Strange HTT bugs with Neo4/Platinum SLI on Athlon64 .09 Winchester Core

Hey..
I am setting up my new Neo4, and I've run into some very strange non-overclocked behaviour with the AMD64 Winchester core CPU. This does not happen with my Clawhammer CPU on the Neo4, and it also doesn't happen with the same Winchester CPU on two other different nForce4 boards I've tried. So it appears to be a problem with this MSI Neo4 board only.
When I run default non-overclocked settings of 5x HTT at 200mhz, I get a readout of 800mhz HyperTransport in Central-Brain Identifier.. what!?!
I have tried changing to various other HTT values and it's all whacked out and random... For example:
If I set the HTT to 2x, in Central Brain Identifier, it's showing as 4x HTT..
And if I set 1x HTT at 250mhz, Central Brain shows HTT at 1000 mhz??
Also.. when I check the HTT speed in other software, like Sandra... it is reporting conflicting Hypertransport speeds.. Each of the softwares is reporting something different. The HTT is all freaked out on Neo4+Winchester core. What is going on?
This isn't happening on any other nForce4 boards with the same software and CPU.
This Winchester core CPU is running at 1000mhz HTT on two other nForce4 boards I've tried.
I have no idea what the HTT is truely even running a now, cause of such bugginess with this Neo4.
Apparently Neo4 has problems with Winchester core even at stock settings.
Why no word from MSI on this? Will MSI ever fix their problem with Winchesters that no other boards have.. Or will they cause more enthusiasts to lose faith and not buy MSI in the future? Does MSI even care?
...Omnihil

Tiresmoke no offence but ur a moderator of this forum.  Whats stopping moderators reporting problems that users innocure due to the products MSI produce ? Your a moderator and a moderator should acctually be able to report the big problems with MSI.  I'm not gettin on your back but when people start threads off about stuff thats wrong then we have the right to know... ill contact MSI about it now to see what they say and im sure they would come visit the forum if they new their product had faults....
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This Forum is a User-to-User support community for users of all ages. There is no MSI support to be found here. The moderators are not paid by MSI and do not work for MSI, we are users just like you.
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So how did you become a moderator and why ?  If your just a user then why be a moderator ?????

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