AMD 790GX lineup

[Aquineas]

I ordered the Foxconn A7DA-S ATX. Brother Esau, sorry to hear about your cat.

[Rammsteiner]

I was thinking of selling my 9850BE that does 2.8ghz @1.2375 vcore have had it at that voltage and clock since I first got it and never tried to push further do to the fact my cat of 16 years was deathly Ill and just did not have the time to clock it for that reason and unfortunately Marshall just died after 5 months
I had bought a brand new 9600 BE just days before I bought this so I have a NEW 9600BE I can use besides. Let me know through PM if you are interested it has really good potential and its new and never had voltage thrown at it not ever

Sorry to hear about your cat man. But if he had been fighting for 5 months now, I think it's only better he died, nothing worse than suffering.

Anyhow, why dont you try your 9850BE on a SB750 man? Who knows what potential it has on a SB750

[Eternalightwith]

So I told Polygon the other day on Rebel forums I was going to get the Biostar GX3, but now I'm not so sure.

Here's what I want to do.

1st PCI-E slot ATI 4870 now. (4870X2 future)
2nd slot 8-lane HW or SW raid card
3rd slot PCI-E Intel 2 port network card
4th slot PCI-E sound card... probably Auzentech or maybe ASUS

I really like the 790GX boards cause they are cheap and have the onboard video, which is great for normal computer work. But I just don't think they have enough PCI-E lanes.

My issue is this, I'm not sure if the 4870X2 is max out with ver. 2.0 8-lanes or I probably should get 16 lanes for the video card. And do PCI-E raid cards use ver. 10 or can they up to ver. 2.0 PCI-E

The thing that pisses me off is that if you put a card in PCI-E slot 2 (even if it's non graphics) slot 1 gets bumped down to 8 lanes.

Why isn't it possible to select the number of lanes you want per slot from the total.

So like 790GX has 32 lanes total I believe?

slot 1 16 lanes
slot 2 8 lanes
slot 3 1 lanes
slot 4 1 lanes
NB->SB connection & Internal PCI-E Network chip 6 lanes (i think)
16+8+6+1+1=32

But noooo, I can't do that... instead it forces me to do
8x - 8x - 1x - 1x and the extras lanes go unused.

SOrry for the rant. Just frustrated. Any tips, thoughts, or musings?

ETlight

P.S. So far I got
AMD 5600+ 2.8 X2 (Deneb later )
8gig OCZ HTPC 1066
Windows 64-bit and Ubuntu64

Need to get or still deciding on
Sound card
raid card
Acard ram disk
intel dual network card
etc.

[Oc-Ghost]

*snip*
So like 790GX has 32 lanes total I believe?
*snip*

26 lanes total, 22 usable...
1x16/2x8 + 6 other
source: Anandtech - AMD 790GX - The Introduction

[Eternalightwith]

would a mb allow you to run 8x 2.0 PCI-E in slot 1 for video card and 8X 1.0 PCI-E for raid card?

[KiLLBiLLBG]

OK soo i'm resurecting this thread
Have anyone tried the new bios for the Asus M3A78-T ?

0306 BIOS for M3A78-T
1. Update Express Gate option rom to 1.3.3.1 version.
2. Fix floppy is unable to work under EZ-flash.
3. Enhance memory compatibility.
4. Fix C1E function fail.
5. Fix fail to wake up from S5 by PS/2 device.

If anyone tried it plz post some results

[SocketMan]

Has anyone been able to use the SURROUND VIEW + Crossfire
on any of the 790gx boards?