Done with MSi boards got any suggestions??

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JSpecGC8

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After today I am done with MSi boards, I will go back to my tried and true Asus boards. I have tried and tried with this board to OC up to 3.0Ghz and beyond but with no effort. I even got extra hands in on the project, those that are better at it than myself and they couldnt push it either. I have it at a 2.8ghz with a slight Vcore bumb but I just do not feel comfortable with this board as when I restart the computer sometimes it wont post and requires an extra restart to go through.

The guilty party board is:
MSi P6N Sli

I thought at first it was my hardware ram/cpu, so we took an Asus board my ram and my proc installed it got everything a running and started the OC. We ran mem test stressed the CPU did everything. Not a single problem one, not even a small glitch or flicker of the screen.

With that said I am still open to say Gigabyte and Asus though I have ran Asus for the past 5 years!!

If anyone has any more suggestions for a strong board, supports OC and has lots of options please let me know!!

As of right now this MSi board is just not cutting it!!!!
 
I wouldn't rule MSI out entirely while some models will obviously oc better then others. A lot of that has to do with the chipset on one particular board. I know the feeling about running Asus boards for several years myself.

Abit is known at times for having good models for ocing. But like DFI they seem a bit behind Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte on specifications and features. Asus has been the prefernce here for some time with the newer models seeing the AI feature in the bios.
 
Besides ocing I just happen to prefer Asus over other makes for other features seen on their models. When you have multiple OSs on multiple drives with different boot loaders the F8 boot device option seen at post time can make life easier then running into the bios all the time. Gigabyte has their's seen as choosing the type while Asus plainly lists the actual drives under each catagory.

I've yet to do any ocing with a new build here while testing things out on the last one with a 939 board there. The previous Socket A build saw a cpu with a locked multiplier climbing upto 2.31ghz on the 2.205ghz model there. When that overheated it backclocked from an XP3200 to an XP2500 as seen when the fsb had to be lowered in order for the cpu to even work. No wonder the old 2500 Barton cored were the ocers?
 
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