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Hey WD,
Wanted to ask you can you change the strapping on the CPU with that board? Mine seems to do better at 125

I will have to look?

TBH though pretty happy with 5.1 on ambient cooling

tryied 5.2 everyway but upside down with no luck

Thinking you need 5.5 to 5.7 on these chips to be competetive

run it at 4.8 using 1.408 core for 24/7 solid as a rock.

Have to say though I love this platform for a dailey runner though

Yeah I like MSI!!! I used a couple of there boards though there no world class OC'ER they are great dependable boards and there CS is great too!!
I figured I'd post my score's in vantage, for what ever reason my board is now Gimped as it will not clock as high as it once did(around5200). But just to show you how well your cards are working, here ya go



Two way Vantage 7970 CPU @4700 or so
http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/4766699

The only way mine would go that high(when it did) was I have a strapping adjustment, had to use a higher strap125 to make it run. IT wont do it no more pretty sure its the board holding me back now.

I have no complaints, Duke sold this whole platform to me over a year ago for a really great price, as he was using it to compete in the MSI overclocking contest.

Ran for a year on gimp water at 4.5 and with the new water cooling system in the grinder can run 4.8 and get 5.1 for benching. Board is stout other then it simply will not do the advertised 2400 memory. for 24/7 I run the stix at 1904 MHz 8-9-9-22 1T

can't do those timings at 5.1 thought. but defiantly one of two things either my chip has a weak IMC or the board simply can not do it what they advertise. Never asked Duke what he was getting out of the stix

is that your max clocks on the CPU ? and if the board is effed are they sending a new one ?

pondering throwing a 4930K in this, think they are droping on 9/4/13 from what I can find

But probably will stick with the 3930K as it does everything I need to do and more, may put the money into a Hassy set up to beat on

Not my max stable, but it's the auto(gaming) stable for gaming on. They are offering me to send it in again, I just think its not gonna be fixed correctly and they seem like there not gonna give me a new board..................... I have a blast in BF3 THOUGH! :Hi:

BF4 in two months ........ :thumbsup:

Hearing EA wants 80 bucks for it though .... :ohcrap:

Well I did a little better, just tooling around this AM,

62924

http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/4781399

Nice run philly, you hit the wall or still have room for more with that chip ?

16gigs hummin, thats a tough machine.

Think I got more, not sure. I just turned up the multi this time and the volts. This board ran so good before I moved, then came the CAPS/ROM Bios update for windows 8(witch I don't have) Now it runs like shit and I'd love to teach it to fly out the damn window usually. Its just water, had it around 5200 last year.


@Kal
Should I remove half of the 16Gigs? Work better? Having all sorts of issue's with in now, it worked so well at first. Can't stand to even deal with it now!

I didn't mean for you to remove mems but in regards to that, traditionally, if you runnin 4 dimms, remove two and you should have a lil more ass end stability. In another words, less stress on the imc.

@WD,
Sorry to high jack your thread, I'm gonna start one for this junk ass board.
@Kal,
Makes sense! I got brand new memory 2133 it wont do that? See you guys in the other thread............
http://www.overclockaholics.com/foru...=newthread&f=5