ASUS AMD Beta BIOS Releases

[zoomee]

BIOS 1605 for M4A89GTD-PRO.

Bugs:

USB Sound Cards cause BSODS.

I got this with my X-Fi Fatal1ty even with the current official BIOS - havn't had it with 1605 though!

PS - Also tested my Intel 80Gb G2 SSD to check for performance - still seems to be ok kicking through 250MB/s read speed - using MS AHCI drivers
still not sure if ATI drivers support AHCI / TRIM so steering clear of them for now....

[Praz]

using MS AHCI drivers
still not sure if ATI drivers support AHCI / TRIM so steering clear of them for now....

No trim pass-through yet.

[Daveburt714]

Early impressions of bios 1005 for the C4F....
I've only tested it for a couple hours, but since no one has said anything I thought I'd offer some observations.

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say don't worry about upgrading!
So far it seems to be much more OC friendly than 0905 and after 2 hours I don't regret flashing it!

Here are a few things I've found so far....

The Good:
1) The floating HtRef is virtually gone!
I've seen a little fluctuation when TurboCore is active, but it's a huge improvement/rare and barely noticeable...

2) Turning LLC on for the IMC no longer results in crazy voltage swings.
The most I've seen it OV the IMC is ~.02v.... This is MUCH better than the .3v swings I saw using 0905 (that was scary!) this is useful and in fact, may be a little weak...

The Bad:
I have a 1055T so using TurboUnlocker comes in very handy for me. The only negatives I have to say about the newest bios relates to Turbo.

1) Activating Turbo appears to work (shows up in the status box), but has very little effect on lightly threaded apps...
It says it's working, but benches don't show an improvement by having it on.

2) With Turbo and LLC both on it still OV's the CPU Vcore quite a bit (~.13v)...
I have good water cooling, so I'm not really worried about it, but I could see where it might be a problem for folks on air.

2a) I thought they were going to include a %value for LLC overvolt? That would have been nice, maybe I'm missing something...

Mixed:
I can't swear to this yet, but it seems like the board does a much better job of picking up the Memory's SPD chip.
This is all well and good, but setting AUTO for my Corsair GT 2000 CL8's (I was trying to take mem out of the equation ) resulted in a failure to POST...
Just keep this in mind if you have high performance RAM and auto causes POST problems.
Manually setting the mem frequency to 1600 fixed the problem, I'll tweak mem later...

BTW: the gear in my sig is accurate for what I'm using.

[CrimInalA]

not touching these until bingo13 jumps in saying this bios is the latest and the greatest available .

So , bingo

[Leeghoofd]

The Good:
1) The floating HtRef is virtually gone!
I've seen a little fluctuation when TurboCore is active, but it's a huge improvement/rare and barely noticeable...

It's less indeed, but still the board swings in CPU-Z and THG clock... This is a 250HT clock screenie with a 1090T (no Turbo), 249 is closer to 4000...

[Daveburt714]

Leeghoofd: Wow.... Mine hasn't jumped more than a few decimal points, never even 1 full Mhz, even then its rare.

Are you using CnQ? I have it on, maybe that helps settle things down...

I'll turn it off and see if the float comes back.

[charged3800z24]

Leeghoofd: Wow.... Mine hasn't jumped more than a few decimal points, never even 1 full Mhz, even then its rare.

Are you using CnQ? I have it on, maybe that helps settle things down...

I'll turn it off and see if the float comes back.

I had improvement with 0905 but it required a complete clear of CMOS. I will try 1005 now. been running a couple months at 1.48v with 4ghz on 1090t 24/7 bionc crunching. I still have some voltage swing, nothing as bad as before though. i'll keep you poseted.

[Oo88oO]

FAO bingo13
M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 1605 BIOS Feedback

Thank you for your continued efforts in respect of BIOS development.

Possible issues with latest 1605 BIOS based on unscientific day-to-day usage:

1) Onboard graphics clock speed cannot be changed from default, irrespective of mode/setting.
2) Connecting an 8GB Corsair Voyager USB memory stick (newly purchased) via front USB header causes complete and total system failure. Repeatable and verified on another near identical system. Connecting USB stick via motherboard rear I/O connection does not cause system failure. Connecting different capacity memory sticks via the front USB header connection does not elicit system failure. Haven’t ruled out possibility of a fault with the new 8GB Corsair Voyager memory stick.

System specification:

ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 95W @ 3.3GHz
4GB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600 @ 7-7-7-20 27tRC, 1T, 1.65V
2 x 1TB Western Digital WD1002FAEX SATA 6Gbps Caviar Black, RAID 0
1TB Samsung F3 HD103SJ
Lite-On iHAS124
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD
Noctua NH-C12P SE14
1 x Arctic F12 PWM, 2 x Arctic F9 PWM
4GB Corsair Flash Voyager GT (ReadyBoost)
Corsair HX450
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit