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

**GAR** · 10-09-2007, 08:25 AM

ok guys, what board should i exchange this one for, P5K premium?

**krampak** · 10-09-2007, 08:32 AM

Maybe some of this post can help me with this?. I should have posted here...

**GAR** · 10-09-2007, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by krampak

Maybe some of this post can help me with this?. I should have posted here...

No one really knows about these yet, but they are supposed to help with stability, this board was released wayy too imature and needs a revision, also i heard this uses the old x38 chipset without the updates, thats why giga bye was the 1st out of the gate.

**~~Pete~~** · 10-09-2007, 09:21 AM

Mines going back for the Asus maximus formular thing

**T_M** · 10-09-2007, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by Pete

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

Care to explain how i can fit more into places where there are components on the board, such as caps and chokes and heatsinks?
On top of that 1/2" thick sheet of armaflex was a layer of paper towel, and a seriously tightly squeezed CPU tube insulation.

Perhaps you should tell kingpin how to insulate too?
http://www.overclockingpin.com/cpu%2...led%20mark.JPG

**GAR** · 10-09-2007, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by Pete

Mines going back for the Asus maximus formular thing

Same here, returned mine and got the Asus Maximus Formula, special order tho, will be here late this wekk, maybe next week, i can wait it out.

**~~Pete~~** · 10-09-2007, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by T_M

Care to explain how i can fit more into places where there are components on the board, such as caps and chokes and heatsinks?
On top of that 1/2" thick sheet of armaflex was a layer of paper towel, and a seriously tightly squeezed CPU tube insulation.

Perhaps you should tell kingpin how to insulate too?
http://www.overclockingpin.com/cpu%2...led%20mark.JPG

You used loads of bits as to one full sheet. Doesn't even look like you used any DC4 to get it to stick to the MOBO so it was air tight. Thats what you need, layers and layer around to be air tight

Originally Posted by GAR

Same here, returned mine and got the Asus Maximus Formula, special order tho, will be here late this wekk, maybe next week, i can wait it out.

Well i've ordered new RAM incase my CellShocks are dead/dieing and im gonna RMA them anyway once new is here. I hope my bord is in this week. There expecting 28 today, but we have a postal strike and courrises are buser than normal cos of it. Then it has to come from the stores main site to there one here. Oddly a one other person has ordered one from my Brance so maybe i have a local to compet with if i ever find them

**Richard Dower** · 10-09-2007, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by GAR

No one really knows about these yet, but they are supposed to help with stability, this board was released wayy too imature and needs a revision, also i heard this uses the old x38 chipset without the updates, thats why giga bye was the 1st out of the gate.

So what are you saying??....the board is flawed and has serious issues?...maybe it's bios related.

**JPxM0Dz** · 10-09-2007, 10:57 AM

Interesting review

http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Giga...ts/5306-1.html

**Richard Dower** · 10-09-2007, 11:06 AM

Read it, they suggested the heatpipe cooling is not adequate enough to cool the X38, i kinda felt this myself on seeing pics of the mobo...which i why i bought some copper ramsinks so i can beef up the cooling over the X38.

480FSB...it's hardly mind blowing, alot of P35 boards do 480, i think people kinda EXPECT 500+ FSB these days, especially as X38 is touted as an overclockers dream etc.

**GAR** · 10-09-2007, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by Richard Dower

So what are you saying??....the board is flawed and has serious issues?...maybe it's bios related.

There is a version of the chipset wich had some issues, they were not too serious and gigabyte did not update this problem, thats why they were one of the first to release the boards so early, everyone else i believe has done the update.

**Richard Dower** · 10-09-2007, 11:36 AM

Any info on the problem?

**Richard Dower** · 10-09-2007, 11:37 AM

Has anyone checked to see if there boards have shipped with ES enigneering sample of the X38 chipset?

**mjb1206** · 10-09-2007, 11:48 AM

Well I have this board, and I'm not seeing some crazy issue with it at all! I haven't gone crazy overclocking it, but have see no problems overclocking to FSB of 535 X 7= 3.7, or 510 X 8= 4.0. I have not tried any other bios other than the F3.

Maybe I'm not pushing it hard enough to have problems, but so far, seems to run fine! I will say that my P5K Premium seemed to run about the same, so I'm not really seeing some vast inprovement over the P-35 chip-set.

Matt

**mjb1206** · 10-09-2007, 11:50 AM

**GAR** · 10-09-2007, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by Richard Dower

Has anyone checked to see if there boards have shipped with ES enigneering sample of the X38 chipset?

There has been no confirmation of this, but my board was getting BSOD's with stock settings, also didnt like 4x1gb of d9gmh.....stability was an issue for me.

**mjb1206** · 10-09-2007, 11:58 AM

GAR>>>> Well, hopefully it was an isolated issue, and RMAing your board, might bring you a good one! I never run four sticks of memory, and have had no memory issue at all using Ballistix's. Obviously, if I was getting BSOD at factory settings, mine would be going back too!

Good luck, and hopefully your next one will be a winner!!

**QWIDGYBO** · 10-09-2007, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by Richard Dower

480FSB...it's hardly mind blowing, alot of P35 boards do 480, i think people kinda EXPECT 500+ FSB these days, especially as X38 is touted as an overclockers dream etc.

And because they expect 500+ from day dot. Just like the majority of boards, X38 needs time to prove itself...

**merlin76** · 10-09-2007, 12:09 PM

@ GAR

Bluescreens are driver or hardware related.

What kind of bluescreens do you get, stop codes?

When running at stock please put in these memory timings manually: 4-4-4-12-3-3-6-42-3-6-Auto-2T. Vdimm should be 2.1V

Is it more stable now?

For high memory clocks I use 4-4-4-12-3-3-6-42-3-7-Auto-2T or 5-5-5-15-3-3-6-42-3-7-Auto-2T.

I'm very satisfied with this board and don't have any issues with it.

**vanovich** · 10-09-2007, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by mjb1206

GAR>>>> Well, hopefully it was an isolated issue, and RMAing your board, might bring you a good one! I never run four sticks of memory, and have had no memory issue at all using Ballistix's. Obviously, if I was getting BSOD at factory settings, mine would be going back too!

Good luck, and hopefully your next one will be a winner!!

hi ,what voltage you giving your ballistiks for 600?

**GAR** · 10-09-2007, 12:37 PM

ok, reading the asus formula thread, people are having lots of issues with that board as well, man im beggining to think the x38 is crap, thats why an x48 is going to follow so soon, WTF???

**mjb1206** · 10-09-2007, 12:43 PM

vanovich>>> 2.2 volts

**mjb1206** · 10-09-2007, 12:47 PM

Remember the X38 board is providing 1.8 volt from the factory settings, so in your bios in the "DDR2 Overvoltage Control" set it at .40 which will bring your total voltage 2.2.............

Good luck, and love those Ballistix's for sure!!

**vanovich** · 10-09-2007, 01:02 PM

Originally Posted by mjb1206

Remember the X38 board is providing 1.8 volt from the factory settings, so in your bios in the "DDR2 Overvoltage Control" set it at .40 which will bring your total voltage 2.2.............

Good luck, and love those Ballistix's for sure!!

ok ,thanks . i know .getting my ballistiks tommorow .this is what my results so far are with cf .so im looking forward to get some more ram width .

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3311852
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=3536231

maybe with the ballistiks i can push the fsb further

**zsamz_** · 10-09-2007, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by QWIDGYBO

And because they expect 500+ from day dot. Just like the majority of boards, X38 needs time to prove itself...

i got 550fsb on day 1 i also reinstaled xp like 4 times in a week

i just want this damn thing running on 4 sticks

@ stock settings

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