way.
So technically I'm asking you if you know how to do that. Is there a BIOS option in which you can configure the keyboard button on which your computer will respond and go on automatically? That would be very handy.
My motherboard is the K8N Neo Platinum with a 3000+ socket 754. He has an ASUS motherboard.
Thanks.

Check the manual. It should be an option in the bios. I have it in my bios for my board, but when I helped someone put together their machine with a K8N Platinum 2, I didn't see this as an option in that bios. It may be that power on by keyboard and/or mouse is not an option for your board.

MSI K8N Neo Platinum and hyperttransport

Can someone please explain to me how MSI K8N Neo Platinum uses hypertransport? What is the option in the bios for hypertransport used for? What is it's advantages/disadvantages?

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Originally posted by Ludic
4 is the multiplier of the Front Side Bus frequency, default of 200MHz.
4 * 200MHz = 800MHz
Since this is a bi-directional bus (like DDR memory) this 800 gets multiplied by 2.
2 * 800MHz = 1600MHz or 1.6GHz
I'm sure you've seen AMD advertise a 1600MHz HyperTransport in response to Intel's 800MHz FSB.
To my knowledge, you can't use the 5x multiplier in Socket 754 (unless you underclock the Front Side Bus?)
The 5x will be available on Socket 939.
Ah. That's very enlightening. Thanks for the info.

K8N Neo Platinum - Powers Up Powers Down.

Ok, this problem has been around for nearly 2 years, but havnt addressed it since the machine wasnt being used. Now, however I must resurrect it!
Running a K8N Neo Platinum (MS-730 v1), the only hardware I have in it a Sapphire Radeo 9700XT card which I have tested and is ok. No RAM in the box, no HD's, CD/DVD, completely barebones.
Power supply is Thermaltake PurePower 420W confirmed working.
When I power on the box with the CPU and heatsink installed, all fans spin up, for about 10 seconds then everything goes dead. No beeps, nothing.
With the CPU out of the box, powering up the box, everything stays powered on a'ok. Nothing dies. So, what do you think? CPU or Board?
Processor is AMD Athlon 64 3400+ ClawHammer 2.2GHz Socket 754. Yes, I have cleared the CMOS, and replaced the BIOS battery.

The memory is golden, should still get to post screen even w/ no memory installed.
Memory
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel
Power Supply
ATX 12v
AC Input 115v @10amps
230v @ 5amps
Max Load 420w
DC Output
+5v | +3.3v | +12v | -5v | -12v | +5VSB
40A | 30A | 18A |0.3A | 0.8A| 2A
| 220W | 216w |1.5w| 9.6W | 10W
see product link http://www.highpowersupply.com/product-ps-hpc420102df.htm
I have tested multiple other power supplys all with 400w+ outputs.
Yes this machine did work for nearly 9 months.

Does K8N Neo Platinum(ms-7030) have Dual Channel Support?

Hey i have 2x1gb sticks of corsair xms DDR-400 PC 3200 ram and i can't get it to run in dual channel mode, does this motherboard even suport dual channel mode, because according to this http://www.memory-up.com/Memory_Finders/MSI-Memory-MSI-MS-7030-K8NNEOPLAT-Memory.html it doesn't.
btw both cpu-z and memtest86 tell me im running in single channel mode, and i've tried all combinations of DIMM Slots
Any help would be appreciated
system specs:
Windows XP Pro SP2
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
MSI K8N Neo Platinum 754
PNY GeForce 6800 128mb
2 x 1gb Corsair PC-3200
Seagate 120GB SATA 7200
Artec 12x Dual DVD-RW
Artec 16x DVDRom
Floppy Drive

Quote from: silentkevin on 02-July-06, 09:03:17
Thanks for the quick reply, looks like im out of luck on that
I wouldn't worry about that too much... As far as everyday use goes, a 754 board is almost as fast as a 939 setup at similiar CPU speeds.
The only way to see the difference is by running a bunch of different benchmark progs, which have little to do with the "real world" anyway.

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