Quote Originally Posted by GenTarkin View Post
I am in a quandry about which board to get for phenom for my upgrade.... Its between the gigabyte 790FX-DS5 and the DFI LP DK 790FX-M2RS

...C1 issues Im reading about...does the DS5 have this much trouble?

Thanks guys for your help =)
I like DFI. Their tech answered me last night after only a few minutes about my C1 problems. Sadly I didn't check regular e-mail until today. But yeah... I second Brother Esau's opinion. Although I chose the M2R board because it has better audio, better cooling, a POST LED, and I think it has better power supply regulation. And a removeable BIOS chip to boot. (Bad pun alert.)

(Although I've had gigabyte in the past. They are good also. But I wanted the ALC885 onboard sound so I don't need X-Fi. The ALC is compatible with FreeBSD. Creative isn't even compatible with creative.)

It sounds like most 790FX boards have some issues. I suspect that the "dreaded C1" problem comes up with the DFI more often because the M2R has an LED that shows POST codes... so people actually SEE a C1 code. So someone with another motherboard probably wouldn't call it a C1 error. They'd just call it a boot problem.

Quote Originally Posted by Brother Esau View Post
Well I bought Vista Home Premium OEM so it does not have SP1 Incorporated into it.

Please advise>>>>>>>>>>>

I always have to remove memory to install. Both 32 and 64 versions. I did "slipstream SP1" onto a few disks while waiting for my stuff.. but haven't had a chance to try try them with 4Gb yet.

But theoretically a slipstreamed Vista+Sp1 disk should work. (You can easily slipstream with vLite at http://www.vlite.net/)