![]() What bewilders me here is: What can this chip actually do, that other ACPI controllers and BIOS/UEFI code cannot? The answer is quite simple: NOTHING! What shows up then is a simple ACPI controller, the MSI MS-7G, which was developed in-house at MSI. So you can either unsolder it or rip it off by force, which is what I did, since the board was dead anyway. The aluminium piece is not removable, it’s soldered on plated-through holes. Actually, the chip never heats up considerably, so that’s just for covering up what’s underneath. Now what you see here is a thick aluminium block, I suppose a “cooler” for the chip. As if that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. ![]() According to MSI, the graphics card version allows for clock and voltage control. They even use those chips on graphics cards by the way. ![]() MSI marketed that stuff as the super-duper overclocking and systems management chip, reducing heat and power draw as well as increasing performance and enhancing the “user experience” by applying some space magic or whatever. I saw one of those aluminium blocks that said “CoreCell” on it, in my case actually “Dual CoreCell”. At least it overclocks better due to the newer P45 chipset, otherwise that 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo would be a bit too slow.īut now, to the point When I inspected the MSI Platinum 975X visually, something piqued my interest. Not that you’d call that a particularily smart move, but it was the only replacement left. I replaced it with an ASUS P5Q Deluxe by now. Just 2 weeks after i started using the MSI, it hopped right down to hell. That’s especially painful as I have just rebuilt my Windows XP workstation based on this board, as the ASUS P4C800 in my previous Pentium 4 workstation has died of old age (read: died because of 100% dead CPU VRM capacitors). Just recently, a MSI Platinum 975X PowerUp Edition mainboard died at work.
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