Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[technut36]

Nice bclk....I wish my chip would do 220...I am pretty sure I could hit 5ghz if I weren't bclk limited to 217 max, and that is only with very high vtt/qpi, IOH, etc.

u need to back up, i mean u have one of the craziest oc on XS, how much more are u looking for bud.

i just did the xs bench and i noticed u w/ ur 4.8.

mad props man. but if i read u wishing that u could go higher i am gonna file a request to put u on probation

[rge]

u need to back up, i mean u have one of the craziest oc on XS, how much more are u looking for bud.

i just did the xs bench and i noticed u w/ ur 4.8.

mad props man. but if i read u wishing that u could go higher i am gonna file a request to put u on probation

Thanks, yeah I am happy with my chip, just want one suicide run at 5ghz

I can get so close, I can boot at 23x217, 4992...just need 1 more bclk for 218...never been able to boot at 218 bclk even running at 17 and lower multis...just seems to be a hard wall. Tried using 24 multi by disabling 3 cores...but 24 multi seems harder, ie needs more vcore.

[stasio]

New BIOS released 19.02.09:

GA-EX58-Extreme - F6b
GA-EX58-UD4 - F4c

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[silverfox71]

Hey Guys and gals, Just want say you all are doing a great job with this new I7 chip. I have been competing with my brotherinlaw and trying to outdo his 3dmark cpu score....and have some problems. i have the 9A612 batch and he was lucky enought to get the 41Axxx. I have water he does not. I started with the DS4 board and now have moved to the Extreme board. I was using IDE hard drive and now using sata2. Since my DS4 and now Sata2 I have gone from around 7400 give or take, to 7618. I would need to be about 7900 to make for about a 100 point lead. My question is will it make a difference if I hook up a raid sysem 0? I have purchased 2 new 640gb wd black hard drives. Oh ya almost forgot that this score has been reached after 4095mhz. I use about 1.502v in bios. 21*195 with htt on. I have tried all kinds of settings based on what I have been reading but this chip is not the best at top end. my max temps would be around 73degrees load or so. Ideas?

[GAR]

Whats new for the F6B?

[hlonipha]

Gar F6B is for the extreme board.

[road-runner]

Yesterday I flashed to F6a on the UD5, I then entered my settings for my 190 x21 24/7 crunching clocks and BSOD everytime. I tried stock and it worked fine. Put the OC back in and BSOD. Flashed back to F5G and everything works fine. F6a

[Simfan]

Same with me. Tried F6a. No boot with my normal clocked F5h settings. Back to F5h.

[Beef]

Same with me. Tried F6a. No boot with my normal clocked F5h settings. Back to F5h.

I needed higher QPI voltage (1.375) and CPU voltage (1.425) when I went from F5g to F6a. Was at 1.335 QPI and 1.40VCore

[Beef]

2gb modules have been a problem for some folks when ocing.
You may need gobs of v.
For example my pi 2k memory - when I turn on xmp - it sets the qpi v to 1.555v!!!

Barring adding lots of voltage, send a complete list of your settings, v's, multi's, bclock, ... and lets see if anything looks unusual.

Ok Here goes

F6a
20x190 Turbo enabled
QPI x36 = 6.84GHz
Uncore Auto = 3800MHz
Isochronous support enabled
performance enhance STD
Multiplier 6 = 1140MHz
DRAM timing Auto - this shows 7,7,7,20,1T in BIOS
CPU-Z shows FSB : DRAM 2:6 8,8,8,22,1T
LLC Disabled
VCore - 1.425
QPI 1.395
IOH 1.100 AUTO
DRAM 1.5v AUTO
QPI Pll 1.14v
Dram termination 0.75v AUTO
CH A,B,C Data V Ref 0.75v AUTO
Ch A,B,C Address ref 0.75v AUTO

Tried to manually set Dram Volts to 1.64 and timings to 8,8,8,24 which is where the memory (OCZ Gold 1600MHz) was rated for 1600MHz operation, left everything else the same. This didn't work so tried Uncore at 17x and 16x as you suggested, neither worked

[revenant]

I am sticking to 5fe I guess... my machine is so damn stable once it does it's little boot dance... I hate jumping bios revs once I get a good stable config.

[ReverendMaynard]

I am sticking to 5fe I guess... my machine is so damn stable once it does it's little boot dance... I hate jumping bios revs once I get a good stable config.

I've been saying that since the F4j lol.

[Splave]

no probs with f6a here, slow ide init fixed

[technut36]

+1 on f6a requiring high voltage at least compared to f5g

[SteveRo]

Ok Here goes

F6a
20x190 Turbo enabled
QPI x36 = 6.84GHz
Uncore Auto = 3800MHz
Isochronous support enabled
performance enhance STD
Multiplier 6 = 1140MHz
DRAM timing Auto - this shows 7,7,7,20,1T in BIOS
CPU-Z shows FSB : DRAM 2:6 8,8,8,22,1T
LLC Disabled
VCore - 1.425
QPI 1.395
IOH 1.100 AUTO
DRAM 1.5v AUTO
QPI Pll 1.14v
Dram termination 0.75v AUTO
CH A,B,C Data V Ref 0.75v AUTO
Ch A,B,C Address ref 0.75v AUTO

Tried to manually set Dram Volts to 1.64 and timings to 8,8,8,24 which is where the memory (OCZ Gold 1600MHz) was rated for 1600MHz operation, left everything else the same. This didn't work so tried Uncore at 17x and 16x as you suggested, neither worked

So with turbo enabled your actually getting 21x190?
qpi and uncore look fine, you could actually lower your uncore some I think down to x13 even.
Running things on auto is sometimes not a good thing in that you end up letting the mobo bios decide important things for you.

You might want to learn your default v's and set them manually, same with your qpi and uncore multi's and also your memory multi and timings.
That way you're not guessing at what the mobo set them to - you know because you set them yourself

LLC should be enbled - it is supposed to help keep v's level under load.
I keep qpi v no greater than 1.335 unless ocing.
You could run your mem volts higher, the intel max is 1.65 - perhaps even as high as 1.875v.
One rule that many of us have used is to keep the mem voltage no greater than .5 v higher than the qpi.
So for example - if you set your qpi to 1.335, you could set you mem voltage as high as 1.835v.
This is what has worked for me but as always - YMMV.
Other max v's below.

[Envy]

yo SteveRo im always learning with you What does YMMV mean?

[roller11]

I just got a ex58 ud3r as a possible replacement for my ud5. I'm sorry to report that sleep mode is broken, so I'm wondering if it's just my board, or a design/BIOS
screwup. SM works, but only if I down clock to around 163 BCLK or so. Underclocking cripples performance so 163 BCLK doesn't count as 'working'.
SM didn't work on the UD5 either until BIOS F5E, which solved the bug of no SM if HT is disabled. So my question is, has anyone tested SM on a UD3R, and if so, what are your results? If I can get SM to work on UD3R, I can switch from my UD5 and save $125 since I don't need SLi which is the only advantage of the UD5 vs the UD3R.

[revenant]

yo SteveRo im always learning with you What does YMMV mean?

Your Mileage May Vary.

[andyr(uk)]

Hi , looking at these boards the UD5 verses the extreme that is , as i am about to take the plunge into i7, just wanted to ask if the extreme version of this board is likely to achieve better memory speeds or better overclocks , thanks

[hlonipha]

Yesterday I flashed to F6a on the UD5, I then entered my settings for my 190 x21 24/7 crunching clocks and BSOD everytime. I tried stock and it worked fine. Put the OC back in and BSOD. Flashed back to F5G and everything works fine. F6a

Thanks for the report, I was about to try it today. lol not anymore

[ReverendMaynard]

some nice low volt clock action. 22C ambient btw.

2x120 38mm Ultra Kaze's at 2000rpm pretty much owns lol.

[The_Phoenix]

first post on this forum hola everyone,got the system all put toghether an with just a few tweaks,vcore 1.32v,20x190,vdimm 1.6v,7-7-7-20 timings an 3.8ghz on the cpu is where i stopped,im happy with it, artic silver ceramique instead of the intel paste on default heatsink fan ,temps idle at about 39c to 45c during regular use

[The_Phoenix]

Yesterday I flashed to F6a on the UD5, I then entered my settings for my 190 x21 24/7 crunching clocks and BSOD everytime. I tried stock and it worked fine. Put the OC back in and BSOD. Flashed back to F5G and everything works fine. F6a

agreed got the same results with f6a back to 5fg an all is well,must be a f6a bug would not recommend either

[EtherWind]

forgive me if this sounds obvious.
get back to where you have oc freedom and then freeze your settings at a reasonably high oc.
Then make one chnage at a time and see where it breaks
post your settings and config and let folks take a look at what you have.

OK, so Im back at 3.6GHZ w 9gb RAM. Havent tried to push further yet, but this is what I have done to get there:

My situation appears to be that any time I try to overlock with my 3x2GB 1600 G.Skills in place, I cant touch my BIOS settings period without my rig going into a reboot loop that eventually resets itself back to defaults. BUT, if I just have my 3x1GB 1600 Corsair ram sticks in, I can tweak away till my heart's content, and THEN add the Gskill back in place, which then boots fine. When I do this, the only thing that BIOS appears to change are my RAM timings, which go really loose up to 10x10x10x26x2 when all 9 gigs are activated.

Here are my settings for 3.6GHZ w 9GB Ram:

QPI Link: Auto (6.48Ghz)
Uncore Freq: x17 (3060)
Isochronous: Enabled

CPU Clock Ratio: 20x (x180)
Intel Turbo Boost: Disabled
CPU Cores: All
CPU MT: Enabled
CPU (CIE): Enabled
C3/C6/C7 State Support: Enabled
CPU Thermal Monitor: Enabled
CPU EIST Function: Enabled
Virtualization: Disabled
Bi-Dir Prochot: Disabled

Performance Enhance: Standard
XMP: Disabled
Sys Mem Multiplier (Auto): 1440
Dram Timing (Audo)

CPU VCore: 1.25000V
QPI Voltage: 1.195V
IOH Core: 1.10V
Dram Voltage: 1.500V

So nothing exotic, and really conservative voltages obviously.

Will do some more experimentation later this week, but Im guessing that, again, if I dare touch BIOS with that Gskill in place i have to start from scratch with only 3gb in again to get started. Does that at all make sense? Stay tuned for further testing.

[cardnut99668]

Well, I broke down and bought a set of the 6GB 1600 OCZ Platinum kit because I could not get my gold kit windows stable at 1910, so now I could have 6gb of ram...Anyone know how these o/c or have the Gold's and help me out?