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

[mjb1206]

zsamz,

Interesting OC! What are your voltage settings?

[zsamz_]

zsamz,

Interesting OC! What are your voltage settings?

pcie 100
extreme
5-4-4-12
3
3
6
38
+5 memory
+3 fsb
+1 pcie
+1 mch
+1.65 cpu
i think it can go higher needs more fine tuning
p.s you gotta use setfsb after you boot @ your max fsb

[GTX]

1GBX4 some results

DDR2-800 CL3


DDR2-900 CL4

[zsamz_]

my board blew up
i got my vengeance lol for all the bsods

[E.R]

Sorry to hear that zsamz, ASUS Maximus for you to next? Mine will be shipped on monday, big misstake by me to jump the gun for the Gigabyte X38.

[zsamz_]

Sorry to hear that zsamz, ASUS Maximus for you to next? Mine will be shipped on monday, big misstake by me to jump the gun for the Gigabyte X38.

well after spending 100+ hours on the board i not so sorry for its passing
i'm back on my trusty p35c n i gotta say its sweet and i need less juice to run @ 4.0+ n my ram happy @ 1250 with 2.31v i topped out @ 1160 with x38
i almost bought the maximus but i think i'll wait a month to see all the other boards its not good to jump on a board 1 hour after it comes out lol\
but the maximus looks promissing

[Severance]

You guys give up on this board much to easily. Go read maximus thread and see all the problems they are having with the board. This thread is much smaller because this board is much less buggy. Trust me i have both

[zsamz_]

Tou guys give up on this board much to easily. Go read maximus thread and see all the problems they are having with the board. This thread is much smaller because this board is much less buggy. Trust me i have both

i had 1 more week before i coulda returned board i was just givin the board a chance before it died
i'll wait it out n see who gets a proper bios

[E.R]

I wish i could get my CPU@ 3600 and mem@1240 5-5-5-15 that i had on the 2x1GB testrun to sort memory out on the 24/7 4x1GB setup i have, then 10000MB/s is close, a bit more OC and the 10000 is reality on memory dispite poor memoryperformace on DQ6 vs P35 board reviews.
But as of now 1100 or 1067 in reality is max without memoryerrors in 4x1GB setup and the MCH-voltage is at max where it needs to be to get the setup stable and memory has what it needs since that is on low 5-8-8-24.
Ad to that only good BIOS for my memory is the old F3 and sometimes low CPUclocking don´t start or is stable so i think that Gigabyte released their board to early or had the crappy chip that was recalled since the only BIOS is released is crap and Alpha more than Beta because of the strange things this board do for me on high FSB and Vista won´t even start on some settings since it says some file is missing or if it start can´t load some file but lower settings it works again.
So far Maximus seems to do better for 4x1 Micron memory OC vice, ad the loadlinething that works with 505 BIOS. As of now the DQ6 seems to be the looser for me and i jumped the gun for the first board.
Have read the Maximus thread and simular on other forums and it seems that the thing DQ6 lacks for my part is what ASUS sorted out on the Maximus. Could have bought 2x2GB memory but the only one i realy wanted is about 550-650€ and that is the 2x2GB Mushkin 8500 5-4-4-12. The OCZ PC9200 was only 420€ for 4GB and has WC-cooler to, thats 60€ more for the MIPS-WC ramblock to the Mushkin kit.

[Richard Dower]

My own X38-DQ6, had some issues...

There are two inductor colis located next two the small heatsink which covers four MOSFETs...this is in a very bad position and prevented me from properly mounting my Scythe Ninja Rev B., there isin't enough clearance for the heatsink to mount flush, the base of the heatsink is sitting on these coils pushing down...not good.

For now i have my normal 425x8 running.

[Richard Dower]

My board came with F3, everything booted up normally, so i flashed to F5h and restarted...no proper boot. It was like the dark days of the P965 and those early bios release. Constant loop of shutdown and restart...so i pulled the CMOS battery.

Everything has gone fine since then. The X38 heatsink gets really HOT...i have added 8 copper ramsinks to the X38 are but it's still roasting hot...i can only imagine how hot it would be without all that additional copper!

[zsamz_]

i had a 80mm fan on nb and a 60mm fan on sb as5 on everything and it hot to the touch
intake 90mm fan blowing straight on board too
deffinately the nb heatsink needs better cooling and the heatpipe going to sn should be takin off nb heat tranfering to sb
heatpipes look nice but fans shoulda been added instead

[frans2h]

Dear all...please help this newbie... ...i'm running my x38dq6 with my q6600 B3..have an issuee at BIOS setting :

1. At MIT section there are a part that you could change the memory multiplier..it's saying x.xxA strapping fsb 266, x.xxB strapping fsb 333, and so on...and for each you could choose a divider...i'm not familiar with this matter..what should i took ? i'm planning to OC..with Corsair domminator PC8500

2. At the moment i'm using 3.00A...and could get 400 x 9 easily..passed cinebench and passed 32M Spi but didn't passed prime 95 4 treads in 4 second..if lowering the divider to 2.50A..pc wont boot..only attemp 270 x 9...

Please help me with this...thanx all...

P.S : My specs :
Gigabyte x38 DQ6 with bios F5g
Q6600 B3 at 1.550v ( bios )
Corsair Domminator PC8500 at 2.3v ( 5 7 7 24 ) 3.00A divider

[frans2h]

Dear all...please help this newbie... ...i'm running my x38dq6 with my q6600 B3..have an issuee at BIOS setting :

1. At MIT section there are a part that you could change the memory multiplier..it's saying x.xxA strapping fsb 266, x.xxB strapping fsb 333, and so on...and for each you could choose a divider...i'm not familiar with this matter..what should i took ? i'm planning to OC..with Corsair domminator PC8500

2. At the moment i'm using 3.00A...and could get 400 x 9 easily..passed cinebench and passed 32M Spi but didn't passed prime 95 4 treads in 4 second..if lowering the divider to 2.50A..pc wont boot..only attemp 270 x 9...

Please help me with this...thanx all...

P.S : My specs :
Gigabyte x38 DQ6 with bios F5g
Q6600 B3 at 1.550v ( bios )
Corsair Domminator PC8500 at 2.3v ( 5 7 7 24 ) 3.00A divider = 1200mhz
Silverstone 850w
Sapphire HD 2900 XT
TT Tribe cpu water cooling
WDR 74gb

[zsamz_]

Dear all...please help this newbie... ...i'm running my x38dq6 with my q6600 B3..have an issuee at BIOS setting :

1. At MIT section there are a part that you could change the memory multiplier..it's saying x.xxA strapping fsb 266, x.xxB strapping fsb 333, and so on...and for each you could choose a divider...i'm not familiar with this matter..what should i took ? i'm planning to OC..with Corsair domminator PC8500

2. At the moment i'm using 3.00A...and could get 400 x 9 easily..passed cinebench and passed 32M Spi but didn't passed prime 95 4 treads in 4 second..if lowering the divider to 2.50A..pc wont boot..only attemp 270 x 9...

Please help me with this...thanx all...

P.S : My specs :
Gigabyte x38 DQ6 with bios F5g
Q6600 B3 at 1.550v ( bios )
Corsair Domminator PC8500 at 2.3v ( 5 7 7 24 ) 3.00A divider = 1200mhz
Silverstone 850w
Sapphire HD 2900 XT
TT Tribe cpu water cooling
WDR 74gb

go back to f3 bios its much more stable

[walste]

Need help with my new X38T-DQ6, can´t get my fsb over 400, i was hoping for 500+ with this board.
i have just flashed to bios f3h, and enything over 400fsb it just reboot and reboot.

i have tried all the different voltage with no go.
enyone have a great setting for over 400fsb???

[mjb1206]

I would only use the F3 bios. The others are beta and are not really stable.

[walste]

I would only use the F3 bios. The others are beta and are not really stable.

What bios settings are you using for that 500FSB???
mine are stucked at 400

[dominick32]

Guys. Help!
I love this board, but cant seem to get my ram stable over 1740mhz:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=162936

[Alcibiades]

I wish i could get my CPU@ 3600 and mem@1240 5-5-5-15 that i had on the 2x1GB testrun to sort memory out on the 24/7 4x1GB setup i have, then 10000MB/s is close, a bit more OC and the 10000 is reality on memory dispite poor memoryperformace on DQ6 vs P35 board reviews.
But as of now 1100 or 1067 in reality is max without memoryerrors in 4x1GB setup and the MCH-voltage is at max where it needs to be to get the setup stable and memory has what it needs since that is on low 5-8-8-24.
Ad to that only good BIOS for my memory is the old F3 and sometimes low CPUclocking don´t start or is stable so i think that Gigabyte released their board to early or had the crappy chip that was recalled since the only BIOS is released is crap and Alpha more than Beta because of the strange things this board do for me on high FSB and Vista won´t even start on some settings since it says some file is missing or if it start can´t load some file but lower settings it works again.
So far Maximus seems to do better for 4x1 Micron memory OC vice, ad the loadlinething that works with 505 BIOS. As of now the DQ6 seems to be the looser for me and i jumped the gun for the first board.
Have read the Maximus thread and simular on other forums and it seems that the thing DQ6 lacks for my part is what ASUS sorted out on the Maximus. Could have bought 2x2GB memory but the only one i realy wanted is about 550-650€ and that is the 2x2GB Mushkin 8500 5-4-4-12. The OCZ PC9200 was only 420€ for 4GB and has WC-cooler to, thats 60€ more for the MIPS-WC ramblock to the Mushkin kit.

Hi E.R.
Sorry to hear that 4GB of OCZ 9200FLEX isn't up to speed yet on X38
I have same cpu/mobo/ram/heatsink combo but only 2GB on Vista Ultimate.

If you haven't already, check this link in relation to 4GB 9200flex on a DFI p35
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=31046

I have hit 1224Mhz 24/7 stable with my 2GB and try not to stress my CPU so I keep it at an easy 3666Mhz

[djshotty]

Just built my own X38 board. Any advice regarding stable OC settings in BIOS F3, and where to find benchmarking applications, will be very much appreciated.

Specs:
GA-X38-DQ6 with F3 BIOS
Intel E6850 C2D @ 3GHz
Two ASUS EAH2900XT 512MB GPU's
Four 1024MB strips of Apogee DDR2-1066 @ 5-5-5-15
CoolerMaster RealPower Pro 850W PSU
Two Maxtor 300GB SATAII HDD's - RAID(0)
Two ASUS 20X SATA DVD-RW's
SwannSmart Pro internal 56k modem
Gigabyte 3D Aurora case

New to this forum, old hat at tech stuff (just not that big on OC)

[djshotty]

And to add another quick post. As mentioned, I've put in four 1024MB strips of (what I thought were) DDR2 1066 Apogee RAM, but as this pic shows, my AU$365 GA-X38-DQ6 is only reading it as PC6400. Should I be going back to the store where I bought the RAM, or is there something wrong with how the board reports the RAM in it to the OS?

[dinos22]

lol that is not a motherboard problem

that's what it's written into the SPD it's all fine man

[djshotty]

Yeh but what does it mean? That the board is only running it at 800MHz, or that the RAM is only PC6400?

[djshotty]

Just that with all the hassles guys are having with this board I'm thinking it might be a compatibility issue, seeming though Gigabyte don't have it listed in their QVL

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/...ga-x38-dq6.pdf