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Phenom II 955 problem with Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 [SOLVED !]
Hi,
Be careful when considering Gigabyte motherboard, or buying a new Phenom II 955 for your existing one.
Gigabyte lists GA-MA790FX-DS5 as Phenom II 955 'compliant' from BIOS revion F6.
I don't know who's doing this Q/A at Gigabyte, but this CPU does not work properly with this mobo (using F6 F7 and F8a). A fairly intelligent 8yr old could test it using CPU-Z.
No matter what settings you choose in BIOS, it will always run at nice constant clock:
core 0 @ 1.6 Ghz
core 1 @ 800 Mhz
core 2 @ 800 Mhz
core 3 @ 800 Mhz
Not too fast if you ask me.
I'm mad as hell... I purchased a quite pricey CPU, just to see it underperform and loose value over time...
Several other people had it too, like here: http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/phenom-ii-955-1-6-ghz-gb-ma790fx-ds5-31903/
And not only with GA-MA790FX-DS5, as you can see with those angry people here: http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=319&threadid=112550&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear
If you google for "Phenom II 955 1.6 Ghz Gigabyte" you'll notice that several other gigabyte mobos had this problem (apparently Gigabyte is handing out beta BIOS for these people that fixes it... not for my mobo though)
If anyone has more info and help for this problem, please update the thread.
Cheers,
UPDATE:
The problem is now solved, grab beta BIOS here : http://ggts.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/755980/ma79xds5.f8c
But before you do that, check their website... Maybe they'll update it later to 'release' version.
UPDATE #2:
Gigabyte now removed Phenom II 955 from their 'CPU support list'.
At least now they're honest: http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=2694#anchor_os
UPDATE #3:
Gigabyte released OFFICIAL BIOS that has this issue fixed.
Grab it here:
http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_Model.aspx?ProductID=2694#anchor_os
Hi,
Be careful when considering Gigabyte motherboard, or buying a new Phenom II 955 for your existing one.
Gigabyte lists GA-MA790FX-DS5 as Phenom II 955 'compliant' from BIOS revion F6.
I don't know who's doing this Q/A at Gigabyte, but this CPU does not work properly with this mobo (using F6 F7 and F8a). A fairly intelligent 8yr old could test it using CPU-Z.
No matter what settings you choose in BIOS, it will always run at nice constant clock:
core 0 @ 1.6 Ghz
core 1 @ 800 Mhz
core 2 @ 800 Mhz
core 3 @ 800 Mhz
Not too fast if you ask me.
I'm mad as hell... I purchased a quite pricey CPU, just to see it underperform and loose value over time...
Several other people had it too, like here: http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/phenom-ii-955-1-6-ghz-gb-ma790fx-ds5-31903/
And not only with GA-MA790FX-DS5, as you can see with those angry people here: http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=319&threadid=112550&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear
If you google for "Phenom II 955 1.6 Ghz Gigabyte" you'll notice that several other gigabyte mobos had this problem (apparently Gigabyte is handing out beta BIOS for these people that fixes it... not for my mobo though)
If anyone has more info and help for this problem, please update the thread.
Cheers,
UPDATE:
The problem is now solved, grab beta BIOS here : http://ggts.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/755980/ma79xds5.f8c
But before you do that, check their website... Maybe they'll update it later to 'release' version.
UPDATE #2:
Gigabyte now removed Phenom II 955 from their 'CPU support list'.
At least now they're honest: http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=2694#anchor_os
UPDATE #3:
Gigabyte released OFFICIAL BIOS that has this issue fixed.
Grab it here:
http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_Model.aspx?ProductID=2694#anchor_os
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