Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P Thread

[suphiceto]

On average with air cooling, you will have about 200MHz more headroom with Vista 32 over Vista 64 at like settings once you hit the 3.7~3.8GHz range. On good water, the difference is about 300MHz between operating systems and on LN2, oh about 2.1GHz. Right around the 3.95GHz range with Vista 64 or Win7 64, you will hit a clocking wall. So far today, we finally hit 4.3GHz stable on V64 with LN2, exact same settings on V32 got us 6.4GHz.

thats crazy! why that much of difference?

[msimax]

955 will be ordered this weekend...if wife doesn't find out shhh I will most like have to sell a 940.

i know the feeling lol

[quake6]

I have Gigabyte 790FXT UD5P and MSI 790FX-GD70 at home. One of them need to go... Which one is better? I'll use it only for bench, AIR/ LN2

[chew*]

Honestly haven't used the MSI long enough to give you an unbiased opinion at this point in time.....the gigabyte is a very tough cookie however, it lags a little in performance it seems.....but has proved to be very reliable for me.

[quake6]

If you have choice, what would you pick? With situation like it is right now

[chew*]

Me personally, I would have one of each board.............in order to tackle a bench you need the right tool........some benches require 4gig modules......certain boards OC 4 gig modules better and have better performance........certain boards are better in CPU intensive tasks.......and certain boards offer more choices for 3d benching......the right answer is there is no answer......

There is a right tool for every job, it's up to you to use the right tool.....

[ChrisB17]

Ok guys. I got some questions before I order this board.

How high can you get the NB clocks and does it come out of S3 Sleep mode without issues?

[iandh]

Ok guys. I got some questions before I order this board.

How high can you get the NB clocks and does it come out of S3 Sleep mode without issues?

I think every setup/OC hits different NB clocks, but I can say that mine sleeps correctly as long as I am not at bleeding edge OC.

[Slappa]

Ok guys. I got some questions before I order this board.

How high can you get the NB clocks and does it come out of S3 Sleep mode without issues?

Since OCN is down, though I'd finish telling you.

Sleep mode works no problem> and this is in windows 7.

I hit 2.88GHz on the CPU NB @ +.300v . I could do 3GHz but it required too much voltage to warrant the increase.

[ChrisB17]

Ok seriously last question before I order. Does this board have cold boot issues when overclocked?

[chew*]

Yes and no............it will give you a message sometimes....OC failed at boot.....hit delete....go into OC page....change Fsb back to manual, reboot and good to go

ON a failed OC.....clear cmos......go into bios, load last known good and right back to where you left off

[ChrisB17]

Does the new bios fix those issues?

[chew*]

Does the new bios fix those issues?

I'm on f3L and this is only when hammering an OC......if you have a 24/7 prime stable OC this won't be an issue.

[charged3800z24]

Ok seriously last question before I order. Does this board have cold boot issues when overclocked?

I only do when running f3B bios. other wise no. And same on the Sleep mode, mine works great unless using f3B bios.

[RobPuba]

Gigabyte....... Yeah

[ChrisB17]

Ok I think I will order this board then. I am hoping for 4 ghz with my sig rig.

[iandh]

I only do when running f3B bios. other wise no. And same on the Sleep mode, mine works great unless using f3B bios.

Same here.

[bro20000]

Ok I think I will order this board then. I am hoping for 4 ghz with my sig rig.

Good Move Mate!

[shaolin95]

Still no takers at modding one of the new bios to enable the 4th core?

[Nelly]

Just got my rig setup, mine came with the original bios i.e. F3 but I could still get into Vista, downloaded the latest F3L bios.

Just for anyone wondering if can still update bios with the latest CPU's.

Will report back again when I've started o/c.

Cheers.

[shaolin95]

Congrats...have fun!

[MusicIsMyLife]

I know that this is a thread about GA-MA790FXT-UD5P. But I got a nice ref-clock with GA-MA790XT-UD4P that I would like to show:


371 mhz out of the box

Board is under normal air cooling, nothing special done. Just out of the box I can boot up to 360 mhz (with slightly raised vsb and vnb). 3d ist stable up to ~350 mhz, wprime runs at 360 and max validation is 371 (until now).

[ChrisB17]

How good can you oc the NB?

[MusicIsMyLife]

How good can you oc the NB?

To be honest I didn't try hard. But it seems that nb is a bad clocker. If I use stock reference clock I can't use 2.4 ghz nb - even with up to 1.3 volts. If a run high reference clock I can work with multiplier 6 (~2.2 ghz) but if I set higher multiplier system won't boot.

[msimax]

a lil mem testing wit 955 stock cooling