Dually OCing goodness

[DetemeaT]

Just put a MSI K7D Master in my box and added a couple of MP 1200's. Since they are unlocked, I just cranked up the multiplier to 11.5. They have been running for 4 days @ 1.53 ghz (mp 1800). I have volcano 7's on them for cooling, alittle tight, but they work great. I've had 2 eccp109 clients running on it since it was built and the temps are 38 C and 40 C.

[jadison]

Niiice OC there! :cooldude:

The MSI K7D Master is a good choice from what I've seen in site reviews. How do you rate it as an Overclocker-friendly Motherboard? (As in little OC features, some, or a good deal)

[DetemeaT]

There is one reason why I bought the MSI board. You are able to adjust the multiplier via the bios. It has very little in the fsb adjustments. However, I really don't want to be running the pci cards, harddrives, etc out of spec. I built this box for 2 reasons,
1. For working on and rendering 3d scenes with Carrara
2. Working on DV and using Adobe Premiere.

[jadison]

Same thing here: I run an MSI K7T Turbo (MS-6330) and it's quite easy to OC in the BIOS. Very stable board and has all the features I need (except DDR :().

[otheos]

If only the K7D had one more 32/33 PCI slot.... with only 2 of them left after the USB card, I'd hate to run the 64/66 at 33Mhz crippling the whole North-South connection to 266MB/s.

So the TigerMPX looks better to me. Pitty it doesn't have all the o'cing features (but it has 4 32/33 + Intel NIC on board and working USBs :))

[jadison]

Yeah, 2CPU.com gave a good review of the TigerMPX. I couldn't have agreed more with their conclusion.

[NDC]

Yeah, I just wish they had working USB ports on duallie AMD mainboards! :( I was wondering why all the AMD SMP mainboards came with a USB PCI card! I thought it was a little bonus they were throwing in with the mainboard. However, it turns out that dual AMD mainboards have on-board USB ports that don't even work correctly! :rolleyes:

[otheos]

Well the problem was not as big as it sounded, only some devices would not work, but Asus had the ports completely removed (I never liked Asus anyway :)). However newer revisions have the ports fixed, so while old stock lasts you might end up with a buggy board, but nowadays you shouldn't really.

[NDC]

Hopefully Abit will come out with a AMD duallie mainboard with all the nice BIOS features on all of their other mainboards.