Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

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That sucks. I removed that piece for now since I wasn't going to use it. My MCH temps are like 49-50C when booting up. Doesn't that seem kinda high?

Mines are 55c right now during blend. I only have X48 knowledge to go by, but that is pretty much out the window since X58 is completely different. In fact i was expecting it to be alot cooler, given the lack of memory controller, but obviously this is not what has happened.

We should note that the temp icon is off up to 60c, flashing green from 61c-80c, and flashing red at 81+, so we can assume these temps are fine.

I've PM'd someone who should give a clearer answer, i'll let you know what he tells me

:edit: Ok i got a reply, though not a very big one but it explains this. I remember reading on anandtech that one of the goals Intel had was to design a more server-oriented chip with X58, even though it would be used on desktop aswell. Anandtech back this up also with a recent article showing how powerful nehalem xeon is going to be. This is the reason for the chipset's high temps, compared to X48, its power has been increased to make it more dual-cpu ready. The temps are all good

So what's the best bios for the ud5 at the moment?
F4r, or is the F5a also ok?
What would be the best settings to utilise my 1600mhz dominator ram?

I highly recommend to anyone that you should start from scratch and find your own settings, because one read through of this thread is enough to see that people are having different experiences. However, if you want to jump right in try 200 bclk with 8x memory multi, 18x QPI (36x in bios) 16x uncore, that will give you your 1600mhz stock. Make sure to set 1.64v / 1.66v vdimm manually, and if i were you i'd also set my 8-8-8-24 manually also. Leave the 'performance' option on Turbo to take care of the rest of your timings, it'll probably set 1T CR but that shouldn't be a problem and will give you a small bandwidth boost.

Then start increasing your cpu multi and see what you can get stable

This is one of many ways of doing it, but it will let you get your memory @ stock at least.

so are you saying this pencil Mod doesnt work

It's not working for me, the vdroop is still there. This is the first time i've tried it but it's pretty easy and doesn't seem to be a way to do it wrong. I've pm'd Hicookie about it and they maintain the mod should work, i've put the line on so hard the pencil led would break if i pushed harder, and no luck.

Feel free to try