**Official DFI LanParty UT 790FX-M2R Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[BadNizze]

Hey, Robert great to see such a fine gentleman posting in my thread I have nothing but respect for you and you're skills and suggestions are always wanted and welcomed and held with high regard. Just wish we saw you stepping out more than you do on the forum you're such a nice person and we could use more of that around here lately

AGREED!!

@BadNizzle.......thanks for the pictures mate I have been wanting to see that since Tony put up the thread over a month ago!

Just say the word if you need more pics! I´m back testing my 9500 on my Gigabyte board. To me It locks like my BE is much weaker then my 9500. Max botable with my BE is 200*13 or 260*10 for 2600mhz, then i can use AMD overdrive to 2700mhz. 2800 will freeze my system! 200*14 will post but reboots before entering windows. I just compleated an 06 run at 2750mhz mhz CPU and 2750mhz NB with my 9500. Board would not post at 2600mhz NB or higer with my 9600 BE 5 mins earler! I´m almost 100% sure that running high NB clocks is a 50\50 split between CPU and motherboard! I will have more screen to back upp my claims tomorrow!

[Brother Esau]

Generally from what I see is that the 9600 BE are not doing well but then again all of the 4 people on the forum with them its kinda hard to make that statement for the masses I don't know man from what I see it appears the lowly Phenom 9500 is doing the best overall and the 9600 Black Edition is not worth getting other than to say you have a Black Edition and pay more money of course

[KTE]

Same here Brother. 9500 looks to be doing best so far but I'm looking to see ≥2.8GHz stable 24/7 with anyone yet. However I've not tested my BE yet to know how it fairs, but should get above 2.6GHz because of a better BIOS based on my last 2 9600s experiences... unless its a total dud.

[BadNizze]

I will give you 2,8Ghz prime stable tomorrow My CPU does 2750 @ 1,392 those extra 50mhz can´t be THAT hard!

It´s WAY past my bed time so it´s time for some Xtreme sleep now

[Brother Esau]

Right on brother get some rest and have a good night

[Brother Esau]

OK.......Have confirmed some of the issues I have posted about the 12/21/07 Beta Bios so there are some issues with it guys you have been briefed already if not read back a page or 2 and you can see the findings Good/Bad that I have found


"New" DFI LanParty UT 790FX-M2R 1/03/08 Beta Bios out!
http://www.dfi.com.tw/Support/Downlo...FLAG=B&SITE=US

[speedlimiter]

"New" DFI LanParty UT 790FX-M2R 1/03/08 Beta Bios out!
http://www.dfi.com.tw/Support/Downlo...FLAG=B&SITE=US

"Improved DRAM compatibility for OC function."

If this is a release to fix the Phenom-OC, could it be, that the limitation that hold us back, is the integrated memory controller of the CPU?

Will test it later today.

[KTE]

You still around BadNizze?

[Brother Esau]

Yes where is that Bad Biscuit at?....Er...ummm ...I mean BadNizzle with the shazizzle

[xforce]

OK.......Have confirmed some of the issues I have posted about the 12/21/07 Beta Bios so there are some issues with it guys you have been briefed already if not read back a page or 2 and you can see the findings Good/Bad that I have found


"New" DFI LanParty UT 790FX-M2R 1/03/08 Beta Bios out!
http://www.dfi.com.tw/Support/Downlo...FLAG=B&SITE=US

Nice find bro...

[BadNizze]

I´m right here bro! I took a break from my Agena´s... Got tired of the constant crashing I´m running my 6400+ know, works like a charm! Will Try the new bios tomorrow. Atleast i found out that my 9500 is much stronger then my BE. Also cheak out the new CPU-Z 1,43 should work with 9600 BE! Again sorry for the delay!

[BadNizze]

I´m right here bro! I took a break from my Agena´s... Got tired of the constant crashing I´m running my 6400+ know, works like a charm! Will Try the new bios tomorrow. Atleast i found out that my 9500 is much stronger then my BE. Also cheak out the new CPU-Z 1,43 should work with 9600 BE! Again sorry for the delay!

EDIT: Has anyone hade any luck running 1200mhz ram?
My Ballistix can do this...

But 600mhz even at 5-5-5-18b with loose subs is a big no no for me!

[speedlimiter]

Nice BIOS!

It's no release to fix issues with the Phenom. My rig now runs unstable @ optimizes defaults - thx DFI!!!

One chance left for them to get a decent release, then show me the way to Penryn.


One positiv thing: +150MB/s more read bandwith

[BadNizze]

Thanks for the heads up! I´il wait untill this is confirmed - need my rig for day to day tasks...

[Brother Esau]

@BadNizzle.........Thank you for answering my request and emailing me the Pictures of the Bios Screens with "Phenom" You are a gentleman thank you!


Also the offer is still on the Table for those that Bios Test so lets pull together and make this Happen shall we?

[Brother Esau]

EDIT: Has anyone hade any luck running 1200mhz ram?
My Ballistix can do this...

But 600mhz even at 5-5-5-18b with loose subs is a big no no for me!

Why don't you try the settings that I have provided via Bios Template on the First Page? There is Documented 3400mhz 13hr Prime run as well as 9 hr Prime run @3500mhz both with full bios settings


1200MHZ is hard on this Board for some reason whu I don't know because my OCZ do well over 1200mhz that I know as fact/

BTW,,,,,,Don't waste you're time with the 1/03/07 Bios the Network and Ram Latency is borked and its consistent with the last 3 Beta and 1 pretender Official 12/11/07 the PCI-E issues and Network Latency are front and center and quite obvious tried 20 different settings and reboots and the NIC Performance is Sh**T no matter what I try! Going Back to 11/22/07 Official as it appears to be the most stable and complete out of the lot!

[BadNizze]

Why don't you try the settings that I have provided via Bios Template on the First Page? There is Documented 3400mhz 13hr Prime run as well as 9 hr Prime run @3500mhz both with full bios settings


1200MHZ is hard on this Board for some reason whu I don't know because my OCZ do well over 1200mhz that I know as fact/

BTW,,,,,,Don't waste you're time with the 1/03/07 Bios the Network and Ram Latency is borked and its consistent with the last 3 Beta and 1 pretender Official 12/11/07 the PCI-E issues and Network Latency are front and center and quite obvious tried 20 different settings and reboots and the NIC Performance is Sh**T no matter what I try! Going Back to 11/22/07 Official as it appears to be the most stable and complete out of the lot!

Thanks, i wil flash back 11\22 bios! My Cpu does 3350 stable and no more Running 11*300 @ 1,368 with 550 mhz ram at 5-4-4-12 @ 2,16 for daily use.

[Brother Esau]

Does anyone have anything to report in on with the 12/21/07 & 1/03/08 Beta Bios Findings?

[SAB]

Well I haven't had much chance to OC this thing yet.
So can't speak to much about OC issue as u guys have experienced.
But 1 thing I have noticed is that I can't change the PCI speed to 16x.
Anything other than auto will result in artifacts or crashing in 3D apps.
Other that that she is running fine.
Was able to do 280x9 all on default volts,and mostly all ram settings on auto.
I had to change the ram speed to 800, cause it defaulted to 667 on startup. SPD Problem I guess? Just finished 10 hours on Orthos @ 230 x 13, 3dmark,games,and watched a movie all without restarting.
So I would say its very stable 4 me.
Oh ya, how u guys get the worker thread on prime 95?

[justapost]

Not sure if it's already known but the board is available in differen german shops now.
Cheapest i found (and ordered one together wit cb tracers) is HPM-Computer

See ya soon.

[Nedjo]

Not sure if it's already known but the board is available in differen german shops now.
Cheapest i found (and ordered one together wit cb tracers) is HPM-Computer

See ya soon.

gee look at those prices!

http://www.hpm-computer.de/index.php...---790FX-.html

MSI turns out to be the absolute best buy!

[justapost]

gee look at those prices!

http://www.hpm-computer.de/index.php...---790FX-.html

MSI turns out to be the absolute best buy!

You are right, but i want a board with tons of bios settings, to get familar with all that stuff.
Also the board looks much better. As it will be on my table most of the time that matters.

EDIT: But after reading those two threads at once I canceld the order as it seems that board has issues with phenom and there is a new one out.

[Brother Esau]

I saw you're post in the New LanParty thread I would not worry about temps they are really good and the board is a really great board

[justapost]

I saw you're post in the New LanParty thread I would not worry about temps they are really good and the board is a really great board

Have you tried it with a phenom bro? I'm sure it's a gread board with k8'2 but with phenoms? All I heard is that it does not boot with ref HT > ~205MHz.
I guess the new version will have better phenom support.

[Brother Esau]

Phenom support is Bios Related man and the other board is not as trick with the harware as this one is.