The Hexa-Core Clubhouse.

[blkhogan]

Sweet. I got 2 Asus boards on that list. Dont have to worry about boards for awhile.

 

[TheMailMan78]

Sweet. I got 2 Asus boards on that list. Dont have to worry about boards for awhile.

The have yet to update my bios even tho its on the list.

 

[blkhogan]

Its good to see board makers doing this. I plan on going to Thuban's this fall after I crunch the hell out of my quads for the summer. Nice to find out some boards got a little extra life added to them.

 

[mjkmike]

You can add me to this club.
Just droped a 1055t into my main rig.
Had to flash bios to a beta f8.
will run on stock untill non beta is ready, unless others think I can overclock on a beta. (First beta eva for me)
The board is a GA MA790FXT-UD5P
As you can see, I'm a cruncher so it must be stable.

 

[brandonwh64]

Hey mail man, why not on your first post you put Boards that use DDR2 and DDR3 and that support 6 core CPUs in separate categories so say someone that has a DDR2 system and wants to upgrade to the 6 core without having to get DDR3 RAM would know which board to pick.

Also here is a DDR2 board that supports 6core (up to 1090T BE).

ASRock A785GHM/128

Just bought this board for my HTPC and plan (hopfully) on getting a 6core CPU for it in the future

 

[Reefer86]

did u just visit the asus website and grab their support list.......lol

 

[brandonwh64]

did u just visit the asus website and grab their support list.......lol

I think he might have but some of those are DDR2 boards but would have to look at each ones specs.

 

[Fourstaff]

Why am I not surprised that this thread is up?

 

[brandonwh64]

Why am I not surprised that this thread is up?

LOL those 6 cores look nice!

 

[Mussels]

i bet i'm the only one to run a hexa (sexa? ) core on 785G


this clubhouse needs to be revised and boosted. most boards have thuban support now (basically all AM3 and AM2+) so we should ditch that, and focus on OCing, tweaks, how to use turbo mode right, and how to use AMD overdrive on these chips for maximum power, and power efficiency.

i mean... look at this shit. imagine what we can do with that! we can.... stuff!

 

[twilyth]

have 1090 on the way. screwed up and got and open box board though (MSI 790FX-GD70). Bad case of tunnel vision when I was deciding. Turn's out it is possible to be too focused - not that I have that "problem" with anything else. Funny how that works.

Also 8 gig of ddr3-1600.

 

[1Kurgan1]

Count me in, twil the GD-70 is a nice board a bit confusing, but once you get it down, it's great, brought my 1055t to 4.2ghz on the AMD cooler and was benchable at 3.9ghz.

 

[twilyth]

Well then, I guess you just volunteered to post all the bios settings we need to tweak. Oh and AOD too.

Seriously though, that would make this thread very interesting.

Otherwise, if I want to try an oc, I may as well just bust out the flame thrower and toast the mobo good and proper. That's what will happen anyway, so why dick around. :shadedshu

 

[1Kurgan1]

Just mess with the CPU and NB volts like any other board, don't worry about the VDDC crap, thats for really fine small adjustments, you can mess with those after. I don't use AOD, always had issues with it so that might be the base of your problems. I was able to run my 3.9ghz benchable on the stock cooler with only 1.420v, don't mean that you will be able to do the same, but it gives you a good starting point.

 

[twilyth]

Thanks K, but what I was really talking about are some of the other settings you see in the top-of-the-line boards. I can't remember what they are but they are pretty obscure. didn't even get much from Google.

I loaded AOD once but I never played with it. it seemed a little squirrelly.

I can do the voltage/multiplier thing - that's what I've done in the past. Plus fsb mods - which you had to do on Intel chips (pre onboard MC).

On most boards I got to hold a stable oc, the capacitors eventually went. And since they were $200 boards, I decided it wasn't worth it.

It's stock at 3.4 so it might be fun to get it up to 3.8, but I'm probably going to be very, very conservative. I run BOINC 24/7 and doing that ages everything in dog years.

 

[Bravo2Zero]

I have 2 cpus on my board both are X5680 xeon's both are 6 cores Its good to be on top of the leader board by a huge margin lol .

 

[Mussels]

AOD interests me cause of all the options. for BC2 i can set a stock clocks profile with turbo mode off for example (lower voltage too? who knows)

for supcom (a game that really only uses 2 threads right) i can set it to a dual core with turbo mode on.


for benchmarks you can set it single core if they're not multi threaded, and so on.


AOD just lets you do kinky shit

 

[cdawall]

Can I join? I have only hit 4.5ghz on air with mine

 

[TheMailMan78]

AOD interests me cause of all the options. for BC2 i can set a stock clocks profile with turbo mode off for example (lower voltage too? who knows)

for supcom (a game that really only uses 2 threads right) i can set it to a dual core with turbo mode on.


for benchmarks you can set it single core if they're not multi threaded, and so on.


AOD just lets you do kinky shit

Why would you? BC2 can use 6 cores. Also I do not like AOD as it installed a service that runs even when I close it down.

 

[johnnyfiive]

My 1090T arrived today, batch CCBBE CB 1018BPMW. Hopefully this is a good batch.

 

[Mussels]

Why would you? BC2 can use 6 cores. Also I do not like AOD as it installed a service that runs even when I close it down.

the example was because BC2 uses 6 cores and turbo is desgined for 3 cores.

its more useful for things that DONT use all the cores.



oh btw

 

[1Kurgan1]

Thanks K, but what I was really talking about are some of the other settings you see in the top-of-the-line boards. I can't remember what they are but they are pretty obscure. didn't even get much from Google.

I loaded AOD once but I never played with it. it seemed a little squirrelly.

I can do the voltage/multiplier thing - that's what I've done in the past. Plus fsb mods - which you had to do on Intel chips (pre onboard MC).

On most boards I got to hold a stable oc, the capacitors eventually went. And since they were $200 boards, I decided it wasn't worth it.

It's stock at 3.4 so it might be fun to get it up to 3.8, but I'm probably going to be very, very conservative. I run BOINC 24/7 and doing that ages everything in dog years.

Top of the line boards have VDDC as additional voltage options, thats for fine tuning, mess with it later. I can't say I ever ever popped a capacitor on any board, I find todays hardware is pretty damn tough, I've OC'd to crazy high amounts had it fail over and over again and it still keeps ticking, to pop a cap you would have to have it shut down and then just keep doing that on end, or I guess be unlucky. I have a 1055t so I can only use FSB and it clocks like magic with it, just got to watch your RAM multiplier and your HT multi.

 

[El_Mayo]

Does anyone know if this motherboard supports 6 cores?

 

[1Kurgan1]

I'm not sure, but if your gonna spend the money on a 6 core I would suggest at least going to 785G, wouldn't want to run a low end board with minimal bios options on such a nice chip.

 

[twilyth]

Top of the line boards have VDDC as additional voltage options, thats for fine tuning, mess with it later. I can't say I ever ever popped a capacitor on any board, I find todays hardware is pretty damn tough, I've OC'd to crazy high amounts had it fail over and over again and it still keeps ticking, to pop a cap you would have to have it shut down and then just keep doing that on end, or I guess be unlucky. I have a 1055t so I can only use FSB and it clocks like magic with it, just got to watch your RAM multiplier and your HT multi.

I am definitely unlucky, but I wouldn't want to blame it all on luck. Having said that IDK. My experiences were mainly with Intel boards - all P35-45's IIRC and high end gigabytes mostly. Maybe my terminology was wrong, but they are definitely dead. I have 3 waiting to be recycled if you want to play with them. I'll split the shipping with you.

I also have one AMD board (Asus I think) that I might still have that has scorch marks on it - but this one gave me bizarre temp reading from the beginning - 120C on one of the sensors. Except I guess it turns out that they were'nt as bogus as I thought.

Edit: we're only talking about maybe 5 or 6 boards total - don't want to imply that I've got piles of them.