Official GIGABYTE X38-DQ6/X38T-DQ6 Info/BIOS Thread

[merlin76]

According to BIOS:

A -> 266
B -> 333
C -> 200
D -> 400

[Pete]

Just got mine, after getting to finaly post it will only clock too 450FSB

RAM has done DDR1200 and past memtest fine, CPU has done 4.3GHZ

I had to flash the BIOS in windows, running F5f

So what am i doing wrong!

[GAR]

Just got mine, after getting to finaly post it will only clock too 450FSB

RAM has done DDR1200 and past memtest fine, CPU has done 4.3GHZ

I had to flash the BIOS in windows, running F5f

So what am i doing wrong!

What hardware are you using? did you try F3?

[Pete]

What hardware are you using? did you try F3?

CellShock PC8000 C4
X1900XTX
E6850

Tried stock shipping BIOS

[GAR]

CellShock PC8000 C4
X1900XTX
E6850

Tried stock shipping BIOS

did you try a different strap, straps make a big difference when scaling to a high fsb.....try a looser strap like 400 also dont clock your ram that high when trying to reach high fsb to make sure your ram is not limiting you

[Pete]

What strap then as it gives me numbers to letters and makes no sense as there is no doucmentation online at all.

450FSB is pretty crap.

All my past P35's have stoped at that as well!

I got a cascade to go on here shortly and need max FSB

[zsamz_]

What strap then as it gives me numbers to letters and makes no sense as there is no doucmentation online at all.

450FSB is pretty crap.

All my past P35's have stoped at that as well!

I got a cascade to go on here shortly and need max FSB

my p35 maxed out @ 575fsb
my x38 maxes out @ 555 "only f3 bios"

[Richard Dower]

I ordered my own X38-DQ6, cost €241!...i see F5g is now available.

[vanovich]

Is the team memory really that bad for this board? Have 4x1GB PC6400 4-4-4-10 and can´t go stable over 3,2 with my Q6600 G0 on the GA-X38-DQ6 even when i have only 2x1GB installed.
Was almost on the way to RMA the board when found your post about this.
Will i have better luck with OCZ PC9200 FLEX XLC? Overkill perhaps but will get a good deal so why not.

ive just invested in some pc8500 ,as i need high fsb.the best way to get most out off your team mem ,is set them to auto/spd.mine wont even let me put timmings manually. so they are running 4 7 7 23 . i thought to the board was bugged until i tried other ram in.my e6850 benches 4.5 now .

[GAR]

ok, today i started getting randon BSOD's with my board, very wierd......im thinking of exchanging this board out, its giving me alot of issues, it doesnt clock 4 sticks good at all............even at stock settings.

[BLHealthy4life]

ok, today i started getting randon BSOD's with my board, very wierd......im thinking of exchanging this board out, its giving me alot of issues, it doesnt clock 4 sticks good at all............even at stock settings.

i'm very interested in this issue with the X38.

I'm either going X38 with DDR2 to keep the RAM I have, or get rid of the DDR2that i have along with this P5K and move on to DDR3....

I'm currently battling my P5K DLX mobo with 4 x 1GB Patriot 9600 1200Mhz. This board HATES this memory - i'm sure of it. Can't even break 1000 without constant BSOD and freezes at SPD timings 5-5-5-12

1200Mhz at 5-4-4-12 on my Commando - NO PROBLEM.

[dinos22]

my p35 maxed out @ 575fsb
my x38 maxes out @ 555 "only f3 bios"

my E6850 tops out at 552MHz FSB on P35 and 547 on X38 F3 bios

[zsamz_]

my E6850 tops out at 552MHz FSB on P35 and 547 on X38 F3 bios

would be nice if we can get 10000+ read stable @ 510fsb like on p35
winter commin soon the board n cpu gonna be much cooler @ high fsb

btw new bios is only has quad tweaks or ...

[zsamz_]

ok, today i started getting randon BSOD's with my board, very wierd......im thinking of exchanging this board out, its giving me alot of issues, it doesnt clock 4 sticks good at all............even at stock settings.

same here i tried 4 sticks n not stable at all

[GAR]

I packaged it up, a bsod while using stock settings is not worth $300 i paid for it, going to exchange it tommorow.

[merlin76]

When at stock watch your tRD (performance level). Mine is set to 4 and that's too tight, should be 5 or 6. For high FSB (400+) 7 or 8.
For high FSB and high RAM clocks try B or D multi and set tRD to >6.

Max stable FSB for me is 460, this is with a quad and 4x1024MB. I believe CPU tops out because it doesn't matter what strap and voltages are used.

[Flagship]

i got 485x8 running.

G0 Q6600
4x 1GB D9GMH´s
X38-DQ6
HD 2900XT
Fullcustom Watercooled

actually im running 3,2ghz@ 1,28vcore for 24/7 Setting.

But i will try max FSB and max Clock of CPU.

RAM´s made 1200-5-4-4-12@ 2T with eVGA 680i SLI
and 1066-4-3-3-8@ 1T

Now i´m testing the X38 maxxes ;-)

Using BIOS F5G, is better then F3 and have improvements to f5f

[Minnyboy]

Maybe I should do a direct comparison between this board & the P35-DS4?

Both have very similar setups... both run q6600, 2 x 1gb Corsair 6400C4, 8800GTX (MSI & gigabyte), 750w PSU (OCZ & TT)... just different hdd is all...

finally got my Ultra Xtreme installed on DQ6 (was such a chore to get it installed with washers as it was like wobbly w/out them)...

Anyways, Both have same OS/Software installed on em. will run them at stock everything & then max OC (that i can with 6400C4 while I wait for FlexXLC9200 to come back from RA)...

Will report on findings with latest DQ6 bios comparo against P35-DS4

[zsamz_]

I packaged it up, a bsod while using stock settings is not worth $300 i paid for it, going to exchange it tommorow.

i'm gonna give it another week but gonna contact retailer tomorow i had to reinstal os 4 times in a week
when test win memtest i notice its verry slow on testing after i pass 100% i still will get bsod
gigabyte u better get a descent bois soon or u gettin this board back
i be testin the new bios out

[T_M]

Yesterday i recieved an X38T-DQ6 motherboard from Gigabyte.
This is their flagship DDR3 board soon to be released to the wild.

The board came shipped with F3d BIOS (if memory serves me correct).
I flashed it up to the latest beta on the website F3h.

With nothing stopping me, i set the board up straight away from extreme benching and installed everything nicely.

X38Tshot.jpg

Then i remembered about Windows install heheh

So there i am installing a fresh OS on LN2 for an hour, preparing the OS for benching also.
Once i got all that out of the way, i quickly moved on to the real fun part, LN2 QX6850 on X38T-DQ6

X38T185Vload.jpg

The first impressions of the board were good, Gigabyte had finally listened to the users and done away with the sill CTRL+F1 to get access to memory timings.
The BIOS was in their typical style still, but with many more voltage options (most i have NFI about). Still no additional temp or voltage readings that i could find though

I jumped straight up to 1.85V BIOS set, and found a pretty bad vdroop of 1.83V idle / 1.77V load!
Into Windows i went, and shot straight for the 5050 wPrime tests that i had achieved the day before on the P35 variant.

Suprisingly, even with such droop (as measured by the choke leg on underside of mobo) it ran no problems at the same speeds as previously - and with DDR3 in da house the times were rocking

Unoptimised 32M wPrime - new #1 QX6850 on hwbot
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=654434

Next up i moved onto 1024M, but i unfrotunately allowed temps to creep over -130C and a froze the OS.
No problem, nothing a reboot wont fix...... usually.

The system would not reboot no matter what i tried; clear CMOS, pull out battery, power off PSU, reset while attempting to POST, etc.
All it would do is spin up and my vcore reading was 1.6V, the screen wouldnt come on.

After about 10minutes trying to coerce it back to life, im standing there poking and proding then all of a sudden *Puff* a smoke cloud and that most foul of burning smells eminates from the CPU mosfet area of the board. ****

So i pull everything appart and it's pretty obvious that the board has blown it's load:

X38Tdestruction1.jpg

X38Tdestruction2.jpg

We'll see what the next board can handle

I still havent tested the QX6850 to see if it survived, but im confident.

[zsamz_]

just tried f4g n same crap back to f3
10% loss in bandwidth n 57 latency instead of 50
tried running 4 sticks of d9gmh n lol nice bsod
this board dont wanna run 4 sticks @ 800mhz n my p35 doin it @ 1020mhz

[Pete]

TM, if that was all the armaflex you used that doesn't shock nor surprise me it went like it did

[Nuker_]

This motherboard seems to be teh suxxorz, I knew I did the right choice when I canceled my order on this board and ordered maximus formula instead.

[merlin76]

[...] tried running 4 sticks of d9gmh n lol nice bsod
this board dont wanna run 4 sticks @ 800mhz n my p35 doin it @ 1020mhz

No problem here:



333x10
Vcore BIOS 1.35V, Vcore load 1.3V
Performance Enhance Turbo
Multi 3.0A, DDR2-1000, 266 strap
Timings 4-4-4-12-3-3-6-42-3-6-Auto-2T 2.25V

[icon57]

im glad i canceled my order too