790 corruption issues?

[Big Myke]

same here

Have you done any tests with a SIIE from a store that everybody buys from? Or are you still testing wtith the same SIIE from weeks ago before it was even released.

[BenchZowner]

Have you done any tests with a SIIE from a store that everybody buys from? Or are you still testing wtith the same SIIE from weeks ago before it was even released.

Do I feel some sort of hate ? Maybe I'm wrong.

First of all, pre-release hardware is most of the times worse than retail "version".
If there are problems in the retail version, chances are almost 99.9% that the E.S. suffers from those as well.

[Big Myke]

Do I feel some sort of hate ?

haha, no hate bro. I would just like to know if he's still basing off of a pre-released board or not. He's got his own dedicated thread showing off his marvelous benchmarkings and overclocking capabilities/stabilities before its release so we know his pre-released board is far from suffering based on the information he gave us in the thread.

[BenchZowner]

haha, no hate bro. I would just like to know if he's still basing off of a pre-released board or not. He's got his own dedicated thread showing off his marvelous benchmarkings and overclocking capabilities/stabilities before its release so we know his pre-released board is far from suffering based on the information he gave us in the thread.

The fact that he has run several benchmarks with his board doesn't mean that he didn't suffer from data corruption.
BTW, his board is a nVIDIA reference board, and it's exactly just like the eVGA/XFX reference 790i boards out there.

[slim142]

Ok I planned to get a 790i board but with all this problems... all my computer components are in their boxes waiting to be plug in. However, I have a Raptor to take care of as well as my WD and my Maxtor so how in the world am I gonna build this new rig without the motherboard I needed?

I have until the end of the month which is when TT is going to release the Armor+ ESA edition. NVIDIA better have everything solved by then...

[canislupy]

No corruption whatsoever here.

Intel Xeon E3110
EVGA 790i Ultra
P03
Cellshock PC3-14400 8-7-6 4GB

Multi x9
FSB 450
Mem 1800
Linked
7-6-6-18-1t

CPU v Auto
Mem v 2.0
Chipset v 1.45

Vista Ultimate 64, did not reinstall after switching from 680i motherboard. Reinstalled all drivers.

Using 2x Raptor 150's in raid-0, and using 1tb drive and DVD-ROM all on SATA.

[dinos22]

Have you done any tests with a SIIE from a store that everybody buys from? Or are you still testing wtith the same SIIE from weeks ago before it was even released.

what with the attitude man

i was talking about 680i boards in response to BZ's post

i've got corruption problems with RAM testing on 790i
i mentioned it here as well

on that note
server2008 OS = gone (tonight's testing)

big myke> if you read the thread you would realise i was testing with a reference board
my board is no more special than others

here is an example of an experienced overclocker ripping up the 790i board and doin some crazy runs
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=183249
soooo this whole attitude about me having a special board is useless.....
do you even have one of these boards mate?

[slim142]

No corruption whatsoever here.

Intel Xeon E3110
EVGA 790i Ultra
P03
Cellshock PC3-14400 8-7-6 4GB

Multi x9
FSB 450
Mem 1800
Linked
7-6-6-18-1t

CPU v Auto
Mem v 2.0
Chipset v 1.45

Vista Ultimate 64, did not reinstall after switching from 680i motherboard. Reinstalled all drivers.

Using 2x Raptor 150's in raid-0, and using 1tb drive and DVD-ROM all on SATA.

Can you tell us, are you using nForce drivers? if so, ASUS cd or NVIDIA.com? (I believe they are the same but who knows)

[5010]

Hi everyone,

First post here, I OC for a living @ a small boutique shop. Greetz!

I've experienced one very specific bout of corruption during my 790iU reference testing, wasn't Windows that got corrupted though, it was my CRYSIS installation. My system hung twice in row in the CRYSIS menu's after that CRYSIS would not load up anymore until I reinstalled it, however I have seen similar hangs on the 680i during the CRYSIS menu's and while playing HD movies, on the 680i this meant the FSB needed more voltage. Going on my previous experience with the 680i I upped my FSB voltage from 1.4V to 1.45V but I was quickly able to duplicate the freezing so on a little inkling I decided to drop my FSB voltage to 1.35V at which point it took me a little more than an hour to get the system to hang again.. BINGO~!... I finally dropped my FSB voltage to 1.30V and I can no longer produce any more of these system hangs, going on 24 hours now.

Hope this helps solve others corruption issues.

CPU: Q6600 G0
BOARD: EVGA 790iU V2
BIOS: P03
MEMORY: Patriot Viper 12800 @ 8-7-6-18 1T

MULTIPLIER: 8x / 9x
FSB: 1600
MEMORY SPEED: 1600
LINKED/UNLINKED: Linked and synced
MEMORY TIMINGS: 8-7-6-18 1T, tRc 32

CPU VOLTAGE: 1.30V BIOS / 1.22V Loaded
FSB (CPU VTT): 1.30
CHIPSET VOLTAGE: SPP 1.35V / MCP 1.5V
MEMORY VOLTAGE: 1.625V BIOS
GTLREF: All Lanes Auto

System:
EVGA 790iU Version 2
Q6600 G0 @ 3200 - 3600MHz / 1600FSB 8-9x Multi / 1.22Vcore
Enzotech Ultra-X
2GB Patriot Viper DDR3-12800 7-7-7-18 1.8V (D9GTR) Linked and synced @ 1600 8-7-6-18 1.625V(BIOS)
SLI BFG 8800GTX OC2's (626/1450/2000)
Corsair TX750W
X-Fi

[saaya]

I would like to see specified if raid was used or not. It may make a difference in corruption.

Besides, one thing is data corruption, another is to render a HDD unusable (altough a low-level format i think could fix it). The second I dont want to touch with a wooden pole.

I already dont trust sata drives reliability, adding another factor to their death is unacceptable.

Let's see in 6 months or something what's going on with the 790i, otherwise Skulltrail (and its slow memory) is the only choice for me.

well, that would make sense, yeah, but according to xt0m the wd disk took told him the hdds are beyond repair and he needs to rma them. maybe i misunderstood him... and obr said his hdd only clicks and doesnt even start anymore iirc, no? and gary at anandtech wouldnt have posted the hdds were dead if all they needed was a low level format with the wd disk tool...

slim142, armor was a terrible case, are you sure the armor+ is better?

guys, pedro said there are B0 and B1 versions of the chipset and the B1 ones supposedly have a lot of bugs fixed... so maybe the early boards were B0 and the newer ones are B1? can you check with cpuz or everest if the chipset revision can be seen?

[fadetoblack]

im not sure, but i might be seeing some corruption issues. the first couple of weeks i had this board things seemed to be running smooth with no issues. however in the last week or so ive experienced a strange issue that's happened a few times now. basically after resetting the computer/turning it back on, my forceware drivers would be corrupted. in device manager my video cards would be recognized as 8800 gtx, but they all had the yellow exclamation next to them. the error message would have something to do with windows not being able to load the driver correctly or the driver file had been corrupted. im running at 400FSB x 9, and memory at 1600 7-7-7-18-CR2 (unlinked), cpu 1.3625v, ram 1.9v, everything else at auto.

[slim142]

slim142, armor was a terrible case, are you sure the armor+ is better?
guys, pedro said there are B0 and B1 versions of the chipset and the B1 ones supposedly have a lot of bugs fixed... so maybe the early boards were B0 and the newer ones are B1? can you check with cpuz or everest if the chipset revision can be seen?

Why was the first Armor a terrible case? I understand it didnt have cable management which was a HUGE dissavantage compared to the P182 or P190. Now the Armor plus has removable motherboard tray and cables can be passed from the back of the case, why is it still a bad case? I would like to know why you say so since Im about to finish my rig and I wouldnt like a sucky case, just want to hear some comments from your point of view
Plus it has a lot of space and 10 slots... I think thats plentty of space isnt it?

[jugeen]

guys, pedro said there are B0 and B1 versions of the chipset and the B1 ones supposedly have a lot of bugs fixed... so maybe the early boards were B0 and the newer ones are B1? can you check with cpuz or everest if the chipset revision can be seen?

B1 here, no corruption

[slim142]

B1 here, no corruption

Are you using nForce drivers?, What Windows Version? RAID?

[canislupy]

Can you tell us, are you using nForce drivers? if so, ASUS cd or NVIDIA.com? (I believe they are the same but who knows)

Using the EVGA board, so no Asus drivers, but I did not use the CD that came with anyway, just went to nVidia web site to get latest.

[fadetoblack]

Are you using nForce drivers?, What Windows Version? RAID?

i've got a b1 also, using nforce 9.46 with a raid 0 setup. the only strange thing i've seen is what i wrote about above. and im not sure if that's related to something else or if it's because of the corruption issue.

[eternal_fantasy]

guys, pedro said there are B0 and B1 versions of the chipset and the B1 ones supposedly have a lot of bugs fixed... so maybe the early boards were B0 and the newer ones are B1? can you check with cpuz or everest if the chipset revision can be seen?

Both my ASUS S2E and EVGA are version B1...

[slim142]

Even OBR and pmp have B1 revisions (first page) and they were I think the very first people to get the SIIE board so I dont think ASUS is shipping such thing as B0 revision.

[rockqc]

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3279&p=4

Interesting read..sounds similar to this thread.

[slim142]

Yeah I was aware of that rockqc and it looks like NVIDIA is in a big trouble

[k|ngp|n]

No problems here Saaya, EVGA 790i SLI works perfectly no corruption at all

[dinos22]

Even OBR and pmp have B1 revisions (first page) and they were I think the very first people to get the SIIE board so I dont think ASUS is shipping such thing as B0 revision.

few of us got our boards before them and they are all B1 revision
i would be very surprised to see B0 retail boards
very surprised

[lopri]

It's a very worrisome situation with regard to 790i, in my personal opinion. Usually a small revisions are denoted as A0 -> A1 -> A2, etc.. But 790i has apparently been under a couple major revisions and I heard about C0 and C1 stepping for the 790i SPP.

We were also able to get our hands on a C0 engineering sample 790i board for testing. Let’s just say that the experience was … character building. Running a QX9770 and 1333Mhz DDR3 at 9:9:9:24, we had what could best be described as a very rough time getting 3-way and even quad SLI with two 9800 GX2 boards to work in this system. We were lucky to get the numbers we did get. Let’s take a look at what we tested with

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3275&p=2

[safan80]

Yeah I was aware of that rockqc and it looks like NVIDIA is in a big trouble

lol not really. having this problem on the 680i didn't stop those from selling.

[5010]

It's a very worrisome situation with regard to 790i, in my personal opinion. Usually a small revisions are denoted as A0 -> A1 -> A2, etc.. But 790i has apparently been under a couple major revisions and I heard about C0 and C1 stepping for the 790i SPP.



http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3275&p=2

That's likely the 790i NON Ultra.