rwag1 Posted October 18, 2003 Posted October 18, 2003 I am not totally green but I still have a lot to learn about OC'ing. Can anyone give me some advice? Believe it or not right now I have a A7N8X Deluxe v1.03 and a MSI K7N2 Delta. I am trying to decide which one to keep for myself and which one to use in a system I have to build for someone else. Does anyone know any limitations with either board and if possible any pointers on OC'ing either board would be great. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torx Posted October 18, 2003 Posted October 18, 2003 Do whatever you like. They have the same chipset and everything. I would personally keep the MSI just because its red Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrusk Posted October 18, 2003 Posted October 18, 2003 The only real limitation with the a7n8x deluxe is that it tends corrupt the bios if you change too many settings at once (this has happened to me twice). Do a search for sudden bios death and youll see. Other than that, its an awesome board. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanATIc205 Posted October 18, 2003 Posted October 18, 2003 asus the msi only has 1.75 max cpu voltage if your going to oc get the asus. thou the abit nf7-s has better voltage options for over clocking Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Smith Posted October 18, 2003 Posted October 18, 2003 Asus. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sykocus Posted October 18, 2003 Posted October 18, 2003 The only real limitation with the a7n8x deluxe is that it tends corrupt the bios if you change too many settings at once (this has happened to me twice). Do a search for sudden bios death and youll see. Other than that, its an awesome board. in other words other then the fact that using it causes it to break...it works great Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FxXP Posted October 18, 2003 Posted October 18, 2003 Asus, the MSI does not support multipliers. The NF7 suffers the same BIOS corruption of the A7N8X, so its up to you. I'd get the EPoX 8RDA3+. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varry Posted October 18, 2003 Posted October 18, 2003 hey Andrusk, My a7n8x deluxe died twice on me too, in 2 months time???? i also changed settings, and when i rebooted it just died!!!! So i shouldn't change too many settings at once then, is that the solution? Someone told me that saving the settings BEFORE rebooting helped also, is it true??? Srry if my post was off topic Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantom Posted October 18, 2003 Posted October 18, 2003 k7N2, this mobo has ran perfect since day 1, seems very user friendly to me, overclocking is pathetically easy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrusk Posted October 18, 2003 Posted October 18, 2003 hey Andrusk, My a7n8x deluxe died twice on me too, in 2 months time???? i also changed settings, and when i rebooted it just died!!!! So i shouldn't change too many settings at once then, is that the solution? Someone told me that saving the settings BEFORE rebooting helped also, is it true??? Srry if my post was off topic Ive actaully heard its due to the battery being to low of a voltage, thus when you hit save and exit theres not enough juice to save the bios correctly. But typically it happens when your trying to overclock in huge leaps instead of little incriments. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwag1 Posted October 20, 2003 Posted October 20, 2003 Thanks for all the replies. I have a couple of weeks until I have to have the system built for someone so I decided to run the MSI for a another week then switch to the Asus and see which one I like more. I will post results. Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanATIc205 Posted October 20, 2003 Posted October 20, 2003 Asus, the MSI does not support multipliers. The NF7 suffers the same BIOS corruption of the A7N8X, so its up to you. I'd get the EPoX 8RDA3+. the msi does support multi changes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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