Hello,
I put together a new machine this weekend. I was a bit nervous, as it had been nearly 3 years since my last one.
MSI K8N Neo 2 Plat Motherboard
Antec Solution Series SL400 400W Power Supply
2 x Corsair VS512MB400C3 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CAS3 Value Select
XFX PVT43AND GeForce 6600 GT AGP 128MB
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor Socket 939
Everything else was leftovers from the last machine.
I'd like to share with you my experience, as it may be helpful to some. I am by no means an expert at putting these things together, as I do it but once every few years. I'll start off by telling you the ending of the story..... Everything worked great.
I was nervous that the power supply would not have enough amps on the 12+ volt rail. I've read so much about the MSI board needing so much power on this 12+ rail. The Antec SL400 PSU has a rating of 24amps on the actual power supply unit, and it powered the whole thing up real nice on the first try. I've not tried to overclock my machine.
Memory: There has been some head scratching about which sockets to put your DDR memory in on the MSI board. My Corsair Value Select memory is double sided. I was able to run them in Dual Channel mode at the full 200MHz(400MHz DDR) by putting them in DIMMS 3 and 4 (green and purple) or by putting them in DIMMS 1 and 2 (green and purple)
CPU: I used the stock heat sink/Fan that came with the retail boxed Athlon64. I highly recommend that you lap the bottem of the heat sink before using it. It had quite a cup to it. I took off quite a bit Aluminum from both ends before the thing finally got flat. Ofcourse, do not do this if you haven't got any thermal grease to interface between the new surface of the heatsink and the CPU.
Thats about it. Power supply works great with this board and the double sided memory easily runs in dual channels at full 400MHz DDR speed.
-Chris...
I put together a new machine this weekend. I was a bit nervous, as it had been nearly 3 years since my last one.
MSI K8N Neo 2 Plat Motherboard
Antec Solution Series SL400 400W Power Supply
2 x Corsair VS512MB400C3 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CAS3 Value Select
XFX PVT43AND GeForce 6600 GT AGP 128MB
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor Socket 939
Everything else was leftovers from the last machine.
I'd like to share with you my experience, as it may be helpful to some. I am by no means an expert at putting these things together, as I do it but once every few years. I'll start off by telling you the ending of the story..... Everything worked great.
I was nervous that the power supply would not have enough amps on the 12+ volt rail. I've read so much about the MSI board needing so much power on this 12+ rail. The Antec SL400 PSU has a rating of 24amps on the actual power supply unit, and it powered the whole thing up real nice on the first try. I've not tried to overclock my machine.
Memory: There has been some head scratching about which sockets to put your DDR memory in on the MSI board. My Corsair Value Select memory is double sided. I was able to run them in Dual Channel mode at the full 200MHz(400MHz DDR) by putting them in DIMMS 3 and 4 (green and purple) or by putting them in DIMMS 1 and 2 (green and purple)
CPU: I used the stock heat sink/Fan that came with the retail boxed Athlon64. I highly recommend that you lap the bottem of the heat sink before using it. It had quite a cup to it. I took off quite a bit Aluminum from both ends before the thing finally got flat. Ofcourse, do not do this if you haven't got any thermal grease to interface between the new surface of the heatsink and the CPU.
Thats about it. Power supply works great with this board and the double sided memory easily runs in dual channels at full 400MHz DDR speed.
-Chris...