Gigabyte MA790FX DQ6

**S1nn3r** · 10-15-2007, 07:20 AM

Anyone else here ordered one of these ? .. am toying with the idea of going fully ATI/AMD(current setup is ATI vid/Nvidia chipset/AMD 939 proc)and this board is now in stock at Scan so its kinda tempting ...

The thing giveing me pause is that the layout is rather bizzare, and im not realy sure if it actuly makes dual crossfire'ed 2900's imposible or not .. realy hard to tell and Gigabytes website has yet to be updated with the product page yet alone the manual.

**Morais** · 10-15-2007, 07:56 AM

I dont think they got it in stock now...I think its possible to use dual 2900 CF , but no triple or quad CF, only if you got single slot cooler, like the new RV670 GDDR3

**S1nn3r** · 10-15-2007, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by Morais

I dont think they got it in stock now...I think its possible to use dual 2900 CF , but no triple or quad CF, only if you got single slot cooler, like the new RV670 GDDR3

They have 6 of them in stock as of around 4pm today. I have no interest in tripple or quad CF, only posssibly dual at a latter date.

**S1nn3r** · 10-15-2007, 10:01 AM

So it looks like ill be the first on XS if i get one of these. Question is do i go into uncharted territory or not and will you guys hold my hand if i get scared ?

hmm

**VulgarHandle** · 10-15-2007, 10:06 AM

don't be scurred child, we are here for you :P

**roadie** · 10-15-2007, 10:07 AM

£162 is rather bloody expensive!

**BadNizze** · 10-15-2007, 10:42 AM

Getting mine on Wensday! "Rilised for packaing" as of know

It will shipp tomorrow I think! Cant´t wait!

**Lightman** · 10-15-2007, 11:19 AM

WOW! This came so suddenly!

I can't resist!

Must have this board now ....

Have to be nice to my wife tonight!

Thanks for info! I'm getting this mobo this week!

**S1nn3r** · 10-15-2007, 03:04 PM

Well its done ordered the board plus the following for the rebuild (anything not on list is being scavanged from existing system i.e DDR2,Optical etc) -

Gigabyte MA790FX-DQ
Zalman CNPS9700-LED
ATI Radeon HD2900 PRO
Antec P182
4400+ Brisbane
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 (the red Crossfire edition naturaly)

**S1nn3r** · 10-15-2007, 04:44 PM

Been looking around and this board hasnt shown up on Gigabytes web page as yet .. nor has AMDs pages got any mention of 790X chipset. Overall the amount of "Noise" on teh internets about 790X seems to be pretty much non existent.. not sure what kind of omen this is realy but i guess ill find out in a few days.

**Baron** · 10-15-2007, 04:52 PM

Here you got S1nn3r.

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2007/giga...790-DQ6/g1.htm

**S1nn3r** · 10-15-2007, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Baron

Here you got S1nn3r.

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2007/giga...790-DQ6/g1.htm

Already seen that ..

Seems as far as 790X goes AMD/Gigabyte marketing is asleep. Hopefully this means its gonna be a sleeper hit or something, guess me and BadNizze will find out soon enough.

**PhilDoc** · 10-15-2007, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by S1nn3r

Already seen that ..

Seems as far as 790X goes AMD/Gigabyte marketing is asleep. Hopefully this means its gonna be a sleeper hit or something, guess me and BadNizze will find out soon enough.

If you can translate Turkish, I believe one of the forum members from the preview site said the Turkish Gigabyte site had at least had the specs up.

**Lightman** · 10-16-2007, 02:55 AM

It's quiet on vendors sites because official launch is next month!

Ideally I would like to hold on for MSI version due to layout, but I'm not sure if can resist!

**S1nn3r** · 10-16-2007, 06:20 AM

Originally Posted by Lightman

It's quiet on vendors sites because official launch is next month!

Ideally I would like to hold on for MSI version due to layout, but I'm not sure if can resist!

Wow, next month huh. Wonder what Scan is playing at haveing it for sale now heh.

**planoru** · 10-16-2007, 12:14 PM

http://translate.google.com/translat...&hl=en&ie=UTF8

**BadNizze** · 10-16-2007, 12:48 PM

Just cheaked track and trace for my 790FX-DQ6, and quess what, I´m getting mine tomorrow! Pitty that I work late thoug.... Got 3 new kits of ram to test with it

One kit of Ballistix PC8500, one Ballistix PC5300 CL3 and a 2*512 kit of Team extrem PC6400 CL4. Hopping my 6400+ Black Edition likes 790FX power to!

**Lightman** · 10-16-2007, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by BadNizze

Just cheaked track and trace for my 790FX-DQ6, and quess what, I´m getting mine tomorrow! Pitty that I work late thoug.... Got 3 new kits of ram to test with it

One kit of Ballistix PC8500, one Ballistix PC5300 CL3 and a 2*512 kit of Team extrem PC6400 CL4. Hopping my 6400+ Black Edition likes 790FX power to!

Good that you will get it tomorrow!
I'm probably going to work away from tomorrow till Friday again!

But on Saturday I will bench all day (with burn in test when F1 quali on tv

)!

**S1nn3r** · 10-16-2007, 05:08 PM

Seems my thread has generated some interest in this board .. go me i guess

Originally Posted by BadNizze

Just cheaked track and trace for my 790FX-DQ6, and quess what, I´m getting mine tomorrow! Pitty that I work late thoug.... Got 3 new kits of ram to test with it

One kit of Ballistix PC8500, one Ballistix PC5300 CL3 and a 2*512 kit of Team extrem PC6400 CL4. Hopping my 6400+ Black Edition likes 790FX power to!

Seems you will get yours a day or two before me so be sure to come back here once you got it up and running and let us/me know first impressions and all that

I have a Mushkin 6400 low latancy 2GB Kit from my very much mothballed(for a number of reasons) C2D build(the remains of which will probibily go up here for sale in the next week or so) so will be testing with that along with stuff from my AMD rig (optical etc). Would have liked to have gotten a Black Edition but well couldnt justify it budget wise so im gonna milk the 4400+ for all its worth.

**S1nn3r** · 10-16-2007, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by planoru

http://translate.google.com/translat...&hl=en&ie=UTF8

Looks like a overall positive review there id say, from what i could gather from the garbled translation anyway. And that was a pre production board no less.

**macci** · 10-16-2007, 06:49 PM

ES board (Rev. 0.3) with nearly 2 month old BIOS in that (p)review (it was a solid board already at that point though)...

**RonindeBeatrice** · 10-16-2007, 08:17 PM

Lol wut?... The earliest launch date of the 790 boards is the fifth correct?

Scan is going to get reamed by AMD for this...

**Lightman** · 10-17-2007, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by RonindeBeatrice

Lol wut?... The earliest launch date of the 790 boards is the fifth correct?

Scan is going to get reamed by AMD for this...

I don't care as far as they will dispatch my baby today

!

@Macci: Is this board improving mem bandwidth so much compared to 690G as shown in this review?
Any hints regarding tweaking this chipset? Thanks in advance!

**Kasparz** · 10-17-2007, 12:09 AM

Can somebody test this board compared to NF570/590? I heard rumors that AM2+ boards will be few % faster than AM2 with K8 CPU's.

**krampak** · 10-18-2007, 01:35 PM

@Macci: Is this board improving mem bandwidth so much compared to 690G as shown in this review?

I'm the author of that review and I'm still have doubts about my own results lol

I don't really know if I did something wrong in the 690G mobos (it shouldn't as superpi times were OK), but the difference is really big.

btw, i've recived four HD2600XT's samples today, but even with a single slot cooling solution they don't feet

The screws from the back of the card make it impossible to run four cards, as u can see in this pic:

I was going to try TriFire now, but it suddenly stoped to work... and now doesn't post :S I'll try it again on monday.

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