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

[Richard Dower]

Well my PC is mashed, keep getting random BSOD, alot of times from a cold boot Vista won't load properly and i have to restart...i honsetly don't know what the issue is, bios/hardware or drivers....no idea at this stage.

Sigh.

[Ace-a-Rue]

I had the BIOS corruption not after a flash but after setting my memories at 1040 MHz.

The "funny" thing is that my DDR2 are PC-8500 (1066 MHz).

has the board been packed up or you still trying to get it working again?

[zsamz_]

Well my PC is mashed, keep getting random BSOD, alot of times from a cold boot Vista won't load properly and i have to restart...i honsetly don't know what the issue is, bios/hardware or drivers....no idea at this stage.

Sigh.

i had same problems i gave up after 3 weeks
i woulda kept the board if i didnt get bsod with mild overclock
i was even running my ram @ 800mhz and still got bsod after fresh install

[Scope666]

i had same problems i gave up after 3 weeks
i woulda kept the board if i didnt get bsod with mild overclock
i was even running my ram @ 800mhz and still got bsod after fresh install

I had a week of misery with the "other" X38 board, the Asus flavor. I finally RMA'd it. I don't think the x38 and more importantly the BIOSes are ready for prime time. I'm almost thinking of picking up the IP35 Pro as a hold over until there's really a reason to need PCI-E 2.0. I have the EVGA 680i board now and I'm sick of the crappy nVidia drivers, in particular the SATA drivers.

What do you guys think? Are you happy with your DQ6s?

[GAR]

I had a week of misery with the "other" X38 board, the Asus flavor. I finally RMA'd it. I don't think the x38 and more importantly the BIOSes are ready for prime time. I'm almost thinking of picking up the IP35 Pro as a hold over until there's really a reason to need PCI-E 2.0. I have the EVGA 680i board now and I'm sick of the crappy nVidia drivers, in particular the SATA drivers.

What do you guys think? Are you happy with your DQ6s?

before you switch, the gigabyte board has its quirks too, every board does, the question is will those quirks bother you??? problems i have found on this board....

- memory bandwidth is low compared to the asus maximus board......
- vcore once over 1.5 you have to have either 1.55 or 1.6 no in between, just doesnt stay between those values when in load, but none the less i use 1.6v for my 24/7 vcore and temps are good, cpu's are very hard to mess up.
- 4:5 memory divider sometimes boots, sometimes doesnt, only F3 bios boots, but memory bandwidth with that bios is LOW!
- OCCT issue, present on this board and the maximus, now this is only with vista x64, i havnt tried any other OS to confirm this isnt OS related....

Good luck.

[zicada]

Hi all.

Good thread.

Ive had the X38-DQ6 for about 6 weeks now, and i think im starting to somewhat figure it out.

I've noticed that,- especially with the F3 bios, the most important bios-setting in terms of stability and wether youll be able to boot the bios successfully or not, is the TrD. Ive found that, when overclocking FSB beyond 400mhz, this setting has to be set to 8, irregardless of memory-overclock in general. Anything less, and the bios will reset itself on next reboot.
I get the feeling the board is having trouble correctly identifying my ram. Sounds to me like alot of people are seeing this problem. My system for example, is not stable on default optimized bios settings, because it tries running memory at 1066 with a TrD below 8.

The options for robust graphics and performance can both be set to the highest setting with no decrease in stability as far as i can tell. This is all with F3 bios.

I think I've found a sweetspot for my system, wich is a G0 E6750 and Crucial Ballistix 8500.

475*8, and memory at 1:1. System is Orthos stable for 24 hours at 4-4-4-4.

This is aircooled with Scythe Ninja revB with a SilenX 120mm 122CFM fan. vcore at 1.58, memory at 2.28. I only up NB at the lowest setting and keep the other voltages on standard.

Has anyone been able to run this stable at 4ghz or above with the E6750 ? It seems im hitting a wall. No matter the vcore i just wont be stable at 4ghz and above. Any ideas welcome.

Some feedback to other users. Ive seen a few people getting anxious about their 3ghz cpu "only" beeing 2ghz in the OS. This is due to speedstep. It will jump up to 3ghz as soon as theres sufficient load. Ofcourse, you can just disable the speedstep feature in bios.

[larry4]

hello i'am new o/cer and i have some questions.
I have gigabyte dq6-x38 q6600(g0) with ultra extreme 120 and 4gb ram trascent at 800Mhz.
I have.
DDR2 +0.2
PCI-E +0.2
FSB +0.15
CPU 1.38125

My problem is that i can't found the right voltages to make my system stable on 3.4Ghz. I run orthos and after 5 or 6 minutes system crash. I don not have problem with temps, in idle is 40-43 and load 60-62.
1.Can anyone with this system tell me the right settings on bios?
2.Witch bios is the best for my mobo?
3.Is better to have multiplier to 8 or 9?
4.Witch of the following voltages is the most important to improve my fsb?

Thanks!

[koc]

hello i'am new o/cer and i have some questions.
I have gigabyte dq6-x38 q6600(g0) with ultra extreme 120 and 4gb ram trascent at 800Mhz.
I have.
DDR2 +0.2
PCI-E +0.2
FSB +0.15
CPU 1.38125

My problem is that i can't found the right voltages to make my system stable on 3.4Ghz. I run orthos and after 5 or 6 minutes system crash. I don not have problem with temps, in idle is 40-43 and load 60-62.
1.Can anyone with this system tell me the right settings on bios?
2.Witch bios is the best for my mobo?
3.Is better to have multiplier to 8 or 9?
4.Witch of the following voltages is the most important to improve my fsb?

Thanks!

Well , these setting should work fine

set memory timing manually
select the right strap of your memory A,B,C,or D
If you dont OC your memory , just leave the DDR2 volt to Auto
set the TrD to 10
set the PCI-E to maximum +35
set CPU to 1.40
leave the rest of volts to Auto

[Sommer]

Can someone plz tell me which value in picture are the "TrD" value

Think I found it, "Static tRead Value".

Now I can use "extreme" as performance enhance, only standard before.

Changed it from 5 to 8.

[koc]

Static tRead Value

[REVHEAD]

Can someone plz tell me which value in picture are the "TrD" value

Think I found it, "Static tRead Value".

Now I can use "extreme" as performance enhance, only standard before.

Changed it from 5 to 8.

Wow thanks for the tip ,I picked up over 1000 mb/s in my Memory Read /Writes and copy and allso lost 1.0 ns latency according to Everest running extreme performance mode .

At last pple are starting to actually give Overclocking advice in this thread,much appreciated .

[Richard Dower]

We cover a wide range of topics related to the mobo in this thread.

[japanese]

How much is the vdrop? isn't there any option in the bios that stops vdrop like asus?

[dinos22]

Static tRead Value

yeap important timing to tweak for stability and performance

[dinos22]

How much is the vdrop? isn't there any option in the bios that stops vdrop like asus?

it's unfortunately higher than P35 boards....i don't know what it is but could be something to do with the design

up to 0.04v

there are no settings in bios to control that

[Alcibiades]

Wow thanks for the tip ,I picked up over 1000 mb/s in my Memory Read /Writes and copy and allso lost 1.0 ns latency according to Everest running extreme performance mode .

At last pple are starting to actually give Overclocking advice in this thread,much appreciated .

For your information, these o/c tips have already been provided for your and everyone's benefit.
Maybe you should read the whole thread start to finish friend.
I know it's becoming a looooong thread, but there's good info to be found and plenty of bios settings info for just about all config's.

[GAR]

OK, so i got my ram to be OCCT stable!!!!!!!!!! my final specs are in my sig!!

[castravete]

Does anyone have problem with the X38-DQ6 ...with the sound card...It seems that the board generate electrical noise though all audio ports it can be heard only on the headphones but is annoying ...can anyone tell me what tot do to remove that noise?I have:
Q6600@3.2 ghz 2x1gb mushkin 8500(996535) enermax liberty ELT500AWT-DXX and 8800gts(768) Gainward is there anything that could make the noise except the Mainboard pleae help I like to watch movies with the headphones thank

[century child]

OK, so i got my ram to be OCCT stable!!!!!!!!!! my final specs are in my sig!!

Very nice! I just dropped that same RAM into my system but am not having much luck overclocking it. Do you leave subtimings at Auto or have you entered them manually?

[jonny_ftm]

OK, so i got my ram to be OCCT stable!!!!!!!!!! my final specs are in my sig!!

Nice to hear you persisted on OCCT RAM, so it seems stable on Vista64 too
Great news, OCCT in RAM mode should be really the way to go for people before claiming stability. It is not unreal test like TAT, as errors in OCCT RAM, soon or later will hang your games/encoding software...

And very nice OC by the way, but a bit high on the vcore. What are your temperatures on Small FFT?

[GAR]

Very nice! I just dropped that same RAM into my system but am not having much luck overclocking it. Do you leave subtimings at Auto or have you entered them manually?

I set the main timings manually and sub timings the only one i touched was trd i changed it to 8.....passes memtest and the occt 1.2.0b ram test.......voltage is +.40

[GAR]

Nice to hear you persisted on OCCT RAM, so it seems stable on Vista64 too
Great news, OCCT in RAM mode should be really the way to go for people before claiming stability. It is not unreal test like TAT, as errors in OCCT RAM, soon or later will hang your games/encoding software...

And very nice OC by the way, but a bit high on the vcore. What are your temperatures on Small FFT?

Yeah bro, its a relief getting my ram to pass that test i gotta say, the vcore is ok with me, the temps are....first 2 cores idle at 40c the other 2 are at 34.....loads the first 2 are 65-70c the other 2 are 60-65...........overall i am much more pleased with the gigabyte board, much more than the maximus formula.

[jonny_ftm]

Yeah bro, its a relief getting my ram to pass that test i gotta say, the vcore is ok with me, the temps are....first 2 cores idle at 40c the other 2 are at 34.....loads the first 2 are 65-70c the other 2 are 60-65...........overall i am much more pleased with the gigabyte board, much more than the maximus formula.

Yep, you got a nice OC on your Q6600. 65-70 is good at that vcore on air. In real world you'll top at 65°C on load anyway. But take care of the summer

[Ace-a-Rue]

Yeah bro, its a relief getting my ram to pass that test i gotta say, the vcore is ok with me, the temps are....first 2 cores idle at 40c the other 2 are at 34.....loads the first 2 are 65-70c the other 2 are 60-65...........overall i am much more pleased with the gigabyte board, much more than the maximus formula.

what is the actual vcore going to the Q6600?...you say 1.58 set in the bios but what is the actual as measured by a DMM?

[GAR]

what is the actual vcore going to the Q6600?...you say 1.58 set in the bios but what is the actual as measured by a DMM?

Its set to 1.650 in bios, while priming it goes anywhere from 1.58-1.63