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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: drenco on July 29, 2011, 12:00:03 am

Title: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H AMD 890GX rev 2.1 BIOS Query
Post by: drenco on July 29, 2011, 12:00:03 am

Hi i have recently purchased this MB and now have decided to change my CPU to a Phenom II X6 1100T BE, however upon investigation ive noticed that the 2.1 rev MB is only supported a BETA Bios (fgf) for this CPU, does anyone have any experience with this combo, and is it a good idea to use a BETA bios?

Title: Re: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H AMD 890GX rev 2.1 BIOS Query
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 29, 2011, 01:24:28 am

Hi

In general beta BIOS versions are fine especially if you found it on this website because by the time it gets uploaded here it is almost the full version.

Title: Re: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H AMD 890GX rev 2.1 BIOS Query
Post by: drenco on July 29, 2011, 01:40:26 am

yeah it was through the Gigabyte site, its just a friend is of the opinion that i could run into problems blue screening etc.

Title: Re: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H AMD 890GX rev 2.1 BIOS Query
Post by: absic on July 29, 2011, 09:40:55 am

Hi there,

as DM has said, once a BETA is officially released onto their download site they are usually pretty stable.

If it helps allay your fears, I am currently running a BETA BIOS (my 3rd one) on my own machine that hasn't been "officially" released yet and it is working fine without any BSOD's.

Title: Re: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H AMD 890GX rev 2.1 BIOS Query
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 29, 2011, 04:58:32 pm

Yers I too am running a beta version and have done many times in the past with no problems at all. In fact sometimes they actually work better than the previous BIOS version because of a ammendment to the code.