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

[DStealth]

EK water block, but the card is fully Vmodded , the performance in this test is almost from shader domain clocks 1950mhz.

[chrisbarham]

Hey new to this post and in fact overclocking...got my x38-dq6 about 2 weeks ago and been happy with it till now.

I am not looking for major overclocks..but would like tp get it to about 3.0ghz.. which seemed easy till now.

basicly i had my CPU host clock control set at 400 and my multiplier set too 7.. which gave me a speed of 2.8, on bios F3

however.. whilse playing STALKER it all frooze and rebooted itself.. and reloaded all the default BIOS settings, now i cant touch the host clcok contol, otherwise the damn thing wont boot..even if i set it to the default of 266 or below....any ideas....????

Hmmmm..have tried all that i can think of... i have flashed to two different bios f5g and f6a, and have even gone back to f3 bios. However just simply enabling the CPU HOST CLOCK CONTROL (without any adjustment to the freq), makes the machine reboot back to the bios default setting..so it means i can not overclock...is my board broke...or am i missing a trick..

[dominick32]

Guys,
Good news. I tried flashing back to the F4a bios again on the DQ6T and this time the flash allowed me to adjust FSB and multi... Maybe they revised F4A after realizing the bugs??

Anyway. I am very happy to report that this is the best bios so far (for me personally) on the DQ6T-DDR3 variant. I am finally able to boot my sticks memtest stable at 1800mhz +



CAS 7, 1900 mhz 7-7-7-20
It took 2.19 volts to get there with active cooling.
I think these sticks have CAS 8 2000mhz with some tweaking:

[Richard Dower]

Or maybe the old QFlash 2.02 was botched, which is why they updated to 2.05?

[yonton228]

Wow overall from reading in this thread. It seems that Gigabyte has sure dropped the ball when it comes to their BIOS performance....sad...I love my P965 DQ6. Doesn't look like I will be updating it any time soon.


-yonton228/timmy

[century child]

I'm encountering something really strange with my board here, when I change my CPU settings to manual in BIOS and start overclocking, the changes get reset after the next cold boot. Not all BIOS settings, just mem timings and CPU goes back to auto. I've not experienced any instability while running overclocked so I don't know why it's doing this. Anyone else experienced anything like this? I'm using F3 BIOS by the way.

[turtletrax]

My X38-DQ6 is going back to the etailer I bought it from. Nice 15% restock fingering, but worth it IMO.

Seeya Gigalol.

[zsamz_]

My X38-DQ6 is going back to the etailer I bought it from. Nice 15% restock fingering, but worth it IMO.

Seeya Gigalol.

where did you buy it from?

[dinos22]

here is some info on the 600+ Mhz FSB benching on the X38-DQ6

I plan to test the same on X38T-DQ6 shortly

for me F3 bios is rock solid I will try to do some testing with F5/F6 based ones as well to test my requests

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=164771

[GAR]

how is this board coming along, i might get one again, formula wouldnt let me clock past 3.7 and had issues with my memory.....i hope the new bios's have fixed some things.

[Richard Dower]

Realtek HD codec drivers, version 1.81:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false

[LiViD]

Basically, don't flash to F6b as overclocking with that BIOS is impossible. I flashed back to F5F and was able to boot to 420 FSB without any issues. F6e wouldn't let me go past the stock 333 FSB speed.

Looks like F5h is crap as well. Can't seem to OC very well with 4 DIMMs in this board.

[turtletrax]

where did you buy it from?

I bought at NCIX. I was surprised they let me return it. I set up a refund RMA and decided to keep it and wait for a good BIOS that never came. Missed my 15 day return window. I re-emailed them and asked if I could still return it. The agreed too the return with a 15% restock fee that I gladly accepted

Now just have to figure out what to get now. I dont really want to wait for the DFI X38, so I might get the P35 T2R. I would love to get the Transpiper free "LT" edition but I cannot find any in Canada.

Still thinking on it.

[phatty2x4]

My first x38-dq6 did the constant on/off thing and resetting the bios or changing the battery did'nt fix it, so I rma'd it.
I just got my replacement from newegg and It boots, but the bios hangs after the initial bootup screen. The classic never ending blinking cursor. I don't think I'm going to buy anything from gigacrap again. This is ridiculous.

[zuess]

I bought at NCIX. I was surprised they let me return it. I set up a refund RMA and decided to keep it and wait for a good BIOS that never came. Missed my 15 day return window. I re-emailed them and asked if I could still return it. The agreed too the return with a 15% restock fee that I gladly accepted

Now just have to figure out what to get now. I dont really want to wait for the DFI X38, so I might get the P35 T2R. I would love to get the Transpiper free "LT" edition but I cannot find any in Canada.

Still thinking on it.

Hi turtletrax,
DFI X38 is now listed on MotherboardPro.com,should soon be in Canada.
Might be worth the wait?

[turtletrax]

Hi turtletrax,
DFI X38 is now listed on MotherboardPro.com,should soon be in Canada.
Might be worth the wait?

The estimated release is the 28th if I remember correctly. Problem is I dont think I want much to do with X38. Looks like it is not worth it for DDR2 users and I refuse to spend the money they want for DDR3 with DDR2 prices the way they are. I also need to run 4GB, so that puts DDR3 even further away.

I also doubt that by thr time I need PCI-E 2.0 it will either already have another rev, or I will have a completely different system. That with terrible BIOS support across the board and DFI's ability to miss targets P35 sounds pretty good to me.

Where I really went wrong was I had a Evga 680i that actually worked and could run my Q6600 at 4ghz prime stable and I sold it to get the Gigalol X38. What a mistake...

[zsamz_]

I bought at NCIX. I was surprised they let me return it. I set up a refund RMA and decided to keep it and wait for a good BIOS that never came. Missed my 15 day return window. I re-emailed them and asked if I could still return it. The agreed too the return with a 15% restock fee that I gladly accepted

Now just have to figure out what to get now. I dont really want to wait for the DFI X38, so I might get the P35 T2R. I would love to get the Transpiper free "LT" edition but I cannot find any in Canada.

Still thinking on it.

i also got it from ncix one of the few that give 30 days
a 40$ hit is worth it to get a refund
i bet if you wait a bit the dfi p35 will be cheaper lol

[koc]

Basically, don't flash to F6b as overclocking with that BIOS is impossible.

Yesterday I flashed the bios with F6b version , and i was able to boot to 3.6 ( 450 X 8 ) , and i try now to OC the memory to 1200

[dinos22]

Basically, don't flash to F6b as overclocking with that BIOS is impossible. I flashed back to F5F and was able to boot to 420 FSB without any issues. F6e wouldn't let me go past the stock 333 FSB speed.

Looks like F5h is crap as well. Can't seem to OC very well with 4 DIMMs in this board.

LOL really

i benchmarked an E6750 on it yesterday very quickly at 580Mhz FSB lol

and then on single stage benched a yorkfield between 4.8Ghz and 4.9Ghz

seems ok to me except that FSB is lower than F3 which is a shame for the E6750 chip

[LiViD]

I honestly don't know. F4 and anything past F5F doesn't let me do squat with this board. I just get the three reboots back to default settings. The P35-DS3R treated me a lot better.

[Supershanks]

did the constant on/off thing

You mean the failed overclock recovery thing. Did you try and adjust settings

This mobo has one of the best failed oc recovery routines i've seen. Yes it can spit out it's dummy at times, particularly if you don't get the memory sub timings right but it works for me. Only thing i'm a bit dissapointed in is max fsb, but having said rthat it's pretty well in line with what i've seen on the Asus max.

[Richard Dower]

Does anyone else have problems accessing www.station-drivers.com

??....i can't seem to get the page to load, any new bios out yet?

[phatty2x4]

[QUOTE=Supershanks;2544033]You mean the failed overclock recovery thing. Did you try and adjust settings

It worked great the first day and ran like a champ, but the next day I hit the power button and on... off... on... off... But instead of resetting to defaults and booting up after a couple of those, it never stopped until I turned off the psu.
Taking out the battery and resetting the cmos did nothing.... it just wouldn't post. Just on and off until power was cut. Now the one I got back from rma is hanging with a blinking cursor in the top left corner after initial post and I can't get into the bios or flash it, so it's going back too. Not too impressed so far with Gigabyte and I have been oc'n for 10+ years.

[Richard Dower]

Guys, for anyone interested....Creative has released new (non WHQL) drivers dated October 25th 2007; www.soundblaster.com ; www.guru3d.com

[Richard Dower]

Phatty....i had the same issue when i installed my new mobo, it came with F3 and i flashed to F5g...had the same issue. I took out the CMOS battery and waited a minute.

After that i had no issues and have flashed a few times since.