msi 790 fx-gd70 thread

[=SOC= Admiral]

I ham having problems getting my 1055T to post anywhere about 3710MHz and can not figure out why. using the 1.A bios but I have a feeling that this bios was not truly meant for this cpu and was hacked together to make it work. Thus why I can not get any higher. I am currently sitting at 3.5GHz on the cpu just fine as to keep all settings of the memory, northbridge, and Hypertransport at stock levels. i am at 1.44v on the cpu. Really wish the bios handled stepping up the voltage like my old MA-790FXT-UD5P with a menu that poped up with choices like the multiplier did but it read out for voltages in .05v increments.

[MadDias]

I ham having problems getting my 1055T to post anywhere about 3710MHz and can not figure out why. using the 1.A bios but I have a feeling that this bios was not truly meant for this cpu and was hacked together to make it work. Thus why I can not get any higher. I am currently sitting at 3.5GHz on the cpu just fine as to keep all settings of the memory, northbridge, and Hypertransport at stock levels. i am at 1.44v on the cpu. Really wish the bios handled stepping up the voltage like my old MA-790FXT-UD5P with a menu that poped up with choices like the multiplier did but it read out for voltages in .05v increments.

don´t boot ur pc with 1.44v cpu if turbo mode is enabled!!
as i see ur using 1.A, so turbomode is definetly enabled, this will push 1.61v thru ur cpu when turbo kicks in.
better use the buggy 1.B0 bios to disable turbo mode, or leave ur cpu at stock volts and change the turbo multi to 19 or something.

[ridney]

I ham having problems getting my 1055T to post anywhere about 3710MHz and can not figure out why.

lets see, you are now at 3710mhz so that would be 265HTT with turbo up to 4372mhz, anything more than that would not allow you to boot because your turbo speed would be too high for such a low vcore. remember that turbo = default vcore + 0.1v so if you're setting it at 1.44v then during turbo vcore raises it to 1.544v for a 4.4~4.5Ghz

[=SOC= Admiral]

Right now im abit frustraited that cool and quite will not stay off even though its disabled in the bios.

[ridney]

i feel the otherway around, i think it's finally great to have cool and quiet running with an overclocked phenom II and it helps a lot on saving power and cooling the chip on idle, previously with a C2 or C3 we cannot do this

[=SOC= Admiral]

Im using the x6 and i have had a 1 or 2 crashes because cool and quite was on. But I finally tricked it into being off (that was a doozy). To be honest I believe that the 1.A (1.10) bios was truly hacked together to make these X6s work. After confirming that the cool and quite was off I had little time to turn off turbo. At least its clocked at 3.5GHz 24/7 like I want it to be now that C&Q is correctly detected as Disabled. Need True bios support for this cpu on this mobo. I also believe that because this bios is not fully in support of this cpu and its just to where it works, it is what is limiting my OC.

[ridney]

be careful MadDias.. i just read this from the memory section, wanted to make sure all the gd70 users saw it so im gonna post it here too.

ATTN 790FX-GD70 + THUBAN USERS!

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hey thanks crazy! i just experienced (actually last thursday) this with my 790FX-GD70, priming at 4.2 at 1.575v and right up to 30 mins of full load, my pc shutdown itself and never recovered. i blamed my brand new hx850 psu to have failed but now i think i need to check on my mobo too. i wish it's dead so i can get the CHIV btw, i was using the 1.b0 bios, i guess i was the first one to have used it and it lasted for about 3 hours

[zanzabar]

so is the x6 pulling to much amps then that overheats the pwms if using high voltage and that in turn kills the NB since they didnt put proper cooling on it

[crazydiamond]

im not so sure if its the x6 pulling too much or if the bios are screwed up & not handling voltages correctly... id guess the latter

[mav2000]

How did you get cnq to turn off
I cant seem to turn it on

[MadDias]

lets see, you are now at 3710mhz so that would be 265HTT with turbo up to 4372mhz, anything more than that would not allow you to boot because your turbo speed would be too high for such a low vcore. remember that turbo = default vcore + 0.1v so if you're setting it at 1.44v then during turbo vcore raises it to 1.544v for a 4.4~4.5Ghz

that´s not true... turbo voltage is default vcore + 0.17v
and if u change default vcore, it still adds 0.17v (if turbo vcore is the same on all x6 cpus). i saw that on my x6 when i had turbo on and changed vcore to 1.45v. the voltage spiked to 1.62v when turbo kicked in.

btw.. 1.57v for 4.2ghz is way too much... these cpus need less voltage than c3 965 cpus. i can prime 4.1ghz for hours on 1.47v without problems.

[=SOC= Admiral]

How did you get conquest to turn off
I cant seem to turn it on

If that was pointed to me and it was referring to Cool and quite then if you have Overdrive that green or green red dot in the corner is C&Q control (But does not seem able to set it correctly all the time). Cool and Quite is off when the dot is Green red.

[mav2000]

Thanks.

[ridney]

that´s not true... turbo voltage is default vcore + 0.17v
and if u change default vcore, it still adds 0.17v (if turbo vcore is the same on all x6 cpus). i saw that on my x6 when i had turbo on and changed vcore to 1.45v. the voltage spiked to 1.62v when turbo kicked in.

btw.. 1.57v for 4.2ghz is way too much... these cpus need less voltage than c3 965 cpus. i can prime 4.1ghz for hours on 1.47v without problems.

you might wanna try a few other bios before you conclude with one, i'm sure you're getting that turbo vcore on a buggy 1b0 bios (that i shared)

and yeah, i know about how low a vcore thuban needs but my chip is a dud, no chip is ever the same


EDIT: i just confirmed my mobo died, seems it was really a buggy bios! maybe i'll be going for an 890fxa-gd70 since it's about $200 here rather than the crosshair iv which is a staggering $300!

[=SOC= Admiral]

You want the Crosshair IV Extreme dont you ridney or were you going for the formula which is only $230 at newegg.

[ridney]

no, i wanted the formula but the price here is ridiculous

[Joffen12]

i have my setup overclocked to 4050mhz and my nb is at 23XX something sould my HTT be running the same speed or sould i be holding that at 2000mhz

my ram is at 1860mhz with timing 7-8-8-25

anything i sould fix

[massman]

Just received a new bios for this board: V1.12B2. Fixes the C&Q issue.

Let me know if you're desperate and I'll upload the file.

[ridney]

that's great! upload please, thanks

[massman]

Posted it over at the HWBOT forums (my apologies for the obvious attempt to create traffic on the forums ).

http://hwbot.org/forum/showpost.php?p=56586&postcount=2

[=SOC= Admiral]

What about turbo disable?

[massman]

In the bios and working perfectly.

[theoldtimer]

I downloaded the file but when I try to unzip it I get an error message stating the file is corrupt.

[massman]

http://www.madshrimps.be/upload/Mass...0/A7577AMS.1C2

Moved file to different location - please try again

[Entropicity]

I downloaded the file but when I try to unzip it I get an error message stating the file is corrupt.

The file IS the bios itself. Not zipped.

Thanks Massman.