msi 790 fx-gd70 thread

[Zeus]

I think that screenshot you got there wasn't stable, was it? Try better cooling and you'll be able to bench it.

Curious what volts you threw at it.

Good to see you finally achieved it though.

[neo mike]

Well it was semi stable, but i was just trying to get to 1800, i had to use 1.75 v. I can only boot into windows at 1760, i had to use the MSI overclock dial, you set the memory speed in the bios, then it dont apply it until your safely into windows, which is a very cool feature. Can you boot 1800 into windows on your board ?

[FireDragon]

the dial lol, i forgot about that, was it stable tho? like 1m stable or?

Dragon

[initialised]

I'm having an odd problem with this board, it wont pick up a Killer Xeno Pro card, the card works fine on P6T Deluxe V2 and Crosshair III. I've tried a variety of BIOSes including the latest 1.84, all the same. The closest match to the problem I could find was the same problem on an ASUS board, solved by a BIOS update.

Other than changing to the ASUS board and redoing the overclock does anyone have any ideas or maybe a link to the 1.84 BIOS?

[beta]

1.8b4 download

[initialised]

Yeah, tried that, MSI emailed it to me, same result. Anyone else had this problem.

The PCI-E slots work fine with other cards, the cards (I tried 2 Xenos) work fine n other boards.

I changed the board for a Crosshair III as I can't afford to wait for them to get a Xeno and test/fix it. Seems like every system I do with 790FX gets changed like this one way or the other!

[almighty15]

I have a hyper transport sync error problem??

Just moved from BIOS 1.4 to 1.7

I have a 4890

[neo mike]

everything was fine, now im getting lockups every 10 mins screen freezes, not sure if its the board, some driver issue , definitly a buggy board and bios.

[Nedjo]

I have a hyper transport sync error problem??

Just moved from BIOS 1.4 to 1.7

I have a 4890

i have same problem with 1.7B7, but only with X2 Radeons!

on the moment when Vantage should start first game test, system crashes! (Win7 X64)

[almighty15]

Kinda upsetting that this board has been out for sometime now and there still is alot of issues with it, come on MSI get with it, there trying to make a come back, they used to be good years ago, they need to get there act together, definitly not good for sales. Dont get me wrong it think its a decent board, but buggy and hard to get stable.

I've had mine for a week and if it doesn't start to play ball it' being sent back.

[almighty15]

Guys I want to flash my BIOS back to a version earlier then 1.7 but I don't have a USB stick or a floppy drive.

Any ideas??

[beta]

you can download a bootable cd image and use ultraiso to copy the required files.

unfortunately I can't link bootdisk.com's flashcd.iso, because they are charging 4$ for accessing the files

[neo mike]

18b4 bios is good, seems like one of the best ones so far from what i have tested, my lockup problem has gone away, seems like a good bios.

[337]

Yeah, tried that, MSI emailed it to me, same result. Anyone else had this problem.

The PCI-E slots work fine with other cards, the cards (I tried 2 Xenos) work fine n other boards.

I changed the board for a Crosshair III as I can't afford to wait for them to get a Xeno and test/fix it. Seems like every system I do with 790FX gets changed like this one way or the other!

Man been there done that, Bigfoot support said the board mfg. did not implement proper pci-e standards, or it would work! I put the xeno in my Gigabyte rig and it worked fine... All that work and worry, and my ping and game play was not changed and xfire and msn messenger did not work with xeno either.. RMA'd the xeno

[337]

I am running bios 1.8b4 and get the Hypertransport error too. I went back to 1.6 and it still crashes, but just doesn't show the error--so still no dice!
Is this a board issue or graphic drivers? Will try 9.12's today!

[neo mike]

Not sure what causes that sync flood error, i think i read on the msi forum that its graphics related, but 184 bios is best one yet for me.

[337]

Well I hope the 9.12's fix it then!!

[337]

Ok my problem is fixed!! Was my memory!! RMA these puppies back to the egg!!!

[almighty15]

Ok my problem is fixed!! Was my memory!! RMA these puppies back to the egg!!!

My memory is fine and I get the error!

[Riska]

Mine still does it but not as much as the 1.8b3 bios and it does it wit 3 diff sets of ram

[crazydiamond]

i have 1.7 from the msi site and havent had the error, with a lot of crashes while benching with higher clocks/htt/volts, etc

[neo mike]

I have a hyper transport sync error problem??

Just moved from BIOS 1.4 to 1.7

I have a 4890

Here is some reading on the hyper transport sync floode error.

http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=133367.0

[msimax]

bored so i broght my scope home to test how clean the power delivery is under heavy load.

going to run prime etc etc watch the ripple on all voltage read out points

[crazydiamond]

good stuff, seems i get hella vdroop under load, interested to see what you find out

[msimax]

funny thing i noticed using 1.b7 is when oc and changin volts if it hangs i got volt spikes on my cpu and nb

red is cpu blue is nb green is ram


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFg4RnzttRs