And in Gigabyte Extreme what is the best bios till now ( where you need a lower Vcore and Vtt voltage for the same OC..)?
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That could be the max but if you set your ram volts to 1.9v then start windows then open et6 you will see what I am talking about. the qpi will follow the ram volts by .5 or very close to it. I have now gone from f4j to f6c without any voltage diffences with my chip. no exceptional changes one way or another as in volts to obtain same fsb! I do beleive that each chip would have a preference to different volts in different places. I hope in the near future I can order yet another i7 and test this in more depth.
thats exactly what i said, at least gb was so smart that it made the auto voltage settings respect this limit.
But my problem is that every bios after F6b dont starts with more then 1.3V without a oc recover. Its reproduceable and it'S not connected to the bclck or anything else. -> set 1.3V QPI voltage in bios, cold boot -> bam, oc recover.
I can even coldboot with 200mhz bclck speed with only 1.29V Qpi voltage (but its not enough to get into windows).
I'll wait now for final F6 maybe they fix it.
Is there a reason why people on this board are fans of the Gigabyte boards over the Asus P6T Deluxe boards?
I am not a fan of one brand over the other, the gigabyte board works fine for me (finally, lol). I'm sure I would of been happy with the P6T also. Truth be told, I went with GB because I liked the colour and HS designs. I'm not a fanboi to any brand.
It was very suspicious they announced a revision 2 of that board within weeks of the 1st's release.. something smells
Also I plugged my 920 in and set everything to auto and got 4GHz.. never had that type of experience with an Asus but it happens regularly with Giga for me.
Asus P6T and P6T Deluxe boards are unable to measure DIMM voltage.:rofl:
New BIOS released:
GA-EX58-Extreme - F6g
GA-EX58-UD5 - F6d
F6d is pretty bad, none of my F5 final settings worked and worst is i couldn't use Q-Flash, but had to reflash it through windows back to F5, i'll wait for F6 Final.
After going through ~100 boards, i have built a preference for gigabyte boards. I must admit that most of the boards I used were under $200 and gigabyte has been nailing budget boards big time, especially the ud3 series (used 8 of these).
For cases cooler master is #1 for me. The new batch of cooler masters have a killer cable management design. when i am building pc for customers, i dont have time to drill holes and come of with schemes for cable management as I had to for most of the antecs.
Here is the bottom line, if I am building a PC for my self I usually just want the best in a certain budget disregarding the brand. But when i am building PCs for customers I want something that will require less time to assemble but still give same or better oc/temp results while keeping the price low. GB and CM thank you, you have made my life much easier. CHEERS.
Does the gigabyte board have any problems overclocking with 6 sticks of ram? In the anandtech review they mentioned that the Asus was much easier to overclock with 6 sticks of memory.
You quoted my same quote twice, lol?
Yeah you are right, it's down to personal preference. My last 4 motherboards have all been GB boards and they have all been flawless. I have had a bit more trouble with this X58 board but it is now working to my satisfaction. As long as GB keep making quality products, I will keep buying them. My main point is that both ASUS and Gigabyte have supporters who do nothing but flame the other product, it's childish.
I'm working with a UD4P and i love it, check out my sig....
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I've had all kinds of boards over the years, and lately Gigabyte seems to be providing the best package to the enthusiast crowd with good solid boards, and lots of customer interaction & frequent updates. I think DFI was kind of that way for a while a few years back during the S754/939 era. I'm not sure how good they are now, after DFI-street blew up and Core Duo kicked AMD off their perch they lost me, they were too slow to get a good board out.
The Asus boards I have had were all pretty good, but their customer service and website are just plain awful :down: Seriously, their site loads like its running on someone's cell phone and the battery is dying. Their service isn't any faster, you might as well get ready to order the next generation platform, because it will be released before you get your board back from them. However, if there's no problems, and there usually aren't with their boards, they will run for a long time. I guess its not so much that I don't like their products, I don't like their lack of customer service so I vote with my wallet.