Ga-790fxta-ud5

[Leeghoofd]

Maybe we can do for this board what we achieved at Asus camp when we had issues with the Q94/9550 series CPU's on the P5Q series... gather info and pass that on is a very good idea Chew*...

I'm meeting the giga crew next week at CeBIT and could pass this info trough ( maybe short notice as it's in 2 days ), I need some crossfire cards to verify 3D... only got Nvidiots here...

Can you pm me the HD issues Brian, OS install went pretty normal here with F2 ( XP, XP64 and Win7 Pro 64 )...

[AAdjuster]

why they dont fix those problems ? anyway , waiting for the 890FX boards, but i think i dont buy gigabyte no more. So slow bios support ... but still... i like gigabyte...

I think the problem in releaseing new bio's is due gigabyte putting most of their effort into Intel mb's.

Seems like there is a new Intel bios, coming out every other day. Look at the Jz website nearly all the bios's are Intel.

The Ga-x58a_ud7 for example came about the same time our mb did.
We have 3 bio's to play, but the Intel board has 15 bio's.

I think Amd mb's are an afterthought to Gigabyte, their number 1 priority is Intel.

[chew*]

Maybe we can do for this board what we achieved at Asus camp when we had issues with the Q94/9550 series CPU's on the P5Q series... gather info and pass that on is a very good idea Chew*...

I'm meeting the giga crew next week at CeBIT and could pass this info trough ( maybe short notice as it's in 2 days ), I need some crossfire cards to verify 3D... only got Nvidiots here...

Can you pm me the HD issues Brian, OS install went pretty normal here with F2 ( XP, XP64 and Win7 Pro 64 )...

Might be able to see the 3d biased GT issues with NV, not sure though. Should not need to even be in crossifre to see it, canyon will be lower than avg when compared to the majority in 05/06 and same in 3d based gt's in 03.

Best way to see the poor HD performance is to install win7 to an MSI and giga at the same time. The MSI will finish by at least 2 minutes faster. Let me drag out my MSI or Crosshair III and run the HD tests again.

James and I even noted that the HD performance was sub par compared to the elder 790FXT as we had run pcmark on it prior to using the FXTA and HD's scores went down.

[chew*]

Ok so I did a little comparison.

Now as far as HD synthetics go best i can tell you is ASUS/MSI installs windows faster. ASUS boots this particular install with 8 load bars at splash screen, MSI boots in 10 bars and Gigabyte boots in 16 bars.

MSI results were odd. Could be the fact that I prefer an ancient bios for benching.

Corsair Xtreme Series X32 SSD Fresh format

MSI



ASUS CH III



GIGABYTE



I also did a 3d comparision. Things you need to keep on mind. Likely bottlenecked by CPU so the diff is minimal at best right now but is linear as you scale higher and add more gpu power. Giga clocks NB on avg lower than both boards, and the MSI tends to OC alot higher due to being relaxxed. What ends up happening is giga is trailing in the top end by a rather large gap In 3d biased GT's.


MSI




ASUS




GIGABYTE

[Zeus]

Thanks for the comparisation chew*.

Nice to see the boards differ quite a bit.

The Asus seems to take the top spot here, 3D result is interesting.

[chew*]

Thanks for the comparisation chew*.

Nice to see the boards differ quite a bit.

The Asus seems to take the top spot here, 3D result is interesting.

Ehhh this is just a 3d game test result compare, system tests paint a very diff picture, It's evident gigabyte runs a tighter ship.

As far as 3d gt's are concerned the best I can come up with is there is some sort of bandwidth wall with giga.

[Leeghoofd]

Need to test 3D05 then... I got slightly better scores with 01 and 06 on the Giga (best score out of 3 runs here) this with a GTX285 stock clocks and CPU at 3.4Ghz ( 1600mhz rams C8-8-8-24 and 2000Mhz Nb)



F2 bios for the Giga and 1.9B3 for the MSI, OS Win7 64 Pro

[0lta]

Hi. I hope some1 can give some hint's for me. I have small problem with my memorys. I have ocz obsidian 2x2gb... http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...al_channel_kit

And i cant get those work in dual channel, only single channel works. I've allready tried those in both "channels" ddr3_1 and ddr3_3 or ddr3_2 and ddr3_4 but still same single channel problem.
Can someone help me plz little, this is my first amd board since 800mhz duron times..
My board is 790fxta-ud5 and cpu is 965BE C3

E: here's scrshot of cpu-z ect.. http://pallonlahti.sytes.net/kuvia/help.jpg
E: solved..

[hicookie]

AOD compatibility please try this BIOS
http://rapidshare.com/files/358738448/79XTAUD5.F3f.html

hicookie

[Riska]

thanks i am on the F3A bios and no go with AOD

[AAdjuster]

AOD compatibility please try this BIOS
http://rapidshare.com/files/358738448/79XTAUD5.F3f.html

hicookie

This download is a unopenable file.

Windows can't open and 7z are unable to open it.

So how is it opened?

[Riska]

it is not to open it is to flash on the mobo dircet

[biohead]

no, winrar opened it.

i extracted and uploaded the .bin for you. download 79xtaud5.BIN here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4193009/79xtaud5.BIN

[eL.Os-17]

LOL

I could flash the Bios F3f without problems

Thanks for the bios



Bye!~

[AAdjuster]

no, winrar opened it.

i extracted and uploaded the .bin for you. download 79xtaud5.BIN here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4193009/79xtaud5.BIN

Thank you very much.

[eL.Os-17]

AOD compatibility please try this BIOS
http://rapidshare.com/files/358738448/79XTAUD5.F3f.html

hicookie

I could flash these BIOS and I had no problems with AOD

Thanks.-



Bye!~

[AAdjuster]

With the F3F bios, the AMD Black Edition Memory Profile works now my 965-3BE.
It recognizes the 965-3Be, and the profiles works.

[Rattle]

so is this bios safe to flash? any word on official f3 or a further beta? I got this mobo today with a 965 and its all working nicely out of the box on f2 so far.

[AAdjuster]

so is this bios safe to flash? any word on official f3 or a further beta? I got this mobo today with a 965 and its all working nicely out of the box on f2 so far.

I'm using the F3F bios and have had no problem with it.
AOD works fine.

However remember flash at your own risk.

So far i like this bios.

[stasio]

AOD compatibility please try this BIOS
http://rapidshare.com/files/358738448/79XTAUD5.F3f.html

hicookie

Guys,any another link?
From RS only can be downloaded 10 times.

[FatAlbert]

http://www.fatty.everon.pl/79xtaud5.BIN

here you've got stasio

[0lta]

Guys,any another link?
From RS only can be downloaded 10 times.

try this one; http://pallonlahti.sytes.net/79XTAUD5.zip

[stasio]

Thanks guys,got it!

[M@rcB]

Hi All,

My first posting over here and I hope you can help.

I am trying to install Windows7 (x64, Ultimate) on a WD Caviar Black 1TB
SATA 6Gb/s hard disk (WD1002FAEX). I have connected the hard disk to the
Marvell 9128 SATA3 port on the Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 motherboard but by
some reason it is not possible to get Windows7 installed. It takes about 5
minutes before the first screen shows up of W7, then after selecting the
country, keyboard etc, it again takes about 5 minutes before the next W7
screen shows up. The disk is properly recognized and after creating a
partition of 200MB and formatting this partition, the installation starts.

However whent the installation is at about 20% ~30% completed, I get an
error message that the files cannot be writen to disk. Looks as if the disk
is not seen anymore. I have tried both AHCI and IDE mode on SATA3, tried
with and without the additional W7 drivers during the installation but all
fails. I also tried the default bios version F2, F3a and F3f but again all
fails. Contacted Gigabyte technical support but all that has been suggested
does not work.

Installation of the drive on a SATA2 port works properly so it doesn't look
as if the disk is defective. I have the strong impression that it is
related to the Marvell 9128 and/or bios firmware. Perhaps another
possibility is the computer case, I am using the Zalman MS1000-HS2 which
has a specific drive bay.

Any of you guys experienced the same problem? Any advice is very welcome as
I am running out of creative ideas.....

[chew*]

Hi All,

My first posting over here and I hope you can help.

I am trying to install Windows7 (x64, Ultimate) on a WD Caviar Black 1TB
SATA 6Gb/s hard disk (WD1002FAEX). I have connected the hard disk to the
Marvell 9128 SATA3 port on the Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 motherboard but by
some reason it is not possible to get Windows7 installed. It takes about 5
minutes before the first screen shows up of W7, then after selecting the
country, keyboard etc, it again takes about 5 minutes before the next W7
screen shows up. The disk is properly recognized and after creating a
partition of 200MB and formatting this partition, the installation starts.

However whent the installation is at about 20% ~30% completed, I get an
error message that the files cannot be writen to disk. Looks as if the disk
is not seen anymore. I have tried both AHCI and IDE mode on SATA3, tried
with and without the additional W7 drivers during the installation but all
fails. I also tried the default bios version F2, F3a and F3f but again all
fails. Contacted Gigabyte technical support but all that has been suggested
does not work.

Installation of the drive on a SATA2 port works properly so it doesn't look
as if the disk is defective. I have the strong impression that it is
related to the Marvell 9128 and/or bios firmware. Perhaps another
possibility is the computer case, I am using the Zalman MS1000-HS2 which
has a specific drive bay.

Any of you guys experienced the same problem? Any advice is very welcome as
I am running out of creative ideas.....

not sure but i'm willing to bet that the SB supplied sata ports are faster.