Gigabyte MA790FX DQ6

[G0ldBr1ck]

Daveburt714: I have read plenty of reports of the chip degrading and im willing to test this out. I have been overvolting mine for almost 2 weeks now and have not yet had a problem with degrading. Also your theory on the suicide screenshots may be correct in allot of cases but i have been running everything i have including allot of gaming (Crysis) and benchmarks for a couple days now at 3.0Ghz@1.56v and have only had a couple crashes and they were from the display adapter drivers crashing (ATI) wich i have happen when im not CPU overclocked most likely do to the high overclocking I have on my 3 cards. Maybe i just have a very lucky CPU, maybe i have a lucky DQ6 board or chipset who knows.

What sucks is i can only get stable with multi. cant get a decent OC at all with HT bus.

Im just happy realy that im finely getting near the 3dmark scores that Intel chips have been easily hitting. hopefully with the die shrink they will get the clocks up and maybe just maybe the phenom will finely bench like an Intel.

Edit: I have installed my 6400+be in my wifes DS5 board and cant get as high of a stable OC as I had on the DQ6 for 3 months. 3.425 seems to be max on the DS5, had 3.65 on DQ6. Im a little confused with this?

Another issue i could use some advise on is how to keep the bios from reverting back to F2 anytime there is a checksum error and the backup bios wrights to the primary? This is a massive pain in the arss! have to put in a old dual core to post then update back to F4.

[keithlm]

Another issue i could use some advise on is how to keep the bios from reverting back to F2 anytime there is a checksum error and the backup bios wrights to the primary? This is a massive pain in the arss! have to put in a old dual core to post then update back to F4.

Read the notes for the BIOS. For BIOS "F3" the last change was:
"Added bootblock checksum support (The back up bios will be updated)"

SO if your board had F2 when you got it... and you immediately put F4 onto it... anytime there is a flashback it will go back to F2.

But if you flash F3... and THEN you flash F4... if there is a need to revert... hopefully it will go back to F3. (I'm assuming when they say "back up bios" they mean the "Dual BIOS". But I have never seen the BIOS revert... so I can't say either way.)



EDIT: Just got another answer from Gigabyte. Apparently since Prime95 wasn't written for Vista... they don't seem to consider instability of that application a problem; they want to know what else has problems. Okay... how about the Vista OS itself. It reboots itself with nothing else running while using the Gigabyte DS5 motherboard at default settings. I'd say that was a "slightly bad" thing.

I am SO getting fed up with their responses.

[G0ldBr1ck]

Read the notes for the BIOS. For BIOS "F3" the last change was:
"Added bootblock checksum support (The back up bios will be updated)"

Ah, thanks i shall try that. On my DQ6 just about everytime i try to set manual timings on the ram it creates a checksum error and reverts to backup bios.

[Fulgore0rb]

EDIT: Just got another answer from Gigabyte. Apparently since Prime95 wasn't written for Vista... they don't seem to consider instability of that application a problem; they want to know what else has problems. Okay... how about the Vista OS itself. It reboots itself with nothing else running while using the Gigabyte DS5 motherboard at default settings. I'd say that was a "slightly bad" thing.

I am SO getting fed up with their responses.

@Keithlm: If your running that memory at 1066 still I'd suggest you try running Memtest86+ for 10 passes on just Test#5.

Now that I'm not running 64bit Seti@home I haven't had a crash- something with 64bit is jamming up the works- I'll blame Gigabyte since my CPU has been tested on an ASUS board with 64bit PC Mark Vantage. 32bit Seti@home is just fine.