MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and BIOS

[Israar]

Was wondering which is the best or most stable and up-to-date BIOS which holds a good set of OC ability?

Currently according to MSI Live Monitor I have 1.B0 (What ever the hell that is lol!)

Personally I'd like to get the latest, though I'd prefer the most stable BIOS there is for this brand of board if at all possible?

--Lee

[Lekamies]

It depends your Prosessor & memory?
I use NFM v1.3B6 Modded BIOS(s) with 1T fix. 1.3b6 bios allow 1.7vcore! 1.55v +18.3%
The OFFICIAL MSI K8N Neo2-939 tips and tricks guide thread (http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43033&page=1&pp=25)
Neo 2 platinum bios download and overclocking tools center(modded Bios files) (http://www.swjka.com/neo2/index.php)

[Israar]

Processor; AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6Ghz
RAM; (2x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Series DDR CAS2-3-2-5 OCZ My RAM Modules official link (http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_el_ddr_pc_3200_dual_channel_platinum)

As for those websites, I'll give them a look sometime soon!

Thanks again!

--Lee

[Solaris17]

ooo do tell us bad flashes r no good:shadedshu ....and we whant to know if u make it :cool:

[Israar]

I think I'll flash my BIOS with the same BIOS Lekamies has; NFM v1.3B6 Modded BIOS(s) with 1T fix.

Hopefully! I'll do it right and it will work wonders, if not I'm screwed lol as I haven't used a modded BIOS before and I've only ever used the intergrated MSI Live Update crap :S

I'll not be doing any overclocking until I get the XP-90C heatsink and the AC5 so that way I can then rest assured I have both my GPU and CPU cooled further than what it currently is ;)

--Lee

[Lekamies]

Make sure you test those modded default memorysettings with "A64 Tweaker" before flashing! Because if your memory not work those settings your computer wont start ;)

I use this 13b6 1T bios only because modded 13b6 is only bios where you can have +18,3 vid and it works really good with bh-5 memory.

If 1,6vcore is enough i recoment 1.8 1T bios or newer.

[Israar]

I've never overclocked before mate, though my current Vcore is set at 1.50V. So, what would you recommend personally for me with my CPU/RAM configuration?

Here is a screenshot of the A64 Tweaker settings that are left as they where from the beginning, and which are the current settings: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/lee.whittaker25/A64T031.jpg

I hope that's enough information you need, if not I'll try to give you more information.

--Lee

[Lekamies]

I think your memory can handle those modded bios's.
read The OFFICIAL MSI K8N Neo2-939 tips and tricks guide, there is few important settings for stable oc'ing.

TIP: color coded ram slots are different than other 939 boards. Slots 1&2 are the ones nearer to the CPU and are dual channel

TIP: In the bios press and hold Shift+F2 and then press ALT+F3 to unlock "hidden" features within the BIOS (all these features are unlocked in modded bios's)

TIP: turn off NV/ATI Speed Up in the hidden bios settingsas it ocs most cards gpu
TIP: older bios revisions need the agp speed set to 67mhz to lock it
TIP: use HTT multiplier 4x up to ~260htt and 3x up to ~290htt

[Israar]

I think your memory can handle those modded bios's.
read The OFFICIAL MSI K8N Neo2-939 tips and tricks guide, there is few important settings for stable oc'ing.

TIP: color coded ram slots are different than other 939 boards. Slots 1&2 are the ones nearer to the CPU and are dual channel

Found this out and doing it already, thanks anyway :)

TIP: In the bios press and hold Shift+F2 and then press ALT+F3 to unlock "hidden" features within the BIOS (all these features are unlocked in modded bios's)

TIP: turn off NV/ATI Speed Up in the hidden bios settingsas it ocs most cards gpu

Definitely going to do shortly :)

TIP: older bios revisions need the agp speed set to 67mhz to lock it

Why does it need to be locked? Also, how can you tell whether or not it's locked in the first place?

TIP: use HTT multiplier 4x up to ~260htt and 3x up to ~290htt

As for this, I don't get what you mean at all, if it is something to do with OC'ing then I'd appreciate it if you could explain it to me, I have never in my life overclocked anything other than my graphics card, and hell that was just a fluke and I set it back to default.

Thanks anyway mate!

--Lee

[Lekamies]

TIP: older bios revisions need the agp speed set to 67mhz to lock it.
-This Because when you rise HTT(fsb) frequency -> will (agp/pci) frequency rise along if it's not locked and cause unstability! (this effects everywhere (hdd's,audio cards, etc.)

TIP: use HTT multiplier 4x up to ~260htt and 3x up to ~290htt
-HTT multiplier is normaly 5x (Hypertransport 5x * 200HTT(fsb) = 1000Mhz, when you rise htt(fsb) frequency example: HTT(fsb) 250Mhz * HTT multiplier 5x = 1250 and it maybe unstabile, Lower Multiplier 4x then it's 1000Mhz. I use HTT 3x and HTT(fsb) is 304Mhz´= 912Mhz.

Allmost forgot if you have sata hdd!
SATA ports 1 and 2 are not locked, use slots 3 and 4 (closest to the cpu)