does usb work on amd south bridge ?

[energyman]

oh and my 'beloved' board wasn't even in the mix:

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=A770CrossFire&s=AM2+

[energyman]

fine, but that does nothing to the fact that gigabyte is just a bad choice for a motherboard.

[deanjo]

so what? was there a gigabyte board in the mix? No matter which chipset - gigabyte runs hot.

and which chipset for amd wins with cnq enabled?
790GX
and which ones loose?
nvidia

Actually no, in those power charts it's your beloved Asrock

[energyman]

so what? was there a gigabyte board in the mix? No matter which chipset - gigabyte runs hot.

and which chipset for amd wins with cnq enabled?
790GX
and which ones loose?
nvidia

[deanjo]

until you look at the energy consumption.

just don't buy gigabyte

lol he just blew that yearly consumption trying to get it working.

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3430&p=10

[energyman]

until you look at the energy consumption.

just don't buy gigabyte

[deanjo]

Or you can return the board and get a nvidia chipset and save yourself alot of grief.

[energyman]

it is not AMDs fault when gigabyte screws up.
I am very happy with my 770 based Asrock board. It is very robust. No problems (after the kernel patch). The AMD devs were very fast to create the patch after the problem was reported (and there was a workaround - use ohci for usb 1.1 devices).

[mattmatteh]

ok.... i give up. i am going to return the POS gigabyte board. but should i get another one and see how that goes? i still have the amd cpu 4850e. not sure i want to get a replacement or try something different. seems that the board is a POS, and the northbridge is too buggy to be used. kinda having thoughts of going with an nvidia northbridge and using the amd cpu.

seems that there is more than one problem with this board. random lock ups, and usb doenst seem to work. not sure how these are related.

matt

[energyman]

or perhaps your board is just a POS and you need to replace it ASAP?