Possible buyer of an X58 Pro-E Motherboard.

Hey all, first off I want to apologize if this question has been answered before, and if it has, I'd appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction.
About a month ago, my motherboard started doing some very weird crap, like cutting power to the USB and all that. Long story short, it died within a week. Needless to say, I want a replacement for it. I have been eying the MSI X58 Pro-E motherboard, since it seems to be the best bang-for-buck board out there. I'd like to do a 3-way SLI setup on the board if possible, but after looking at the newegg sheet it doesn't come with the 3-way SLI Bridge. How can I get one? Do I just email support and buy one from them?

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I'd like to do a 3-way SLI setup on the board if possible, but after looking at the newegg sheet it doesn't come with the 3-way SLI Bridge. How can I get one? Do I just email support and buy one from them?
A computer shop in your local area may have a bridge. Sometimes they will just give them away as a customer service, or charge very little for them.

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X58-PRO-E, RAM is not recognized

I am assembling an X-58 PRO-E, I7-920, RAM Kingston 3x KHX1600C8D3K2/4GX, (6 chips), Diamond 5770, ps Antec Quattro 1000, case Antec 900, 3 x Hitachi 1TB SATA in RAID 5
On boot up it shows only 4GB, should show 12GB, WIN 7 x64 shows 4GB, MSI Overclock tools shows all 6 chips and 12GB, BIOS @ 870 in bios it shows 4GB, in MemoryZ it shows 12GB and all 6 chips, they all look identical.
Swapping the RAM to all different slots does not change the results
Booting with any combination of 3 chips shows 2GB of RAM installed
Is this:
A compatibility issues with the RAM ?
B defective mobo ?
C some other issue ?
Thanks,

Default memory speed is 1066. With BIOS version A7522IMS.870. the motherboard will post with the memory at 1333 & 1600.
You may be on the right track, the memory may not be compatible, although it does seem that the packages of 1, 2, or 3 chips all contain the same chips just a differnet quantity.
Kingston does not list 1600 speed chips as compatible
Kingston lists the following memory as compatible:
http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator_new/modelsinfo.asp?SysID=57358&mfr=MSI&model=X58+Pro&search_type=&root=us&LinkBack=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kingston.com&Sys=57358-MSI-X58+Pro-E+Motherboard&distributor=0&submit1=Search
Memory upgrades:
KVR1066D3N7/1G 1GB 1066MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL7 DIMM
KVR1066D3N7/2G 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL7 DIMM
KVR1066D3N7/4G 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL7 DIMM
KVR1066D3N7K2/2G 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL7 DIMM (Kit of 2)
KVR1066D3N7K2/4G 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL7 DIMM (Kit of 2)
KVR1066D3N7K2/8G 8GB 1066MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL7 DIMM (Kit of 2)
KVR1066D3N7K3/3G 3GB 1066MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL7 DIMM (Kit of 3)
KVR1066D3N7K3/6G 6GB 1066MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL7 DIMM (Kit of 3)
KVR1066D3N7K3/12G 12GB 1066MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL7 DIMM (Kit of 3)
KVR1333D3N9/1G 1GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM
KVR1333D3N9/2G 2GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM
KVR1333D3N9/4G 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM
KVR1333D3N9K2/2G 2GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM (Kit of 2)
KVR1333D3N9K2/4G 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM (Kit of 2)
KVR1333D3N9K2/8G 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM (Kit of 2)
KVR1333D3N9K3/3G 3GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM (Kit of 3)
KVR1333D3N9K3/6G 6GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM (Kit of 3)
KVR1333D3N9K3/12G 12GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM (Kit of 3)

X58 Pro motherboard will not display video

Just put together a computer and the video wont work. Here's the part list:
Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601920
MSI X58 Pro LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
Western Digital Caviar RE WD2500YD 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
mushkin 3GB (3 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model
MSI R4350-D512Hv2 Radeon HD 4350 512MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card - Retail
Everything is plugged in correctly and there are no error beeps. The video worked for a minute but it hasn't worked since, we tried using a different video card with no success.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Quote from: JeffT on 14-March-09, 10:26:47
Just put together a computer and the video wont work. Here's the part list:
Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601920
MSI X58 Pro LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
Western Digital Caviar RE WD2500YD 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
mushkin 3GB (3 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model
MSI R4350-D512Hv2 Radeon HD 4350 512MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card - Retail
Everything is plugged in correctly and there are no error beeps. The video worked for a minute but it hasn't worked since, we tried using a different video card with no success.
Any ideas?
Thanks
I had a similar problem, but I powered down and pressed the CMOS clear button and have been fine ever since.

What type RAM chips for my motherboard MSI X58 Pro-E

Hello,
I have a motherboard MSI X58 Pro-E Processor I7 960, I would like to buy 16 GB of memory, I just do not understand anything type of memory.
Can you tell me what kind of memory is compatible with my motherboard
I need some Extremely fast memory
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/X58-Pro-E.html#?div=Manual
Excuse me if I speak wrong, because I'm French.
Thank you in advance, cordially.

The memory controller is inside the processor and natively suppoert DDR3-800 and DDR3-1066 memory modules (non(!)-ECC). Anything faster than DDR3-1066 may work but there is a chance that you will be running into stability problems, especially with four modules installed.

X58 Pro and i7 920's 21X multiplier lock

Hi, I've read that many motherboards are capable of locking the 920's 21x turbo multiplier so it can be used for overclocking. So far I have been unsuccessful doing so with the X58 Pro. With EIST disabled, I manually selected the 21X multiplier in the bios. Unfortunately Windows still drops the multiplier down to 20x under full load. Is there some bios setting I'm missing or is this board simply not able to lock the turbo multipliers?

Perfectly normal , 920 has multiplier of 20 , under full load that is the max you will get on every board of any brand.
If you use HWmonitor http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php than you will see that your processor voltage with multiplier 21 max 150W is and if you stress cpu 100% it will drop to 130W that is the max TDP of the cpu. This is the meaning of turbo mode, if your cpu has power left (when you play game or other software because 100% load does not often happen) then the cpu uses this power to overclock one or two cores with one multiplier (21).
Msi made it possible to use turbo without EIST what is not seen often on motherboards because normally you need to use EIST witch is a power feature to use turbo.
If you google overclocking on core i7 you will see that many oc'ers disable this turbo mode because the don't want to use EIST.
I use EIST and turbo and my cpu is overclocked to 4083Mhz and under full load it falls back to 3926Mhz but in games it stays 4130Mhz if needed , but with EIST enabled my cpu falls back to 50% so 2130Mhz when surfing the internet or watching movie even in some games like cal of duty 5 my cpu fall's back to 2130Mhz because the game is not heavy on the cpu and i get constant frame rate off 90 FPS on 1920x1200 all max out.
With crysis the cpu goes to 4130Mhz , so this game uses the cpu more.(not for 100% because then it will fall back to 3926Mhz like when i encode movies to h.264)
I use EIST so my energy consumption is not so high when i don't play games.
But when i need the power turbo will kick in.

X58 Pro will not power on

CPU: Intel Core i7 920
Motherboard: MSI X58 Pro LGA 1366
Memory: OCZ 6 GB (3 x 2 GB) 240-pin DDR3 13333 (PC3 10666) SDRAM
Video Card: nVidia 9800 GTX+ 512 MB
PSU: Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL-S 600W
I just received all my parts today and I set everything up. I'm fairly certain that I put every power cord in the right spot. I have the CPU, heatsink and fan, three RAM modules, video card, two SATA hard drives, one SATA DVD drive, and the PSU hooked up. The LED power light on the motherboard lights up, but when i press it, nothing happens. When I press the on button on my case, nothing happens either. The fans don't start, it doesn't post - it seems completely dead.
Does this seem more like a motherboard problem, or a power supply problem? Maybe one of them was dead on arrival? Thanks in advance for you help!

Tried what you suggested - nothing.
Minus the lone green LED light on the power button on the board itself, there really is no other indication that there is any electricity. Yes, there is a power button on my power supply, and it's turned on. I can tell when the power's on, because when i have it unplugged, the LED light goes off. It's just weird that electricity is getting to the light, but no other part of the motherboard...
If i did connect something wrong, which is possible, do you have any suggestions of what it might be? My power supply has a 20 + 4 pin cable, and i connected the 4-pin on pins 12-24 (closer to the top of the motherboard) and the 20-pin closer to the SATA connectors. That's what the directions said to do. Other than that, I connected two 4-pin cables right to the left of the CPU, in order to power the CPU. Those are the only power cables that connect directly from the PSU to the motherboard.

Stability Issues With X58 Pro

# CPU: Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz
# Motherboard: MSI X58 Pro LGA 1366 Intel X58
# Memory: CORSAIR XMS3 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
# Video Card: SAPPHIRE 100270SR Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB
# Power Supply: Thermaltake Purepower 800watt
# Sound Card: X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro Series
Hello. Starting about 1 month ago I've been experiencing this issue. I can be just cruising the internet watching youtube video and listening to music then the computer will freeze and this loud screeching sound would come out of my headphones (and scare the crap out of me). This issue never occurred while I was playing any PC games until recently.
Yesterday I was fed up with the issue so I pulled open the case and cleaned every fan out (which I do every couple of weeks). Now the issue seems to be occurring while playing video games or listening to music. All the fans appear to be functioning properly and I don't believe it could be heat related because I have the Antec 1200 case which has 6 case fans. I've run PC Wizard 2009 and SystemFAN while playing some games and none of the temperatures I saw look too extreme.
So I'm suspecting it could be the RAM, soundcard, PSU, or motherboard but could use some more assistance before I start RMAing it.

Quote from: Blaise on 29-September-09, 04:08:16
I'd be inclined to blame the Creative drivers for your sound card first. Try updating (or if necessary, downgrade) the drivers and see if it makes any difference.
I actually pulled out the sound card an hour or so ago and removed the drivers. I'm running on onboard audio and the system just randomly restarted while I was talking to people on Ventrilo.

MSI x58 ProE and Corsair 12GB (3x4GB) RAM Issues

Greetings!
New poster here with a question that I cannot seem to find an answer to anywhere. I've looked over the forums but have had no luck figuring it out. My goal is to identify the culprit and replace the appropriate parts.
I built this computer in 2009 with the intention of doing OpenCL/CUDA computing and handle all my multimedia. At the time, 6GB DDR3 RAM (3x2GB) was about all I could afford. The machine works great, but lately, attempting to do some video and image processing has been hitting limits on my available RAM. I also want to run a linux VM or two. I thought I would order the Corsair 3x4GB DDR3 kit from NewEgg and not have any problems upgrading. I didn't have any plans of running the 6 and 12 GB sets simultaneously because I thought there would be some sort of memory density/timing issues.
New RAM desired: Corsair Dominator with DHX Pro Connector and Airflow II Fan - DDR3 Memory Kit (CMP12GX3M3A1600C9)
Old RAM in system: Corsair Dominator with DHX Pro Connector - 6GB Triple Channel (CMP6GX3M3A1600C8)
Request 1: Can I mix the 6 and 12 GB sets (for a total of 18GB) if I keep the density the same across each set of slots? There are 3 black (primary) and 3 blue (secondary). I was thinking of putting the 12GB in black, and 6GB in Blue.
I placed the order, received it, and went to install it yesterday. Took the existing 6GB out and dropped the 12GB in, saw that BIOS recogized it with the right timings, and proceeded to boot Windows up. Blue-screen at the very first Windows logo. I thought "well that stinks, let's check to see if the RAM is defective through MemTest." Downloaded an ISO of 4.2, fired it up, and it hung right away. Hung in the "Address Test, Own Address" test. Big fat A note: BIOS and MemTest both recognized the full capacity of the sticks.
My next thought was "Well, one of them might be bad, let's try to find out which one." I individually put each one in the first slot on the board, ran MemTest, and showed 0 problems on any tests with each of them.
Summary thus far: Individually, each 4GB stick works perfectly. In combination, they fail. The full 3x2GB set works perfectly.
My next theory was that my board might be bad (even though the 3x2GB set in the same slots has no issues). Knowing that the first slot was good with every bit of memory I put in there, I left a 4GB stick in slot 1, and dropped a 4GB stick in slot 2. MemTest hung again. Thinking it might have been that one stick, I put the other one in there, and it hung also. So, slot 2 looks suspect. Move the sticks to 1&3, and they look fine, but that still leaves me missing 4GB of RAM.
I've followed advice and re-seated the CPU, looked for bent pins (none found), and tried manually setting the timings to the 9-9-9-24 that is printed on the sticks. No luck with any of that.
Request 2: So, my question to you is what am I missing? I feel like the board is the problem, due to the slot 2 problem with the 4GB sticks. However, my 2GB sticks don't have any problems at all in the same slots. Could the 4GB sticks require a little more power that my board might not be pushing out (the board is labeled at 1.5V, the sticks are labeled 9-9-9-24, 1.65V)? Would a bent pin be causing this that my eyes just cannot see? I read somewhere that a guy had a pin that was 0.25mm off that was causing his problems.
Or should I be looking at the memory? The 3x2GB set works fine, but the 3x4GB does not.
I'm not sure what my next step should be other than replace the RAM first, motherboard second. The RAM I just got, so I could RMA it if I knew exactly what the problem was. The motherboard is approaching 3 years old and presumably is out of warranty. I wouldn't mind replacing it, but I don't want to spend money right now if I don't have to.
I don't have a second machine to test on, although I'm trying to locate one (most of my friends don't build custom PCs). I have also tried putting the 6GB in the black slots and 12GB in the blue, but the machine doesn't work with that configuration either.
Request 3: Could someone explain how I could aim for 1066MHz on my RAM? I read that on the X58 Pro-E that this resolves most problems with random bluescreens. When I try to do this, I get lost in the numbers/options within the BIOS.
Anything else I might be missing? I'm out of ideas
Thank you all so much for the help!

Hi and welcome,
You have 2 "bottlenecks": the processor and the mainboard.
http://ark.intel.com/products/37147/Intel-Core-i7-920-Processor-8M-Cache-2_66-GHz-4_80-GTs-Intel-QPI
Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) : 24 GB
Memory Types : DDR3-800/1066
Memory Channels : 3
Max Memory Bandwidth : 25.6 GB/s
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/X58-Pro-E.html#/?div=Detail
• Supports six unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 800/1066/1333*/1600* (OC) DRAM, 24GB Max
As you can see, above 1066MHz you need to overclock both the processor and the mainboard.
I think for your config the best shot is 3 x 4GB DDR3-1333 (9-9-9-24 at 1.55-1.60V)

[VIA] K7T266 PRO- RU motherboard: Windows XP on a RAID ARRAY (fasttrak100 LITE)

Hi All!
I have a
MSI K7T266 PRO- RU motherboard, BIOS is the latest, official from MSI website,
Problem short description: Windows XP (sp1 or sp2 english, I tried both)
will not install when I set 2 x 40 Gig = ~80 Gig Stripe Array.
detailed description:
motherboard K7T266 PRO- RU BIOS 1.9 AMI BIOS.
AMD ATHLON XP 1700 + "Palomino" microprocessor, at default speeds.
one piece of 512 PC 3200 RAM, can tell details later.
Power supply: 400 W CODEGEN model : 300X.
HDD-s : one IBM deskstar, fully functional, and a SEAGATE barracuda. seagate SEATOOLS, IBM DFT 32 no errors both.
I set in the FASTTRAK 100 LITE "PDC20276R" (written on the chip) bios a STRIPE array. Powerquest drive magic , or the Windows XP CD handles it fine , as a 80 gig disk.
I downloaded ALL available versions of the FASTTAK 100 LITE driver from the MSI website.
(only tried: MSI driver FASTTRAK 100 lite, the only available driver on the MSI website, and various drivers from www.promise.com) ( http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=15&category=driver&os=0&go=GO ) (but I guess they WONT support my raid controller on the motherboard)
Windows XP CD , booting, Press F6 for additional RAID /SCSI drivers, I put in the floppy, choose WinXP fasttrak lite driver, windows continues, even formatting the 80 GIG disk, copy files- access the FASTTRAK.SYS driver, EITHER it says: no fixed disk present, press F3 to exit windows setup, or windows setup continues, copies files, reboots, and then STOP ERROR
http://www.martin555.dyndns.org/stop.jpg
please, help me with the following:
how to install XP on a raid array.
is it worth, will it be little bit faster disk load times etc?
is it secure if I trust the HDD-s?
any clue, how to overclock the AMD 1700+ athlon XP palomino to its maximum, but still stability?
AND : I read a lot about some MOD-ded BIOS called " KUNIBERT" , which makes the LITE raid to a FULL RAID and some other extras? where to get it and what to do?
email me if you can martin5 "at" freemail.hu
THANKS !

pardon me, dump? my english is not very perfect.. you mean to trow away, replace to something better, more stable power supply, more powerful?
you must see... first I would like to resolve the "installing XP on a raid array" problem,( how is it possible, is it worth, will it speed up hard disk access and load times... etc... ) and after that maybe I will OC the machine...
it is now , with a 8 cm ventillator and a large aluminium cooler 39 Celsius IDLE and goes to 45 Celsius during EVEREST benchmarking test. (temperatures on 1700+ default setting and OC-'d to 1900+. just experiencing with it. ) (I saw the toms hardware guide movie , smoking processors..)
cheers, Marton.

MSI X58 Pro - I'm having trouble setting up my first Raid 0 Array

Hey guys! I have an i7 920, X58 Pro, 3x2GB DDR3, Radeon 5850, 640GB WD Black (Windows 7 64 bit + applications) and 1TB Samsung F3 (backup) system and I'm having trouble setting up a raid 0 array. I recently decided to purchase two additional 1TB Samsung F3 harddrives in order to create a raid 0 array, while still keeping my original two harddrives separate. I installed the new harddrives today, installed the JMicron drivers that were on the drivers disk that came with my motherboard, went into the bios, and changed it from IDE to RAID. I then went into the raid bios, selected the two new harddrives and selected raid 0, saved everything and tried to load Windows and Windows refuses to boot up. I got an option to try fixing Windows but that didn't end up fixing anything. Finally, I was forced to go back into the bios and switch it from RAID back to IDE just to get Windows to boot up again. Does anyone know what I need to do in order to get this raid 0 to work? Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

Perhaps create a software RAID? You can do it in Windows through Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Disk Management.
A quick guide: http://www.softwaresecretweapons.com/jspwiki/windows-7-software-raid-disk-partition-and-volume-context-menus

X58 pro-e trying to understand a few things please help me out.

first of all hi
im trying to overclock my cpu to a nice place and in my mind its 4ghz and in my mind its like use 22X200=4ghz=happy me
now realty is when i do that and leave every thing on auto the MB puts too much volts on the V.core like 1.4+ and thats bad for me i do have a good cooler thermaltake frio 220w
so i tried lowering Blck and stuff and i googled stuff and ended up with a good 21X175 with 0 on the V.core only to download a program named cpu-tweaker and nehalemcalc so bare with me the question is coming so i setup the nehalemcalc to 225X21 qpi multi X18 Uncore multi X12 mem multi X6
only to get a warning saying (instability may occur when QPI clock is greater than 4000MHz) and it got me wondering how much did i set my Multi`s so i went and checked but i did not find them in the cell menu so i opened the cop-twaeker to look some stuff up and i found
21X175=good i put that there
7x7x7x19=ram timing good too i put them my self
Uncore X16= bad read under
QPI X18= good after i read in 4.8 mode its set to X18
RAM X3 = i guess its good i put it there too
so i opened up the nehalemcalc 1.3 and used these numbers i found only to read some thing i did not find in cell menu mem multi witch was 6 as minimal
number in the program so whats wrong here how come its giving me deferent numbers in the 2 programs and in cpu-z its showing FSB:Dram 2:6
so where do i find adjust that ratio found in the cpu-z or the uncore multi for that matter !
sorry i know its crazy but i really think thats why i cant go pass the 4Ghz dream BTW i need to add Volts to the cpu as from 3.8 :( so it just might help
out to know every thing to know about this motherboard
my system specc`s are :
core i7 920 d0
X58 pro-e
gtx260
1TBx2 wd
2x3 transcend jetram 1333
thremaltake frio
custom cooler for the IOH(cheap fan on the heatsink :P )

Quote from: HU16E on 10-March-11, 08:41:31
Everything should be fine as long as the recommended max. voltages aren't exceeded. Lots of trial & error involved, within safe limits of course.
Added:I hope that 4.00 is the CPU speed & not the volts applied.
stop loling @ me come please i have a dead time on the rams if i dont like them i can return them
so it is the cpu speed the 4k yes so pleaseeeeeee tell me what kind of volts i should use with this setup lets say 3.8ghz and i know every cpu has its own vlots and all but i need like a refrance that i can work on lets say 3.8ghz needs 1.2v on the v,core 1.5v on ram 1.2 on qpi and so on .. so for 4ghz i need 1.3v,ram1.5,qpi...... some thing easy like that and if it works i will for you sir

X58 Pro a Lemon? IOH cooling insufficient.

Is the X58 Pro motherboard a Lemon? The x58 cooling solution on the board is inadequate by far. Very soon, MSI will introduce a replacement board called the X58 Pro-E which has a different heat sync on the Dr. MOS and X58 chipset. They will no doubt ignore all of us with the Lemon. Which is totally unacceptable and enough to make me not want buy any MSI products ever in the future!
The only solution to cooling your IOH on the X58 Pro is to replace the useless MSI heat sync or run a small fast fan on to them.
Here are the possibilities;
1) with stock cooler IOH is 72C at idle
2) Running a 40mm 4000RPM fan ($12.00) directly onto the chips set from above the chipset, the IOH drops to 55C.
3) Replacing the sock solution with 2 Thermalright HR-05-IFX (23.00 each) the IOH drops to 38C*
*note: In my Antec Sonata case the HR-05-IFX are directly in the path of the 120mm fan exhaust that is mounted to the hard drive cage. This fan, draws air through the bottom of the case, over the hard drives and out over the motherboard. This is a Noctuna 120M fan that is running at 900 RMP (Ultra Quiet Mode). This fan blows directly onto the HR-05-IFX and helps dissipate the heat build up on the fins of the HR-05-IFX. With this fan turned off, the IOH temp starts out at 39C but quickly climbs into the 45C range with heavy use.
Using the 3rd solution, I can go up to a 190 MHz base CPU clock rate which makes the 2.6GHz i970 a 3.8Ghz CPU. The max I can go with memory is 1500MHz using OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) rated at 1600 (OCZ3G1600LV6GK). Anything above that the board is not stable. At a base clock of 210 MHz, the board hangs-up in boot. It goes through the BIOS POS T and the screen says "WAIT..." and nothing happens.
I'm using BIOS 7.3. see https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=126768.0
by the way, be careful when you remove the stock IOH cooler. Mine was pretty much stuck to the board. I had to yank it off with a set of pliers. Upon taking it off, part of the problem was clearly apparent. There was enough silicon grease (or should I say hardened cement) to drown an elephant. The grease must be the cheapest kind you can find because it had caked up into a thick layer of plastic and I had to scrape off heavy scabs. I wish I had taken a picture.
Once you do this upgrade, all of us should send the $50 bill to MSI. They should give all of us MSI X58 Pro uses a $50 rebate for selling us a Lemon.

So far, not any X58 Pro boards have burned up an X58 (IOH) that I've read about. 72c is well below the 100c limit, so those that choose not to redo the heatsinks need not panic as long as sustained full loads are below 100c.
Out of the 3 X58 Pros I've helped build, no 'Lemons' noted among them. Just started build #4. I would say your 3.8 on the CPU & 1500 on the mem. is pretty decent. The CPU only natively supports 800/1066 memory, so what's the complaint? 1333 & 1600 are 'OC' speeds. Your mem. sticks may be rated 1600, but doubt they are chipped more than 1333.
What was your specific system issue that required a bios update?
Is the X58 Pro-E a 'replacement' board as you call it, or a new introduction board to the line-up? Have you been ignored so far over your 'self proclaimed' lemon?

Quick Short Test & Review of X58 PRO-E

Here is an upgrade version to the entry level X58PRO motherboard that MSI has to offer before. Model name is “X58PRO-E” and this was introduced to solve the High IOH Temp that other users encountered before with the X58 Pro. The chipset & VRM heatsinks are now screwed on the board thus making a good contact for better & fast heat dissipation. Don’t get worried also for the price because this would be still around 10k PHP and if paired with a good i7 920 processor (priced around 13-14k PHP) you will own a system which would be great for video editing, graphics processing & gaming as well (SLI or Crossfire can be done on this motherboard ^^ ). On the other hand, if you are an overclocker like me. It is very easy for the board to overclock the i7 920 to 4ghz at a minimal voltage increase and few bios tweaking.
So here is a shot of the box and its contents
•Four Sata Cables
•One IDE Cable
•Two Molex to SATA power Adapters
•1x Cross Fire Bridge
•Front Panel header labels
•Driver & Extras CD
•User manuals & Backplate
Features
•Support for Core i7 LGA1366 CPUs at 4.8-6.4GT/s QPI
•Intel X58 northbridge and ICH10R southbridge
•Six 1.5V DDR3 DIMM slots supporting up to 24GB of memory
•One Realtek RTL8111C Gigabit Ethernet controllers
•Three PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots (x16/x16/x4)
•Two PCI-EXpress x1 slots
•Two PCI slots
•Seven SATA II ports - six from Intel ICH10R (supporting Intel Matrix RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 and JBOD), one from JMicron JMB363
•One IDE port supporting one device from JMicron JMB363
•One eSATA port from JMicron JMB363
•Ten USB 2.0 ports - six on rear I/O, four via pin-outs
•JMicron JMB381 IEEE1394a Firewire supporting two ports - one via pin-out, one on the rear I/O
•Realtek ALC888S 7.1 Channel High-Definition audio codec
Layout & I/O Ports
Black heatsink screw design. Three well placed PCIE (x16/x16/x4) slots which won’t give any users a problem installing three dual-slot video cards. You will also find below the Easy OC Switch sticker are the Easy Power/Reset/ Clear Cmos Buttons & beside them is the OC Switch.
On the rear you will find 6 USB Ports, Firewire port, E-SATA, SPDIF Out , PS2 for KB & Mouse, Gigabit LAN & lastly 7.1 audio ports.
BIOS
I only took pictures of the Cell Menu because this is the most important part of the bios especially in overclocking. This is where you will tweak your system.
CPU Specifications
Memory Specifications
More Memory Options for Tweaking
Voltages
This is where you can save all your overclock or tweak settings
Test Setup
•Intel Core i7 920 C0
•G Skill Trident 2000 CAS9 1.65V
•MSI 4770
•FSP 800 watts PSU
•Seagate 500GB SATA
•Windows Vista Ultimate 64BIT SP2
Below are quick short tests on how good the board can handle high memory clock speeds even though in the manual it only says there that the highest OC for the memory speed is up to 1600mhz only for the motherboard.
G Skil lTridents 1600 6-7-6-18 TRFC60 1.58V
G Skill Tridents 1866 7-8-7-20 TRFC65 1.60V
G Skill Tridents 2000 8-9-8-20 TRFC80 1.65V
Tridents 2100 9-9-9-24 TRFC88 1.72V
I was able to get a good bclock 222 also with the i7 920 C0 I have. I guess if I used a D0 stepping instead , I can push the bclock higher.
Final Thoughts & Conclusion
I was very impressed on the capabilities of this entry level X58 motherboard can do. A few tweaks on the cell menu I was able to get high memory clocks and all were stable. You would also notice on one of my shots running the memory @ 2100mhz, my uncore ratio turned to a high of 4200mhz speed. All of these were done all on air.
Pros :
- Cheap Entry level X58 Board
- Easy to overclock
- Support SLI and Crossfire
- No issue on Bigger aftermarket CPU cooler
- 90 degrees placement of SATA & IDE ports
Cons :
- No SLI Bridge included in the Box

Quote from: Dankirk2 on 03-August-09, 12:04:05
I wish mine were that low... I just built a machine with the X58 Pro-E, all stock, no overclock. Mine idled at around 80c. I removed the heatsinks, scraped off the pink gummy stuff they used, put on new thermal paste, and reattached using two red fiber washers at each screw to increase the heatsink pressure on the chips. It now idles at around 66c. It is much better, but still not near the 50c that you're seeing. I wonder why? My case is an Antec Nine Hundred Two, with great airflow. I also moved my video card down a slot so the cips weren't covered.
Can someone else using the X58Pro-E board post their IOH temps as I want to change out my X58 Pro board before summer arrives.
I am not prepared to attempt to remove the heat sink and if other people are still getting 80c IOH temps, which is what I am getting and it is winter here at the moment, then it will be a waste of time me paying to have my board replaced.

Stalled at 3.95ghz w/ X58 Pro

Hey Guys,
I have a X58 Pro motherboard that's currently clocked at 3.95ghz. I'm real happy with the performance so far, compared to my GA-EX58-UD3R, but I'd like to push it a little farther. As the heading states, I'm stalled at 3.95ghz. If someone out there has a X58 Pro or knowledge of the BIOS settings, maybe you could help me push this beast to 4ghz. I'm running the following settings:
Core Freq 3.95ghz
DRAM Freq 1248mhz
QPI Freq 4.800ghz
Bclk 208
CPU Ratio 19
QPI Config Hi-Speed Mode
4.800GT
Memory Ratio 3
Adjusted DRAM Freq. 1248mhz
Uncore Ratio 6
Adjusted Uncore Freq 2496mhz
CPU Voltage +.170
Vcore 1.416v
CPU PLL Auto
QPI Voltage 1.360v
DRAM Voltage 1.55v
Spread Spectrum Disabled
Everything else is on Auto or Default, all Intel speed-limit stuff is disabled, hyper-threading is Enabled and I'd like to keep it that way. I'll try to include screenshots if someone can tell me how to do that. Otherwise, what does everyone think? Can it be done without raising the Vcore?? Thanks in advance!

Yep, I pushed the x20 multiplier and while I could get to 3.8+ghz, it wasn't as stable as the x19 multi. I'm aware that the QPI needs to be under 1.36v but I noticed that the BIOS never gives me a warning (pink) sign. Why is that? It didn't seem to matter so I will drop that back to 1.34v. I was hoping there was some "magical" setting that I wasn't tweaking fat chance, huh? haha
I was hoping to run 4ghz without raising the Vcore but it appears that it's inevitable. I might try to bump it and see how far I can get and leave the 3.95ghz setting for 24/7 operation.
Thanks for the reply HU16E!!

X58 pro won't boot sometimes

I've got the X58 Pro Motherboard- the original one.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130221
Rest of the system specs are as follows:
Core I7 CPU
ATI 5770 video card
Antect 750 watt power supply
6 GB ram (I forget the brand)
2 WD hard drives
From time to time it will not boot. The On/off button on the motherboard is lit, so I know it's getting power. But there's another light on the motherboard that is off when it won't boot- an orange light- presumably the network connection? If I jiggle the power connection to the motherboard, eventually it lights up and the computer will boot. I know the issue isn't the power supply because I've used two, with the same issues.
I thought it might be a short circuit from the case. But a friend more knowledgeable than I suggested that it might be the motherboard power save feature putting it into sleep mode or something. He said a BIOS update would fix it.
I have the 7.3 BIOS version, which I understand is the latest one for this mobo. I hear that people have used the 8.0 and later for other MSI X58 boards with this board with success.
So I have two questions for the gurus here
1) What is causing the computer to not boot?
2) Will a BIOS update fix it, and if so, should I attempt it?
Any helpful advice would be...helpful. Thanks in advance.

Quote from: Bernhard on 02-November-11, 23:59:59
>>Posting Guide<<
To answer that you will need to be more specific on the CPU and memory.
Gotya.
CPU is I7 920.
Memory is Kingston 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Triple Channel
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134829

Possible buyer of an X58 Pro-E Motherboard.

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