Gigabyte MA790FX DQ6

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Daveburt714: I have read plenty of reports of the chip degrading and im willing to test this out. I have been overvolting mine for almost 2 weeks now and have not yet had a problem with degrading. Also your theory on the suicide screenshots may be correct in allot of cases but i have been running everything i have including allot of gaming (Crysis) and benchmarks for a couple days now at 3.0Ghz@1.56v and have only had a couple crashes and they were from the display adapter drivers crashing (ATI) wich i have happen when im not CPU overclocked most likely do to the high overclocking I have on my 3 cards. Maybe i just have a very lucky CPU, maybe i have a lucky DQ6 board or chipset who knows.

What sucks is i can only get stable with multi. cant get a decent OC at all with HT bus.

Im just happy realy that im finely getting near the 3dmark scores that Intel chips have been easily hitting. hopefully with the die shrink they will get the clocks up and maybe just maybe the phenom will finely bench like an Intel.

Edit: I have installed my 6400+be in my wifes DS5 board and cant get as high of a stable OC as I had on the DQ6 for 3 months. 3.425 seems to be max on the DS5, had 3.65 on DQ6. Im a little confused with this?

Another issue i could use some advise on is how to keep the bios from reverting back to F2 anytime there is a checksum error and the backup bios wrights to the primary? This is a massive pain in the arss! have to put in a old dual core to post then update back to F4.