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    The big MSI MOA 2011 thread: information, videos, comments and more ...

    in HWBOT Competitions

    Posted · Edited by ME4ME

    ah, so you finnaly recieved motherboard and VGA? great news :)

     

    If LED is blinking, then something's wrong with the primary bios.

    It needs to reflash itself from the secondary bios, but im not sure how that's triggered.

    Try power down, clear cmos and power up again, and do nothing. Hopefully the flashing progress starts automatically :)

     

    With P67 Marshall both bios rom's got screwed up for me... contacted MSI about it, but in the end there was no solution and i got to trow away the board :P

    The big MSI MOA 2011 thread: information, videos, comments and more ...

    in HWBOT Competitions

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    Back on topic, just tested the Z68A-GD80 with the new MOA bios and i really must say MSI nailed it. At MOA it probably won't work as smooth cause of the memory used, but with my Gskill Ripjaws it really works flawless .. just enter the value in bios, and the board will do exactly like it's supposted to. Plus a bit higher bclock than on M4E (105 vs 107 on GD80).

     

    Now just hoping the stories about the board killing CPUs is not true. Would be a shame.

    The big MSI MOA 2011 thread: information, videos, comments and more ...

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    Steleras, i don't agree with that. :)

    If MSI didn't send out the hardware before the contest, some people may get a sample of their own and test anyway, while others may not. Either that being for financial reasons, or the hardware just not available in some countries. Sending it out means equal changes for everyone to pretest the components.

     

    Also, lets take thermalpaste for exemple. If you'd get the hardware the day before the contest, and then you find out your thermalpaste doesn't do it's job, you're skrewed. Simply no time to get better stuff. With hardware at home, you can test and prepare in a decent way. I like the way it's currently done.

    The big MSI MOA 2011 thread: information, videos, comments and more ...

    in HWBOT Competitions

    Posted · Edited by ME4ME

    OCP won't occur at 1450. Around 1550 (with matching voltage), it might ...

     

    Since you're speculating anyway.. I think it won't.

    1450 3dmark11 with a bad card, or 1550 with a good card; the difference should't be too much in terms of power usage. On both cards you'd need atleast 1.55v, so the only difference is in GPU clocks. Since the good card probably has a high quality / better GPU, it's likely the power usage should be roughly the same at maxed out clocks.

    But again, all speculation until someone (Tin? :D) checks it out for real.

     

    So I think the PSU is no problem... More worried about again having to bench crap memory at MOA. :(

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