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Working MSI Big Bang Fuzion w/ 4890 Cyclone and GTX 260 Lightning

MSI Motherboard Lineup

Neat Big Bang skinned Laptop in the suite

also skinned inside as well

A little showing from the MSI suite! they have some great products coming out for sure!

Many thanks to the fine people of MSI for their time.

-Ryan

(updated 1/9/2010)

Traveling by air out of Des Moines,Ia poses some problems in January – namely the deicing that needed to be done and took us 20 extra minutes to get off the ground…  I am posting this from Memphis Intl. airport waiting for out pilots to get here to fly us, of course they are delayed.  Today I will get in and meet up with skinnee from XS and various other sites around the web including his own site  skinneelabs.com .   So expect some great stuff this weekend from me and the site, and I can tell you that in a week I am headed to Taipei, Taiwan so expect some great updates from there as well!

A great picture I got in the plane during sunrise

Sunrise over middle America

-Ryan

It has happened…  Intel i5 670 has hit 7GHz, done by overclocker nickshih from Taiwan.

From XS Forums (click)

validation

Equipment used (shortlist):

Clarkdale I5 670 3.47g

EVGA E658

Kinston 2000 CL8 1gx2

ANTEC TPQ1200w OC

WD500G

F1ee

I have 80 pounds of DICE and will have a fun weekend – LOL

ASUS P6T6 that I though may be damaged – guess not…
Xeon W3570 Batch 3914A742
MSI 275L
Hitachi 2.5″ HDD
Silverstone ST1000-P
other various stuff

5.507GHz 8 thread

P6T6 PREPPED!

prepped for sub zero

only $20USD for the Dry Ice

Dry Ice

Pot Mounted

Mushkin Redline 3x2GB w/ Elpida MGH-E Hyper

Running full of Dry Ice

start of 3D testing

Just short of 354K AM3

37.2K '05 score

By: Ryan Leiserowitz

*Disclaimer- CPU Core unlocking is CPU dependent – every cpu is different, you may not be able to unlock any cores, one, or both cores… this is  CPU dependent as they are not all equal*

MSI has implemented their “Unlock CPU Core Function” in most of their AMD motherboards – I will show you simple steps to unlock these extra cores.

On these screen shots I am working with a 790GX-G65 with 1.5 bios and am able to easily unlock a 550 BE to triple and quad core processor…

Thanks to MSI for these BIOS options and their help…

Its very easy just select a few bios options:

1st – go to cell menu

1st step

2nd – select Unlock CPU Core to Enable and Advanced Clock Calibration to Auto

2nd step

3rd – If you want a Triple core – select your cores in CPU Core Control

3rd step

Triple core unlock

tri core 550

Fully Unlocked “Quad”

quad 550

Since Oct. 2009, MSI are releasing new BIOS revisions adding new exclusive Unlock CPU Core

function, for most of AMD platform motherboards.

(please update to latest bios)

msi AMD motherboard support list

To increase the success rate of “core unlocking,“  MSI strongly recommend you to choose CPU in the “Main Support CPU List” to be the subject of unlocking attempt.  Only those CPUs have been confirmed that their concealed cores can be unlocked successfully in many forums.

cpu support list 1

CPU SUPPORT LIST

cpu support list 2

Questions / Comments?

!!!PRETEST!!! so much room for improving

Thanks to MSI, TiTON for helping with the pot and Charles, and Gomeler

12 Hours straight benching / 35bs of Dry Ice for $10 USD / OSs were crap – need to get better ones sert up / thsi is new Platinum SLI from Newegg open box because I killed my other one – 2 GB board inbound later today!

not pushing too hard and wasted a lot of time on OSs – this was a last resort that worked out well for unoptimized and generic load-out adn I suck at 32m super pi I know !!!!

Pretty Good For a Lower end Board eh? and please I know voltage is high – rough tuning no time for fine tuning – lol no time in 12 hours

Still!!! I had to use 1.51 CPU-Z instead of 1.52 damn thing sucks with this setup

Setup -
W3570 3847A987
MSI X58 Platinum SLI – New one
MSI N260GTX-OCv3
MSI GTX 275 Lightning
PNY 8800GTS 320MB
7900GS SLI (OEM)
Silverstone Zeus 1200W PSU
WD 80GB IDE HDDs
a lot of OSs
K|ngp|n F1EE w/ Acetone
Muskin Elpida BBSE
Lots of Scythe High CFM Fans

BTW – these were on a full SP3 XP Pro install not oiptimized at all

Thanks to TiTON for helping with the pot and FUGGER for help and stuff

Also thanks to MSI for some great products that I have had the pleasure to use and they are growing on me a lot

Hours on hours of DICE benching and learning my board… my uncore seems to top out at 4900… I got like 50lbs of Dry Ice for $10 USD and spent 6 hours then slept and did 4.5 hours so great use of $10 eh? :p: I mainly learned the board by trial and error – the chip is good for 4.6-4.7 on decent water…

First – Big thing – I had to use 1.51 CPU-Z instead of 1.52 as the newer version drops multis as I increase bclk – anything over 5 bclk… so to show actual speed I needed either cpu-tweaker or 1.51 CPU-Z

Setup -
W3540 3851A257
MSI X58 Platinum SLI
MSI N260GTX-OCv3
7900GS SLI (OEM)
Silverstone Zeus 1200W PSU
WD 80GB IDE HDDs
XP PRO SP2
K|ngp|n F1EE
Muskin Elpida Hyper … $70 pair :up: – stripped to OEM style
Lots of Scythe High CFM Fans

super pi - 7.891 seconds on i7 W3540

AM3 349,674- W3540 and stock cooled GTX 260 216

the rest of the story can be found at XS forums…

So on my bench is an MSI X58 PLatinum SLI and N260GTX- OCv3 here is a peek at them on my bench.  I have a Silverstone Zues 1200w PSU and a loop with swiftech triple Rad, modded pump w/ res top, all for a GTZ waterblock… CPU I am using in this setup is a W3540 and RAM is Muskin Elpida Hyper MNH-E stripped of heatspreaders

Due to unforeseen personal life problems, I have to scub the project and am now thinking when I do I may try with Elpida BBSE as they seem to be great still and much harder to kill  …  I  have been trying to sort out thing  personally so when I get more time to do a write up I will be benching MSI X-58 Platinum SLI and the  GTX260 OCV3 that I have for testing on hand, as well as a DFI teh8 that I was given and a recently acquired W3540!  I will hopefully be up and running full within a few days (i hope )

-TGE