Quote Originally Posted by spoolindsm127 View Post
I'm also getting terrible 3D scores with bios 1005...what gives?? Is it the same deal with bios 1102?

EDIT: Testing Bios 1102 for myself just to compare between 0901, 1005, and 1102. So far 1102 is a HUGE improvement over 1005. I don't know why it gives such terrible 3D scores but those who are thinking the board is the problem, try the new 1102 or older 0901 bios. 1005 specifically seems to be the problem.

Anyways, will be posting results shortly..

UPDATE: So far have tested Bios 0602, 0901, and 1102. Same configuration to maintain a baseline for comparison: i7-920 @ stock clocks all auto and msi gtx 470 stock clocks with PNY GT 240 dedicated PhysX processor. So far Bios 0901 has the highest 3DMark Vantage score. Now in the process of testing 0704, afterwards which I will test 0802 then retest 1005 and report back.

FINAL UPDATE:

**Not sure what happened with the bios flash the first time around...but during this test session, I cleared CMOS before every flash just to keep things clean. Bios 1005 isn't so bad after all...

3DMARK VANTAGE 1.0.2 'Performance' Setting
i7-920 @ Stock
GTX 470 (Stock) + PNY GT240
Win7 Ultimate x64

BIOS Ver.: 0704, 1005, 0901, 0802, 1102, 0602
3DMarks: 17373, 17271, 17271, 17266, 17226, 17189
GPU Score: 14909, 14893, 14915, 14870, 14875, 14837
CPU Score: 34446, 33156, 32832, 33427, 32761, 32781
IMO your posts shows that all the bios are pretty much equal taking standard bench deviation into account