K8N NEO4 Platinum Ultra - Over clocking guidance required.

Hi Every one!
Can any body help by explaining or providing a link to a guide which helps to over clock TO ITS BEST SPEED for the MSI K8n Neo4 Platinum Ultra board with the following configuration?
AMD 3000+ Winchester Socket 939.
DDR RAM PC3200 400 Mhz Hynix 2 x 256 = 512 MB
Ordinary PCI Vga Display Card.
SATA 80GB WD HDD.
MB : K8N NEO4 PLATINUM ULTRA.
PSU : +12v RAIL = 20AMPS.

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K8N Neo4 Platinum Ultra nForce4 no post.

Took the cpu off and cleaned it, upgraded the video card started the computer and no post. Led's 1,3,4, green 2 red. Took cpu out and checked it no bent pins, checked all connections. Sometimes when it boots it will have 4 green led's but no video. Tried another vid card same thing. Tried booting and holding the insert, cont+home, F1, delete keys. Get power to the fans and hear the HDD sometimes.
Specs.
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Ultra nForce4 bios v1.6
Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego Core
Geil value ram
1-36GB Raptor
, M45 Powercolor Radeon X800 GT PCI-EX 256MB DDR3 R480 Core
XP.Pro.W/SP.2
X-Connect 500W ATX PSU
+5V +3.3V +12V -12V -5 +5VSB
30A 28A 34A .8 .3 2
Edit: Have cleared the cmos many times. If I boot holding the insert key down for a while I get 1,3,4, leds red 2 green, if I then push F1 they all turn green but still no vid.

No posts to your post either LOL
Anyway - could be fans causing it - I had my Neo not booting until I disconnected a case fan from the mobo fan header output.
Try with just leaving the cpu fan (could also be this one of course) .

Memory Controller not available - K8N NEO4 Platinum Ultra

Hi Experts!
I have typical problem in my PC. I need reply only from experts. Newbies please excuse.
My system displays the following info in POST.
VENDOR / DEVICE CLASS DESCRIPTION IRQ
===================================
10DE 005E 0580 Memory Controller NA
If anyone can correctly PIN POINTEDLY identify why this is displayed, it will be much helpful
As such I face no difficulty with my system. But this message very much annoys me.
Thanks.
My PSU Details:
400W. +12V 20Ampere. (This is the maximum I could afford in our indian PC environment.)
AMD 3000+ Winchester 90nm. CPU.
K8N NEO4 Platinum Ultra Mother Board.
512 MB Hynix PC3200 Memory. (2*256)
80GB Western Digital.
Ordinary PCI VGA 2mb card.
Samsung CDROM.

There is no driver for memory controller with A64 (nforce3/4) as stated earlier .
You see this in the memctrl.inf for UDP 5.10 , driver pack for nforce 3 and backwards down to nforce 1 .
Memctrl is only added to the 5.10 package for backward support to nf2 and lower as this is a unified driver package and
the memory controller is at chipset level on the motherboard that resides in the external northbridge on nf2 chipsets and lower .
What you see is just a vendor/machine id description and is just as it should be .
Code: [Select]
; nvmemctl.INF
; Copyright (c) 2001-2002, NVIDIA
; Version 1.00
[Version]
Signature="$WINDOWS NT$"
Class=System
ClassGuid={4D36E97D-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Provider=%NVIDIA%
CatalogFile=nvmemctl.cat
DriverVer = 04/27/2004, 4.4.0
[ControlFlags]
ExcludeFromSelect=*
[Manufacturer]
%NVIDIA_MFG%=NVIDIA_SYS
[SourceDisksFiles]
[NVIDIA_SYS]
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AA.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AA
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AB.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AB
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AC.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AC
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AD.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AD
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EA.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EA
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EA&REV_C1.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EA&REV_C1
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB&REV_C1.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB&REV_C1
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EC
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01ED.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01ED
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EE.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EE
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EF.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EF
; Do-nothing section used to avoid "Unknown hardware" installation prompts.
[NO_DRV]
Include=machine.inf
Needs=NO_DRV
[NO_DRV.Services]
Include=machine.inf
Needs=NO_DRV.Services
[NO_DRV.HW]
Include=machine.inf
Needs=NO_DRV.HW
[Strings]
SystemClassName = "System devices"
NVIDIA = "NVIDIA"
NVIDIA_MFG = "NVIDIA"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AA.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce 220/230 Memory Controller (DDR)"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AB.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce 415/420/430 Memory Controller (DDR)"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AC.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce 220/230/415/420/430 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AD.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce 220/230/415/420/430 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EA.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EA&REV_C1.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 400 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB&REV_C1.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EC.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01ED.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EE.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EF.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Memory Controller"

K8N NEO4 Platinum and PCIE Clock

I have K8N NEO4 Platinum, AMD FX55, 2X512 Crucial Ballistix PC4200, PowerColor X850XT VIVO, 3X74 HD WD Raptor.
I have a big problem with this motherboard and Video card.
I have set CPU clock at 250mhz (because I have DDR500), now the PCE clock is 100mhz. Is synchronous with CPU clock? If yes is there a moltiplicator to change the PCIE clock(my videocard is 400mhz), because It provokes artefacts in the Post , in the bios,and continues shutdown of the system( first appears the windows “VPU RECOVER”, than shutdown) and the visualization is full of artefacts.
The question is: Pcie clock is asynchronous or synchronous with CPU Clock, when is disable spectrum in cellmenu?

I have K8N NEO4 Platinum, AMD FX55, 2X512 Crucial Ballistix PC4200, PowerColor X850XT VIVO, 3X74 HD WD Raptor.
The question is: Pcie clock is asynchronous or synchronous with CPU Clock, when is disable spectrum in cellmenu?

Best Drivers for new K8N Neo4 Platinum Ultra 7125-010

Looking for just a little clarification on which drivers to load for this board. It is on the way with my CPU and should be here tomorrow. In reading through some of the posts, it seems to be a good idea to load the most recent drivers right from the start and not even use the CD that comes with the MSI board. Below is a list of the Drivers which I "think" are needed.
Graphics Video Driver; 78.01
Nforce AMD Driver; 6.66
Audio Driver; 4.62
In doing some further reading, it seems I may need the following also but am not sure??
Windows XP Unified Driver; 5.10
Which includes the following:
Audio; 4.42
Audio Utilities: 4.44
Ethernet; 4.42
Gart; 4.36
Memory Controller; 3.38
SMBus; 4.04
Installer;4.46
IDE NVIDIA; 4.46
My plan is to setup the build with 1 WD 37.6 Sata drive as the boot drive and only the drive to start with. As for my Internet connection, I am going to use my USB Gigafast Wireless to connect to my D-Link DL-524 wireless router. I am going to Disable all of the onboard LAN features. Part of my confusion at this time is, do I need all of the Windows XP Unified Driver package??? Thanks in advance for any help in clearing up my confusion. Also, is there a specific order in which these should be installed??
Regards; Pop's

No problem Pop,besides,I'm 42 now and still love to build on my computer
As for the link,you need the "AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (exe) 1.2.2.2"
or the one just above it "AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor Driver for Windows XP x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions Version (exe) 1.2.2.1"
It will uninstall the current driver that was installed with the mainboard driver cd,and should install the newer afterwards,you can check in hardware device manager if the driver version is the newer for cpu after reboot.
Haha,yes,I had the same feelings before I build this system,reading all msi forums regarding mainboards.
And all I read was problems after problems.But I have another system based on the KT3ultra,which I build 3 years ago,and I'm still pleased with this system so I decided to stay with MSI for now.Also I noticed the problems were/are the same on the Asus platform,seems common on nforce4 mainboards.
As for building,just take your time,I had a slight incident with placing the heatsink+fan on the cpu socket,apparently in the corners of the cpu bracket is a small ledge(Énglish is not my nature language so don't know if I use the correct word) ,I couldn't get the retention lever in place,needed a lot of pressure and I became scared of damaging things.
So I waited a few seconds and tried again,suddenly with a loud click,the retention lever fell in place,the heatsink was hindered by this ledge in one of the corners from the bracket.So you have to place the heatsink correct and don't overuse the pressure you need for the retention lever.Slowly increase it,and all will go well.
Also I noticed the pcie graphics card fell right over the retention clip that holds it in place right besides the northbridge fan(well,actually on the left side from the fan),so installed once,it's very hard to get your finger behind to replace the card for example,or to clean it out from dust.But I used a small tool to get behind and press the clip for card removal(a bended metal tool,so I need to be carefull using this)
As for sata drives,I started with an ide to be on the safe side,but I do know you need the driver floppy disks for using the sata drive.
Can't help you any further with that for now,when I buy sata2 drives no doubt I also will need to check if I need a bios update etc.But that's with a smooth system already running,so I can take my time and redo any steps I made if things fail.
That's why you need to do the correct order of installing software,it's much easier then to fix problems that may arise.
Well,goodluck and don't be afraid,just take your time.

Share ShutDown hang solution on K8N Neo4 Platinum Ultra

From BIOS 1.0 to 1.64, my Neo4 CPU load to ~70% with System Idle is always 99% after some times. When shutdown, it always hang at the last shut down screen "... shut down...". I have two Hitachi 160GB SATA HDD connected to the Nvidia port (non-RAID mode), under drive C and D.
Lately, I found that the drive D is not responsive under such scenario. After reading the troubleshooting guide http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php, I try to disable the "Turn off hard disks" in the "Power Option properties" menu. Amazingly it solves the problem!
I do not know the reasons behide but I hope the real solution can be come out soon, whether it is the Nvidia driver problem or is a BIOS issue.

brianwtl,
I am running the Neo4 Plat/SLI and the solution to the hang on shutdown was in the BIOS in this thread:
New Award 219 beta bug bios needs testing
So there should also be a BIOS solution for the problem.
Take Care,
Richard

Looking For A K8N Neo4 Platinum Ultra Board

I have had my 2nd MSI board fail and it is now out of warranty, GRR. Looking for a compatible MSI board but am not having much luck other than Ebay and I am not sure if I want to go that route. My cpu is the AMD Athlon64 4000 and I have 2 matched OCZ memory sticks which are the 400/3200 I think. Does anyone have a good suggestion for a board that would be compatible with this hardware?? Thanks much.
Pop's

BOSSKILLER; Thanks for the come back. Yes, I am finding that out but still searching. I have found a couple new ones but they are overpriced. One is $146 and another is $124 plus shipping. Don't know for sure if it is worth all that at this point yet? I may just part out the machine before it is over, going to keep looking for a couple days yet though. This was the main ladies machine and she got frustrated and bought a huge 22 inch HP TouchSmart with Vista on it of course. That new OS does not show me much yet, slow and glitzy though.
Pop's

New Build Update K8N Neo4 Platinum Ultra 7125-010

I will report on the positive results of my build first. All installs went very smooth, no problems except for a bad floppy drive from the start which I did replace. I have 1 Sata hard drive on Sata controller #1. Installed XP Pro/SP2 Slipstreamed without doing the F-6 thing and had no problem with the Sata drive booting after install. I have a DVD/RW on IDE 1 as Master and a CD-Rom on IDE 2 as Master. The board is functioning very well for 5 days now. My only disapointment with this board, is the onboard sound. This is supposed to be better than my old K7N2 Delta L onboard sound. I am here to say, it is the very worst sound system I have ever heard. While getting the new build setup, I had a pair of $4.00 speakers hooked up and thought it was acceptable. When I hooked the build up to the rest of my hardware, which has a pair Altec Lansing speakers that sounded great with my old K7N2 Delta L, I was very shocked. Sounds like crap. Not much volume or other settings can make it sound worth a darn. Just can not figure out how the el-cheapo speakers sounded better than a pair of quality speakers. I have fooled with settings until the lady of the house is ready to pull my plug. Other than the sound issue, I do have to say this is one incredible machine. Guess if I really want quality sound or even something close, I will have to install a sound card.
Regards; Pops'
EDIT: Open mouth and insert foot. I was not about to quite give up on getting some decent sound from this system. Opened the Nvidia Mixer Application again and started fooling with selections. On the first screen, I had choosen the " 2 Speakers Mode ". Well, I started playing with the selections there and selected " 7.1 Speakers " and that made all the difference in the world. Now it is very acceptable. I am not real picky, but just could not figure out what happened when I moved the build to my office which had the Altec Lansing speakers and it sounded like crap without changing any settings??? Long story short, I guess it pays much reward to keep picking away at the settings.
Now I can go to bed and not have that grinding on my feeble mind.
Regard's again; Pop's the pooped.

Yep,the 2T setting is much slower compared to 1T.
What I did was this,I set the top row at auto,so that covers all the cas latencies.
Somewhere below is a second option on auto,I set this at manual.and changed nothing but the 2T to 1T.
One thing to note though,when I build my system I had some nvraid complaints when booting,still after disabling them all.
It needed a cmos reset to work properly.
Also I noticed in memory section from bios two settings in the bottom row.
read preamble value
max Async latency
They were both on 6ns. Setting them on 5ns makes things a little faster but also made my windows show some error messages just out of the blue.So I kept them on 6.
Now after a bios flash without resetting the cmos they were both set at higher numbers,thus more stability at a cost of some speed.
Again I had the nvraid complaints,so I needed to reset cmos (which is commonly recommended,even by MSI) and noticed the 2 memory settings are back at 6ns.
This led me to believe the board picks this up automatically after a clear cmos.
So no need for you to change any setting in bios except for the 1T option.
You will understand what I mean when you visit this bios memory page.
On a side note,I run at stock speeds also,except for the cell menu,I use agressive timings as enabled,speeds up your ram a bit also.
Ofcourse you have to try if it works on your system since you got different memory compared to mine.
Goodluck...

K8N NEO4 Platinum Ultra 4 Green Lights NO BOOT ??

I have a rig that is less than a year old. This morning when tunring on with the power button, all that happens is I get 4 green lights on the D-Bracket. No post screen or video. All fans are running and power supply seems fine. Re-seated the video card and memory modules plus did a bios reset with the little red button. Still no go. Does anyone have some advice on where to start?? Hard drive light does not come on at all. I also checked all connections to the hard drive and motherboard from the psu, all seem OK.
Thanks; Pop's

Bas; I put the MB on the antistatic bag it came in when removing it. I then use a piece of clean cardboard to do the testing on. Was not aware of the bag being conductive though and thanks for that information.
qyx; The power cord was pulled and I always press the power button on the case 3 times to help discharge the PSU and then give it a couple minutes before taking off the side panel and doing a reset of cmos. I closely looked at the MB mounting studs and panel for any possible shorted areas. It all looked very good. What stumps me is this machine has not had one single falter since I built it in Sept. of 06. Just would not start up on Sun. morning. My one possible thought is this, the little woman just purchased us some cozy slippers that are all leather, soles and all. They are fleece lined. They are horrible for collecting static. This is her machine and it is almost identical to my build except for the CPU which is a 3700+ and the video card is one down from mine which is the 6600 lite. It is possible she gave off an ESD to the power button when shutting it down or starting it up. Don't know for sure and I am not going to go there at this time. Just easier to fix the machine and warn of the slippers used near the computers.
Regards; Pop's

MicroStar K8N Neo4 Platinum 54G - nForce4 Ultra Avilability in CZ

Hi all,
does anybody know when M/B MicroStar K8N Neo4 Platinum 54G - nForce4 Ultra will be avilable in Czech Republic (Europe)??? I'm waiting two months for it...

Not really (maybe AC97 Controller = Auto was the closest). But, I tried now to switch the LAN cable to the upper RJ-45 slot instead of the lower one, and it seem to have stopped the power on peculiarity. Now only if I could pinpoint what's the broken component that causes the boot screen freeze and what causes the 35-45s idle time at the Win-logo loading screen.
The freaky boot screen freeze happens something like this:
1. the mother board model number is shown
2. the CPU information is shown (or sometimes this is skipped and not shown)
3. here it may or may not freeze and usually it produces this terrible out of sync mess (and monitor has to be switched off to get it back to normal)
I don't see any connection to overheating, I never touched any overclocking settings (or any other settings for that matter, it's a 2-day old installation).

K8N Neo4 Platinum Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra

ok i just got a new mb and processor and psu .
amd 64 3500+
psu = 520w 12v-36a
mb = K8N Neo4 Platinum Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra
all i did was excgange this mb and psu and cpu with my old ones. and i installed everything fine but when i turn on the comp i get no display like i have no video card....ive dbl checked everythhing and put in 2 otehr video cards and still no display...im not shure if i need 2 uninstall my old bios? if thats possable i have no clue or uninstall anything b4 i made this switch can you please help me out thanks alot.

k did that .. ok this thing is getting 2 me lol it gives me prossesor error 4 red lights then i turn off does sdame thing mess around with it turn power supply off completely for more than 10 sec then back on and it boots up giving me yet anothyer error like 1 and 4 yellow 2 and 3 red or other way around and i turn it off turn it back ona nd leds are still teh same arnt they supposed 2 reset? then i turn off my psu for more than 10 sec back on and its reset...i dunno what this means is it the battery on the mobo? prolly not i have no clue @ this point and ive tried diff keyboards.

Audigy2 + MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra prob

Hi I have an audigy2 from my old pc and installed it on my new system the motherboard is a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra after I installed it I began getting 'Machine_check_exception' blue screen of death, I used the creative auto update to update to the latest drivers, now the pc makes a hissing sound and reboots it's self.
Any help would be apprecieated.

hi
i am getting th same thing with my gigabyte nforce 4 board
ga8nxp-sli
could this be an nforce 4 related issue?
i found through a process of elimination that the conflict apears to be with windows audio service
i turn it off and all the problems just go away but i still get no sound (not much help there i am afraid)
regards
andy

Nforce 4 ultra k8n neo4 platinum need info

hi people. i need some help
im about to purchase a new mobo with nforce 4 ultra and i like msi k8n neo4 platinum (nforce 4 ultra + dual lan gigabit, 8 sata ports (4 nvidia) etc. i didn't whant sli by now so...
1° do you recommend this mobo?
2° i see lots of bios upgrade in the support page of this mobo, if there something i didn't like is to flash a bios several times, so i must upgrade bios at once with the latest or i must do it one by one?
3° am2 or 939?
4° there some bios or something upgrade to support raid 5?
5° y want to build this:
amd athlon 64 3000+
nforce 4 ultra msi k8n neo 4
1 gb ddr memory (kingston
msi nx7900gt256e or msi nx7600gt256e (depending of my pocket)
did you like it
ok
im actually have
duron 1600 applebred
768mb ddr 400 pc3200 memory
mobo nforce 2 ultra 400 msik7n2delta ilsr
msi geforce fx5700vtd128
thanks guys you are allways helpfull
bye

ivangelion, I have this board and it's a good choice.
So to answer your questions:
1. yes
2. No you can upgrade to newest right away [ver1.D]
3. 939. Most people/ forums are saying to wait awhile on the AM2
4. The Silicone Image RAID supports RAID 5 as it is now on this board.
5. That's a good starting point and you can amp it up from there as $$$ permits.
Good Luck and let us know if you need help along the way.

K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra and 4 GB SDRAM DDR 400 Problem

I have the K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra and 4 1GB sticks of Corsair ValueSelect DDR 400 (PC 3200), model VS1GB400C3, filling all four slots. The BIOS recognizes about 2.88 GB of total memory. The MSI manual states:
Quote
Due to the South Bridge resource deployment, the system density
will only be detected up to 3+GB (not full 4GB) when each
DIMM is installed with an 1GB memory module.
I'm not sure what this means. Does it mean that I'm "wasting" my SDRAM, that not all of it is used, or does it mean that all of it will be used and the BIOS just reports a smaller number?

Hi.
You seems not familiar with X86....
As you should know, Windows XP and most OS are 32 bits. That mean that every memory pointer is 32 bits, thus allowing to address 4Gb of memory.
BUT
In most OS, there is a difference between the kernel and the user. So, in most OS, the memory is divided in two 2Gb block (no matter how many Gb of Ram you really have!). The first one is for the OS, the 2nd for the user program.
So, If you have for example 3Gb of ram, in the best case, you have 1gb for system and 2Gb for user program.
To allow more Ram to fonction, PAE (Physical Address Extension) was made. Instead of 32, you got 36 bits for you pointers.
But as X86-32 CPUs can't handle more than 32 bits, a reserved area was made within 4Gb to allow Memory to be copied from the area the program want to read.
Exemple:
You got a server with 8Gb of ram. In windows, you only see 3.5+512Mb PAE.
If a program need to address memory in the 7-7.5 Range for example, the chipset copy the data from the 7-7.5 range to the 3.5-4 range in order to allow the CPU to get access: that's VERY slow.
So, in short: You can't have and don't need 4Gb of ram on 32bits OS.
(And there's even more place occupied by every card (AGP, PCI, PCI-e)....)
That's why XP64 is so interresting for programmers who needs lots of ram (Database....). When used with a chipset who know how to deal with lots of ram (I don't know if NForce4 can do it but I doubt it), you can load in memory a 4Gb Database.
But In all case, the bios should say 3.5Gb, not 2 and so on. You must have a problem with one of your stick. My guess is that they are all double sided and that you should slow down the memory to 333MHz.
(Or better: Send back 2x1Gb stick and get 2x512 SINGLE SIDED stick, unless you REALLY NEED 1.5Gb for your system !)

K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI

I am confused with regard to what is actually included with the K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI board in the US. Unfortunately, MSI isn't very clear with their information.
Does this board include the following, or are they optional, & if optional how can I get them:
IEEE 1394 (Firewire) ports (1 external, 2 internal)
SPDIF Out
D-Bracket 2
SATA 5-6 ports
Anybody actually have this board installed & running yet, & would you buy this board if you were starting all over again? Were your experiences with this board good or bad? Any gotchas?
Thanks

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Unfortunatly, the MSI-websites (american, european, taiwanese) all have slightly different specs listed, but none exactly covered what my package included.
I've read numerous posts about MSI motherboards & video cards not meeting the manufacturer's claimed specifications. This deeply troubles me, & makes me wonder if I should buy MSI products at all.
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f you buy 2 6600GT's now, you're stuck on the performance of about a single 6800GT, less in some cases.
If you buy a 6800GT now, you get the same bang, but have the option to add anotherone later to up your rig!
Exactly my point! I just can't see paying extra money on a high-end, bleeding-edge SLI motherboard, then populating it with 2 mid-level graphics cards. I suppose that seems logical to some people, but not me. I've also read in the reviews that the attachment of the heatsink/fan on the 6600GT is not physically secure, & many of the heatsinks aren't properly attached to, or making full contact with, the GPU on retail versions of the cards!
Of course, SLI is still very much a technology that has yet to prove its promise. Very few games support it, & teething pains abound. We're still in the verion 1.0 of SLI motherboards, which is kind of scary, & all of the current crop of SLI motherboards seem to have their "issues." nVIDIA is lagging behind in releasing updated video card drivers. Maybe SLI isn't quite "ready for primetime" yet.
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An Ultra would be a waste of money. The difference is not worth the extra dough for it, and a brand GT can
be clocked to Ultra-levels as well.
Some people would not want to spend the extra $ on an Ultra, but others might feel that it is well worth the cost. Sure, you can overclock a GT to gain a bit of extra performance, but what levels of performance can you gain by overclocking the Ultra? I don't know the answer to this. I still have a lot of research to conduct concerning the nVIDIA 6800GT & Ultras, & the "real world" viability of SLI.

K8N NEO4 Platinum Ultra - Over clocking guidance required.

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