The LOWDOWN (and I mean Down) on the MSI 875P NEO (post #1)
Got the MSI 875P NEO FIS2R today and I was very impressed with the features and easy installation - UNTIL I got ready to test overclocking. With a 533FSB chip it won't - overclock that is - in BIOS. You set your speeds, the machine boots and says you are getting say 188x18 or 3.4GHz, you go into windows and wcpuid reports you are REALLY running at 2.4GHz. I figured, oh well, it's AMI BIOS so maybe an OC hole from 165 to 200 like the Asus and Gigabyte Canterwoods, so I set 160 to be conservative, boot - it's REALLY running at 2.4GHZ.
I figured the shipping bios is 1.1 so I'll try the latest 1.2 - same thing. Changed from Corsair LL to OCZ 3500EL which works on anything - same problem. Finally, I got the suggestion from bigtoe to try Core Center. It overclocked fine - to 188 and even higher - running Core Center in Windows XP. It's a pretty slick utility - BUT NO BIOS overclocking at all works with a 533. So how do you run ANY memory test?
Want to say typical MSI bull, but I will try to give someone the benefit of the doubt. Fix the damn thing - and where is any review of this one that attempts to overclock? It's FAST at stock, but . . .
This Canterwood has ALL the features - real CSA LAN, ICH5R Sata RAID, and even SoundMax sound, the same Intel is using with the slick 'plug it in and autoconfigure' setup. I could actually be happy if the damn thing WORKED as advertised!