MSI GD70 - Anyone have it yet?

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Any tips for me? I just got this board and I'm having quite a bit of difficulty doing ANYthing. I bought this board with the 955 of course, and 8 gigs of OCZ RAM @ 8-8-8-27, 1800Mhz, 1.9v.

I get a weird sequence of post beeps, after which my RAM defaults to 1066. I assume thats normal, after reading MSI's page on this mobo which has some disclaimers for OC'd RAM.

It took 6 tries for me to install the windows 7 64-bit RC without blue-screening, but that could be operator error...I was trying to tweak my RAM a bit to get it at rated settings. I left it all at default to get it to install properly.

My mobo refuses to do anything if I even look at the CPU multiplier funny. I upped it by 1, and it refused to post, refused to beep, just froze. I had to reset the CMOS (the little button is nifty). Also, the voltages are completely off-limits to me, all set to auto and uneditable

I'm fairly new to overclocking, so there's a decent chance I'm just an idiot. Any ideas?

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wow lol whats up with that??

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It was a dumb decision lol.

I might just buy a x3 and use it for a linux rig.

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lol the crosshair 3 looks like crap... only 2 pcie express slots... WAY overpriced.... dont waste your money...

I vouch MSI, and yes like the other guy said ALWAYS update the bios before you begin to do anything, after getting the latest bios update it will overclock like a dream

here is Tomshardware review of the best AM3 board.. the MSI took the cake
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...-am3,2277.html

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You wish the crosshair 3 was crap. And that review. MSI didn't "Take the cake" the asus board would have one if it was cheaper.

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Thank you! It clearly says that most of the editors would have chosen the gigabyte too.

Ok so I played around alittle bit last night. Here are a few results so far... doing big, but just a start. The BIOS on this board has so many options that I have yet to tackle. I used the newest version of AMD OverDrive 3.0 and had great results. I also updated the BIOS to the latest version via the MSI BIOS Update tool. So newest BIOS and newest AMD OD tool:

First test was bumping up the Bus without the mulitplier. I didn't go far with it, but I did get to 210 on the Bus without having to change any voltage on my Crucial which is running @ 1.6V.

Second test was applying the multipler. I got the BSOD when I went to 3.5GHz. So I went up on the CPU VID to 1.35V and I was able to get it to 3.5GHz without the BSOD.

Next I did a little bit of multipler and Bus. I got it stable at 210 on the Bus and 16.5 on multipler. Voltage was set to 1.35V on CPU and 1.6V on MeM. This put me at 3.465GHz.

This was just a little bit of OCing and I know I can get more. I've just got to play around with the Voltages some more. I'll post more results as I get new ones.