GIGABYTE 9xx AM3+ thread

[enzoR]

It's unfortunate that the 990FX board with the best slot layout is really a POS for the CPU we have available.....i'm just hoping it's completely geared to bulldozer so K10 is suffering a bit.

Im still on the B bios but words cant describe how dissapointed i am with this board. Forget about using a USB keyboard with it. Major instability. Come on gigabyte its 2011! And with no changelogs posted im reluctant to spend alot more time on this POS and swapping bios's. Did anyone notice any kind of improvement with the newer ones?

And i cant find the option to set numlock to ON at boot. Am i blind?

[m411b]

Major instability. Come on gigabyte its 2011! And with no changelogs posted im reluctant to spend alot more time on this POS and swapping bios's.

My UD7 is just as bad. I've actually been thinking about selling it to get an ASUS, and that's not like me.

[Lightman]

I'm on a contrary quite happy with UD7. It had silly USB keyboard problems with F3 bios but since F4 I'm happy with no problems.
To me it looks like people are too sensitive to vCore fluctuations. For me vCore issue never caused system instability and OC I'm getting out of this board is slightly better than what I had on ASUS CH IV F with no vCore problem.

Good experience all around in a system filled with hardware like: RAID 0 array, SSD, Blu-Ray, HDDs, USB cam, Logitech G15 and G9, Flight Sim USB stick, iOmega REv USB drive, 2xHD6970, 2x4GB RAM and so on.
BTW my computer now is under 100% load 24/7 for good month thanks to BitCoins, not a single problem.


Of course I understand other people can experience issues on same product and personally feel Gigabyte could be doing better on BIOS side.

[stasio]

Final BIOS released.....(in 20 min)

[m411b]

Final BIOS released.....(in 20 min)

For which board?


EDIT:
F4 FINAL released for UD7 http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...?pid=3880#bios

1. Update CPU AGESA 0.0.9.2 for AM3+
2. Update Dolby Home Theater version
3. Add Touch BIOS support

Will give it a go and see if anything has changed!

EDIT 2: Never mind; it's the same F4B BIOS that has already been in circulation! EPIC FAIL by Gigabyte!

The link for the "New" BIOS is supposed to be http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList...fxa-ud7_f4.exe, but when you download it, you get
http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList...xa-ud7_f4b.exe.

EDIT 3: They fixed it. 1 P.M. Central

[stasio]

Final BIOS released again.....(links ready in 1 hour time).

[hirsch]

final bios released again.....(links ready in 1 hour time).

F5?

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...?pid=3880#bios

[Toysoldier]

The F5 Final BIOS for the UD5 has a different hash than the F5c BIOS.
Going to try it ... http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...?pid=3891#bios

EDIT

Still overvolts at Idle and drops around 0.1v under LinX load, so no change there.
Haven't seen any changes in BIOS so far.

[Augustus]

Ok, bit of an update here of my testing with UD3 over the last couple of days.

F3g beta bios didn't make a difference to me.....couldn't overclock well at all and bios definitely feels buggy. F3 full release then downloaded and this is definitely much much better. As i suspected there was previously something going on with the ram. I can now overclock much closer to what i could previously (with 890GPA-UD3H) and if i left the RAM timings set to AUTO the timings set were MUCH looser than F3f/g.

Then tried F4 (gigabyte must be on the coffee as that's two bios in two days) and it's exactly the same as F3 performance-wise.

The board still seems to have a problem with the high HTT though and successful passes of memtest/intelburn then turn into a no boot when board is restarted and i then have to clock the HTT back up again as it resets to stock. Frustrating.

The bios is definitely getting better but gigabyte are taking their time on what is a known and already very mature platform.

I'm sure that CPUZ/HWMonitor can't read this board totally correctly as my VCore isn't reported properly in either. It's not Vdroop as a 0.2V drop wouldn't allow Intelburn to run and pass although i might be getting some droop but not be able to tell without getting my DMM out.

I just hope i don't have to go through all of this bios work when bulldozer hits.......

[hsn]

gigabyte 990fxa ud5 - f5c
phenom x2 555be (1.325) on MIT
thermolab bada
Setting all default



my question : is that true AMD X2 555BE 80watt???

thx..

[Fatbird]

Seems it is 80w.
http://products.amd.com/en-us/Deskto...=True&f12=True

[ice_chill]

Hi, could anyone please comment on the heat of the heatsink ? I ask because I have an ASUS Crosshair V, and it gets terribly hot, when gaming the heatsink is so hot I cannot hold my finger on it for longer than 1 second.
I am wondering if ASUS's VRM are the problem, or if it is the northbridge is heating everything up so much ?

[Viking1962]

I have GA-990FXA-UD7 and it work well without any problems. Here is the temp I got on my mainboard, but wtf are Socket M2? Excuse me that my english sux

Speccy v1.12


Since BIOS F5 you can config your BIOS from Windows with this program

[PatRaceTin]

Hi, could anyone please comment on the heat of the heatsink ? I ask because I have an ASUS Crosshair V, and it gets terribly hot, when gaming the heatsink is so hot I cannot hold my finger on it for longer than 1 second.
I am wondering if ASUS's VRM are the problem, or if it is the northbridge is heating everything up so much ?

In hot country like mine
I stick 12cm fan near PWM Heatsink

[possessed]

so, 3 moths without any new bios, now two released in two days??? i completely missed F5 until now.

[SUPERKAMES]

My new Gigabyte 970A - D3 .

The system:

AMD X6 1090T.
Gigabyte 970A-D3.
Gskill Jipjaws X 1333 cas 7 (2*4gb).
MSI R6950 TF3 PE/OC unlocked.
Seasonic X660
HDD seagate 500gb
Prolimatech Megahalems RevB

Fets with ram's heatsinks (fulload@ 3.84ghz):




Some benches @ 4.2ghz :

[god_43]

...ok can someone tell me how the gpu's can function so close together? i mean what about heat temps? if all the gpu's are used 100%, how do they handle the heat? i had 2 ati gpu's close together like that, and when they were used; the gpu's would heat up to like 90c+?

I did a quick 4WAY SLI test with GTX580SOC cards

it's CPU bottlenecked at this point, nothing that LN2 cant fix (soon enough)

[dinos22]

definitely not advisable to put a system like this in a closed case. I just did some quick pretesting to see if 4 way works that's all. If you do want a 4way setup you must go watercooled imo otherwise it will get pretty hot.

[PatRaceTin]

my friends ask me come to look at this thread...... they got problem with VCore unstable (UD5 / UD7)........

[hirsch]

my friends ask me come to look at this thread...... they got problem with VCore unstable (UD5 / UD7)........

....and they are not alone!

[Viking1962]

What happens when Vcore is unstable? crash? My combuter works fine. The only problem I have are when I use 1.5V (standard Volt) for my memory the computer will crash, but if I increase to 1.55V it works perfect.

[ReggieSanchez]

ud3= awsome budget bencher

set up
990fxa-ud3
965be
dominator gx3
kingpin F1


http://hwbot.org/submission/

[PatRaceTin]

What happens when Vcore is unstable? crash? My combuter works fine. The only problem I have are when I use 1.5V (standard Volt) for my memory the computer will crash, but if I increase to 1.55V it works perfect.

They got crash
( example VCore 1.50 BIOS Set & CPUZ but sudden go down to 1.40 when load then >> crash )

[Viking1962]

They got crash
( example VCore 1.50 BIOS Set & CPUZ but sudden go down to 1.40 when load then >> crash )

My Volt looks ok but I have never set it to 1.5V for CPU. I will check it out myself and see what happens

[EDIT]
My Volt seems to be stable, between 1.520V - 1.536V in CPU-z, never below 1.520V or above 1.536V. Do they have latest BIOS?

[crazydiamond]

patracetin, that is how the ud5 & ud7 are supposedly supposed to work. i posted about it in post 242.. and went with a ud3