GIGABYTE 9xx AM3+ thread

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Started working on the boards.

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[Lightman]

Started working on the boards.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d&goto=newpost

Great news!
I will follow it closely!

BTW my board turned up today as well! The box is really nice according to my female coworkers :-D
Will get to rebuild my PC today after the work but serious tweaking will have to wait till weekend.

[p2501]

New hdd, same problem. As soon as there's an ubuntu boot sector on the drive the board is stuck at code 96. Pull the drive and it boots to FF to notice that there's no system disk present. I don't get it.

[dinos22]

did you try a different HDD controller?

[dinos22]

Great news!
I will follow it closely!

BTW my board turned up today as well! The box is really nice according to my female coworkers :-D
Will get to rebuild my PC today after the work but serious tweaking will have to wait till weekend.

LMAO showing off your motherboard box to the chicks at work.....hahaha you sir are a geek

[p2501]

Yup, I was jumping Sata ports and tried different cables. Also changed out graphics cards... Problem is that even if there's something wrong with the OS, the board itself should reach FF regardless. I had ArchLinux running on this machine before so I guess it's some strange board/OS bug now that it is clear the old hdd wasn't the culprit. Now how do I get the boot sector off the drive if it can't be connected to get the box to boot on CD?!

[dinos22]

have you tried windows just to see if its an OS issue?

[p2501]

I deleted the mbr to be able to boot (cd booted and then hot plugged the disk). Now with the mbr gone the board still is stuck at 96 with the disk plugged in.

[p2501]

Well it was an OS problem. Installed Ubuntu 10.04.2 and all is well...

I'd be interested to know if other can reproduce this issue. -_-;;

[dinos22]

ah ok thanks for chiming in you had me stumped

why do you use linux

[Lightman]

LMAO showing off your motherboard box to the chicks at work.....hahaha you sir are a geek

Aha!

Well, TBH it was more by coincidence than on purpose but the matter of a fact is that this box is nice!

Anyway board is rock stable, clocks memory well, but not yet sure how well coz I had not much time to play yesterday.
One thing I've noticed is that when using RAID on SATA0 - 3 and 4,5 IDE, spamming DEL key to get to BIOS causes mobo to hang at the end of RAID detection. Keyboard reset doesn't work, only hard reset. When pressing DEL only once at the right moment during POST everything is fine. USB keyboard here (G15 v2).

Also AOD v4 can't get CPU clocks right when clocked in BIOS using HTT. It shows lower than real clocks, CPU-Z and ET6 are not affected.

PS. I like that Turbo Core Boost option in BIOS! Sweet, board is Turbocharging up to 5 cores with it enabled!
PS2. dinos22 can you ask nicely people writing BIOS to include Front Audio AC'97/HD mode in it? Now it is hardcoded to HD Audio and I can't use my headphones together with speakers. THANKS!

[dinos22]

hey mate OK i will ask them but it's a bit strange that you want to use headphones AND speakers :s, why is that?

yes i will let them know about USB keyboard, it can be a bit ginger for me too sometimes on steelseries, what i do now is just wait a bit longer before i hit DEL and its ok

[p2501]

ah ok thanks for chiming in you had me stumped

I also am baffled by how something that's on a hdd could keep a mainboard from finishing it's POST. It would be interesting to know what was the cause..

Thanks for your input anyway!

why do you use linux

It's going to be a headless folder/miner.

[eXa]

I can tell you what i used headphones and speakers to at the same time.
When i played wow i had headphones with mic wich i used for VT, then i had the gamesound and/or music on the speakers.

[richierich]

GA-990XA-UD3 at Newegg

[cezar]

Started working on the boards.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d&goto=newpost

The thread doesn't exist anymore ...

[chew*]

The thread doesn't exist anymore ...

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[Aussie FX]

I also am baffled by how something that's on a hdd could keep a mainboard from finishing it's POST. It would be interesting to know what was the cause..

Thanks for your input anyway!



It's going to be a headless folder/miner.

I had exactly the same problem and I had to revert from AHCI to IDE mode to get it to post.

Not fun with a Vertex3.

[p2501]

Amazing, a brand new board that needs a compatibility mode to boot?

Don't get me wrong, it's an superbly stable board (and I really dig that matt black). Can't wait to drop in BD, but as for all new boards the BIOS needs work.

[Baam]

I just got the UD3 and had the same problem booting with AHCI set. Works fine now after i updated to the F3 bios.

[VIP3R]

I just got the UD3 and had the same problem booting with AHCI set. Works fine now after i updated to the F3 bios.

Mine is intermittent, sometimes it will hang with _ flashing at the ahci bios, after a reset it will fly past it.

[Lightman]

AHCI/RAID small issue aside, this board is rock stable!
I was able to match my CHIVF clocks and then add some on top with the same stock CPU voltage and C'n'Q working

Turbo of up to 4.2GHz on 5 cores straight from BIOS is sweet as well!
So far my 24/7 setting with C'n'Q enabled is 218x16.5(x19TC), but more is left on tap as I've already ran this setup at 4212MHz TC for 5 hours with one app hang. On my old board I needed 1.5V for 4.2GHz TC on 3 cores.

Other than that BIOS needs some compatibility updates for AOD and ET6 needs rewrite

[rintamarotta]

hehe almost. I ordered from Webhallen 5 euros cheaper

Komplett.se is good! But I couldnt find much info about international shipping for both shops.

Price war??

Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 107€ (154$ or 979SEK)
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 138€ (199$ or 1263SEK)

I say i got them cheap, just waiting for DHL to deliver them, i bought motherboards from Compuland.

EDIT : Prices are fluctuating every 30min so to up and down, now prices are at 108.57€ and 145.25€, so need to keap eye on the prices.

[Tomasis]

wow 1250 sek for ud5, damn cheap

for same price i bought ud3 however i have the mobo now and forget pricewar it was a bit surprising for me anyway

[rintamarotta]

You should allways check German computer stores, they sell computer parts quite cheap compared to scandinavian prices and shipping is only 30euros for europe, there are some parts that arent cheaper tough (one is watercooling parts)

You really cannot go wrong with eather one of the boards, specially if youre not going for 3-way SLI/Crossfire since UD3 can do full speed 16x/16x 2-way SLI/Crossfire