ASUS - Official AMD 9xx Chipset Series Motherboard Support

[Raja@ASUS]

This thread will be used to provide official support for ASUS AMD 9** series chipset motherboards. Share your experience, tips, tricks and place support/technical queries in this thread please.


Grab chipset drivers from here and install these first:

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD...mula/#download




11.5 AHCI Drivers
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/11-5_win7_32-64_ahci.exe




Intel Lan Drivers (Crosshair V Formula)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yaca3j...pVistaWin7.zip




Realtek Lan Drivers
http://www.mediafire.com/file/quq1xn...pVistaWin7.zip




Nvidia SLI drivers

NVIDIA Driver Downloads


Sabertooth UEFI 0705:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/f4d63f...-ASUS-0705.ROM



Crosshair V Formula beta BIOSes:


Fix improves NB Core frequency stability after making changes in UEFI:



51 is with S3:



http://www.mediafire.com/file/2ni62j...-ASUS-0051.rar


52 is without S3, for extreme overclocking:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/o2a4dt...-ASUS-0052.ROM


Latest official BIOS for the CVF:

http://support.asus.com/Download.asp...-ASUS-0705.zip


BIOS GUIDE START:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post4878604

[Blue Storm]

When will be available new BIOS/UEFI for Sabertooth 990FX? Thanks

[nex_73]

Isn't this 8.85 newer chipset drivers than yours 8.82?
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...ndows_all.aspx

Also
11.5 AMD RAID Driver V3.3.1540.13
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/11-5_win7_32-64_raid.exe

[PatRaceTin]

I wait when crosshair 5 start selling in my country

[mav2000]

Bios??

[Raja@ASUS]

First post updated with 002 and 003 beta BIOSes for C5F

[mav2000]

Thanks raja.. Any major difference in the last one?

[Raja@ASUS]

Thanks raja.. Any major difference in the last one?

Its not major, just slightly better for overclocking. I have not tested it with Sub-Zero. If you want working S3 resume go with 002.

-Raja

[froxic]

On ROG board I found usefull guide for overclocking AMD processors with detailed description of BIOS elements. I think, its good to show here, because If somebody will be tuning his rig it could help a bit. In deed good work here: http://bit.ly/lCRiE1

[FlanK3r]

wow, thank you Frox, I must look at it. Maybe I can found something to improve my OC at this board.

[Praz]

On ROG board I found usefull guide for overclocking AMD processors with detailed description of BIOS elements. I think, its good to show here, because If somebody will be tuning his rig it could help a bit. In deed good work here: http://bit.ly/lCRiE1

Yes, Raja has put together and shared an excellent guide for getting the most out of the C5F. If wanting the most out of memory overclocking one needs to pay particular attention to the Drive Strengths section of the guide.

[froxic]

This guide helps me even on 890FX with drive strenghts. So I managed 2250MHz on RAM for benchmarking. Without that I couldnt even validate 2200MHz :-)

[mav2000]

I am trying everything but getting above 1900 on super talent 2000 cl8 is impossible

[Raja@ASUS]

I am trying everything but getting above 1900 on super talent 2000 cl8 is impossible

There are limitations to what can be done for Hypers I'm afraid. Might see if we can find some more headroom for some modules, but it's not something I can guarantee.

-Raja

[FlanK3r]

Hypers are not good for AMD CPUs, as Raja said...U need PSC kits. Second condition is AMD Thuban, Deneb has not so good IMC for RAMs as Thubans

[Praz]

I am trying everything but getting above 1900 on super talent 2000 cl8 is impossible

With the Super Talents you might be better off with lower speed and tighter timings. With a good IMC and proper board tuning might be able to hit at least 1720MHz/6-6-6.

[mav2000]

Hmm... Is it a CPU limitation or board limitation. As of now seems like a CPU limitation to me. Am able to run around 1640 or so stable with cl6, but not any better. I will post some bios screens soon. Want to hold on to these till BD launches anyway. Maybe they will work better. If there is a better bios for ST ram I for one would be vert happy. Thanks raja hope u guys can work it out.

Any tips on 1700+ cl6 would be great as well. And also are you guys seeing major oc differences other than ram between CH IV and V?

[FlanK3r]

whats your board? If u have 700 chipset, its no chance get over 1800-1850 MHz (with PSC!), u must have 800 or 900 chipset for better RAM OC and Thuban CPU. Denebs cant much over 1800 MHz stable. I have A-Data 2000x with Hypers and at 890FX Formula IV topped at 1700 MHz 7-7-6. PSC kits are from my point of view more better for AMD platform (GSkill, Geils...). Of course, I tested it, I have some Gskill kits too.

[nex_73]

Crosshair V Formula:
Bios 0404
AISuite II v10130-C5F

Sabertooth 990FX
Bios 0402

Changelog?

[Raja@ASUS]

First post updated with new beta BIOSes.

[XRL8]

@Raja@Asus

Does any of currently available or future planned (until BD launch) mainboards support Dolby Digital Live or DTS connect ?

[Raja@ASUS]

@Raja@Asus

Does any of currently available or future planned (until BD launch) mainboards support Dolby Digital Live or DTS connect ?

Hi XRL8

CVF is THX TruStudio PRO and EAX5 standard. Sabertooth/EVO are DTS Sensation Ultra, 970 Pro/EVO are DTS Sensation Ultra

-Raja

[XRL8]

Hi XRL8

CVF is THX TruStudio PRO and EAX5 standard. Sabertooth/EVO are DTS Sensation Ultra, 970 Pro/EVO are DTS Sensation Ultra

-Raja

Thanks Raja for the answer, but it doesnt my question at all ;-).
"technologies" you presented are buzzwords without real meaning.
Maybe i explain.
When you connect digital multichannel receiver to a PC through spdif optical or electrical, to send full 5.1 audio from GAMES or other type of interactive software, the pc with software or hardware has to encode this sound stream into Dolby digital or DTS, because spdif lacks bandwith to send it in PCM.
Both X-Fi and realtec chipsets are capable of doing that, however it has to be enabled and paid for by the mainboard manufacturer (to the Dolby or DTS consortium).
Maybe DTS connect is part of the sensation ultra, however i cant verify that on the DTS website as its full of marketing BS, it says "games" but it doesnt automatically mean that it will encode to DTS on the fly :-/.
Its not about manipulating the sound in any way to make stereo 3D ,5.1 or 7.1 and its not about analog outputs.
Game-> live DTS encoder->spdif->digital receiver.You probably wont get this info from any marketing flyer, but some audio engineer at asus shoudl defintely know.

[devguy]

Hi XRL8

CVF is THX TruStudio PRO and EAX5 standard. Sabertooth/EVO are DTS Sensation Ultra, 970 Pro/EVO are DTS Sensation Ultra

-Raja

He's asking if any of the 9xx series chipset motherboards from ASUS are going to allow for real-time DTS or Dolby Digital Encoding. Those features you listed are the sort of "virtual" surround sound functionality which is quite different. Most motherboards these days elect not to support those live encoding features because they have to give a kickback to either DTS or Dolby for every board sold (it is by no means a technical reason).

To my knowledge, the only recent motherboard with DTS: Connect is the Gigabyte G1 for Intel. My old 790fx board had it too (GA-MA790FX-DS5). Alternatively, you can probably find a sound card that supports it for not too much, if you'll give up a slot on your motherboard (kind of a tough decision with ASUS, as for some reason ASUS insists on only having 6 expansion slots on their high-end boards, even though the ATX spec allows for 7).

[XRL8]

^

Yes.
X-Fi card with CH V should have it as most X-Fi 2`s cards had it.But i cant verify that :-/.
When i buy expensive high end mobo i like to have it all.Licensee fees arent that great to skip it.Not in this day and age of everything digital.