msi 790 fx-gd70 thread

[Avan]

No I have PC Power & Cooling S75CF 750W.
Here's some reading regarding the issue too:
http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=128974.0
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=1495969

Yah I've read those. Thanks McDown. I just finished up getting a refund from Newegg. I'm just gonna go with a different brand now since Newegg couldn't guarantee that I wouldn't get another bad vapor-x.

[McDown]

Yah I've read those. Thanks McDown. I just finished up getting a refund from Newegg. I'm just gonna go with a different brand now since Newegg couldn't guarantee that I wouldn't get another bad vapor-x.

Too bad Toxic edition out of stock again. Maybe you can wait for 10 days?

[Smartidiot89]

Gl man


Not sure if this has been posted yet, but Tony from OCZ has compiled a list of all the bios. This is very useful. Link

It seems it's a lost cause for me atleast with this BIOS, and 1.5b3 was also less stable when overclocking then 1.3. Gonna try out 1.4 and try to OC this CPU past 3,7GHz haha

[Dopamin3]

Do any of the older bioses clock ram good? It's weird, the only bios I've used is 1.5b3 and the ram can clock much higher and tighter timings in the 2 slots farthest away from CPU socket... I think I just keep my dual core until they fix NB frequency when unlocking.

[Smartidiot89]

Do any of the older bioses clock ram good? It's weird, the only bios I've used is 1.5b3 and the ram can clock much higher and tighter timings in the 2 slots farthest away from CPU socket... I think I just keep my dual core until they fix NB frequency when unlocking.

I know that pretty much everyone (including Tony at OCZ) said how perfect this board was in every kind of way and it was stable with Bios version 1.3 so I am changing back until the official 1.5 is here... I failed to unlock anyways with 1.5b3 so no use in running with a crippled bios.

My RAM seriously degrades in terms of stability as is northbirdge with this BIOS when I clock my CPU :/ 1.3 easily did 3.7GHz / 2,6GHz NB but with this it's a struggle reaching either of them separatly.

[Dopamin3]

Yea 1.5b3 sort of caused me headaches. I'm using 1.4 now and it seems pretty good. I have memory @ 1333mhz 6-6-5-20 with NB @ 2600mhz as a dual core. Seems pretty stable, I will blend test later though. I haven't tried unlocking on bios 1.4 though.

[Smartidiot89]

Yea 1.5b3 sort of caused me headaches. I'm using 1.4 now and it seems pretty good. I have memory @ 1333mhz 6-6-5-20 with NB @ 2600mhz as a dual core. Seems pretty stable, I will blend test later though. I haven't tried unlocking on bios 1.4 though.

thanks for confirming 1.5b3. I heard 1.4 was abit flaky when it came to unlocking but I think it worked for some people thou.

[wilflare]

how i miss the days where there were bios updates like at least once a week for us to try :/

[beta]

1.5b4 is here

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=135

[Bioshock]

1.5b4 is here

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=135

1.5b3 broke my stable overclock in 32bit , 64bit remained stable.....weird

hopefully this resolves that. thanks

[Dopamin3]

I just flashed to 1.5b4. I will mess around tomorrow as I have to go to bed now

[Entropicity]

NB @ 2400 with 1.5b4. All seems fine now

[Oliverda]

NB @ 2400 with 1.5b4. All seems fine now

NB Voltage?

[lemonlime]

NB @ 2400 with 1.5b4. All seems fine now

Excellent! Looks like MSI's getting really close to a final 'official' unlocking BIOS now.

Going to give 1.5b4 a try tonight.

[Bioshock]

1.5b4 is crap for me, i flashed back to 1.5b1. at random times the post screen will stop after reading the cpu information, sometimes it will stop right before passing on to the windows loader, and my overclocks have been broken since 1.5b3. i cant have that. oh and my 720 still wont unlock on this board, but will on the gigabyte

[zanzabar]

1.5b4 is crap for me, i flashed back to 1.5b1. at random times the post screen will stop after reading the cpu information, sometimes it will stop right before passing on to the windows loader, and my overclocks have been broken since 1.5b3. i cant have that. oh and my 720 still wont unlock on this board, but will on the gigabyte

try setting acc to all cores

[Bioshock]

try setting acc to all cores

i know how to unlock it, it simply wont do it on this board

i cant get the system to post on any setting other than acc set to all cores @ 0% and that still renders the cpu as an x3

it just doesnt work on this board

its not that big of a deal as long as i can keep a 3750 cpu overclock and nb oc of 2600, which i couldnt using the past 3 betas

so im sticking with 1.5b1 for a long while

[zanzabar]

im using 1.5b1 and i had strange problems with unlocking i randomly get the cpu on 3 cores affter reboots and have to change from acc auto to per core or all cores and it has to be different than the previous that went back to 3 cores. i also had a problem with unlocking were when 1st unlocking i have to have the multi set to 10x or something low then it unlocks and i can use proper settings

[Entropicity]

NB Voltage?

CPU-NB voltage 1.3
NB voltage 1.3 too

This is usually a clearcut license to NB@2400mhz. Doesnt heat up much either.

[Entropicity]

im using 1.5b1 and i had strange problems with unlocking i randomly get the cpu on 3 cores affter reboots and have to change from acc auto to per core or all cores and it has to be different than the previous that went back to 3 cores. i also had a problem with unlocking were when 1st unlocking i have to have the multi set to 10x or something low then it unlocks and i can use proper settings

For all purposes 1.5b3 and newer are the only bioses you should use for core unlocking. 1.5b4 fixes the issue with running NB frequency beyond stock and is pretty much a "completed" bios. I guess the next bios revisions we will see are 1.6 betas as 1.5 is pretty much complete now.

[xPliziT]

NB @ 2800 @ 1.37 and running LinX.... doesnt look bad so far

[FlawleZ]

Well, after spending a couple more hours with it today, I've concluded that anything after BIOS 1.1 just causes instability for overclocking. Most notable NB increases past 2.6Ghz. Also the scaling of CPU Voltage and CPU-NB voltage seems to be far worse with 1.3, 1.53, and 1.54 on my system. I tried unlocking my 4th core with 1.53 and 1.54 and couldn't boot to Windows with the 4 core at stock settings, even with more voltage. So for now, I'm going to sick with BIOS 1.1.

[Bioshock]

Well, after spending a couple more hours with it today, I've concluded that anything after BIOS 1.1 just causes instability for overclocking. Most notable NB increases past 2.6Ghz. Also the scaling of CPU Voltage and CPU-NB voltage seems to be far worse with 1.3, 1.53, and 1.54 on my system. I tried unlocking my 4th core with 1.53 and 1.54 and couldn't boot to Windows with the 4 core at stock settings, even with more voltage. So for now, I'm going to sick with BIOS 1.1.

i also could achieve higher overclocks on the cpu with previous versions, and the NB maxes out at 2626, anything higher and windows goes crazy with random errors

[FlawleZ]

Played around a bit with SuperPi while testing my overclocking differences through the BIOS. This is my best so far with the wimpy stock HSF and a humble 720 BE.

[MrMojoZ]

Pardon, I haven't had any real hardware in awhile to play with. I just cooked off a couple of mosfets on my 790GX-C65. Was running 1.42 volts into a 955 on it with the NB at at 1.125. Should I not be running double Orthos for stability or was the board just bad?