b-morgan 

This is probably a NOOB question but I have an X79 Classified motherboard and I have no idea how to determine what BIOS version I currently have. Can someone tell me how I can find out? I didn't see anything obvious in setup and CPU-Z (1.64.0) has a BIOS section on the Mainboard tab that says: 
Brand - American Megatrends Inc. 
Version - 4.6.5 
Date 01/18/2012 
Thanks, 
Brad 

 
If you enter the Bios on startup there will be a version listed on the first page. 

Yes wait a while seems to be the theme here.
 
Hello EVGA, anybody home???

Is this really a good question for tech support, though? Presumably, they're aware of the idle issue. They're aware of the UEFI temperature issue. If all they can say is "we know", then why ask them instead of coming here to see if we can get an answer out of someone else?

MhzManiac
Exactly, everyone knows the 047 bios is flawed and a new one should be forthcoming, but why take so long in doing so?

 
IMO, take as long as you need to get the next version right BUT let us know officially what "everyone knows...".
 
A simple acknowledgement that 047 is flawed from someone at EVGA would be most welcome.

You can get the BIOS's here:
http://www.evga.com/support/download/default.aspx
 
You have to un-check the "Show latest driver" box to get the old versions to show. I'd recommend 044 rather than 045, as 045 caused one CPU to be at 50% all the time.

Well dang.. I knew it had to be something stupid I was doing. ha! Thanks much. I did not notice the 50% in linux, but to be honest, wasn't paying that much attention, since everything seemed to be rocking. To save time, I'll take you advice and go to .44 and see if the TV video goes back to normal. To be honest, I'm not real hopeful. I think I may have turned something on in bios that is doing. I guess I should go default first, and check. Yea.. I think that makes more sense. Will report back.
 
Interesting: I just went back to default settings in .47 and still slow. Backed up to .44 and voilla! Video is back to normal. Now I run Linux, so maybe this is a little different from what you are seeing, but if it would help, I can provide a great deal of boot up detail. The journal if you will. I will attach the current one, and if you think it will help, I will put .47 in one of the other BIOS chips and provide it. Hmm... I don't see where I can attach and it is 1700 lines of data, so I will just provide one screen...
 
-- Logs begin at Mon, 2013-05-27 20:50:06 MST, end at Mon, 2013-05-27 20:54:10 MST. --
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site systemd-journal[290]: Allowing runtime journal files to grow to 801.6M.
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: Linux version 3.7.10-1.4-desktop (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.7.2 20130108 [gcc-4_7-branch revision 195012] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP P
REEMPT Fri Apr 19 12:06:34 UTC 2013 (8ef74f8)
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: Command line: root=/dev/sdb1 resume=/dev/sdb3 splash=silent quiet nomodeset
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009e3ff] usable
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009e400-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000ace12fff] usable
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ace13000-0x00000000ace1afff] ACPI data
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ace1b000-0x00000000acf27fff] ACPI NVS
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000acf28000-0x00000000ad03cfff] reserved
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ad03d000-0x00000000ad043fff] usable
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ad044000-0x00000000ad0bafff] reserved
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ad0bb000-0x00000000ad0bbfff] usable
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ad0bc000-0x00000000ad0bcfff] ACPI NVS
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ad0bd000-0x00000000ad0c2fff] reserved
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ad0c3000-0x00000000ad0cbfff] ACPI NVS
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ad0cc000-0x00000000ad0f3fff] reserved
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ad0f4000-0x00000000ad176fff] ACPI NVS
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ad177000-0x00000000ad563fff] usable
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ad564000-0x00000000ad7f3fff] reserved
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ad7f4000-0x00000000ad7fffff] usable
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000d0000000-0x00000000dfffffff] reserved
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed1c000-0x00000000fed1ffff] reserved
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ff000000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000044fffffff] usable
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: SMBIOS 2.7 present.
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: DMI: BASE_BOARD_MANUFACTURER MODEL_NAME/151-SE-E779, BIOS 4.6.5 01/18/2013
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: e820: update [mem 0x00000000-0x0000ffff] usable ==> reserved
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: e820: remove [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff] usable
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: No AGP bridge found
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: e820: last_pfn = 0x450000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: MTRR default type: uncachable
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: MTRR fixed ranges enabled:
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel:   00000-9FFFF write-back
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel:   A0000-BFFFF uncachable
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel:   C0000-CFFFF write-protect
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel:   D0000-E7FFF uncachable
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel:   E8000-FFFFF write-protect
May 27 20:50:06 tigger2.site kernel: MTRR variable ranges enabled:

Waiting for next BIOS release....XD
 

So I have two new 780s - am I forced to run this bios (with cpu idle stuck at 7%), or is there another that will work with these cards?

Welcome to our world brother 

thegreatga

Is the X79 Dark using the same chipset as the current ftw & classy X79? If so, why would anyone expect a better board with newer bios?  Clearly the current X79 boards aren't any better (from speculations) with each bios update, therefore would be changing going to the X79 dark? I'm just curious

Why? Maybe it has to do with the fact the competitions X79 boards work much better than all of EVGAs current X79 offering. Also the X79 is not being replaced anytime soon. Going into the X99 (rumor) with a strong X79 board could be seen better than leading in with the mess that is the X79 FTW and Classified.
 

david_b

I have both a X79 SLI and a P9X79 Deluxe, and the EVGA was easier to OC the exact same processor model and has been more stable at the exact same Mhz.

So my personal experience has been the EVGA computer has been far less expensive and rock solid for me.

I've overclocked both manufacturer's boards, and yes I agree it seems easier with the EVGA, but an experienced user will get a higher OC with the Asus.  I have one set of USB ports on the back of my FTW which I cannot use without either a USB surge warning every 2 minutes from windows or all devices plugged into just quit working. Other than that, I am stable even using Windows 8.1 Pro Preview.
 
Still looking For  A New BIOS EVGA. 

Jacob, you had mentioned that DARK users would see a new revision of the IVB-E BIOS later this week.  Well, this week is almost over and I don't see anything (yet) on the download page for the board.  Is there any new information on this?

We are working on getting one more update in there so it slipped to early next week, but I do have a prerelease version if anyone wants it,  contact me at jacobf@evga.com

So new BIOS coming for the dark. What about the other boards? Hopefully one coming for the SLI.

please release it soon, I have a 4930k on the way and want to continue to use my X79 FTW board