Nvidia Admits Problems with nForce 790i SLI Chipset

[Mr Paul]

Nvidia Corp., a leading designer of graphics processors and chipsets, recently admitted that its most-recent chipset for Intel Corp.’s microprocessors may cause data corruption in case processor bus and system memory are overclocked. Earlier customers blamed previous-generation Nvidia’s core-logic sets for data corruption under the same circumstances.


Apparently, when computer enthusiasts overclock processor system bus (PSB) and memory clock-speeds on systems that are based on Nvidia nForce 790i-series core-logic, they may experience data corruption on hard disk drives. Earlier end-users complained about the same issue on systems powered by previous-generations Nvidia nForce chipsets.

“Nvidia has received reports of data corruption when using certain high speed memory and overclocking the front side bus. Our engineers are currently investigating this issue and as soon as we have more information, we will provide an update to this knowledge base article,” a statement by Nvidia in its technical support forums reads.

Even though this is not the first time when customers complain about data corruption, neither Nvidia nor any of the mainboard makers have disclosed the reasons of the problem.

Nvidia nForce 790i Ultra SLI core-logic supports Intel Core 2 processors with up to 1600MHz processor system bus and overclocking capability beyond that, dual-channel DDR3 memory with speeds over 2000MHz, three PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots for graphics cards, six Serial ATA-300 ports for hard disk drives and so on.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/chipse...a_Corruption_During_Overclocking_Company.html

Hmmm not looking good.

 

[helmutcheese]

Old news and fixable. (been talk on XS for week in a dedicated thread).

NF2 did the same till newer Silicon Image Sata Bios+Drivers were made.

Nvidia can fix with Sata Bios and Drivers.

I managed to avoid the issues on NF2, think I got my 1st Rev 2.0 after that issue, peeps who did not update Mobo+Sata Bios+Drivers obv still got the issue.


QUOTED :


" As with its predecessor(s), the nForce 790i chipset is so good at overclocking that hard drives can't keep up. Sarcasm aside, the latest Intel-prone chipset from Nvidia is plagued by data corruption issues at certain FSB and memory settings that are higher than 'standard.'

Nvidia has acknowledged the problems, which were reported by come unlucky users and it has its engineers working on it. Not the best selling point for the most expensive chipset around but hopefully a BIOS update to fix the problems will be out soon. "


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