msi 790 fx-gd70 thread

[PoppaGeek]

Any suspicions of incorrect temp readings? My 810 has never gone over 40c. Or did I just get too used to 9850 heat?

[chew*]

Always suspicious of software monitoring........However I believe the 810 is a 95w part........

[TiTON]

Can anyone link me to the 1.3b7, or even 1.3b6 The link massman provided didn't give me the file, there was an error.. but it was in German. So not sure what was going on.

Ton

[shadow_419]

Here's the 136 beta courtesy of Tony

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/920660/BIOS_A7577AMS.136.zip

Just stick the bios file on a usb drive and use the m-flash utility built into the bios worked great for me. Here's a video of how simple it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k37880U-co

[TiTON]

shadow.. much appreciated

[DaMulta]

4Ghz stock voltage.

[FlanK3r]

Whau!!! Stock voltage, AIR cooling?! Whats your 955 product serial number?If u dont post it, send me please private message.I found some the best series for my board.Try too Cinebench 64 and Frybench
http://randomcontrol.com/downloads/f...h/frybench.zip

[TheBlueChanell]

4Ghz stock voltage.

wow

[jonspd]

Ok this is nuts

fsb 220
Multi 14.5x
CPU-V 1.46v
CPU-NB-1.170
PLL-3.522
DRAM-1.90
NB 1.60
HTLink 1.230
SB-1.280

Runs 1 over and over

Now I was starting to get 2m by upping the CPU-v BUT like I said stock cooler and the voltage cought up with me.....

something in these settings work besides the ram or nb didn't change them
mine is 18.5x205

What OS are you running? Yes, it makes a huge difference.

win 7 guess xp might do better but my msi-945 clocks better in win 7

[DaMulta]

Whau!!! Stock voltage, AIR cooling?! Whats your 955 product serial number?If u dont post it, send me please private message.I found some the best series for my board.Try too Cinebench 64 and Frybench
http://randomcontrol.com/downloads/f...h/frybench.zip

No, on my phase. I did it with less voltage than that afterwords. The thing is now my memory does not pass any kind of windows memory test. It does pass DOS test....IDK if windows is just jacked or not. So, I'm reinstalling ATM, and I hope I don't have any dead ram/or dead/jacked up memory controller.





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http://forums.techpowerup.com/showth...26#post3568526
Chew posted this


EDIT""Update" after a reinstall everything seems to be ok......

[MadDias]

the first 4ghz for me!
not tested for stability yet...
was just playin around with the gd70 after installing it yesterday.
ran a 2hrs prime blend torture test with cpu @stock the nb @2.6ghz and the ram @800mhz, just to be sure that the reapers are doing ok on this board.

man.. this cpu was on my m3a79-t before. it wasn´t even 5minutes primestable at stock clocks on that damn asus...

[massman]

Can anyone link me to the 1.3b7, or even 1.3b6 The link massman provided didn't give me the file, there was an error.. but it was in German. So not sure what was going on.

Ton

http://www.madshrimps.be/upload/Mass...577AMS.137.zip

[TiTON]

Massman - Thank you very much

[chew*]

So I'm starting to get the feel for this board a little more, trying to unlock some performance........playing around with ram and NB....

I still need to tweak ram some more...not quite dialed in to max performance or clock yet....

I'm using high clock's over tight timings only because I can't get the desired NB I want around 1400+ 6-6-6......Well I can but the xigamatek is holding me back. True 120 is busy on another rig atm.....

Tony is giving me the to whip out some watercooling, maybe tommorow I'll drag some old friends out of retirement.

Anyway here's where i'm at for now......

MSI 790FXGD70
2 X 4890's Stock air
PC P&C 750W
OCZ animals

Deleted due to webspace, better results posted further in thread.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

I agree with tony

[shadow_419]

This is the best I've been able to get so far.

[chew*]

I agree with tony

All right Snipe........Pick a winner ( cpu block ) based on what I have available.........I have to make a custom mount for either....because well I'm cheap.......Both have inpingement jets.......I have various ones for the DD.

Pump specs included, I love it when people tell me those small square pumps are better maybe better than the current stuff I got oldschool power + 13.8- 14.4 volts 12v rail .

[shadow_419]

Slightly better scores when I up the nb & ht links but pi is a tad slower. Gonna try and bring down the heat not exactly sure I need 1.48v but prob pretty close. The saga continues...

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

easily the storm, but I have a spare fuzion v1 in my basement....do you want it? free sounds like a good price to me.

[chew*]

easily the storm, but I have a spare fuzion v1 in my basement....do you want it? free sounds like a good price to me.

Free sounds good to me to to i'm guessing it fits am2? woot at less work for me if so..... I might source out a better radiator, I have a triple but thats reserved for vga's .

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

um I need to find the bracket for AM2, lemme run to the basement real quick

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

k, I got the am2 bracket.. sorting out mounting hardware now - 1/2" barbs or 3/8"?

[msimax]

a lil ht clocking

[shadow_419]

Hey msimax, how's the 137 beta? I'm running 136 beta and everything seems pretty good, but if there are any improvements to speak of I'd give it a go.

edit: btw what ram are you using there?

[Tony]

137 beta tidies up some memory lose ends, smooths things out and is focused on stability over all out speed. Its a 24/7 bios air or water cooled that should suit 99% of end users.

Overall the GD70 is was very polished board now and will probably be my next workstation once the hype calms and we all settle down using our PC's seriously instead of playing pi etc

MSI are refocusing now using the GD70 as the benchmark they have to beat...it will be hard but its brought a new player to the table for seriously well executed motherboards IMO.