I'm Wondering if Anyone has tryed the new F4 Bios Update for the GA-MA78GM-S2H (Rev.1.0) it allows you to set the on board GPU all the way up to 2,000 MHz! this alone should make it fly! since the stock setting is 500MHz.
They got a 29% increase over stock by upping it to 950MHz on a article here( http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-780g-chipset,1785.html ) so would this give us a whopping 97% over stock 3d scores?
What would this also do to the Hybrid Crossfire Scores, Would it now allow more of more powerfull 3450/3470 add on cards to be utilized more fully and thus farther increasing the scores, the old bios and setup turns down the add on card to more closely match the on board GPU in Hybrid Crossfire Mode.
I'm running a GA-MA78GM-S2H (Rev.1.0) F4 Bios, Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition @ 3107MHz, 4Gbs (2x2) Kingston DDR2 800MHz Dual Channeled, The on board 780g NB GPU @ 800MHz on shared 256mb Ram, Saphire/Ati 3750 256mb (GG3/800MHz) Hybrid Crossfired to on board GPU ,Seagate 320gb 16mb cache perpendicular SATA 300, Antec 430 earth whatts PSU with dual 12v Rails,Vista 64 Ultimate, numerous Fans added to keep it all kk-kold! and I turned off all Fan controllers In Bios so they run full constantly. (3dMark06 3200@1024x768, 2464@1280x1024 - AA:no;Texture: optimal; Vs/Ps profiles 3.0)
My biggest Gripe is why if this chip is so over clockable they made it run on board memory so slow. It needs to be able to "Run what you Brung"! If you install 1066 then let it use it at 1066 or 800,677,533?
Also when in Hybrid Crossfire it should Ramp up the on board to the speed of the add on card not turn the add on down too match, or at the least increase it as you increase the clock of the on board GPU and if the add on card has faster memory it would be nice to turn off the shared slower memory to utilize the better, if they are separate memories for different functions in Hybrid Crossfire then why make the on board shared memory match the memory of the add on card?
I believe this chip can and maybe will go farther if someone can improve the drivers/bios for it, Which should have been done from the beginning. How far will it go? 3500MHz with the right cooling solution? will it run 1066MHz memory bus? Will it turn out that it will run as fast as some of the ATI cards above it and they did not want to hurt the sales of those cards? which some of those are the HD34XX series that it Hybrid Crossfires with.
My test so far is that if I set my bios on the GPU on board over 800MHz It wont Boot up (black screen) then I have to reset the Bios to get it back on. I ran it at 1100MHz on the old F3 Bois but turned it back to 800MHz because I had a reading at 100C(212F) but Gigabyte support said that could not be a correct reading, but could not provide me with a application that read the true north bridged 780G temp. They wrote me that it had enough cooling to run at the 1100MHz setting and if it blew it would be under Warrenty I have since added fan cooling across the northbridgeds heat sink but it only drops it a few degrees so I'm looking at fitting a CPU cooler onto the chipset with heat pipes leading to a area with more fan room. The blacks creen above happens even when i rest CPU and all other settings to stock also. I'm going to try it with add on GPU card removed and the Hybrid Crossfire off and see if I can get a test with 780G alone@2000MHz next, going to borrow a Digital Laser Heat Probe and see what the heat output is now first.
Fast Ed
Going Nruk'in
Futs
I think I found me a Northbridge Cooler : Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II Chipset Cooler : http://thermaltakeusa.com/product/cooler/VGAnCHIPnMEM/cl-c0034/cl-c0034.asp
Reveiw Here: http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index.php?x=reviews&id=693
Ship it!
They got a 29% increase over stock by upping it to 950MHz on a article here( http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-780g-chipset,1785.html ) so would this give us a whopping 97% over stock 3d scores?
What would this also do to the Hybrid Crossfire Scores, Would it now allow more of more powerfull 3450/3470 add on cards to be utilized more fully and thus farther increasing the scores, the old bios and setup turns down the add on card to more closely match the on board GPU in Hybrid Crossfire Mode.
I'm running a GA-MA78GM-S2H (Rev.1.0) F4 Bios, Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition @ 3107MHz, 4Gbs (2x2) Kingston DDR2 800MHz Dual Channeled, The on board 780g NB GPU @ 800MHz on shared 256mb Ram, Saphire/Ati 3750 256mb (GG3/800MHz) Hybrid Crossfired to on board GPU ,Seagate 320gb 16mb cache perpendicular SATA 300, Antec 430 earth whatts PSU with dual 12v Rails,Vista 64 Ultimate, numerous Fans added to keep it all kk-kold! and I turned off all Fan controllers In Bios so they run full constantly. (3dMark06 3200@1024x768, 2464@1280x1024 - AA:no;Texture: optimal; Vs/Ps profiles 3.0)
My biggest Gripe is why if this chip is so over clockable they made it run on board memory so slow. It needs to be able to "Run what you Brung"! If you install 1066 then let it use it at 1066 or 800,677,533?
Also when in Hybrid Crossfire it should Ramp up the on board to the speed of the add on card not turn the add on down too match, or at the least increase it as you increase the clock of the on board GPU and if the add on card has faster memory it would be nice to turn off the shared slower memory to utilize the better, if they are separate memories for different functions in Hybrid Crossfire then why make the on board shared memory match the memory of the add on card?
I believe this chip can and maybe will go farther if someone can improve the drivers/bios for it, Which should have been done from the beginning. How far will it go? 3500MHz with the right cooling solution? will it run 1066MHz memory bus? Will it turn out that it will run as fast as some of the ATI cards above it and they did not want to hurt the sales of those cards? which some of those are the HD34XX series that it Hybrid Crossfires with.
My test so far is that if I set my bios on the GPU on board over 800MHz It wont Boot up (black screen) then I have to reset the Bios to get it back on. I ran it at 1100MHz on the old F3 Bois but turned it back to 800MHz because I had a reading at 100C(212F) but Gigabyte support said that could not be a correct reading, but could not provide me with a application that read the true north bridged 780G temp. They wrote me that it had enough cooling to run at the 1100MHz setting and if it blew it would be under Warrenty I have since added fan cooling across the northbridgeds heat sink but it only drops it a few degrees so I'm looking at fitting a CPU cooler onto the chipset with heat pipes leading to a area with more fan room. The blacks creen above happens even when i rest CPU and all other settings to stock also. I'm going to try it with add on GPU card removed and the Hybrid Crossfire off and see if I can get a test with 780G alone@2000MHz next, going to borrow a Digital Laser Heat Probe and see what the heat output is now first.
Fast Ed
Going Nruk'in
FutsI think I found me a Northbridge Cooler : Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II Chipset Cooler : http://thermaltakeusa.com/product/cooler/VGAnCHIPnMEM/cl-c0034/cl-c0034.asp
Reveiw Here: http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index.php?x=reviews&id=693
Ship it!
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