GA-990FXA-UD7 v. 1.1 BIOS

[Rob80]

Hi,

I have GA-990FXA-UD7 ver. 1.1, and AMD FX 8350. All running well without any issues. I'm just curious about BIOS updates. Actually I have the latest one - F10 issued 2012/10/26. There's also F11d, but it's still beta version. I wonder if there will be newer versions of Award BIOS in the future. I've just read that AMD plans three new FX 8-core microprocessors ex.  FX-8370,  FX-8370E and there are also FX-9370 and FX-9590, but these are not supported by GA-990FXA-UD7 ver. 1.1 with F10 BIOS.

Is there any possibility to migrate from Award BIOS to UEFI? If yes, how to do this?

Thanks.

 

[dmdilks]

Your hands are tied with that board. You really need the 3.0 rev of the board to use those CPU. I had to do the same thing.

I had a 1.0 rev board GA-990FXA-UD5 board and when to a 3.0 rev board. Now I can run any CPU & UEFI too.

[Rob80]

I thought so. When I had an opportunity to buy rev. 1.1 - I did it. Shortly after they released rev. 3.0. Oh well.
Thanks for your reply. Will be looking for UD7 rev.3.0.

[JGB123]

"I have GA-990FXA-UD7 ver. 1.1, and AMD FX 8350. All running well without any issues." <-- This.

BIOS F11d adds support for the FX-8370, FX-8370E and the FX-8320E:

GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket AM3+ - GA-990FXA-UD7 (rev. 1.x)
http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3880#

Related:

AMD FX-8350 vs FX-8370
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/313/AMD_FX-Series_FX-8350_vs_AMD_FX-Series_FX-8370.html

"Either due to thermal issues, VRM overheating, or some other issue, the FX-8370 CPUs were actually faster than the FX-9590 with the HPC Challenge and the important HPL performance."

"The system power consumption with the FX-9590 peaked at 439 Watts, compared to 204~281 Watts with the FX-8370 CPUs."

4 September 2014
[Phoronix] More Linux Benchmarks Of The AMD FX-8370E / FX-8370 / FX-9590
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx_8370linux&num=1

Intel i7-4790K vs AMD FX-9590 vs FX-8350 - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDVcpAhegWs