Asus M3A79-T Deluxe

[Chicken Patty]

Thanks! Where can I get that Sandra?

NB multi was 12x:

here you go. I believe it is free:


http://www.download.com/SiSoftware-S...-10883449.html

[XRogerX]

hello again im looknig for a few people that can explain how install raid on this motherboard as i just odered 2x500gig 32mb cashe SATA , i have been reading that i will need a floppy drive ,but i dont have one at hand is there another way of installing raid without a floppy drive?

[faior]

Hmm, now going 214*15 and 3200MHz 1,4vcore. ACC +4% and memory 1140 unganged.

Going to work now, Ill leave it idling and see if it crashes. In 3D it seems to be stable. Idle temps 47C and about 60C load.

NB 2140MHz and HT 1920MHz(didnt see any impact on 3D performance)



I Did try 3300MHz and 1.44Vcore but it seems to be unstable at 3D, little bump in vcore helps a little but not so much that it would be stable. And in ACC everything above +4% crashes during windows load(bsod).

Dont know what to try next though.

4700cpu 06mark now.

[Chicken Patty]

Hmm, now going 214*15 and 3200MHz 1,4vcore. ACC +4% and memory 1140 unganged.

Going to work now, Ill leave it idling and see if it crashes. In 3D it seems to be stable. Idle temps 47C and about 60C load.

NB 2140MHz and HT 1920MHz(didnt see any impact on 3D performance)



I Did try 3300MHz and 1.44Vcore but it seems to be unstable at 3D, little bump in vcore helps a little but not so much that it would be stable. And in ACC everything above +4% crashes during windows load(bsod).

Dont know what to try next though.

4700cpu 06mark now.

keep us updated, however watch your temps though. You are pushing it already under load with 60ºc.

[saki_bomber]

Can you use pc-6400(800mhz) DDR2 memory with this board or will it kill some performance to use that memory?

thnks...

[faior]

keep us updated, however watch your temps though. You are pushing it already under load with 60ºc.

Hmm is 60C too bad for this chip? Thought the limit would be about 65-70C(it is quite high if i think of it better yeah, but..)

Well, it survived for its 9 hours idling! Didnt jamm or anything else weird, was there where I left it. And played 3 hours of L4D, worked flawless.

I lowered the vcore now, 1.39V, gotta keep testing.. 3.3GHz seems to be too far away for now.. :/ dont know what setttings to change. Btw. its nice to see how much temps go lower when the vcore changes even a bit. :o

[gOtVoltage]

Can you use pc-6400(800mhz) DDR2 memory with this board or will it kill some performance to use that memory?

thnks...

No it wont kill performance ..

You can actually run pretty much the same CPU clocks and usually the NB can go go just as high. It will also be a little more stable with pcDDR2,,6400/800mhz depending on you overall ram timing and the NBmhz you choose to run...Ganged will be best with 32bit OS,, 64bit can take advantage of Unganged with a small hit in single threaded apps..

In all its about finding the right NB freqency and Ram freqency no matter if your using 1066 or 800...The main differance is you can run Lower latency with 800 vs 1066..Again it comes down to how good you can tweak the system to perform..

EXample:

High Freqency GANGED with 1150+mhz ram,,Max NB



Low Freqency UNGAGED with 384mhz ram ,Using less NB than above(stock),,
Only .9s lower 1M superpi run vs the above screenshot..Both configurations play games and Apps exactly the same .Its a very minute differance indeed.

Learning what the system wants is priceless





Your very welcome and happy overclocking,,

gOtVoltage

[Xajel]

Hi there..
i.e. the USB Drive boot problem, where it resets the boot priority when a USB Device is connected, this problems is still happening with me....

Hellow KazGirl do u remember me

any way, I think this problem is not a problem but a not-completed or inperfected feature, designed for those novice who doesn't know any thing about boot priority, so ASUS made it easy for them to boot by resetting the boot priority if it was changed by any one...

I don't know it's just a guess as I didn't recieved my M3A79-T yet ( I suppose to have it last thursday but unfortunately the one was shipped is the wrong model ( I think M3A78-T very close naming you see ), the're expecting it in the next shipping wich is next thursday and they will call, or I'll will

I think if ASUS want to add a feature like this ( wich is nice ) it has to be an option enabled by default and we - experts - can disable it if we wish, the option will not reset, but only alter the boot so the USB flash will boot first...
and maybe some nice option when booting like some laptops wich has another shortcut to enter a special boot menu wich let you choose wich device to boot from regardless the boot priority ( I have this on my laptop )

[cbjaust]

Very nice result oliverda! 790GX do not go that far. Can you reach i920's (DDR3 1066 CL5) points in sandra bandwidth test?
http://www.abload.de/thumb/sandra-bandwidth-215ud5d.jpghttp://www.abload.de/thumb/everest-memtest-2159dp9.jpg
My best on the AOD790GX so far (not stable but benchable). Might push it alittle further with a new memory kit here.

do you find the Sandra memory bechmark to be consistent? I have never found it to be consistent at all; running consecutive runs of that benchmark I would see low numbers initially that then climb to a mamimum but with so much variation it's hard for me to trust the numbers. then again I always run it unbuffered and with the optimisations off.

Cheers

[saki_bomber]

No it wont kill performance ..

You can actually run pretty much the same CPU clocks and usually the NB can go go just as high. It will also be a little more stable with pcDDR2,,6400/800mhz depending on you overall ram timing and the NBmhz you choose to run...Ganged will be best with 32bit OS,, 64bit can take advantage of Unganged with a small hit in single threaded apps..

In all its about finding the right NB freqency and Ram freqency no matter if your using 1066 or 800...The main differance is you can run Lower latency with 800 vs 1066..Again it comes down to how good you can tweak the system to perform..

EXample:

High Freqency GANGED with 1150+mhz ram,,Max NB



Low Freqency UNGAGED with 384mhz ram ,Using less NB than above(stock),,
Only .9s lower 1M superpi run vs the above screenshot..Both configurations play games and Apps exactly the same .Its a very minute differance indeed.

Learning what the system wants is priceless





Your very welcome and happy overclocking,,

gOtVoltage

thanks

well damn i read on the asus website that it was 1066 native so i ordered 1066 RAM along with the mobo/CPU combo

oh well the ram i got should be better than the pc-6400 i was going to put in there

hey i dont OC but i heard that all you have to do with this board is set the multi to 15x and you get an instant 3GHZ OC, is that true?

[gOtVoltage]

thanks

well damn i read on the asus website that it was 1066 native so i ordered 1066 RAM along with the mobo/CPU combo

oh well the ram i got should be better than the pc-6400 i was going to put in there

hey i dont OC but i heard that all you have to do with this board is set the multi to 15x and you get an instant 3GHZ OC, is that true?

Yup pretty much..Stock volts should get ya that...If anything you may need 1.35v for CPUvolts but not much more than that.Especially if its a 125watt phenom . The 1066ram runs just fine on this mobo..

to get max clocks i usually run the 1066 divider and push the Ram above 1150mhz

Ive used 11.5 cpu and up to 17.5x while using 1066mhz divider.. If you use 13-16.5x multi Depending on your Chip the 1066 divider can run 1100mhz+ easy..

@ 3.0ghz and 1066 thats a nice mild Oc to stick with . Yes its night and day over 2.6ghz. You can even raise the NB easier when the CPU is clocked lower any how for lower latency(speed)..

[faior]

yyyeah done some more testing, seems like 3.2GHz, 1,44Vcore, NB 2150, HT 1950, mem 1140 5-5-5-15 unganged does the trick. 24/7 stable and not very hot. Wont freeze at idle and loves 3D too. 2350NB and 2150HT restarts or jamss in 3D after a while, so does 1.4Vcore.

Im sticking to this, it aint bad cause I was waiting something like 3GHz. Im very satisfied, though the memory may have some more clocks in them

btw, superpi 23.6sec with this, i think its ok. time. Wprime 12.5s or so(something running on the background)

edit. Anyone got past +4% ACC with this board? And which bios?

[saki_bomber]

Yup pretty much..Stock volts should get ya that...If anything you may need 1.35v for CPUvolts but not much more than that.Especially if its a 125watt phenom . The 1066ram runs just fine on this mobo..

to get max clocks i usually run the 1066 divider and push the Ram above 1150mhz

Ive used 11.5 cpu and up to 17.5x while using 1066mhz divider.. If you use 13-16.5x multi Depending on your Chip the 1066 divider can run 1100mhz+ easy..

@ 3.0ghz and 1066 thats a nice mild Oc to stick with . Yes its night and day over 2.6ghz. You can even raise the NB easier when the CPU is clocked lower any how for lower latency(speed)..

man i might as well just read chinese

i dont have a clue how to OC since its such a crap shoot

[cdnbum88]

Are any owners aftermarket cooling your mosfet? If yes with what?

[charged3800z24]

well I am using stock heatsing.. but have 80mm fan hovering right above them..it was getting a lil warm ..but cold to the touch now.

[Chicken Patty]

cdnbum88, on my M3A32 i had water cooled the motherboard, including NB, SB, and mosfet.

However, I still have not put the water blocks on as im working on a 2nd loop for my water system as we speak.

[faior]

Ok, now I need some of your advices cause I dont have time today too much to play with the settings. I did try Crysis benchmarks earlier today and noticed that the comp restarted after a minute running the bench(everything else ran fine), and I decided then to change some settings and lowered the HTT and memory MHz to default. So now 16x200 and 1066 like normal, NB 2200 and HT 2000. Pretty clear yeah? Old setup can be seen above somewhere. When I changed those it didnt crash at all even if i played it with max settings 1920x1200 and looped about 30 minutes..

So the question is, what could have caused the restart? Didnt change any voltage, just mem, nb and ht-link MHz´s(actually ht raise 50MHz). I wanted to bench with this because the system was restarted last night once when i was sleeping :/ But maybe I have now get rid of the restarting problem though, hope not. Gotta test some more later this week(busy now )

[justapost]

do you find the Sandra memory bechmark to be consistent? I have never found it to be consistent at all; running consecutive runs of that benchmark I would see low numbers initially that then climb to a mamimum but with so much variation it's hard for me to trust the numbers. then again I always run it unbuffered and with the optimisations off.
Cheers

You are right that benchmark has a huge variation between runs. What do you mean by running it unbuffered? I use fusion to disable unneccessary background tasks that helps abit.

[Xajel]

I just recieved my M3A79-T Deluxe and it's black BTW, I'll try to post pics as soon as I can

[Chicken Patty]

You are right that benchmark has a huge variation between runs. What do you mean by running it unbuffered? I use fusion to disable unneccessary background tasks that helps abit.

you know I do the same thing and don't see a difference
I only see a difference in 3dmark. Weird heh?

[faior]

Some status update, seems like I was running my memory too high, at OCZ pages it says they are 5-5-5-15 but in real life it should have been 5-5-5-18! Now its much more stable(running some AOD stability test, runned fine with 18 setting, then I changed it to 15 and in one minute it gave an erro, back to 18 and works fine again.

Now doing just some little testing with this and hope to get some results


Btw, some of you were talking about bios updating and saying that it is not possible to downgrade the bios in windows, well I had this Asus A8N-SLI premium before and there is a tap in asus update in options menu "bios downgradeable" when you turn that on it updates bios to previous version easily. I havent never been using anything else than the Asus updater for windows, and with A8N I had very very much of bios updating in 2 years. Worked everytime flawless.

But im not so sure does it work with this board too as some people says it isnt possible in windows. Althought there is the tap in options still

edit. Ok, done 6 hours AOD stability test and ran fine 3.1GHz@1.39Vcore and mem 1100MHz 5-5-5-18, ACC on Auto.

[cdnbum88]

Anyone sitting in front of their mobo right now that can give me the dimensions of the NB?

I am looking to aftermarket WC it and there are no 'specific' water blocks for it, but some look universal, but I want to make the dimensions are the same.

Then where the push pins are at.

Thanks

[justapost]

you know I do the same thing and don't see a difference
I only see a difference in 3dmark. Weird heh?

You will not get better results but the variation between the results is lower with fusion on.

@Olverda: Have you had a chance to test it?

[Oliverda]

@Olverda: Have you had a chance to test it?

I'll only have chance to test it on friday.

[justapost]

I'll only have chance to test it on friday.

Great thank you. Here I'm stuck at ~12.5GB/s no matter what timings mem and nb speeds i use. Would be very interesting if this is an 790GX only limit or if the 790FX chipsets also are affected with the new SB750. My memkit's clocked better on the DFI790FX/SB600 so i think i'm really hitting an chipset limit here.