msi 790 fx-gd70 thread

[nicky.82uk]

i just asked some thats all for there setting to test it out all cooling temps are fine

[nicky.82uk]

Field Value
Sensor Properties
Sensor Type CPU, HDD (ISA 600h)

Temperatures
CPU #1 / Core #1 34 °C (93 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 34 °C (93 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #3 34 °C (93 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #4 34 °C (93 °F)
Seagate ST31000340AS 40 °C (104 °F)

Cooling Fans
CPU 28 RPM
Chassis 33 RPM
Power Supply 77 RPM

Voltage Values
CPU Core 1.43 V

[shadow_419]

Find your best overclock leaving nb, ram, and ht stock first. You can play with those after if you want to squeeze out a little more performance.

[TurboDiv]

I finally installed everything. Im still on V1.0 BIOS which appears to be pretty stable. I guess it only underclocks my CPU a little to 1.332 but that doesnt affect the stability of the system. So far its been blending on prime 95 for a few hours with no issues. Yesterday i was torturing it on LinX for about an hour which it passed perfectly on stock speeds. I'll start clocking it soon and see how it goes. So far on stock speeds temperature is 53 max on full load and its baking hot outside and in my room...

[gOtVoltage]

Nicky

Hows the 955 par up heatwise to your i7.

I know there two different animals , just curiouse what ya think . Since you own Both

[nicky.82uk]

yea give me 30mins there a small puppy at the back of my house i'm trying to get it and bring it in for some food and milk cute thing aswell

[shadow_419]

I finally installed everything. Im still on V1.0 BIOS which appears to be pretty stable. I guess it only underclocks my CPU a little to 1.332 but that doesnt affect the stability of the system. So far its been blending on prime 95 for a few hours with no issues. Yesterday i was torturing it on LinX for about an hour which it passed perfectly on stock speeds. I'll start clocking it soon and see how it goes. So far on stock speeds temperature is 53 max on full load and its baking hot outside and in my room...

Of all the bios revisions, v 1.0 is the devil for me. I've gotten a better overclock with v 1.3 and when I do have to reset cmos because of a failed overclock attempt I don't get any failure to post. I'd flash to the newest bios asap.

[nicky.82uk]

Nicky

Hows the 955 par up heatwise to your i7.

I know there two different animals , just curiouse what ya think . Since you own Both

they are both nice but the intel easy to overclock

[Tony]

gentlemen

I have a question, its a little OT but kinda interested to know.


Are you enjoying the GD70...in much the same way that we used to enjoy the Ultra D or Expert boards?

[chew*]

gentlemen

I have a question, its a little OT but kinda interested to know.


Are you enjoying the GD70...in much the same way that we used to enjoy the Ultra D or Expert boards?

Bad question for the wrong guy Tony......My DFI were all DOA, never got to use one......

So I'm enjoying it much more but reserve full comment until I freeze it

[Assassin48]

i am thinking of putting my gd70 on dice

what you guys think?
is it safe enough with the latest bios

[Nedjo]

I'm in line with chew*!

GD70 is much better and "intelligent" mobo than any LP...

It's much more intuitive to tweak, and "ergonomics" of the BIOS is far better.

It requires its own approach (no big jumps in HTT O'cing... just 5-by-5 steps) in tweaking, but its far less frustrating in contrast to LP when something goes wrong...

Also I dare to say that PWM-vise and generally quality-vise GD70 is much ahead... just mine 2 cents

[Tony]

Ok keep em coming please

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Just got my OCZ animal 1600 7-7-7 1.65v AMD edition and a Xigmatek thors hammer so I can actually get to overclocking tonight

[Riska]

I have the GD70 also and a Phenom 955 and i have tryed under it LN2 and it is a strong board and it clocks easely..

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=576484

http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=858726

I dont now about the red cros in cpuz i got it from 5ghz all the way up to 6.4ghz and i tryed with 4 diffrent versions of cpuz and 4 diffrent octools and also tryed to boot from bios at 6ghz but still the same red cros?

[shadow_419]

I must be lucky, I bought both the gd-70 and ultra-d from newegg open box and have never had a problem with either. The dfi was bare, not even a cpu cooler retention bracket, but I was able to overclock an opty 165 to 2.8ghz 24/7. It was harder to get there on the dfi, but with your handy dandy bios cd Tony (thank you) I was able to get a great overclock for nearly 3 years. The biggest problem with the dfi for me was getting the ram squared away, but it ran great for me once that got taken care of.

[MadDias]

gentlemen

I have a question, its a little OT but kinda interested to know.


Are you enjoying the GD70...in much the same way that we used to enjoy the Ultra D or Expert boards?

never owned an expert or ultra d, but a rdx200 (the first ati based chipset mobo from dfi, when i remember correctly).
i know the expert boards weren´t as quirky as the rdx200 and had a much better bios support. but i still enjoyed clocking on my rdx and reached that magic 3ghz with an opty165.
i´m definately enjoying the gd70 much the same way as i enjoyed my lp board.
just missing a few more memory dividers, i think the lp had more than twice as much mem dividers but nowadays we have unlocked cpus that don´t cost an arm and a leg, such as the fx cpus did a few years ago, so mem dividers aren´t really an issue.
i like my gd70

[TurboDiv]

Hey guys, its me again... BIOS v1.0 is officially bad. As soon as i changed the CPU VDD to anything rather than "auto" the system would not post and i had to clear CMOS everytime. So, i flashed to the official v1.3 BIOS as suggested above and i am reborn !!! MSI has done it !!! This motherboard rocks now- It does not go "black hole" on me when i change voltages for CPU VDD anymore . The memory compatibility is reworked or something and now it properly recognizes my memory - Patriot Viper 1600 7-7-7-20 1T. So far im extremely happy. Benching right now on 3.4GHz stock volts and stock all others. So far it passed an hour or so on Prime95 blend but im pretty confident that it will be stable on these settings. CPU temp has reached 55 degrees on max load but my room is extremely hot in this weather (cooler is Ultra-120 vanilla). My goal is to reach something like 3.7Ghz and to not go over 65 degrees under full load on extreme hot weather. So far this looks very doable but i want to go there slowly. Totally awesome~!!!

Edit:
Forgot to ask, whats the best software for temperature measuring on the Phenom II 955 ? I am using CoreTemp but it only shows 1 temp reading, nothing for the other cores. OCCT has readings for all 4 cores but is it accurate ? thanks.

[Sparky]

I must be lucky, I bought both the gd-70 and ultra-d from newegg open box and have never had a problem with either. The dfi was bare, not even a cpu cooler retention bracket, but I was able to overclock an opty 165 to 2.8ghz 24/7. It was harder to get there on the dfi, but with your handy dandy bios cd Tony (thank you) I was able to get a great overclock for nearly 3 years. The biggest problem with the dfi for me was getting the ram squared away, but it ran great for me once that got taken care of.

My gd70 was an "open box" too (everything inside was sealed though, so basically a new board for 100 bucks ).

My old opteron 165 got to 2.8GHz almost too easy on my old Asus A8R32-MVP. 3GHz chip if only my ram hadn't sucked

Still need to make the push to 3.8-4GHz on the 955 but I'm just enjoying using it at 3.6GHz for the moment.

[shadow_419]

Yeah I got the gd-70 "open box" with everything but the outside box sealed to, but I paid $117 and wouldn't think twice about doing it again. I got my opty to 2.9 stable but the heat was too much in my old case and my ram wouldn't cooperate either. The only pair of g.skill uccc ddr500 that wouldn't do one more mhz of overclock. lol

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

heres how far I have gotten tonight - thoughts? how much more CPU voltage can I do? (given my idle load temps seen in monitor)

(single card 4890)



http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=11121344

personally I have found this PHII 955 hella easy to clock... its like a walk in the park coming from a DFI board

[Sampsa]

Testing MSI 790FX-GD70 with 4 x ATI Radeon HD 4890 and Phenom II X4 ES under LN2 didn't go that well

I prepared everything with air cooling. Graphics cards were running @ 980/1115 MHz with fans blowing full speed. 3DMark03 score was around 108500 with Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition @ 3,6 GHz & NB 2,7 GHz. I used Corsair DDR3-1800 memory @ ~860 MHZ 7-7-7-20 1T.



Then I switched to my Phenom II X4 ES CPU which I just recently tested with LN2 on Asus Crosshair III Formula @ 6,328 GHz (1,785 V). I insulated Socket AM3 area and mounted F1 EE pot on CPU and started cooling it down with LN2.

When temperature was around -120 Celsius I started adjusting some settings from BIOS. I set up clock speed to 5 GHz and raised vcore to 1,6V but when I saved the settings system would boot/post no matter what. I cleared the CMOS and system started immediately with default settings. Soon temperature had dropped to -190 Celsius and I was still struggling to boot/post the system.



Everytime I tried to change something from BIOS, three red leds turned on on graphics cards and debug-leds on mobo showed FF. Nothing happened from reset button. System just wouldn't boot/post but after clearing CMOS it started without issues. I even tried not to change any settings from bios but no luck.

I let the container warm up a little and around -170 Celsius the system suddenly started. I quickly adjusted voltages from BIOS and thought I could change everything else with AMD OverDrive from Windows. Well.. CPU @ 3,1 GHz, 1,75V core, 1,45V NB and 2,12V to DDR3 cause system to completely shut down during loading Vista and it never woke up again.



After I warmed up the CPU I removed heatsink from motherboard and noticed that one of the Dr. MOS chips had failed. Seems like 1,75V was way too much for GD70's PWM. I've been using even higher voltages (1,75 - 1,875 V) with Asus M4A79T Deluxe and Crosshair III Formula. With early samples we used +1,9V with Gigabyte 790GX and DFI 790FX boards.

The worst part is that of course motherboard took the CPU with it and both are now dead.

Be carefull with GD70 and extreme cooling / voltages

[msimax]

your not the only one this has happen too

[Sparky]

So basically, gd70 good for air/water guys but not for extreme cooling guys.

[shadow_419]

Right, so all you extreme cooling guys send your gd-70's back to newegg. I need a "new" open box deal for a new build. lol