Quick Preview of MSI 990FXA-GD80 Motherboard

[almighty15]

After my 790FX GD70 and I contacted MSI for anr RMA and after MONTHS of waiting I never heard a single peep from them, So I tossed it in the bin and got a Crosshair 4 Extreme.

I'll never buy MSI again.

[Mafio]

did some testing under single stage, the cpu looks quite good, 32M stable at 5230 MHZ with some room for improvements.



BTW, bios here needs some improvements:

• 32M performance isn't what i expect from a top end board
• compatibility with Elpida Hyper based DDR3 could and should be better

[BeepBeep2]

did some testing under single stage, the cpu looks quite good, 32M stable at 5230 MHZ with some room for improvements.



BTW, bios here needs some improvements:

• 32M performance isn't what i expect from a top end board
• compatibility with Elpida Hyper based DDR3 could and should be better

Example of still non-efficient run for comparison:
I would expect a Deneb CPU at Mafio's clocks to be doing ~13:05...

[Mafio]

and what about this?



1th core is ok, but the others ALWAYS run at default multiplier.

[ah_khoo]

@ sir chew*

pardon me for postin d screeny late, couldn't find d old one (or my memory playin tricks on me ). slightly less than stock clock (CPU) coz i'm not stressin d chip much since my cooling is really sucks.

I really appreciate you getting back to me on this! I do have another question though.... can MSI's software be set to automatically manage the settings for those fans - in a similar way to the way Asus manages CPU and Chassis, or Afterburner can control GPU fans?

i think no, it's either u set 50%, 75% or 100% for each fan. there's another profile which u can set, called silent. it's nothing but to set all fan @ 50%.

and what about this?



1th core is ok, but the others ALWAYS run at default multiplier.

hmmm.... like what i expected, this bug is just d same as what my friend (whose using gd65 + x2 555be) claimed. time for MSI BIOS team to have a look into this issue...

[brains11]

After my 790FX GD70 and I contacted MSI for anr RMA and after MONTHS of waiting I never heard a single peep from them, So I tossed it in the bin and got a Crosshair 4 Extreme.

I'll never buy MSI again.

I get my RMA from MSI with in a couple days. From sent to recieve. Make sure you either state your problem or talk to a tech. Their office is a couple blocks from Newegg, in my neck of the woods anyways.

Hope this motherboard is nice. I have a built K9A2 Platinum, 790FX, 890FX systems. They keep getting better, however it seems with this board it is a ship without a captain for now. Also MSI support english forums are horrible. The beta german forum is nice.

[ah_khoo]

for d fun of ram clockin...



but sadly when cpu multi > 8x & imc multi > 9x, system is unbootable...

[Mafio]

last WE i had time to test my AMD setup, here is what came out...



3 cores out of 4 reach 6840 MHz, the other one looks a tad worse.
i've the feeling that should be something more in this CPU, i will retest this stuff in the next few days hoping for the big 7.



this 1M is REALLY crappy, MSI should make something with next bios.