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

[aGeoM]

i got the bios from china dfi site..

heres the link..

http://tw.dfi.com.tw/Support/Downloa...FLAG=B&SITE=TW

will flash soon

yeah flash no problem, my old settings work as always..

everest latency even lower than before

Thanks.

[Brother Esau]

Guys submit any info on New Beta please! NIC slow downs/latency on LAN performance degradation if any, or any kind of quirks in new beta also see if the SB600 gives better performance then previous version naturally.

[Oese]

lol the guy with the non-functioning raid didnt reset cmos

[Final8ty]

Not too good.

Nope, did not change to DFI. None around here to use, I searched high and low, but wanted to get a Sapphire since it's available before my Phenom died while I had two more boards (770 and RS780) lying here to test.

Do you know if motherboards pro ships the DFI to UK? How much, if so and what is the delay period?

http://www.hpm-computer.de/
Got my mobo from here. ordered Monday turned up Wednesday morning.

[thekat]

For those of you that just arrived in the thread and are new to owning the board you can read the review I did on the D.F.I 790FX-M2R when I was the only one that owned one in Pre - Release ....http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=169709

Much Gras on the link..

tk

[MotF Bane]

Is the Serial Number of the board located on a sticker on the last PCI expansion slot, facing the bottom edge of the board? DFI wants it for an RMA.

[RGone]

IF you are flashing the bios from floppy or Usb stick and using Awdflash Version 8.83, I think it is...add this to the flash syntax /ch . Be sure you clear the CMOS after flash and then Load Optimized Defaults after CMOS clear. Adjust as needed then.

[Oese]

stable.. 2x x64 prime large fft..

[Oese]

but the thing with half multipliers is awful.. compare:

i'd really like to know whether with brisbanes its the same..

[Brother Esau]

Installed the 3/7/2008 Beta and testing it out with the "Exception" of the ATI SB600 Option Rom seeing how I run a dedicated Controller I'll leave that for Ya'll to test and provide feedback I will post my feedback on this Bios for one and all

[Brother Esau]

IF you are flashing the bios from floppy or Usb stick and using Awdflash Version 8.83, I think it is...add this to the flash syntax /ch . Be sure you clear the CMOS after flash and then Load Optimized Defaults after CMOS clear. Adjust as needed then.

Hey Robert how are you Lad? Hey Robert this 3/7/2008 Beta has AWDFLASH 8.90 which is the first version to completely Flash the entire Byte Blocks rows from top to bottom which is good to see because its my belief that after 11/22/07 that was a major problem with the Bios is that is was not Programming the Flash memory correctly!

Finally and glad to see that

[KTE]

Thanks Campbell. I'm in touch with him.

[Brother Esau]

Announcement:
Hey everybody in this thread could you all "Please" read this thread at DFI CLUB and tell me if any of you have experienced this issue at all? I just had a hell of a go with this Issue myself Debugging it and I would like to know if this is a common situation with the D.F.I 790FX-M2R & M2RS????

Please read this Link @ dficlub.com..........PCI-E Bandwith Issues

[justapost]

Guys submit any info on New Beta please! NIC slow downs/latency on LAN performance degradation if any, or any kind of quirks in new beta also see if the SB600 gives better performance then previous version naturally.

Will try it aprx. on the weekend. You saw that USB vs. power consumption issue i had bro?
Puttin an 4GB USB stick in that mobo results in ~20-30W AC higher power consumption idling (tried only the stable bios from jan). Under load the difference is ~5W. Stick requires ~3W AC in the M3A and ~1-2W in the P5K-E so something is odd here.

[Brother Esau]

Whats up justapost? Hey are you running Raid or single drive in you're system?

Read that PCI-E Issue post that I linked on the forum here something aint right with all of that! I was gone for a month as you fellas know and had to reinstall windows prior to coming on line when I got my system set up finally and had installed the 1/30/08 Bios 3-4 days before I had moved so didn't really get a chance to evaluate it and oddly enough I get the X8 PCI-E Bandwith allocation on top slot very weird and don't really know if its intertwined with 1/30/2008 Bios or not yet????

[justapost]

Whats up justapost? Hey are you running Raid or single drive in you're system?

Fortunately i'm testing with two WD 500GB Re HD's in Raid0 atm and benched the hd's already with the stable bios. Will try it with the beta on the weekend.
BTW, Raid0 is faster that on the P5K-E with the same HD's.

Read that PCI-E Issue post that I linked on the forum here something aint right with all of that!

U posted that here or in your personal review thread?

[Oese]

no pcie issue over here both cards @ 2.0 16x

but i dont have additional pcie-devices running!

[Brother Esau]

Fortunately i'm testing with two WD 500GB Re HD's in Raid0 atm and benched the hd's already with the stable bios. Will try it with the beta on the weekend.
BTW, Raid0 is faster that on the P5K-E with the same HD's.

U posted that here or in your personal review thread?

Ummmmm, no I didn't this is a recent development and I guess its happening to more then a few with the Board if I read into what Roberts Post (RGone) says correctly

[aGeoM]

Announcement:
Hey everybody in this thread could you all "Please" read this thread at DFI CLUB and tell me if any of you have experienced this issue at all? I just had a hell of a go with this Issue myself Debugging it and I would like to know if this is a common situation with the D.F.I 790FX-M2R & M2RS????

Please read this Link @ dficlub.com..........PCI-E Bandwith Issues

PCI-e OK with 03/07/08 bios.

[Jaivan]

PCI-e running at 2.0 x16 on both cards on 1/30/2008 bios

[Brother Esau]

Thanks guys appreciate the input I'm thinking a GFX Card is the culprit

Also if you are testing Beta Bios for this Board please PM me so I can put you on the list so I know that you are testing Bios and Debugging them and submitting info in the thread here with you're findings.
This is important that I know who you are and keep a list so incase anything goes wrong as I have stated those who participate get a free Bios Re-Programming in the event of Bios corruption or Bad Flash while Beta testing.

Thank you.........Campbell

[Brother Esau]

Anyone that installed 3/7/2008 Beta have or experience any issues or quirky behavior with the Bios ?

[Oliverda]

Anyone that installed 3/7/2008 Beta have or experience any issues or quirky behavior with the Bios ?

I'm going to try it on saturday afternoon.

[MKroenke]

For me the 03/07 feels a bit unstable. Had 2 bluescreens with same settings. Don't know why.

@Brother Esau:

Could you put me on the list of the bete bios testers?

[Oese]

i'm not sure as well... the settings i posted (3,2ghz 1,4v) was prime stable 1 whole night, next day no way...

further testing required...