Quick Preview of MSI 990FXA-GD80 Motherboard

[|ron]

Gratz fabio! The funny thing is that cpuz continues to read 1,912v when you were at a liiiiitle higher voltage this time

[Mafio]

lol @ CPUZ

[ah_khoo]

great jobs there Fabio...

[Mafio]

thanks mate

[Hondacity]

i spidersense 7ghz

[ReggieSanchez]

nice results mafio....this motherboard is fine with elpida hypers must be your chip. Just passed 32m @940mhz 6-5-5-20-1t it was windows 7 though so time was terrible im installing xp now.

[Mafio]

nice results mafio....this motherboard is fine with elpida hypers must be your chip. Just passed 32m @940mhz 6-5-5-20-1t it was windows 7 though so time was terrible im installing xp now.

thanks

940 MHz with tRCD 5 ? what kind of crazy hypers do you have ?
what CPU are you using ? deneb like me or thuban ?

[ReggieSanchez]

I am using thuban only had amd for a few nights. I have been doing more testing and it seems when memory is set to unlinked I can get away with quite a bit but performance stinks.... this is prolly old news to you. When memory is linked so far best I can get stable is this and it beats the crap out of unlinked 6-5-5-15 at same speeds.


I am running out of room to play on air.


oh yea this is just the corsair 1600mhz 6-6-6-20 kit nothing special.

[BeepBeep2]

nice results mafio....this motherboard is fine with elpida hypers must be your chip. Just passed 32m @940mhz 6-5-5-20-1t it was windows 7 though so time was terrible im installing xp now.

I really wanna see a screenshot of this.
6-6-5 nice under 1.8v, 6-5-5 above 1700 is pretty impossible I believe.

My STT do 32M 936 6-6-6-17 1.78v, 6-6-5 about 915 I'd imagine. 6-5-5 is in 700 land. 5-6-5 800 land...
chew* had coldbugs with Hypers and LN2 below -80...

I had unrelated troubles with Hypers at DICE temps, about -60...did 936 on air, mere 870 on dice.

[Particle]

Any feel for how this board compares with the Crosshair V? I'm still debating which board I'll pick for my BD upgrade. The GD80 has the best PCIe slot arrangement for my needs, but I'm curious about comparative efficiency and maximum overclock frequencies for RAM and CPU.

[ReggieSanchez]

I really wanna see a screenshot of this.
6-6-5 nice under 1.8v, 6-5-5 above 1700 is pretty impossible I believe.

My STT do 32M 936 6-6-6-17 1.78v, 6-6-5 about 915 I'd imagine. 6-5-5 is in 700 land. 5-6-5 800 land...
chew* had coldbugs with Hypers and LN2 below -80...

I had unrelated troubles with Hypers at DICE temps, about -60...did 936 on air, mere 870 on dice.

hey whats up beepbeep yea ill get some shots up right now. Can anyone explain what the diffrence to linked vs. unlinked memory is??? Seems like same thing as performance level on asus 775 boards it just loosens latency is there more to it than that or no???

[saint19]

Very good mobo, maybe off of topic but here is a little review from the GD80's little brother. The GD65

https://www.overclocking-tv.com/cont...gd65-reviewed/

[ReggieSanchez]

so unlinked means only boots in with set timings on one stick of ram. Thats why I could run those timings because one stick was set to as low as cputweaker would let me and the other stick was running @6-11-11- or something like that. I just got amd NOOBED

[Mafio]

ya, unlinked mode lets you set different timings for each channel...pretty useless imho.
it's just like expert and quick in Gigabyte bioses.

edit: GD65 looks really solid, just saw you did wprime at 6300 MHz with a six core

[saint19]

ya, unlinked mode lets you set different timings for each channel...pretty useless imho.
it's just like expert and quick in Gigabyte bioses.

edit: GD65 looks really solid, just saw you did wprime at 6300 MHz with a six core

Yeah, was more that I was thinking at the begining.

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[ReggieSanchez]

Never froze amd before can you guys suggest a good stopping point for cpu-nb voltage im guessing thats what kills chips yea. I am going to be looking for 3d clocks so most likely use vantage cpu tests as stability indicator.

Thanks

[Mafio]

i'm not an AMD expert but here i used 1.65 volt when going cold with my 955.
less than 1.65 volt gives me strange issue, kinda like the memory controller is coldbugging.

[saint19]

i'm not an AMD expert but here i used 1.65 volt when going cold with my 955.
less than 1.65 volt gives me strange issue, kinda like the memory controller is coldbugging.

AFAIK, AMD have coldboot.

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[Mafio]

i've no coldboot at all here, only strange behavior when cpu-nb is overclocked and its voltage is lower than 1.65 volt.

[ReggieSanchez]

cool thanks im glad I asked hopefully some results soon. I think this is a decent enough chip from what I have read but dont have anything to compare to so ill find out.

[ah_khoo]

finally i'll have d time to test d board again... can't wait to test d new 1090t on this board... i'm eager to see how will d chip fare if compared to CHV Formula...

[ah_khoo]

my latest attempt...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...CZ_2K6-9-6.png

[Mafio]

wooot, a new bios is out

http://download1.msi.com/files/downl...xe/7640vB4.zip

edit: 11.4 have a fancy UEFI gui

[AlleyViper]

so unlinked means only boots in with set timings on one stick of ram. Thats why I could run those timings because one stick was set to as low as cputweaker would let me and the other stick was running @6-11-11- or something like that. I just got amd NOOBED

Isn't this related to the Ganged/Unganged setting? Many boards don't allow you to set timings independently when Unganged with 2 sticks, despite the possibility. Running memory controllers unlinked is the most popular option for multithread performance.

[ah_khoo]

latest attempt on cas7...