Good news for Owners of AM2+ /w SB600

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AGross

As in my previous post(s) I was unable to use the new Phenom II X6
(Thuban) CPUs in AM2+ motherboards with SB600. Official response was
that SB600 does not support Thuban

Well, the good people at Gigabyte continued support for older, phased
out products, like the AM2+ flagship of 3+ years ago: GA-MA790FX-DQ6
and popped out a new (beta) BIOS, version F7G that has support for the
full range of Phenom II X6 CPUs ( even ones that aren't out yet )

This is (was) a high-end, rock-solid motherboard and, coupled with AMD
backrward technology compatibility and Gigabyte's dedication to
software/firmare updates I had a nice upgrade path from the first 90mm
Athlon X2 6000+ to the 65nm Phenom I x4 and, next week to a Phenom II
X6, all with 125W thermal envelope...

I will be back with test results next week when the first Thuban I
ordered will arrive.
 
Yup, I'm pretty happy with Gigabyte.

[...looking to upgrade to X6 myself sometime...]

-Miles
 
Yup, I'm pretty happy with Gigabyte.

[...looking to upgrade to X6 myself sometime...]

-Miles
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I can report that the new 7FG bios not only adds support for Thuban
core Phenoms but also features like Core Unlocking! On a 3+ years old
SB600 motherboard!
 
Phenom II X6 1090T works fine on Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6, two days of
cpu stress-testing
and I also tested it on an ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe ( also SB600 ) and it
works ok.
 
?> Yup, I'm pretty happy with Gigabyte.
[...looking to upgrade to X6 myself sometime...]
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I'm running the 1090T X6 on their 890GPA-UD3H offering at 4ghz, and am
very pleased.

rms
 
Realize this is an old thread but I'm trying to reflash my BIOS to version F7g but am running into the issue of my OS not supporting FLASHSPI and @BIOS only using .bin files. The file that downloads from Gigabyte is a .F7g file type which only seems to work with the FLASHSPI.exe

I'm running Windows 7 x64.
MA790FX-DQ6

Any thoughts on what I need to do?

Thanks
 
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