It appears you have not yet registered with our community. To register please click here...

 
Go Back [M] > Madshrimps > WebNews
MSI Eclipse SLI Review MSI Eclipse SLI Review
FAQ Members List Calendar Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read


MSI Eclipse SLI Review
Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 23rd December 2008, 09:48   #1
Madshrimp
 
jmke's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: 7090/Belgium
Posts: 79,021
jmke has disabled reputation
Default MSI Eclipse SLI Review

Setting the I7 965 up to run at stock speeds is a no brainer really, but to push the limits it took a little bit of trial and error. Well, a lot of trial and error. There are a few ways to go when overclocking the Core I7 processor and system. You can up the baseclock or if you have an unlocked processor the multiplier can be increased while maintaining the lower overall baseclock (133MHz). The first BIOS was not all that overclocking friendly, but the 132b BIOS changed that. Just upping the baseclock alone is not enough to get you up to the 200MHz level. Whereas the P6T was incredibly resilient when it came to recovering from a bad overclock, the MSI was not nearly as friendly. It would more often than not fail to boot after pushing the limits just to have to clear the CMOS. This resulted in a total loss of your settings so taking good notes is essential. Touching just about all of the voltages was required to get to 205x19 and 822MHz on the six gigabytes of system memory. To get there the Vcore was bumped to 1.42, the memory to 1.64v, the QPI voltage to 1.425, and the IOH to 1.4v as well as bumping the timings to the modules' default 9-9-9-24. I could boot up to a 215MHz baseclock but could not gain any stability at this level.
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/msi_eclipse/
__________________
jmke is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
MSI Eclipse X58 Review jmke WebNews 0 26th December 2008 10:59
MSI X58 Eclipse SLI Motherboard Review jmke WebNews 0 12th December 2008 11:32
MSI's Eclipse SLI X58 motherboard jmke WebNews 0 8th December 2008 17:30
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D512E-OC GeForce 8800GTS review jmke WebNews 0 7th February 2008 10:46
MSI NX8800GTX Review and Mixed-Vendor SLI jmke WebNews 0 23rd January 2007 10:52
MSI K9N SLI Platinum motherboard jmke WebNews 0 17th August 2006 09:52
The most luxury NVIDIA SLI 16X motherboard- MSI K8N Diamond first look windwithme Hardware Overclocking and Case Modding 6 26th December 2005 18:36
MSI NX7800 GTX SLI Review Sidney WebNews 0 5th August 2005 18:45
MSI NX6800TD-128E Geforce 6800 SLI Videocard Sidney WebNews 0 2nd August 2005 23:17
MSI K8N Diamond SLI Review jmke WebNews 0 8th January 2005 00:29

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 19:43.


Powered by vBulletin® - Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Content Relevant URLs by vBSEO