[Team.AU] Gigabyte GA-EP45T Extreme - P45 DDR3 Monster

Just got my hands on the pre-release version of Gigabyte's OCing Extreme board.
This is the board containing as much of the goodies we've been asking for that they could pack in.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...IMG_3933-1.jpg

After about 30 mins of familiarising with the BIOS and taking photos, i jumped straight into some FSB clocking :up:
And just like what we've come to expect from various P45 boards, this one clocks like a beast too :eek:

645fsb on stock air, no tweaking (only 1.35V cpu, and "2.66D" RAM ratio).
This CPU would never budge past 540fsb on X48 chipset.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/T_M/IMG_3976.jpg

Here's some juicy photos :clap:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...IMG_3937-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...IMG_3941-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/T_M/IMG_3944.jpg

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Will update further with more FSB clocking results :yepp:

yep looking forward to this one, i think its going to be the awesome 3d platform for e8600 and single card benching =)

Nevermind E8600, with an E8500 and this kind of FSB you can easily max out the chip finally :D

Ok, that's it, I'm sending an e-mail :D
Thanks Tim, premature PCB and/or BIOS or not, it certainly looks good :D

Not premature, just pre-release.
AFAIK they are still working hard on RAM clocking.

Do Want! Sending an email out myself, DDR3 + P45 = win!

wow.. this board looks sexy :D
waiting for some Good results :up:

just got mine today, but the BIOS is D8 ???

Congrats mate!!!
Have a DDR2 "Extreme" version with me and that did 630 easy. Need good ram to get higher now.

Benny you sure you got the DDR3 version?
That BIOS code looks weird, drop a line to the usual guys for a BIOS update.

645FSB by auto! looking sexy board for FSB OC :up: wait to see more update Tim
can't wait for tried it :D

very nice

i am starting to have a detailed look at the ddr2 version of the board in Intel section :D :up:

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Originally Posted by T_M

Benny you sure you got the DDR3 version?
That BIOS code looks weird, drop a line to the usual guys for a BIOS update.

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yes definitely DDR3 version.. and i just got the F3A BIOS. D8 ussually BIOS for pre-testing, very early... put E8400 to test it now :rolleyes:

btw tim it's a little unclear
did you boot into windows at 645MHz FSB?
how stable was it?

Nope, havent even installed windows yet.
This was all done in 1hr after unpacking it.

At 666fsb, the board failed totally.
At 650fsb, the board got to POST but froze at detecting drives.
645fsb POSTed and went into BIOS fine.

ok i see

i can do 630Mhz on Gigabyte P35-DS3P but windows is a different story

i really hope we can get this kind of windows stability (i have a feeling it should be ok as bob already pushed his for validation similar to your clocks :up::up::up:

let us know how your RAM clocks on it as well :D

maaan these boards are sooo nice ... i will do some tests with my Extreme board tonight :)

I think this will be my next mobo when it comes out around here. Looks awesome. Any ideas if the Corsair 1600 C7DHX will play nice with it?

really nice board Tim, and fsb clocks like everybody expected, but how about RAM clocking? Asus P5Q3 Deluxe has serious problems about this point...
btw, whats for that monster heatsink on the first pic? NB?

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Originally Posted by Achill3uS

really nice board Tim, and fsb clocks like everybody expected, but how about RAM clocking? Asus P5Q3 Deluxe has serious problems about this point...
btw, whats for that monster heatsink on the first pic? NB?

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i thought this was the chipset itself that was problematic rather than any specific board manufacturers.........
i guess we'll find out soon when he posts some results :)

Wow ,really nice mobo's look and FSB. :)
There's a lot of news about voltage ( VPLL for example ) and memory settings .
You put *.**D ram setting ? I can't boot with it on the X48-DS5 ,only *.**B for take 593MHz.
You started @600MHz ? It's for that ,maybee .
I wanna see 7** of FSB . I think it's possible :D . I hope receive quickly my EP45DQ6 or EP45-DS5 with my E8400 ( 645MHz on Commando ).
Waiting for some very good results like usual from you ;)

really nice mobo. i am curious how it can clock DDDR3

Clocking DDR3 has been a problem for all companies using the P45, so yeah it will be interesting to see how it goes this week.

Nice looking board is DDR3 clocking raising a few issues, is that just poor mhz clocking or bad timmings as well i have seen early pl level problems with DDR2 + P45 does anyone have any more info on this?

Really good mobo Tim! Good luck for ddr3 clocking..

Setting CPU Clock Drive = 800mv, CPU Clock Skew = 50ps, RAM = 2.00D allowed me to POST fine at 655fsb.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../Picture-1.jpg

In Windows im getting my best CPU-Z validations when I boot with the same settings above but 560fsb, then when in Windows change Performance Level in Memset from 3 to 4 (something weird going on with these values):

630fsb using setfsb:
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=380419