[Xerran]

Hello all,
My current mobo an eVGA 680i Sli is on its last legs (SATA controller is dying) so
I just spent half of my tax return on the following;

GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-UD4 $114.99 @ newegg.com
AMD Phenom II X4 940 $229 @ newegg.com
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 $54.99 @ newegg.com
SAPPHIRE (100270SR) Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB $274.99 @ newegg.com

I cant wait to put the Dragon together. It sucks that there are no full cover waterblocks for the Radeon 4850 X2 (2GB) as of yet so I may just water cool the CPU only for the time being or just hold off on liquid cooling until I see a waterblock on the market.

Please chime in if you have the GA-MA790X-UD4 or a similar setup.

 

[mr. biggums]

i got the bored and very impressed with it it hit 290 bus i just cant get 300 bus and i dont feal like pushing hard for it

cpu-z shot in sig with my 4400 x2 and what i was able to do

 

[Xerran]

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Originally Posted by mr. biggums i got the bored and very impressed with it it hit 290 bus i just cant get 300 bus and i dont feal like pushing hard for it cpu-z shot in sig with my 4400 x2 and what i was able to do

Cool, how is the stability?

 

[AIpha]

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Originally Posted by Xerran Hello all, My current mobo an eVGA 680i Sli is on its last legs (SATA controller is dying) so I just spent half of my tax return on the following; GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-UD4 $114.99 @ newegg.com AMD Phenom II X4 940 $229 @ newegg.com G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 $54.99 @ newegg.com SAPPHIRE (100270SR) Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB $274.99 @ newegg.com I cant wait to put the Dragon together. It sucks that there are no full cover waterblocks for the Radeon 4850 X2 (2GB) as of yet so I may just water cool the CPU only for the time being or just hold off on liquid cooling until I see a waterblock on the market. Please chime in if you have the GA-MA790X-UD4 or a similar setup.

I took a Phenom 920(sig) to 3.220 with no voltage increase. It seems that after hitting that I can't go any higher..I'm guessing it's my RAM that could be limiting the OC...but eh

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Originally Posted by mr. biggums i got the bored and very impressed with it it hit 290 bus i just cant get 300 bus and i dont feal like pushing hard for it cpu-z shot in sig with my 4400 x2 and what i was able to do

Yes, I love the board ^_^.

 

[Xerran]

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Originally Posted by AIpha I took a Phenom 920(sig) to 3.220 with no voltage increase. It seems that after hitting that I can't go any higher..I'm guessing it's my RAM that could be limiting the OC...but eh Yes, I love the board ^_^.

If I can reach a stable 3.6GHz on the Phenom II 940BE I will be happy.

 

[AIpha]

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Originally Posted by Xerran If I can reach a stable 3.6GHz on the Phenom II 940BE I will be happy.

I'm sure it's very capable of that. 940 BE would be the limiting factor in that, which isn't very limiting...lol

 

[mr. biggums]

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Originally Posted by Xerran Cool, how is the stability?

i only crashed when i was trying to hit 300 bus, but since then i havent had a problem no random crashing or programs randomly stop responding bs lol.

 

[Xerran]

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Originally Posted by AIpha I'm sure it's very capable of that. 940 BE would be the limiting factor in that, which isn't very limiting...lol

Ahhhhhhhh, the wait is killing me. I keep looking at the damn tracking #, Monday the 9th is a looong wait

 

[AIpha]

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Originally Posted by Xerran Ahhhhhhhh, the wait is killing me. I keep looking at the damn tracking #, Monday the 9th is a looong wait

Oh I know how you feel. My monitor arrived at the local UPS place on a friday..I had to wait 2 days! It can be killer, I hate ordering parts on Weds/Thurs. Give you the longest wait time.

 

[Xerran]

****, I just checked again and it said my package is on the truck scheduled for delivery today I almost

jizzed in my pants

.

A good job I have a spanky new Cosmos S chassis on standby.

 

[Xerran]

Duders, O-M-F-G as soon as I finished the last post the UPS guy rang my bell

The PC enthusiast and gaming Gods are surely shining down on me this day.

 

[DaMirrorLink]

I got that mobo for my new build and its sexy as hell

 

[Xerran]

Just finished my new build and it's stable at just over 3.7GHz.

Had to up the vcore from 1.35v (stock) to 1.47v for stability. Did ten successful passes of "IntelBurnTest v1.9" with error detection enabled and the core temps never broke past 43c (idle is 33c).

I'm gonna have to do a little tweaking to get to my goal of 3.8GHz but I can finally run Crysis in DX10 mode with high settings.

Far Cry 2 maxed out in DX10 gives me 55fps in the benchmark.

 

[pez]

Those are really nice temps. I was going to get that board at first, but x8/x8 crossfire wasn't worth the exra money to me. One thing though, since it does have a SB750, it's going to be one of the best OC'ers you can get

. But you can see that already

.

 

[FlanK3r]

How much u can tweak NB on this board?Is possible psot to win with 1.55V at 4GHz?Try it pls for me.Im thinking about this board or expensive ASUS M4A79

 

[Xerran]

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Originally Posted by FlanK3r How much u can tweak NB on this board?Is possible psot to win with 1.55V at 4GHz?Try it pls for me.Im thinking about this board or expensive ASUS M4A79

I'm sorry, I plan to keep this rig for some time and do not want to exceed past the safe zone of 1.5v for the vcore.

I'm still trying to work out the NB Frequency, I know the multiplier is set to x9 by default but I'm still n00bish in this area as I'm coming back from a two year rocky hiatus with Intel and the nvidia 680i SLi chipset.

If anyone knows, what is a safe stable voltage for the NB Freq. @ x10 (2000MHz)?

 

[Josh81]

Nice cable management

i have that PSU too, my case looks like medusa's head

i'll redo the wiring once my mobo/cpu come

 

[Xerran]

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Originally Posted by FlanK3r How much u can tweak NB on this board?Is possible psot to win with 1.55V at 4GHz?Try it pls for me.Im thinking about this board or expensive ASUS M4A79

I just pushed the NB Frequency from 1800MHz to 2000MHz (x10) and the NB VID from 1.1750v to 1.25v and did ten successful passes of Intel Burn Test with error detection enabled.

I'm going to try pushing the NB Freq. to 2200MHz but keep my current 1.25v for the NB VID and test again.

 

[Xerran]

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Originally Posted by Josh81 Nice cable management i have that PSU too, my case looks like medusa's head i'll redo the wiring once my mobo/cpu come

If you looking to get this board do take note that Gigabyte has replaced it with the GA-MA790X-UD4P and it's available at newegg right now.

Report back and tell us how you got on.

 

[kairi_zeroblade]

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Originally Posted by Xerran I'm sorry, I plan to keep this rig for some time and do not want to exceed past the safe zone of 1.5v for the vcore. I'm still trying to work out the NB Frequency, I know the multiplier is set to x9 by default but I'm still n00bish in this area as I'm coming back from a two year rocky hiatus with Intel and the nvidia 680i SLi chipset. If anyone knows, what is a safe stable voltage for the NB Freq. @ x10 (2000MHz)?

my NB rocks on x11 on stock voltages..no issues..not even hot..