Asus M4a79 deluxe up close and personal

[Sunfire]

2405 best bios for me to run ddr1200

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bios 2206,2502,2603 have failed @primeblend stability

How much voltage do you need for that 2700 MHz NB freq?

[izallica]

How much voltage do you need for that 2700 MHz NB freq?

1.35v for stability

[Jethro]

Finally made 2750+ NB wooT. Anyone have suggestions for a NB stability test to tweak volts? Oddly enough better Ram is what got me over the hump. I did get a new 600watt psu to not sure if thats helping either...

[NanoBullet]

I use nb@ 2.8 1.375v and it's stable!

[Sunfire]

izallica: Thanks!

Finally made 2750+ NB wooT. Anyone have suggestions for a NB stability test to tweak volts? Oddly enough better Ram is what got me over the hump. I did get a new 600watt psu to not sure if thats helping either...

Try the Prime95 Blend test.

[800ster]

new bios 2708

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so.../M4A79_Deluxe/

memory seems real sluggish on this tho anyone else tried it ?

Seeing the same thing as well as problems resuming from S3 sleep, reverted back to 2502

[afireinside]

NB is interesting to say the least. I was at 3.7ghz 2376NB with 1.4VNB and got BSODs. Bumped the VNB up to 1.425 and my stability issues went away. I'm now pushing 3.8ghz 2620NB with the same 1.425VNB and no issues. Haven't tried further but I highly doubt 2882 (next step, 262*11) would be even remotely stable seeing as that's an impressive NB clock even for the new C3 chips.

2708 SUCKS (with my configuration at least). Was having stability issues and sure enough linX crashed after about 10 minutes when I ran it. Flashed back to 2405 based on izallica's recommendation and sure enough I was stable again. Actually, my GFLOPS are more consistent than before with 2603 or whatever it was.

[izallica]

Cpuz 1.53.1 didn't match detect vcore on this board

[xman01]

so far with the 2708 i've noticed the
ht speed option doesn't display 2000, it shows 2200 twice
but works normal first one is 2000 second is actually 2200

[izallica]

My board having a vcore problem.the voltage is incorrect where it sits at 1.088v.(amd cool n quite disabled by default). Which my target is 1.375v for Phenom 965be @ default speed 3.4ghz. so it cannot load windows, when i change manual vcore it need 1.65v then hardware monitor show 1.40v & load to windows succesfully.
I do clear cmos, changing psu, try another bios but problem still appears,vcore drop to 1.088v with all auto setting on bios & cannot load to windows.

Any ideas ?

[Sunfire]

Never seen anything like that before
Did you tried taking out the battery for about 10-15 minutes when clearing CMOS? Or reflashing the BIOS?

[izallica]

^ i did but still error, now i set jumper ov to get 1.9v on bios then when load to window everest read 1.5v on vcore

[Sunfire]

That sounds bad, maybe RMA time?

[izallica]

Thats good idea

[Lastviking]

^ i did but still error, now i set jumper ov to get 1.9v on bios then when load to window everest read 1.5v on vcore

What vcore shows the hardware monitor i bios?

[izallica]

What vcore shows the hardware monitor i bios?

1.512v but cpu temp normal 33c doesn't overheat even i load into windows coretemp show 38c

[izallica]

got new m4a79 dlx from RMA, still rock

[Sunfire]

got new m4a79 dlx from RMA, still rock

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Nice!

I don't know why, but CPU-Z hates me, it doesn't show the real Vcore or VID

[Sunfire]

New M4A79 Deluxe BIOS:

[ 3204 ]
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1. Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
2. Fix EPU runs at "Turbo" when EPU set to "Auto Mode" and without any loading.
3. Fix HDD size may be shown incorrectly when the HDD is bigger than 2.2TB.
4. Fix the floppy drive cannot read or write under Windows 7.

Edit:
A.G.E.S.A is updated to 3.6.9.0, so Thuban and Zosma are supported!

[izallica]

^ thanks for bios bro,

now cpuz 1.54 show real vcore in windows

[felix_w]

Cpu-z 1.54 shows Southbridge as "ID439D' not SB750. Vcore is correct now.

Any practical difference with 3204 bios ? Stability/OC -wise ?

[AMD_Freak]

anyone done any testing on this Bios, anymore stable ?

[felix_w]

Sadly, i checked new bios and it still has the same Raid Rom ver. 3.0.1540.59 .

I am aware of a newer version, 3.2.1540.6 but haven't seen it yet in other board than one GB that i also have.

Effect of this newer rom is faster disc scanning at bootup, as far as i've seen in my testing.

[AMD_Freak]

the bios seems a little better seems stable for the most part Im able to run 3.9 while gaming something I haven't been able to do for a few bios, I haven't done any testing other then gaming

[IMG][/IMG]

[izallica]

Back to 2405, 3204 bsod in prime95 after 20 minutes @4ghz