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AM3 Motherboards that support AMD PhenomII X6 out of the box.

Good find. it will work just fine. But ya listen to gurus you pay little more you get lots more in return....
 
Will the MSI 785GM motherboard boot with a Phenom X6 and then you can update the bios? Or do you need a non-X6 processor?

The reason I ask is because I just bought an MSI 890GXM-G65 and a 1055T and apparently the motherboard came out before the X6 (I haven't finished assembly). They have the bios update on the website, but it does me no good if I can't boot my new machine.
 
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i bought the msi 785gm-e65 mobo. I returned it because it needed a non x6 cpu to boot it and upgrade the bios to 2.5 version. i'd avoid it to save yourself the restocking fee.
 
k3n said:
i bought the msi 785gm-e65 mobo. I returned it because it needed a non x6 cpu to boot it and upgrade the bios to 2.5 version. i'd avoid it to save yourself the restocking fee.
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Great! Too late. I've got the PC almost assembled. I guess I can try it, if it doesn't work, I'll go pick up a cheap AM3 x2 cpu at frys. then I'll update the bios and swap them out. I'm going to build an HTPC anyways so buying a cheap X2 won't matter.
 
Well I tried booting my MSI 890GXM-G65 with the 1055T but it didn't recognize it, so no boot. Actually, it did post, but wouldn't boot into Windows 7 via the CD. I was able to create on my other PC a Fat32 bootable USB stick and copied the new bios version zipped and unzipped on the USB stick. I rebooted with the USB stick plugged in, and went into the settings by pressing the delete key during boot, and reflashed the bios from there using M-Flash. There is a warning on the official MSI forum not to use M-Flash and to only use the MSI HQ USB BIOS Flash Tool instead because they say M-Flash kills motherboards http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=116721.0 . But the MSI HQ USB BIOS Flash Tool assumes you have a running and stable system before you can use it. Since the MSI HQ USB BIOS Flash Tool wouldn't work for me, I went ahead and used M-Flash. It flashed the bios and rebooted with the windows 7 cd in the drive, it recognized the 1055T and installed windows 7.
 
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I just ordered the MSI 890-GXM-G65 board and X6 1055T CPU. Hopefully when I finish installing the RAM today I wont have to update the BIOS.
 
XtremepH said:
I just ordered the MSI 890-GXM-G65 board and X6 1055T CPU. Hopefully when I finish installing the RAM today I wont have to update the BIOS.
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Anyone want to make a wager on this working right out of the box? I'll give you 10 to 1 odds, meaning I'll bet it won't but if it does I'll pay you 10 times the amount we bet. (I'm cheating because I talked to MSI support via email and they have just now started shipping this board with the version 1.6 bios. Good luck though.
 
Cepak said:
Anyone want to make a wager on this working right out of the box? I'll give you 10 to 1 odds, meaning I'll bet it won't but if it does I'll pay you 10 times the amount we bet. (I'm cheating because I talked to MSI support via email and they have just now started shipping this board with the version 1.6 bios. Good luck though.
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Just fired it up and of course it's BIOS version 1.0 now I am attempting to flash it to the latest one.

*UPDATE*
Was able to successfully flash the BIOS to 1.6.
 
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Just an update. It is a good thing I didn't really make that earlier bet. I just completed building my second MSI 890-GXM-G65 and X6 1055T CPU system and it recognized the processor and is now installing windows 7. This board has bios version 1.4 instead of 1.0 like the other board I bought. Amazing since I bought both motherboards and processors at the same time at Frys.
 
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