Gigabyte MA790FX DQ6

[Aussie FX]

I've been away for a month so I hope you all had a great Xmas and new year.
A nice surprise when I got back was my replacement mobo has arrived. I have an issue with my Phenom though, on bootup it will only start with the 5.5 multi and it's running at 1.05v. It's almost as if it's starting with cnq active although it's disabled in bios. I can enable the 11 multi with OD with no issues.
Also I'm using F1 bios atm, what's everyone using now?

[Rammsteiner]

You a happy new year too.

Im using F3 BIOS now. Didnt try any other BIOS's though as I got this board when F3 was out already.

On a side note, I see you're using 4GB of RAM, is that 4x 1GB or 2x 2GB? And if it's 4x 1GB, how the hell do I overclock it? Besides the fact this board apparently doesnt even want to do 10x351 Im stuck with 12x293 and synched memory (which isnt working) and 14x251 with synched memory and low latencies. I thought 10x351 and using a divider might change things but well, it doesnt even want to do high HTT's. Ive no clue anymore

[Aussie FX]

You a happy new year too.

Im using F3 BIOS now. Didnt try any other BIOS's though as I got this board when F3 was out already.

On a side note, I see you're using 4GB of RAM, is that 4x 1GB or 2x 2GB? And if it's 4x 1GB, how the hell do I overclock it? Besides the fact this board apparently doesnt even want to do 10x351 Im stuck with 12x293 and synched memory (which isnt working) and 14x251 with synched memory and low latencies. I thought 10x351 and using a divider might change things but well, it doesnt even want to do high HTT's. Ive no clue anymore

I'm using 4 x 1gb.

My old board did 430 htt with the 5x divider with my 6400. It's an overclocking monster with K8.
I haven't tested this board yet, just installed the cpu last night. It obviously has issues with Phenom with the F1 bios. I lost my last board flashing to F3 so I was wondering if the F4A bingo has is available.

[Brother Esau]

Are any of you fellas in Gigabyte land have any news on AMD / Source Code Bios Update in Progress?

I keep waiting and waiting on DFI for next official but it aint come to pass and the 12/11/07 is actually a Beta and it sucks! The only thing I can gather on this is that everybody is waiting on AMD

[Lightman]

@Ausse FX:

Now we have F3 FINAL BIOS, it's much different to F3A/B/C
No sign of F4A... Probably Bingo couldn't post it here...

@Brother Esau:
Look above
No one got a chance to test F4A BIOS and for that reason no one tested new microcode from AMD

[Brother Esau]

I saw it above when I posted earlier but just wondering if this is perhaps what all of us are waiting on which is source Code Update from AMD /Award.....I hope ...I hope

[Aussie FX]

@Ausse FX:

Now we have F3 FINAL BIOS, it's much different to F3A/B/C
No sign of F4A... Probably Bingo couldn't post it here...

@Brother Esau:
Look above
No one got a chance to test F4A BIOS and for that reason no one tested new microcode from AMD

Thanks Lightman, I have just flashed F3 final.

I tried to run cpuz (1.43) and I'm getting everything greyed out on the memory tab, it's completely blank. Are you getting this?

The SPD tab is reporting ok as are all other tabs, why the memory tab isn't reporting has me nonplussed.
It's nice to have the 1066 option in bios.

[Rammsteiner]

Well, most likely Im missing something. I tried adding Volts for NB and the HTT receive and transmit things, lowering multi etc but no go in high HTT's.

Also I still dont know whether Im missing something or not with OC'ing 4x 1GB as it's quite a disaster. Also, when I press ctrl + F1 in BIOS, the extra options, are they worth anything? What exactly do they do?

[Lightman]

Thanks Lightman, I have just flashed F3 final.

I tried to run cpuz (1.43) and I'm getting everything greyed out on the memory tab, it's completely blank. Are you getting this?

The SPD tab is reporting ok as are all other tabs, why the memory tab isn't reporting has me nonplussed.
It's nice to have the 1066 option in bios.

If I run Vista it's same for me. XP x64 and MCE = no problems with detecting values in CPU-z

I like this BIOS. Not perfect but a solid one