Originally posted by: e-phex
give me PAT and let this board oc to the level i know my chip can attain. i went from 3.2Ghz(184Mhz FSB) on my 845E board to 2.5Ghz(140Mhz) on my MSI 865PE board.
nothing worse then upgrading you motherboard and losing performance. i guess that loss in performance from losing 700Mhz is made up for in the dual channel memory and new WD 1200JB. that doesn't make it better it makes it worse, making me want that 700Mhz back more then ever.
i'm also getting the feeling that MSI might pull a Gigabyte on me and never add the features the board can have and more importantly should have. i was burned by gigabyte 8IRX, which never had voltage enabled.(only fsb which will let you oc a little, the big oc's need voltage) this was the only board, in a series of 3 that had the feature removed from it bios.(the 8SRX and 8IRXP both had voltage/fsb)
ohh well...... i guess i'll wait a little longer...
one thing i know for sure...... if MSI can't fix my 865 bios... i won't be buying the MSI MEGA sff box, or any other MSI product.
I was having the same problems as you e-phex and I got tired of waiting for msi to fix things with this buggy mobo,at first i was using a 2.26b cpu and couldnt get over 150mhz buty on my Asus P4B533 166mhz was easy.
I figured it just didnt like my 533mhz cpu & bought a 2.4c thinking I could OC better.
I see most people getting 3-3.2ghz easy with these 2.4c but on this msi board 215mhz was tops.
So I got fed up & sold it tonight & will be picking us an Asus P4P800 tomorow ands will never buy msi again, bye bye MSI.
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