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

[Oese]

@ justapost: nice results!!

[justapost]

@ justapost: nice results!!

You mean CAS-4 in 1066 mode? Was not possible on the MSI mobo if i remeber correct, i'm not sure about other 790FX mobos.

[MrBallpoint]

I'm totaly stuck.

Situation: DFI LanParty UT 790FX-M2R / AMD phenom 9500 2,2Ghz.

When i did give my bios the optimized settings and i do 2 crements HTT to above, there is an O/S-freeze.

The only thing to do was push the reset-button. The tlb fix enabled but the freeze still goes on.

More Vcore doesnt matter.

RAM-divider at the lowest..

(everything on stock)

Is there someone who Please give me one suggestion?

[justapost]

What bios version are you using? Sounds like an old bios related problem.

[MrBallpoint]

I'm using BIOS 6.00PG 12/11/2007 original.

[justapost]

I'm using BIOS 6.00PG 12/11/2007 original.

I'd update to the latest stable bios from Jan 08.
Have not yet played much with the ref HT cuz i have an be but 220MHz was no problem.

Here's an example:

CPU Multi 12x
NB multi 9x
HT multi 9x
ref HT: 220
boot ref HT: 205

CPU Voltage: 1,4V
SB Voltage: 1,3V
NB CPU V: 1,29V
NB PCIe V: 1,16V
NB HT V: 1,32

Mem at 800 mode 5-5-5-15 2,12V ganged or unganged.

Everything else stock or auto.

EDIT: I recommen using a lower CPU multi and lower CPU voltage first.

[Brother Esau]

I'm using BIOS 6.00PG 12/11/2007 original.

12/11/07 Bios is actually a Beta Bios and terrible bios at that! Do as recommended and update to 1/30/2008 Official Bios please

[nanohead]

Wow thats cool Hows about some advice on Vista in general? Is there still the Issue with it consuming a large portion of HDD space for what ever reason?

I've been lurking here for a while. Just changed out my Asus MVP for the DFI M2R after the Asus spontaneously combusted and burnt both itself and one of the 3870s I had.

Anyway, Vista is pretty cool. I just built up a new 780G machine with it (my daily desktop), also brought the DFI 790FX up on 64 bit initially as well (my gamer). 32 bit for me for now. I may move the gamer back to 64 bit, but there are still a touch too many glitchy things with 64 bit that I found. I was running 64 bit on the Asus, and brought it up first with the DFI. It is definitely STABLE like a rock, but...big but, there are still some driver issues here and there for me at least. 64 bit has many things that run in kernel mode that disagree with certain drivers (like my sound card for one!), and also disagreed with 3 way Crossfire initially. I'm sure it will iron itself out over time, and I will definitely go back to 64 bit for the gamer!

32 Bit didn't have those issues.

As far as Vista goes, I kinda like it. I shut off 50% of the dopey services they have in there, and changed lots of the user interface stuff, and now its definitely livable, and pretty snappy. I do like Aero quite a bit too.

blackviper.com has a nice list of services that can go in the trash heap, I used his list as somewhat of a reference, but made some other changes too.

I have a hardware firewall, so I killed EVERY SINGLE dopey security service that microsoft jammed in there. Way too many. UAC, defender, security center, firewall, security alerts, crypto, key management, all the IPV6 crapola, etc etc. I took back nearly 400MB of memory when I was done killing services, and it ran better too.

Thing runs great now. Very stable.

[Jethro]

Check out what this guy was able to achieve with this board and a phenom!

[Oese]

yeah these numbers go round the world at the moment

thats the headroom we'd want for all phenom but primestable and without tlb-patch and with x64-os as well..

phenom @ 3,2Ghz = :love:

[Rammsteiner]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...88&postcount=7

Can anyone comment on this? Just here is fine, but why isnt the CPU stable at 14x251 anymore (it has been) but is it at 14x249 now? Doesnt make much sense

[Koekerwauz_NL]

I'm picking my gear up tomorrow.
I will report asap when i got things up and running.
What bios must i flash, 30 jan 2008?

Any recommendations on OC-ing the BE settings and stuff?

THX guys.

[Undersea]

Two new bios listed at DFI for M2RS

3/05 & 2/19 (For the 2/19 one reason is correcting AOD voltages listed )

M2RS BIOS

For the M2R not sure if new but:

3/07 & 2/12

M2R BIOS

[justapost]

Two new bios listed at DFI for MR2S

3/05 & 2/19 (For the 2/12 one reason is correcting AOD voltages listed )

MR2S BIOS

For the MR2 not sure if new but:

3/07 & 2/12

MR2 BIOS

Thx undersea,

Now using 3/07. Upgraded from 1/30 with latest winflash from the DFI site with "Clear CMOS" and "Update All" flags set. Worked flawless.

2/12 seems to use an older (vers 2) raid-rom so i skipped it.

3/07 updates the Raid Rom to version 3.0.1540.30, 1/30 had 3.0.1540.21.

I allways use an xp install cd with driver packs stuff integrated, so i used the sb600 drivers from diver packs. Version of "ATI AHCI Compatible Raid Controller" and "ATI RAID Console" is 2.5.1540.39 from 03/06/07 here.

HD-Tach results
3/07 - 1/30


Still no better options than 4-5-5-16 in 1066 mode with that bios.
But it can run at 615MHz with 5-5-5-16 and 2,31V (bios).


The power consumption still raises around 20W AC if i plug in an usb memory stick. An USB mouse does not trigger a higher load btw.

Can be there is an difference beside colors between the sapphire and the dfi version. Does an DFI user have an power meter and can check if his mobo behaves like mine?

[Brother Esau]

Been with my cat of 16 years thats dying past few days Can some of you post some Bios setting for Overclocking Phenom very mildly maybe 2,4ghz at first with some decent Ram Bandwidth and some pointers for me in general with Bios set up with this thing screen shots of Bios would be nice guys

[Undersea]

Been with my cat of 16 years thats dying past few days Can some of you post some Bios setting for Overclocking Phenom very mildly maybe 2,4ghz at first with some decent Ram Bandwidth and some pointers for me in general with Bios set up with this thing screen shots of Bios would be nice guys

Best wishes Brother!

[justapost]

@BrotherEsau sry bout your cat, that can hurt more than expected.

About ocing the phenom. My 9600BE requires

0.7V CPUV and 1.0625V CPU-NBV for 2,5x200 / 9x200
1.175V CPUV and 1.0625V CPU-NBV for 12x200 / 9x200
1.21875V CPUV and 1.0625V CPU-NBV for 12,5x200 / 9x200
1.375V CPUV and 1.3V CPU-NBV for 13x200 / 11x200

those results primed for 10-12hrs at least.
max i could get was ~2650GHz atm with ~1.425V CPU.

So at stock 1.25V CPUV and CPU-NBV you should be save till 2.5-2.55GHz.

I used most of your 6400 bios settings at the beginning, only lowered nb and sb voltages to the minimum.
I found that it's better to use the CPU multi setting than the CPU FID/DID, FID's did not work for a 13 multi.
If you lower the nb multi (NB FID + 4 with NB DID 1) make sure you also lower the ht multi cuz he can't be higher (by k10 design).
To disable the TLB-Fix enable TLB-Caching in DRAM-Config section.
I'm away from the system atm, can post bios screenshots tomorrow if nobody did.

[Brother Esau]

Thanks for the positive words guys I appreciate it! Marshall is doing better 2day and will be taking him to get IV Drip of Vitamin /Minerals /Amino Acids /Anti Oxidants / Fluids to Re- Hydrate him so he can fight whats going on with him. Its my firm belief the drugs they gave him had bad negative side effects and I will get him treated the proper way through Nutrition as it all starts there regardless of what modern medicine says!

[Koekerwauz_NL]

Got the gear installed.

installing OS is a diffent story
Vista 64 HP on raid 0 2 x raptor no go.
Flashed to latest official bios from dfi.
setting up an array goes fine it detects the array at startup.
when installing OS it sees no drive array???
in bios sata is set to raid

what is going on??

[Sparky]

You probably need a driver like with XP you needed a disk when using raid. Might need to put it on a flash drive though... I really am not sure how to go about it.

[Brother Esau]

Got the gear installed.

installing OS is a diffent story
Vista 64 HP on raid 0 2 x raptor no go.
Flashed to latest official bios from dfi.
setting up an array goes fine it detects the array at startup.
when installing OS it sees no drive array???
in bios sata is set to raid

what is going on??

although my time is limited today what I would suggest is that you go to DFI download site and get the 002 Revision Raid Zip Package as it is required with Installing Raid with updated SB600 Raid Rom in newer Bios if you already have that and are having problems then I don't know what to tell you as I use a Raid Controller and don't bother with onboard Raid for quite some time now

[Koekerwauz_NL]

Yes i'm up and running.
I did make a RAID driver disk only i put all filles in a directoy.
Vista could not see the drivers.
Made a new disk with only Visat 64 drivers on it.
Im happy running vista on raid 0. Only the preformance is a bit a bummer.
Average 108 burst 183 MB/s.

[aGeoM]

Hi guys, finally I managed to do 11x250 @HTT/NB x9 in this board, not quite stable, but I'd been playing AAO for 3h, zero problems.

To get the system to boot I'd to set CPU HTT boot @250, and manually set HTT to 1800MHz (auto doesn't boot, C1 error).



Raid benching in Vista X64 (non SP1) with the SB600 controler, see Sig for HDD info.



PS. Hope for your Cat's recover, with good food, Brother.

[Koekerwauz_NL]

Your raid setup seems fine compared to mine. (see post above you)
Is that because of your HDD's being SATAII and my Raptors are SATA1

[aGeoM]

Can be, the SATA/RAID rom in your bios 3-07 is the same one as mine 3-12.