Stable 790i, Quad-SLI Config - does anyone have one?

[Pete Kaine]

As a further note to the above message. That new nf 05 bios that came out yesterday is going to make a lot of people very happy this weekend!

 

[roadrunner197069]

Do you have any compatible slower ram? Your ram wasn't on the QVL for the Asus board. I didnt look up your evga board.

 

[Trailerman]

Hi Roadrunner

It looks like the new BIOS update has addressed the issue. If I understand correctly, there was a memory allocation problem with the older BIOS, whereby connecting DVD drives to the SATA controller would cause blue screens. Using the IDE controller was fine - as Pete discovered this morning.

The latest BIOS addresses the issue so that the SATA controller can also be used, which hopefully means end of problem.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Jules

 

[roadrunner197069]

Good luck! Post your 3dmard06 score when you get that beast running.

 

[Trailerman]

Will do! If it's not over 20,000 I'll send it back and Pete will have to overclock it a bit harder! ;-)

 

[roadrunner197069]

lol

 

[dragoncyber]

It better be over 20000!!... I'm at 18,900+ with only an overclocked Q6600 and Sli'd 8800GT's + 4Gb of DDR3 Corsair memory.

I am holding out for the 9900GTX's, or GTX 280's or whatever they end up calling them.

Maybe it'll be the Geforce 10k GTX Chuck Norris Edition, with OCTO-SLI Support...

If thats the case..I'm buying 4 of them.

 

[Guest]

I hate to say this... but some of the people here have way too much money to be getting 20000 $ systems each time something brand new comes out... complete waste of money... for 2000 you can get a system with half the physical spec... that performs identically.... complete crap...

now to be flamed by ridiculously rich people

PS. I have nothing against rich people, it's just sometimes it's like 'WTF!?! DO YOU REALLY NEED THAT???'

PPS. 2000 in my book is still a ton of money

 

[ovaltineplease]

yea...

after you get a good psu, case, peripherals and drives though doing a platform upgrade isn't that expensive

but yea, upgrading platforms completely at every turn of your neck with all new devices is kinda silly.

 

[dragoncyber]

Hey thogrom,

He's talking about 20,000 + 3dMarks...not dollars.

And I don't know of any company where I can buy one, or any "Human" for that matter buying a 20,000 dollar personal computer, for home use.

A completely top of the line system, with all the most up to date hardware on the market will currently only run you about 6,000.00 in parts cost.
Thats of course if you stick with traditional hard drives and don't go the lame
Solid State Drives way of the future.

Who would have thought that one day I'd see a 32GB drive at over 1500.00!!

I will say this. If you have worked hard enough and earned your education, and your money, allowing you to have a life where you can spend 20,000 dollars on a computer. Then if thats what you want to buy ...Buy it.

I applaud that person.

Oh, and I am by no means rich...but I hope to be there one day.

 

[cyph0r]

Thanks Guys

PraxGTI - That's really helpful. I'll pass those voltages on to the guy who's working on the system. That may be exactly what we need.

Thanks again.

Jules

Hope your not paying this guy this has memory timeing/voltage issues written all over it. Doesn't sound like an experienced system builder to me.

 

[ovaltineplease]

Hope your not paying this guy this has memory timeing/voltage issues written all over it. Doesn't sound like an experienced system builder to me.

You might want to read the thread and realize that the issue was a BIOS, not the system builder.

 

[wh3resmycar]

what about skulltrail?

 

[cyph0r]

You might want to read the thread and realize that the issue was a BIOS, not the system builder.

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH and the bios update just had updated timing tables..... 100$ says it will work with the old bios and proper timings and voltages.

and still... he is at the point where he is having to find out the problem and not the system builder ... Which I would say is lame if he is paying him ... HENCE my comment.

Also The Sata drive issue is completely driver related and has ALWAYS been a problem with Nvidia for a LONG time and until just recently they have fixed the NVGTS.sys driver that controles the SATA controller. For the longest time people would have to install the os with a IDE drive and could not Burn with a SATA drive.
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=312197&mpage=1&key=

 

[SEBASTIAN83]

Actualy yes,one of my most recent builds run q9650 o-clocked to 4.23ghz on a 790i FTW Digital MB,I use a 1200watt coolmax psu with 3- 280GTX all by EVGA including the MBoard.It has a regular blu ray player & DVD burner by LG and it completley air cooled.I have it in a full tower by Thermaltake''Spedo''with extra fans ,DDR3 RAM 4GIGS by Corsair 1600-2000 mhz and 3 Hardives,2 are 150 GIG 10,000RPM Rapture Drives & the last is A Solid state Drive by Corsair w/128 GIGs os vista 32 Its not 1 year old but works like Yesterdays installment.If you know any one that doesnt mind rippin me off I am selling it for $1,600 because I need to buy a vehicle. contact info e-mail spaccione1@hvc.rr.com cell#845-309-1937