New bios for Gigabyte 790FX-DS5?

[Carath]

I've just found it on Gigabyte's website (http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_Model.aspx?ProductID=2694). Is it much different then F4f?

[Daveburt714]

I flashed it a couple days ago Carath. No new options that I noticed in Bios, but it did improve stability on the HT Ref clock.

The best I could get before was ~230, been running stable at 250 since flashing F4 final. :up:

[Carath]

Just flashed.

It didn't solve my stability problem with OCZ platinum ram (2x2gb), what is more, now if i manually set fsb clock (still can't get more then 217) and then switch to auto it actually leaves my settings... :shrug:

Any hopes for better ram compatibility?

[Majmac]

Have flashed the F5 BIOS but my computer (Vista-64, SP1; 8GB RAM) will not shut down. It closes down then starts up two seconds later. I have gone through the Power options and set them to as before. Anyone else having this problem? I had no problem with the SP1, it has only happened since flashing the F5 BIOS.

[Majmac]

Just rolled back to F4 and the problem disappeared.
Just a 'heads up' for others. Whatever the problem is, it seems that the change to the F5 BIOS triggered it. I hope that Gigabyte has flagged it on their own test benches!

[nate39]

I have the same problem with my OCZ RAM. I have to set it to 667 to get highter.

[AlabamaCajun]

For what we paid for this board, it should be a solid performer but I have a feeling GA will not be able to solve it. While I have run for over several weeks non-stop with out a restart, I have seen some apps get flakey. I'm running Corsairs as recommended (2x2G DDR2-800) and a GP9500, I still don't think it's absolutely stable like my GA-P35-DS3P which runs the GSkills without a problem (absolutely solid albeit sintel board).

[Loser777]

Whats the diff between this and the DFI-M2RS? I'm leaning towards the DFI board because it can support 3 Dual Slot boards in X-Fire, while this board can only do 2.

[Daveburt714]

Just for the record guys, I flashed the F5 bios and I've had no problems at all... In fact it allowed me to get my NB speed up to 2100Mhz stable, when I could barely run 1930 on the F4 bios.

Might be a memory or 64bit OS problem. My system stats in sig.

[cygnus_x_1]

just flashed to f5 and can finally run the 9900 phenom at full HT/NB speed. was restricted to 1800 for stability up to this bios. also AOD 2.0.17 works with this bios.

[Brother Esau]

I see that DFI Board owners are not alone and we are all struggling to get a solid bios for this Platform even still:rolleyes:

[cygnus_x_1]

finally glad to see that the 9900 ES is running as it should 1066 mem 2000/2000. had been pulling hair out for past few months since i rcvd the cpu trying to get it right. just peeked in the DFI thread, and am still aching for that board.