MSI P7NGM (NVIDIA GeForce 9300)
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Date: 25.12.2008 |
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BIOS
The BIOS of MSI P7NGM is based on the AMI BIOS version, with its capacity being 4 Mbit.
The board allows the user to adjust the following memory settings:
The selection of memory frequency is done both arbitrarily and depending on the FSB speed:
Also, the user can adjust the memory capacity allocated for the integrated graphics.
Now move on to the section to do with the system monitoring.
The board displays the current temperatures for the CPU and the system, rotational speeds of all the two fans, as well as the voltages. Besides, the CPU cooler is able adjusting the rotational speed depending on the CPU temperature using the SmartFan feature:
Overclocking and stability
Prior to moving to overclocking, let's look into the power converter. It uses a 3-phase power scheme, in which there are four 1000 mkF and ten 680 mkF capacitors.
The overclocking tools are gathered in the "Cell Menu" section.
Overclocking tools:
| Motherboard |
MSI P7NGM |
| CPU multiplier adjustable |
+ |
| FSB adjustment |
within 100 MHz to 625 MHz (1 MHz) |
| Vcore adjustment |
- |
| Vdd adjustment |
within 1.1 to 1.43V (0.022 V) |
| Vmem adjustment |
within 1.8V to 2.9V (0.05-0.2V) |
| Vtt adjustment |
within 1.2 to 1.55V (0.025V) |
| PCI-E adjustment |
within 100 MHz to 200 MHz (1 MHz) |
The final result: stable FSB speed = 400 MHz.
Unfortunately, the overclocking capability of the board is quite low since the test specimen of the CPU runs without raising voltages at clock speeds about 2.8 GHz. So the lack of a feature for raising the Vcore did not affect the overclocking result. However, the board uses the starting BIOS version, and perhaps further versions of the firmware will improve the overclocking performance.
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