Gigabyte MA790FX DS5

[Lightman]

Vista? It seems performance is worse in Vista then in XP then because those scores are still very low for the clocks. Lightman got around 3900 2k6 CPU score IIRC at 2.6GHz. The bandwidth is especially bad, like single channel.

This is Sandra with the support patch at around DRR2-840 4-4-4-4 with apps in background (WCG) running:



Yours should be much higher.

Yes, but it was XP MCE... I tried Vista and at the same 2640MHz I've got around 3700 CPU score.... for Microsoft

[KTE]

Ah OK.

[MorLipf]

Is it possible to disable the TLB-patch in current and future BIOS-versions?

[dehx]

Gigbyte F3b & F3C Bios allows to disable the TLB erratum patch

Currently, I have mine disabled.

[funkflix]

Hi,

can you tell me the max. values of Vdimm and Vcore in bios please? Searching for a "cheap" board for some dryice sessions.

Thanks in advance!

[AlabamaCajun]

Now, run Folding@Home or Prime95 and see if it stays up more than a hour. Folding, it reboots within one hour :bang head

[dehx]

Hi,

can you tell me the max. values of Vdimm and Vcore in bios please? Searching for a "cheap" board for some dryice sessions.

Thanks in advance!

Max Vcore is 1.2500 + 0.4000 = max 1.65000 vcore
Max VDimm is 2.4

Now, run Folding@Home or Prime95 and see if it stays up more than a hour. Folding, it reboots within one hour :bang head

It passes Orthos stressing all four cores for 10 hours. Good enough for me.

[KTE]

Now, run Folding@Home or Prime95 and see if it stays up more than a hour. Folding, it reboots within one hour :bang head

Yours does?
It will only do that if its unstable. I'm folding full 4 cores for over 4 days now at stock volts (24/7) but at 2.42GHz 1.98GHz NB/HT without problems.

[dehx]

Yours does?
It will only do that if its unstable. I'm folding full 4 cores for over 4 days now at stock volts (24/7) but at 2.42GHz 1.98GHz NB/HT without problems.

You cant get above 230 FSB?

I thought MSI/DFI had NB multi's to throttle your upward climb to 250+

I'm glad I got the DS5

[KTE]

You cant get above 230 FSB?

I thought MSI/DFI had NB multi's to throttle your upward climb to 250+

I'm glad I got the DS5

4 weeks I had up to 264HT max attainable. Now I can only get upto ~232HT ref. max the last I tried (which was 4 days ago). I'm running this speed to check for the bug, instability at stock volts and to test WCG performance (in comparison to Q6600).

[dehx]

Ok, I can go over 260 FSB. I was being caitious with the HTT and CHipset voltage. did a +0.25 bump at I can boot stable with em. I'll be running some stresses and putting pics up shortly.


On a further note, Prime and Orthos fail with this CPU running over 2650 Mhz.

[AlabamaCajun]

This thing is unstable ugly!
I've tried different sticks of RAM and various timings and nothing works just ups and reboots after anything is running load for any period of time. I've only seen it stable on the 2nd day I had it. I swear it folded all night at 2.4G but later when I was messing around with the clocks I found it at 2.2G.
On F3 (final release and Beta) if I as much as touch manual ram timings, beeeeeeeeep! No recovery, no post.

[dehx]

This thing is unstable ugly!
I've tried different sticks of RAM and various timings and nothing works just ups and reboots after anything is running load for any period of time. I've only seen it stable on the 2nd day I had it. I swear it folded all night at 2.4G but later when I was messing around with the clocks I found it at 2.2G.
On F3 (final release and Beta) if I as much as touch manual ram timings, beeeeeeeeep! No recovery, no post.

What slots are you running them in, I am running mine in the TWO YELLOW slots near the CPU.

I'm running Bios F3b, also, here are some other things I have set:

Cool n Quite: Disabled

(If your going over 240HTT, set chipset and HTT voltages to +0.25)

If you keep freezing in the BIOS, set Optimal Settings, reboot, then set all of your setting at once.

I have found that the BIOS always freezes after about 10 second from entering it, unless Optimal Settings are applied.

I'm going to be making a tweak guide this week for the DS5. (DS6?)

[AlabamaCajun]

Yellow slots, red slots, one red one yellow. Seems the only one that works it the first red or first yellow. Just reboots which is the sign of a RAM issue.
I'm at stock but have tried a little OC just to see how it behaves.
I've got a trouble ticket in to GA for advice on whether send back or fix.

[dehx]

Yellow slots, red slots, one red one yellow. Seems the only one that works it the first red or first yellow. Just reboots which is the sign of a RAM issue.
I'm at stock but have tried a little OC just to see how it behaves.
I've got a trouble ticket in to GA for advice on whether send back or fix.

Before you send it back, try your ram sticks in two slots of the same color. That is, put them both in the two yellow slots next to each other. I've been trying to tell everyone I know that this DS5 board is not set up normally.

Channel A is slot 1(yellow) and slot 3 (red), and Channel B is slot 2 (Yellow) and slot 4. Wheras Both yellow would normally be Channel A and both Red woudl be Channel B.

If you have a Dual Channel kit, You MUST run them in dual channel or its going to be unstable.

[AlabamaCajun]

The only way to get DC is to put them in mathing colored slots. This one registers as DC but channel B is week with the Phenom. I'm going to drop a 3600 Brisbane in it and see if it will oc worth a hoot in DC mode. The 4600 did with dual channel.

[nate39]

This board can take RAM that is rated for 1.9 to 2.2 right? I just can't find any documentation saying this. thanks

[Cieben]

This board would not run on my Geil (micron d9) Cas3 chips.
I got some Corsair Cas4s and it runs great. 303 bus. 2.1 volts ram. This is the best motherboard I've had. Love it.

[dehx]

My OCZ 1066 Are Micron d9 (scratch head)

And yes, you have the option of going all the way up to 2.3 v on this boards bios.

It won't let you over 2.3 v, cause that damages the phenom,. I dunno about A64

[nate39]

thanks there is a great deal with OCZ today that I want to get,

http://www.ncixus.com/products/index.php?sku=19337

[AlabamaCajun]

This board will do 2.2V+ but just don't try it on a Phenom. See the IMC voltage thread.

[Cooper]

This board will do 2.2V+ but just don't try it on a Phenom. See the IMC voltage thread.

Can you give a link please

[dehx]

This board will do 2.2V+ but just don't try it on a Phenom. See the IMC voltage thread.

I believe that the 2.3 Volts was the scary number? I've been running mine at 2.2 for the last month and a half, no problems.

[Cieben]

dehx.
Today I put my Geil D9s back in and they worked. Thanks for the nudge.

[drod910]

Phenom 9500...can't overclock hardly, and problems when higly stressing out at stock settings:

Phenom 9500
2x2GB G.Skill 800mhz = 4GB
GIGABYTE MA790FX-DS5 board
Zalman 9500 (giant fan)
x1950PRO 512MB Power Color Vid Card

At stock settings: (optimized defaults in bios)
I ran the OCCT stress tests...first one auto (which is both CPU and Memory i'm guessing) and BSOD both times in 12-20 minutes out of 30 minutes (error:a clock interupt was not received on a secondary processor within the alocated time interval). BSOD while these tests were running and i was opening another program / app.

Then the third time I ran it on just memory it was fine, then i ran it again on both mem and cpu and worked just fine, then i ran it for 5 hours on both CPU and Memory just fine (note: let the stress test run without intefering with the computer)

....then i really stressed it by running AMD Overdrives bench util, prime 95, and OCCT....that completely hard locked up with no BSOD in about 10 minutes.

Note: I ran memtest86+ of a bootable disc and let it go through almost 1.5 passes (about an hour of testing) memory came out fine, error free. Tried removing one stick, tried swapping the sticks, bsod was still present, so i'm confident it's not the memory.

overclocked fsb to 210:
The same BSOD error as soon as it booted up varying from a few seconds of loading bar of vista, to about 2 minutes into OS. At this point i'm concluding it's related to either the processor or the mother board....playing with the HT from Auto, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 2.0 (FSB), I was able to get into varying stages of how far into windows i could get before it BSOD'd. Even played with the HTT(Hypter Transport Transmit) volt and HTR (Hyper Transport Receive) voltage {0,+0.05}, {.05, 0}, {+.05,+.05} ...BSOD came even faster playing with the voltages... even incremented the CPU voltage 1 step at at time and rebooted a few times upping it each time with no luck.

In conclusion ...BSOD shows on stock settings running multiple stress tests and/or doing something simple while the stress test is going, such as opening another application in some instances)... raising the FSB makes the error much more prominent that it barely gets into windows fully if it even makes it that far. At FSB 205, and most notably at FSB 210.

Do I have a POS (Piece Of *****) processor? Your thoughts? Anyone?

Thanks, Dave.