- Apr 6, 2008
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First, please no trash talking gigabyte mobos in this thread, it's just trolling and that belongs in ATOT. My opinion of this motherboard is not going to change based on some random internet person trash talking the board I decided to purchase.
I bought a pair of gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 back when newegg was shipping hardware revision 1.1 and I love them, with just one problem: When I try to overvolt the processor in them (phenom II zosma x4 unlocked to a thuban x6) every time I go into the BIOS and check it lists the base voltage for the CPU as something between 1.3 and 1.45 volts, and the motherboard only lets me overvolt in +.xxxx increments, not base settings.
I know the gigabyte trick of ctrl+F1 to show the advanced settings in BIOS and do such as a matter of course every time I enter anymore as most of my motherboards are gigabyte.
I have tried looking online for this problem and possible solution, but I have not even found anyone talking about this. I have updated the BIOS to both F9 and the latest beta, F10A, and it still does it (I was running F8 when I first tried and had this problem). I have another of this motherboard but I have not yet tried to see if this problem is replicated on it, I am disabled badly and doing so would make me sick for days right now - give me a week or two and I will get the energy to be able to do so without getting sick, right now is a bad time for me.
With default volts I have gotten the CPU from {3.0GHz with 3.4GHz turbo} to {3.5GHz with turbo disabled} and completely prime stable but I would really like to try for 4GHz. FYI I have been OCing systems since the 8088 but I have never run into an issue like this, so I know my stuff, just this is making me go
in a big way.
Help?
Does anyone know what the heck is going on and if there is a way to stop it?
I bought a pair of gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 back when newegg was shipping hardware revision 1.1 and I love them, with just one problem: When I try to overvolt the processor in them (phenom II zosma x4 unlocked to a thuban x6) every time I go into the BIOS and check it lists the base voltage for the CPU as something between 1.3 and 1.45 volts, and the motherboard only lets me overvolt in +.xxxx increments, not base settings.
I know the gigabyte trick of ctrl+F1 to show the advanced settings in BIOS and do such as a matter of course every time I enter anymore as most of my motherboards are gigabyte.
I have tried looking online for this problem and possible solution, but I have not even found anyone talking about this. I have updated the BIOS to both F9 and the latest beta, F10A, and it still does it (I was running F8 when I first tried and had this problem). I have another of this motherboard but I have not yet tried to see if this problem is replicated on it, I am disabled badly and doing so would make me sick for days right now - give me a week or two and I will get the energy to be able to do so without getting sick, right now is a bad time for me.
With default volts I have gotten the CPU from {3.0GHz with 3.4GHz turbo} to {3.5GHz with turbo disabled} and completely prime stable but I would really like to try for 4GHz. FYI I have been OCing systems since the 8088 but I have never run into an issue like this, so I know my stuff, just this is making me go
in a big way.Help?
Does anyone know what the heck is going on and if there is a way to stop it?
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