MSI-K8NGM2-FID Buyers......Beware

Heyo,

Those of you who have plans to buy this mobo, be aware that the O'clocking ability is very limited....

1. There is no option of changing the clock multiplier. The only one is fsb freq, but increasing that will make the sys unstable. ( I myself cudn't go above 215Mhz @ clk Multiplier 11)

2. There is no option of changing the core voltage nor the chipset voltage. So no point in increasing the fsb freq.

But then otherwise, it is an xcellent board, u get the HDTV out connector, s-video connector, 7.1 HD audio, onbard LAN, Onboard 6 series GFX, IEEE1394 ports.......

I dunno how gfx works but...
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I oclocked my gfx card from 450Mhz Core speed & 660 Mhz Memo Speed to 550 Mhz & 690 Resp(For time being)

The performance increase was great,

3dmark'05 - Earlier 7577 to 8540.
3dmark'06 - Earlier 35xx to 4410.

The cooling was not bad either....

1 Antec 120mm Trilight fan,
1 Coolermaster 120mm fan,
2 Antec 80mm Red LED fans,
1 Coolermaster 80mm fan,
1 Antec V'cool gfx Cooler.

Moreover AC @ 25'c was also there. So the temp of GPU kept below 60'c at all times.

See ya
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