Mobo - Gigabyte K8NSNXP

[Wheelman [PT]]

In our opinion, the nForce3-250Gb is the most complete chipset for the Athlon64 at the moment providing support for latest technologies like Serial-ATA/RAID as well as a PCI/AGP lock for the overclockers. Today, we take a look at the second board based on this chipset- the Gigabyte K8NSNXP. If you remember correctly, Gigabyte’s nForce2 based 7NNXP was one of the most feature-rich board based on that chipset. That trend continues with the K8NSNXP.

Mais aqui dentro:
TBREAK (http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=297)

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[JoaoVr]

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Unfortunately, overclocking options on the K8NSNXP aren’t as great as we would like to be which is very typical of Gigabyte. Starting off, although you can adjust the FSB all the way upto 300MHz, Gigabyte doesn’t provide an option for adjusting the clock multiplier from the BIOS. This restricts your overclocking as all Athlon64 CPUs are multiplier unlocked and with any nF3-250 board like the K8NSNXP, with a working APG/PCI lock you should be able to reach very high FSB speeds. Instead, you'll have to rely on third party applications to adjust the multiplier.


Voltage options are present on the board, however, the BIOS doesn’t show the actualy voltage of components like memory and simply displays them as OK. Gigabyte allows you to increase the VCore upto 1.70V while memory voltage can only be increased by 0.2V (although Gigabyte's EasyTune application does allow you to adjust the memory voltage upto 2.8V from Windows.) You also have the option of adjusting the HyperTransport voltage by 0.3V and VDDQ voltage by 0.3V. We were able to overclock our 3400+ CPU from its default value of 200MHz FSB to 220MHz FSB which resulted in approximately 2.4GHz. Although that’s about as high as this CPU overclocks, we would’ve liked to have the option of lowering the multiplier and working at a higher FSB.

:scared: Bahhh... Nos testes a Msi portou-se lindamente.... Mas Tb...


For overclocking, MSI provides you with speeds of upto 300MHz which is reasonable, although we have hit 340MHz in the previous generation of nForce3-150 boards so more is always better especially considering the fact that the Athlon64 is not multiplier locked. MSI does give you the option of adjusting the clock multiplier, however, you can only go lower than your default CPU multiplier which is the norm with Athlon64 CPUs


You can set the Hypertransport bus between 1X and 5X which should provide some room for overclockers. Regarding voltages, you can adjust the CPU voltage upto 1.81V while DDR and AGP can also be increased upto 2.85V and 1.85V respectively although MSI doesnt provide any voltage options for LDT. By lowering our 3400+ CPU’s multiplier, we were able hit the limit of the board- 300MHz. However, we had to keep the HT at 3X. Anything above 1100MHz on the HT bus caused the system to become instable or unbootable.

Estava lá isto no mesmo site sobre a Msi K8N Neo