[DohDoh]

Hello all,

Just wanted to see anybody else have this motherboard? If anybody has an overclocking story with this board please do tell.


Thanks!

[Miguita]

Sorry to smash your OC-dreams, but I hate this mobo.

As a server-board running at stock speeds, it's close to perfect. Great layout, up to ten harddrives (it even supports IDE RAID, I believe, which is very uncommon these days), CSA-integrated GB LAN (via northbridge), and so on.

As an OC-board it looks fairly promising at first glance. Up to 3.3 vDIMM, 2.3 vCore (which is insane on a P4-rig), PAT-support, etc. However the chipset-voltage cannot be adjusted, and the BIOS is possibly the worst ever. Especially the IDE/SATA-menus are bad, and it has an extremely annoying "memory stability-test during POSTing", that overrules the manually configured settings in the BIOS no matter what. I know for sure it's not my mem that's the problem. My sticks are even optimized for this chipset, and still run MUCH better on an nForce2-board... However I get a more than decent FSB-overclock with a divider of 1:1, and timings set to By SPD. And since the memory timings aren't that important on P4-rigs, it's sortof acceptable (but still very frustrating).

[DohDoh]

So what does this mean I can't overclock to extreme? I was thinking of going 3Ghz to 3.5Ghz. Is this capable of that?

[alpha0ne]

Originally Posted by DohDoh

Hello all,

Just wanted to see anybody else have this motherboard? If anybody has an overclocking story with this board please do tell.


Thanks!

i have had this mobo for ~ 18 months and if you look at my sig you will see that this mobo WILL OC to the extreme and is also as solid as a rock after Prime95 torture (x2) for 12 hours

the bios does take a little getting used to but after that this bios has by far the best V options available (not that you really need them all) and with most boards only allowing a max of 2.85 Vdimm the 3.4v offered by the 6758 is second to none

i currently have my 2.8c M0 @ 3.8 with 1.60 Vcore, ram at 1:1 @ 272MHz and 3.0v with 2.5, 4, 3, 7 timings

[Miguita]

There will always be different experiences with hardware, and 3 to 3.5 GHz should be no problem at all. The funny thing is that me and alphaOne have the exact same mobo and memory, but still take a quite different view of things.

Anyway, with a great PSU I think this mobo is capable of an FSB of about 300. However I'm not gonna retract my statement about the BIOS (especially the "memory-timings-bug"). My favorite socket 478-mobo is Abit IC7-G.

[alpha0ne]

yes the bios is a little different but i am very used to it, also i have no problems manually setting ram timings on my board BUT even when at just 250FSB with ram 1:1 @ 2.5, 4, 3, 7 PAT is more often than not only partially enabled (use a proggy called ctiaw [google to find or PM me]) which hits bandwidth bigtime, eg. from 6850MBytes/s down to ~6350MBytes/s

this is IMHO the only flaw in this mobo and because MSI have not fixed this with a bios update (which IMO would not be too hard for msi) i shall NEVER buy MSI again, i am actually planning on buying the IC7-G

[DohDoh]

Well it's good to here two sides of the story better than one.

Thank you both and will be joining you shortly in our MSI: codename 6758 overclocking "gang".

[PapaLaz]

Sorry to get to this one late...

Had this mobo about 6mnths now, and overall I'm quite impressed with it. I've had some pretty good results with a few different cpu's, and lots of different mem - all with air cooling. 2.6c(x2)/2.8c/3.0c all very stable @3.5+ !!

With mem I've used Corsair XMS3700, Kingston HyperX PC4200, as well as stnd PC3200 - all perform well and can be easily pushed to the max by this board. Sometimes some of the BIOS settings can be tricky, never had a problem with any OC settings tho (agree about the SATA settings ).

Always been annoyed that PAT shows as off when oc'ed tho, and I hadn't heard of ctiaw, so thx alpha0ne !! Giving it a try now...

IMHO it's a decent board - better than similar ASUS/ABIT boards for overclocking I think.

Happy New Year to all !!
PapaLaz

[alpha0ne]

you will most likely find PapaLaz that when you use ctiaw it will show PAT as only being partially enabled, and if your ram sttings are good you should show a bandwidth of ~ 6500

here is a SECRET i recently discovered

before you start ctiaw after just booting, start CPU-Z (1.25~1.26) then close, THEN start ctiaw and check out your new PAT & bandwidth