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

[Severance]

Any word on the f5i bios fellas? I will wait for results. Everytime i flash bios i need to reinstall ati drivers

[BigDK]

There seems to be plenty of people on either side of the fence with this board.

My experience with the GAX38DQ6 has been really good, the board has been stable from day 1 and the temps have been low on the chipset.

Currently running my E6600 B2 @ 450x8 24/7, managed to get to 470 fsb, but no higher than that, but it's the same as with my previous 2 boards I've run this CPU in, it always stops at that fsb, so CPUs are definately a limiting factor, not all will get to 500+ no matter what board you stick it in.

I've got 2 E6600's and neither have got to 500 fsb although the 2nd one I'm not using does get slightly higher than this one, both using PC8500 Dominator memory.

Scored 12950 3DMark06 tonight and there's a few more points to go when I carry on tweaking tomorrow, that with my Dell OEM 8800GTX which cost me £280 + £56 for EK FC8800 Acetal block, clocked to 660/2040.

Tried F4 for a while, but for me it didn't give or take much execpt that the boot time increased by quite a bit, now back on F3 BIOS.

[Richard Dower]

There seems to be plenty of people on either side of the fence with this board.

My experience with the GAX38DQ6 has been really good, the board has been stable from day 1 and the temps have been low on the chipset.

Currently running my E6600 B2 @ 450x8 24/7, managed to get to 470 fsb, but no higher than that, but it's the same as with my previous 2 boards I've run this CPU in, it always stops at that fsb, so CPUs are definately a limiting factor, not all will get to 500+ no matter what board you stick it in.

I've got 2 E6600's and neither have got to 500 fsb although the 2nd one I'm not using does get slightly higher than this one, both using PC8500 Dominator memory.

Scored 12950 3DMark06 tonight and there's a few more points to go when I carry on tweaking tomorrow, that with my Dell OEM 8800GTX which cost me £280 + £56 for EK FC8800 Acetal block, clocked to 660/2040.

Tried F4 for a while, but for me it didn't give or take much execpt that the boot time increased by quite a bit, now back on F3 BIOS.

I tend to agree, i've had a P965, P35 and now X38...using all bios that come out...my E6600 will not go past 450FSB, it's stable upto 445FSB...after that it gets dodgy.

I'm happy with the chip 3.4GHz at 1.4V is fine with me....i'm waiting for the new 45nm chips before upgrading the CPU. As for boot time with the X38, there is a definate lag, several seconds on pushing the power button, very weird....it's like it waits to POST,

[easyrider]

I tend to agree, i've had a P965, P35 and now X38...using all bios that come out...my E6600 will not go past 450FSB, it's stable upto 445FSB...after that it gets dodgy.

I'm happy with the chip 3.4GHz at 1.4V is fine with me....i'm waiting for the new 45nm chips before upgrading the CPU. As for boot time with the X38, there is a definate lag, several seconds on pushing the power button, very weird....it's like it waits to POST,

I've noticed this boot lag..

Its not good at all.

Early days though seems better than the Abit P35 pro..could not get my chip 3.8ghz stable