Asus M3A79-T Deluxe

[TeRrOr4U]

Ok after reading this forum i bought a 1055T What a great processor with bios 1606 Beta it works like a charm! Even Turbo mode works at 3.3 Ghz.
What i don't understand is that every time i start overdrive it only displays 3 cores?
When i start device manager it displays 6 cores. How can i enable the six cores to test them e.g. 3dmark vantage?

That's the only thing i have the system is rock stable!

[Stoner133]

Still no offical support for the X6 CPU's from Asus.

[mykill]

Thanks to Bingo13 for the BIOS !
System is also very stable with Phenom 1090T, and turbo core is working too.

[TeRrOr4U]

After the 1606 Beta bios and the stability i think we get soon official support.
My hopes are up for Bingo13 and lets hope we see a new bios after the weekend.

@Bingo13 can you please post the change list of the new bios?
I have some things in AMD overdrive like the turbo core button. It displays 3 cores @ 3300 MHz. In the right corner of the turbo core window you can select the cores with a maximum of 5. What ever i choose nothing happens it only displays 3 cores.
Well rest me to say keep up the good work dude! My thumbs are up!

[TeRrOr4U]

Ok it's not a bios or AMD overdrive problem. It's a Windows problem. I've you're previous system had 3 or 4 cores and you've edited msconfig -> boot -> advanced options and put it to 3 or 4 cores then windows is capped it to 3 or 4 cores Just uncheck the box reboot and then you have 6 cores!!!!
So no more problems 4 me everything is rock stable!

[bingo13]

Still no offical support for the X6 CPU's from Asus.

There is official support for the X6 processors in the 1606 BIOS. I am officially supporting it on the forums and have released it as such. We will have another BIOS update with additional tuning improvements shortly.

[Stoner133]

There is official support for the X6 processors in the 1606 BIOS. I am officially supporting it on the forums and have released it as such. We will have another BIOS update with additional tuning improvements shortly.

No there is not offical support for the X6 processor on this board. If there were it would be avalible from Asus directly. Asus wouldn't require you to go to a third party site for the download. You in fact said the BIOS would be avalible last month on the Asus site but none is still avalible. I thank you on the work your doing. But at the same time, as a buisness I can not recomend using your BIOS to my customers. It needs to come from Asus.

[Dolk]

Does anyone not understand that Bingo works for ASUS. He is 100% employed by their company. So thus if he says that something is being supported by ASUS, I would bet that he is speaking the truth. Why is it so hard to believe someone on forums these days? You come here to get answeres to questions that you will believe is correct, but than turn around and deny the utter truth when its smaking you in the face.

Stop saying Asus will not support the X6 on the M3A79T-DLX. Becaue they are.

[Stoner133]

Look he may work for Asus. But till Asus takes one of these BIOS files and lists it on there download page, there is no offical support for the M3A79T-Deluxe board. If he works for Asus all it proves is they are working on supporting the board. For one, I never said they will not support the X6 on the board. All I've said is there is no offical support for the board. The only question I've had is when will there be offical support fo the board. Even Bingo said that would be on the 19th of last month and that day has long come and gone. On the 19th he said it would be a couple more days before it would be on the Asus web site. Well there still isn't one. The plan truth is, when one is listed on the Asus site then there will be OFFICIAL ASUS support for the board. Till that day arrives all anyone using Bingo's supplied BIOS is doing is beta testing. Granted many of the people that use this site enjoy doing beta testing. I have people that pay me to support this board in their systems. I can not and will not subject them to becoming lab rats by doing beta testing on systems they rely on for everyday use.

[TeRrOr4U]

Well this is nice. I found out that when you start AMD overdrive and select the turbo core button then the cores which will be in turbo core mode (max 5) all the 6 cores are clocked from 2.8 GHz to 3.3 Ghz.
When ever i start my system all the cores are working on 3.3 GHz!

The max temp they get is 48 degrees! (Thanks 2 the Coolermaster HAF 932!).
I will post screen-shots tonight (i am at work)

[TeRrOr4U]

Ok guys here is the promised screen-shot you can see that the six cores are running above the 3 GHz. I didn't overclock all i did was i selected under the turbo core button (AMD overdrive) all 5 cores and pressed ok.
After that all six cores are running above the 3 GHz by default

[Dolk]

TerRrOr4U gave me an idea today at work.

So you can OC via multiplier, but you have to use Turbo Mode in AOD.

Things are a bit limited but I'm pretty sure I can do some things with this now. I'm going to test how stable it is now.

[TeRrOr4U]

Well Dolk,

I can tell you that my system is very stable with 6 cores on 3.3 GHz. No problems. And everything is running fine, i do not have any problems with beta bios 1606.
And with every core running on 3.3 GHz i am not going to overclock.

[Dolk]

Yeah the Multi works with AOD. To bad I maxed out at this.

[TeRrOr4U]

Ehhhh 4.4 GHz tjee and i thought that 3.3 GHz was a lot....
4.4 GHz on all the six cores?
That's a lot dude what's the temp of the cores?
Well i can't play with the multiplier because it's locked (1055T) 16.5 is the max (3.3 GHz) and they are all (6 cores) running on it

[Mechromancer]

This is absolutely excellent performance on our old M3A79T-Dlx! I think it's safe to say the Phenom X6 works well with this motherboard now. Charged sent me a water block and radiator to begin my water cooling setup so when I get the last couple of pieces I'll have a water cooled X6 in this system. I'm now actually torn between buying a newer car and spending a bunch on my system (my priorities are XTREMEly screwed up sometimes).

[Dolk]

I just got my new 3 120 Rad, so I can go a bit colder.

Oh and keep quite about this, but here is a sneak peek of the work I've been doing

http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...70_20530_marks

[TeRrOr4U]

Coool nice score Dolk!
Well i'm more a gamer then a overclocker (well i do a little bit in overclocking but that is nothing compared to you LOL).
I am very happy that my sixcores are working on 3.3 Ghz. I will post my vantage score tonight because i am at work.

@Bingo13 is there news about the new beta bios?

[felix_w]

I just got my new 3 120 Rad, so I can go a bit colder.

Oh and keep quite about this, but here is a sneak peek of the work I've been doing

http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...70_20530_marks

Very promising piece Dolk...
4.4 for 6core in this board is outstanding i think....

Have you tried clocking your DDR2 higher ? I wonder what the DDR2 IMC of X6 cpu's is capable of.

Thanx

[TeRrOr4U]

Well here is the promised 3DMark Vantage score. The middle score is all cores on 2.8 GHz.
The one on the left is after my AMD overdrive tweak (all cores @ 3.3GHz)

[TeRrOr4U]

Bingo are you still alive?
Something new at the Asus front?

[civicexcoupeman]

Hey guys,

I have been messing with the beta bios and my 1090T
I was able to rock this for 10 whole minutes LOL
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1240356

Regardless I'm loving this CPU. My setup consists of:
Antec 900 case
Asus M3A79-T Deluxe motherboard
AMD Phenom II 1090t CPU
OCZ Vandetta 2 CPU heatsink with the fan replaced with a COOLER MASTER R4-L2R-20CR-GP 120mm
2 2GB Gskill DDR2 1066 RAM
64GB Kingston SSD
(2) 500GB Seagate HD
(1) 1.5 TB Seagate HD
In the link above it shows i have a 5850 with low clock speeds. They sent me the wrong card and I'm RMAing it for a HIS 5870 Reference card that I will OC to 1GHZ or a tad over.

My idle when the CPU is at stock settings is 13C lol wut? hah

Anyways I'm def looking forward to a official BIOS. Any news Bingo?

[rob[GL]]

I'm hoping someone can shed some light on an issue I'm having with one of my clients PC's.

The system is based on an Asus M3A79-T which, for the past year or so, had been working flawlessly. Yesterday the system failed to power on. The case is an Antec Sonata 3 with an Antec Earthwatts 500W power supply. When I pulled the side panel off, I noted that the built-in power and reset buttons were both flashing on/off/on/off endlessly. So I figured the power supply must be faulty. I tested the power supply with a power supply tester and all tests came back "ok" but I have seen power supplies test good before that weren't.

I used my shop power supply (some no-name 350W jobber w/ 4-pin 12v) and when plugged in, both the power and reset lights lit up solid, and when the computer was turned on... everything fired up, but no post, and no beeps. I decided to pull the ram out of the mainboard and fire it up again, I got the default triple beep related to no memory, and at least that instilled me with some confidence that the board was still functional. I put 1 stick of memory back in, and it posted, I put both sticks of memory back in, no post.

I tried stick #1 in slot A and slot C and it works fine. I tried stick #2 in slot A, worked fine, but when I put stick #2 in slot C it failed to post. Weird. Okay, so now I'm working with stick #1 in slot A because I know it posts fine. I replace the power supply with a brand new unit from stock, the power and reset lights on the board come on solid, but pressing the power button does nothing. I try with my old beat up no-name testing power supply and it works fine.

I opened 6 new power supplies trying to find one that would work and no matter what I do - I can't get this board to work properly! I tried 2 other Antec Earthwatts (500W & 650W) power supplies, which have the same result, the blinking power and reset buttons. I tried 2 other brand new power supplies, those keep the lights on solid, but the board will not fire. The only way I can get the board to fire up is with my crappy old jobber. That doesn't make any sense to me.

Just for the record, ALL of the power supplies I attempted (even the original 500w that the pc had been running on up until now) work fine in my bench machine. I can use any of the 6 power supplies to fire up other machines and work just fine. I don't understand why some ram works in some slots but not in others, and why some power supplies work and some don't. I'm starting the think the board is the root of the problem? Unfortunately my company doesn't sell AMD products so I don't have another processor or board to continue testing.

[Mechromancer]

^Just an idea:

While the wattage rating on the PSU may be good, the amps may not. My old DFI board and this ASUS are boards that required a certain amperage on the -12v line. My current PSU puts out 0.8amps on the -12V. I think these boards require 0.6 or 0.7 on that line to work properly. A lot of PSUs just don't meet that spec. I think I bought 2 or 3 before I figured out the cause.

This may or may not be your problem, but I figure your old, beat up PSU is kinda beefy where this board likes it.

[Gener_AL (UK)]

@ rob GL Is the mobo still in the chasis?
Sounds maybe somthing possibly shorting/ or bad connection somewhere.