Gigabyte MA790FX DQ6

[G0ldBr1ck]

I have finely had a problem come up with my 9850 that I have kept overvolted for a few weeks now. This has just been an experiment to see how longe it it could stay at 1.56 before degrading as I was going to RMA it anyways because core 0/2/3 are all stable at 1.38v@3.0ghz but takes 1.56v on core #1. In these almost 3 weeks it has not lost its stability from any degrading witch I was happy to see........BUT........yesterday when I came home from work and started up all the benchmarks I keep running on the machine to keep it working hard all night I noticed the Bench scores were all way down. After looking into what was going on I finely noticed the problem (wich should have been easy to spot but somhow took for ever to find). The 9850 was only reporting 3 cores on every piece of software i Have and even Vista. is listed as 9850be 3cores/3Threads. tryed clearing cmos=no change. The 3 cores are listed as 0/1/2 but they are stable at the 1.38v@3.0ghz so I assume it was core #1 that was weak to begin with thats missing.

Lastly i pulled the cpu from my DQ6 board its on and put into the DS5 system to rule out any wierd driver isues and still only 3 cores.

It appears that the cpu can keep operating if you loose a core and just go into tri core mode?

Just figured Id share this odd experiance with the rest of you if you havent allready heard of this........and im off to RMA my tri-core 9850BE That of coarse has never been overvolted (Wink,wink). And Im gonna order a DFI board as well to add to the collection of 790fx boards.