GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP-DS4H in stock

[topdog]

I'll be interested to see how it clocks

Foxconn is out too http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813186150

[RiverRicer]

Ordered!! This pig WILL o/c......vengence will be mine!!................sorta

[Oliverda]

Review : Introduction to Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H AMD 790GX+SB750 mainboard

[keithlm]

Review : Introduction to Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H AMD 790GX+SB750 mainboard

Oh NICE... the ACC can be turned on/off in bios... it is NOT just a software thing with AOD.

Good news for Linux/FreeBSD fans. (We had hoped.) Also good news for die-hard BIOS-only tweakers.

[Rammsteiner]

Very nice review,

Although the review somehow sucks a bit too.

They didnt test OC'ing with a Phenom, almost no word about hCFX (whether the Hybrid works with high-end cards and for example power usage)...

But well, first review, Im happy. Im quite impressed with the RS780D's performance graphics wise too!

[keithlm]

They didnt test OC'ing with a Phenom, almost no word about hCFX (whether the Hybrid works with high-end cards and for example power usage)...

The NDA might include any results from overclocking due to the new SB750 and ACC stuff... but they did include a few teaser benchmarks that aren't affected by any of that stuff so this wasn't an NDA leak.


INTERESTING QUESTION: If you turn ACC on and it automatically sets your CPU to a higher speed does that become the new STOCK speed for that CPU when using the SB750 or is the new speed an overclocked speed?

In other words... if you flip ACC on with a Phenom 9950 and it then runs at 3.0Ghz with no need for you do anything else is that now the NORMAL stock speed? (And you can always overclock above that if you wish to?)

I can imagine the flame wars that would cause. We know that there are many people that will claim the answer to the above question is that it is already overclocked regardless of how simple using ACC might be. (Some people won't want a Phenom 9950 running at 3.0Ghz compared to Intel chips running at their "stock" speeds.)

[informal]

The NDA might include any results from overclocking due to the new SB750 and ACC stuff... but they did include a few teaser benchmarks that aren't affected by any of that stuff so this wasn't an NDA leak.


INTERESTING QUESTION: If you turn ACC on and it automatically sets your CPU to a higher speed does that become the new STOCK speed for that CPU when using the SB750 or is the new speed an overclocked speed?

In other words... if you flip ACC on with a Phenom 9950 and it then runs at 3.0Ghz with no need for you do anything else is that now the NORMAL stock speed? (And you can always overclock above that if you wish to?)

I can imagine the flame wars that would cause. We know that there are many people that will claim the answer to the above question is that it is already overclocked regardless of how simple using ACC might be. (Some people won't want a Phenom 9950 running at 3.0Ghz compared to Intel chips running at their "stock" speeds.)

Remember this question when Deneb 2.8Ghz launches in Q4.Will the 3.2Ghz speed with ACC on K10.5 be a legit core clock to compare it with Nehalem,or will intel fanboys argue it's not fair(although intel will have its own TURBO function for boosting a single core clock when apps are monothread in nature).
Very good question indeed.

[bingo13]

INTERESTING QUESTION: If you turn ACC on and it automatically sets your CPU to a higher speed does that become the new STOCK speed for that CPU when using the SB750 or is the new speed an overclocked speed?

Enabling ACC does not change any core clock speeds or other performance enhancing settings. All it does is enable the new interface, it is still up to the user to properly tune and clock the system. Not every CPU will benefit (I have one that actually got worse with ACC) although on average most of the BE processors are seeing a 100~300MHz increase in speed over previous results with the SB600/700 Southbridge.