Gigabyte MA790FX DQ6

[Lightman]

I'm back with some reports

First of all BIOS F1 is a bit buggy but I can live with it for now...

HTT speed I reported was stable, I did 3DMark01 run and 06 at that settings .

Now I have some good news as for performance of this board and some not that good news regarding ATiTool working on it (under XP x64)...

The good news is:



it's rock stable and performing well at 3500MHz/1.502V with power consumption 40W lower than same configured system on nF570U!

Bad news is ATiTool 0.27b2 is blue screening my system everytime I'm trying to load it

[Psycho_eddie]

Heya lightman, try using Rivatuner 2.05?

Seems all DFI bords are buggy, unstable,die etc... Im not sure weather to take the plundge and get this New MSN 790FX or wait till the Asus 790FX wich layout i prefur

[freeloader]

I'm back with some reports

First of all BIOS F1 is a bit buggy but I can live with it for now...

HTT speed I reported was stable, I did 3DMark01 run and 06 at that settings .

Now I have some good news as for performance of this board and some not that good news regarding ATiTool working on it (under XP x64)...

The good news is:



it's rock stable and performing well at 3500MHz/1.502V with power consumption 40W lower than same configured system on nF570U!

Bad news is ATiTool 0.27b2 is blue screening my system everytime I'm trying to load it

Try to stay away from ATITool betas. They've blue screened my AMD system as well.

[Psycho_eddie]

Badnizzie... for your 400x8 setting you did 3 hours or so prime stable... at what Vcore was that... Lowest Vcore i can do is 1.5V!

[Lightman]

I'm going to do what Saaya was doing so far...

Heya lightman, try using Rivatuner 2.05?

Seems all DFI bords are buggy, unstable,die etc... Im not sure weather to take the plundge and get this New MSN 790FX or wait till the Asus 790FX wich layout i prefur

Heh I'm using RivaTuner but I can't adjust vgpu to try score over 12K in 3DM06...
My personal experience with MSI was pretty good !

I bit of a bump in da road for me, I get rounding errors in prime 95, blend test. At previosly stable settings... Testing Small Ftt´s know? Rounding errors is memory right? Psu new, Corsair Hx620w, rock solid! Memory is Crucial ballistic 8500 4-4-4-18 1T, 2,2v.

I have problems with Crucial D9GMH over 1000MHz+ on 4-4-4 timings and it feels like this BIOS is not yet finished to get everything possible from these sticks! On the other side this mobo is flying with 1T rate up to 950MHz+ in my case...

Could be that these bords are really too new... buggy.. maby need to wait for newer revisions .. or new bios might fix..

All Am2 mobos are 1000 (2000Mhz HT)... what is max rated for these new 790FX series?

I also hope that new BIOS will fix all issues!
As of HTT this one is 2000 (4000MHz) ready! In other words it's HT3.0 capable ....

Agred, Temps was good, so i don´t think it´s damaged! Switched to my other set of Ballistic Pc5300 Cl kit, and it ran thru SuperPi 32Mb without issues! Quite a good time for me to! Ati virus, msn and firewall running.


Priming blend know as I type, First 10 min ok. Other set did not make it thru first 15 min.

Lightman: Have you tested if there is a differens in yellow\red slotts in terms of oc? Great Oc BTW 3,5 is nice!

Nice run!
Regarding DIMM slots I've tested both yellow and red ones and they seems to be same in terms of OC from our Crucials...

Try to stay away from ATITool betas. They've blue screened my AMD system as well.

OK! What OS you're running? I personally would like to use ATT but it doesn't support R600 yet... ATITool was useful to OC my card to the limit, so I'm in pain without it!