*Official* Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H Thread (NVIDIA 9400 mATX HDMI 8 channel LPCM) - Page 11

I just answered to Hogweed75's question "My real question is will the 4670 work well with the GA-E7AUM-DS2H?".

Update for Canadians on the Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H

"Dear Customer,

This model is currently shipping to distributors in Canada. It should be available at the retail level at the end of December or early January.

Thank you for choosing Gigabyte products"

The wait is gonna be excruciating.

If you're seeing PQ issues, and you come from ATI-land, then you need to look into some video calibrations... very often, as drivers are in flux, the diff between nVidia and ATI with respect to PQ, are whitepoint/blackpoint related...

Some of you are adding video cards to your systems with this MB.

Is that strictly for improved gaming or will this enhance video/PQ?

Would you be able to get video out from the graphics card and audio out from the HDMI at the same time? How does all the video allocation get sorted out between the GC and the MB?

I also see there is a video card on the AVS list of suggested mid range systems with this MB.

Well, maybe both, but the jury is out.... I'm gonna find out next week... I ordered a passive low-profile 8500gt to add... it seems that the 8500gt has more DXVA capabaility and I'm hoping that the sum of the two we be greater that either alone on this front... and yes, it will give increased performance, somehwere between 8600/8800 or 9600/9800....


possibly driven by mis-information or ATI fanboys...

Bump - anyone?

The answer depends on who you are asking.


No problem. Check my post Any GeForce graphics card + GeForce 8200 HDMI audio work together perfectly!.

Which advanced timings did you use?

I don't play any games at all. Unfortunately they give me a headache and make me nauseous or I'd be playing all the time. I'm strictly looking at improving my High Def video and upconversion of SD discs to the best that I can get! If there is a better choice for a video card then the 4670 cards then I would like to know what it is.

Is there a better video card then the 4670 to use that does 24fps perfectly that I should consider? I noticed that Jim is going to try the 8500gt. I would love to hear the results. Many of the cards I've read about can do Bluray/HDDVD well but I want one that will also upconvert SD disc to the best possible picture.

I just tested this card in performance mode. Onboard HDMI connection.

1. I had to set on board graphics to 256 or I would get an error message. Could not read memory at xxxxxx location after Vista booted.

2. Card is automatically detected, installed and places icon in task bar. Aero score went from 4.7 to 5.9, 3D graphics went from 5.1 to 5.3.

3. TMT would not play for me, ver# .125 or .126 would just get black screen after play was displayed. TMT doesn't like Hybrid SLI, maybe some people with the black screen hang are running SLI.

Just a quick 10 minute test to see if TMT would pass or fail. System is used for movies only so card was removed.

8500 GT is known to be a crap as far as post-processing is concerned, worse than GeForce 9400, let alone decoding capability VP2 vs. VP3 (check this thread for example).

Hybrid SLI (GeForce Boost) is primary intended to icrease 3D performance. Perhaps there is little change in video processing (i.e. stream processors of the discrete card are wasted), at least in my experience with GeForce 8200/8300+8500 GT. Let see how NVIDIA improved the driver ...

Well, 4-4-4-12 doesn't work with 2.1V. Which is expected, I guess, with what's been said about the bios. And the 5-4-4-12 timings suggested above did work @ 2.1V. And my Vista memory test went from 5.7 to 5.8. (E8400 CPU @ 3.00 Ghz gave a 5.7.)

Is there a good way to benchmark my build against other GA-E7AUM-DS2H builds with similar CPU, etc.?

Right now my Vista scores (with 5-4-4-12 memory times) are:

CPU: 5.7
RAM: 5.8
GFX: 4.6
Gaming GFX: 5.1
HDD: 5.9

Do these values sound within normal limits for a non-overclocked machine? Are there better tests to do simple benchmarking with?

Thanks!
Brett

you can use everest:

"Advance Path" is a bit perplexing. I checked BIOS setup, but couldn't find it. How did you enable it?

The magic touch: "CTRL+F1"

Thanks. I can now select "Enable". But there is no performance change (so Auto = Enable?). WEI memory is 4.9. This is unusually low (5.9 with P5Q-EM or any other current chipset supporting dual channel memory). Any suggestion?

In my case i noticed some improvement..
You cannot compare nforce730i with intel chipset which are by far better in this domain...
on my "old test"
Advance Path [auto]:


Advance Path [ON]:


Under vista my memory performance is rated @5.9

OK, it looks like I got it right.

- FSB 200MHz, Advance Path Auto: 4.9
- FSB 200MHz, Advance Path Enable: 4.9
- FSB 333MHz, Advance Path Auto: 5.6
- FSB 333MHz, Advance Path Enable: 5.9

Thanks for the suggestions.

All I could get from that thread is:
1) It's full of ATI Fanboys
2) Most of these guys are pimple-faced morons
3) The Late 2007 drivers were poorly implemented for the 8500


My sentiments exactly.... as I said in my OP, "I'm gonna find out next week"

POWERCOLOR AX4670 1GBK3-P Radeon HD 4670 1GB Question.

When looking for the best possible video card (visually for movies and especially SD upconversion) would the POWERCOLOR AX4670 1GBK3-P Radeon HD 4670 1GB be the best card to purchase or is there a better choice? Only for movies, no games at all. Also a $15 rebate going on right now.

Will the 4670 do 1080/24? Are there any limitations or problems with the 4670?

I am also interested to know what Jim finds out with the 8500GT.

so far i have hdmi audio working, it's being sent perfectly to my new tv. but i'm having what i think are problems with the resolution. anyway, i have the envision L32W761. it supposed to natively support a resolution of 1360x768, and i can't get it to work. so i looked for other threads dealing with this, and i found one that didn't have an answer. basically though I'm a noob to hdmi and i have no idea what it's limitations are. so here's what i said in my other post:

anyone have this tv hooked up via hdmi? i have it hooked up to my gigabyte ga-e7aum-ds2h motherboard (geforce 9400 igp) and i can set it to basically any resolution except for the 1360x768 resolution that is supposed to be native. basically i set it to 1360x768 apply it, and then the screen goes black. no error, no "no signal" message, just black. also the sound over hdmi continues to get sent to and come out of the tv's speakers just fine, it's just that the tv shows nothing but black. Also, the tv says it supports 60hz, but i can set it to only 29 or 30hz. does anyone have experience with this tv and hdmi (i'm a total noob to both).

for some reason 720p tvs have a weird resolution like you mentioned, just set it to 720p it will look fine. It goes black because you are setting it to a non standard resolution and the handshake probably fails.

Edit:
i would do that, but then some of the picture is off the screen (the bottom and top and sides). so although you are right, it will look fine it will also go off the screen, which is no good for me. i mean the resolution is selectable, which i would assume means it is supported by the igp. Also worth mentioning is that the picture does not scale off the sides of the screen if attached to my discrete 8800gt at any resolution.

Original Reply:
so i made some progress with this. i have an 8800gt also installed in the motherboard. what i did was take a dvi to hdmi adaptor and hook it up to the 8800gt. i then set the resolution to 1360x768 (the tv's native resolution) and it worked perfectly. i moved the dvi to hdmi connector over to the 9400 igp and once again it was just black. it worked on all other resolutions but 1360x768 and one other resolution (14 something). does anyone have the igp working at a resolution of 1360x768? i wonder if there's some bug in the driver or something.

I've got it !! But problems begins ..
* In first, I choose a low profile Zalman (CNPS-8700NT) but with a large air flow to cool also the chipset heatsink but it's very very just. The is no space at all beetwen Zalman and NB heatsink as you can see on photos. It's probably possible to file it a little bit if necessary ...
Anyway, I can't recommend these two pieces together, it's to short





Furthermore, if the PC case is near the edge of MB, it can be a problem also. I should receive mine soon, I hope it will be ok

* The second problem is my fault. When I was manipulating the MB, I heard and felt noise : the heatsink on the chipset was unsticked. So I removed it : it's fixed by a king of glue (plus 2 metal bolts). So I clean the chipset and put a piece of thermal glue on it. I hope it will be efficient enough compared to the inital configuration (I hope to be clear ... )

I am going to wait for this as well. Let us know if and when you see it

Hey all - thanks for the great info in this thread so far! I've got this board and am doing the setup now!

The problem I'm having is the following. I've got it attached to an Optoma RD50A 720p DLP via DVI. I've installed Vista 32 and the nForce drivers from nVidia's website. When I try to up the resolution from the default 800x600 to 1280x720, the screen just goes black. If I hit the 'n' key or wait for it to resize it back down to 800x600, the monitor just remains black. It doesn't go into power save or the blue 'no signal' screen, just black.

Any ideas? Thanks all!

What you're saying isn't completely accurate. Your tv's native resolution is higher than 720p (768p). Therefore if it was 1-to-1 pixel mapping you would have a black border on your screen. Since you're saying some of the screen is clipped when you set it to 720p you are experiencing overscan. Maybe this will be fixed with future driver revisions. I'm not sure but the 9400 might have some tools that manually allow you to adjust stretching.

So I think I've got it fixed - here are the steps I took in case somebody else has this problem:

• Connect a PC monitor with VGA cable, leave TV connected via DVI. The box will boot to and use VGA for Windows by default.
• In Vista, install nVidia drivers, reboot
• In Vista's Display Settings, tell it to extend the desktop onto the tv and set the resolution to 1280x720 (don't set it to 720p in the nVidia Control Panel!)
• Make the Monitor the Primary Display
• Uncheck the 'extend my desktop onto this display' for the VGA monitor
• Reboot

When the TV is on and the box comes up, the display is all wacky - weird colors, distortion, etc. I then change the input or turn off/on the tv so it can recalibrate and everything looks great!

RAID Error during POST. Help!

I'm using onboard RAID 5 and it looks like I had a bad power connector on one of the three 1TB Seagate hard drives in my HTPC. The drive then caused a RAID error. I replaced the power connector but I still had an error in POST while booting up but at least now it shows all three with errors instead of two. I also have a 250GB main drive that is not in the RAID system which is fine.

I reloaded Vista with the Gigabyte RAID 64 driver again. Still the same thing. While booting up it flashes three red errors for the three 1GB drives although I think it's reading three separate (1,2,3) 1.8TB errors. When I enter Vista I do not see the three drives in My Computer or the storage manager but if I load the Nividia software I can see the 250GB drive and the three 1GB drives although it lists an error next to each 1GB drive. I am able to run the SMART test on all three drives and it reads HEALTHY for each of the three drives.

The bios is set for RAID and during boot if I press F10 to look at the RAID setup it shows all three 1TB drives with an error next to all three. Everything seems to be set up correctly and the drives seem healthy.

What can I do to fix the error and get this running again? It seems like all the drives are working and healthy but I can't fix the RAID error. I could sure use some advice! Sorry to keep needing help but you guys have been my life support.

Anybody have an idea where to buy a coaxial spdif out adapter?