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

**Supershanks** · 11-26-2007, 01:33 AM

Wakuwaku,

I found f5g & h better foir q6600than the earlier bios.
see Stable - 9x400 my settings are shown & may help you. You should be ableto lower vcore quite a bit.

luck

**merlin76** · 11-26-2007, 05:00 AM

Consider BIOS F7d as a test BIOS.

Loadline calibration does not work yet correctly, tRD bug (tRD "Auto" sets wrong tRD) still exists and there seems to be a problem recognizing SATA burners, similar to BIOS F7a. Performance is on par with F6b which is a great improvement as F7a produced poor memory performance.

With F6b I had problem that I could not run tRD4 at stock running "Performance Enhance" "Turbo" and "Standard" without loosing a lot of bandwith. This was caused by low tRC 18 in SPD and I walked around this by creating a custom SPD mainly based on Ballistix SPD. This error is solved with F7d. So memory compatibility seems to have improved, at least for me.

So for me F7d works best currently and I hope that a new BIOS version without existing bugs will be released this week.

**2good4you** · 11-26-2007, 08:22 AM

This is really bad...

So you guys think that Formula is the best X38 board to run 4 DIMM's? I must aim for X38, because the good Crossfire performance.

I just hate the Analog Devices audiocontroller on all ASUS boards. The Realtek controller is by far better on the Gigabyte boards... Always an compromise...

**Richard Dower** · 11-26-2007, 08:55 AM

How old is F7d?

**merlin76** · 11-26-2007, 09:02 AM

Compile date is 11/21/2007.

**Richard Dower** · 11-26-2007, 09:04 AM

Pretty recent...i'll flash but if it's true about SATA optical drives it's gonna be a real problem. F7a had the same issue....i can't understand WHY Gigabyte introduce NEW problems with bios releases.

I thought the point of bios updates was to FIX existing issues, not create new ones??

**Richard Dower** · 11-26-2007, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by 2good4you

This is really bad...

So you guys think that Formula is the best X38 board to run 4 DIMM's? I must aim for X38, because the good Crossfire performance.

I just hate the Analog Devices audiocontroller on all ASUS boards. The Realtek controller is by far better on the Gigabyte boards... Always an compromise...

I also prefer Realtek, and they update there drivers like every second week or so, AD...you have to get the drivers through Asus, and they don't update very often.

**merlin76** · 11-26-2007, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by Richard Dower

Pretty recent...i'll flash but if it's true about SATA optical drives it's gonna be a real problem. F7a had the same issue....i can't understand WHY Gigabyte introduce NEW problems with bios releases.

I thought the point of bios updates was to FIX existing issues, not create new ones??

Gigabyte did not release them officially so it's not a big deal. Perhaps some users had issues with SATA optical drives and they built in a fix which causes new issues.

Perhaps your drive works with F7d BIOS.

For a board maker it's not an easy thing to enshure compatibilty for all existing components in all combinations in the world, there are simply too many of them.
I think Gigabyte is on a good way and things are gonna to improve.

**koc** · 11-26-2007, 01:06 PM

F7d gave me 10 FSB increase ( 430X9 ) , with f5h i cant pass 420 FSB

also i was able to push my memory to 1146 MHz

**Feichti** · 11-26-2007, 02:08 PM

look guys what i am getting for my dq6

i get also NB and SB coolers

Feichti

**Wakuwaku** · 11-26-2007, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by Supershanks

Wakuwaku,

I found f5g & h better foir q6600than the earlier bios.
see Stable - 9x400 my settings are shown & may help you. You should be ableto lower vcore quite a bit.

luck

Thanks for posting the settings i really appreciate it and i will test your settings.

Don't you have the cold boot problem, i mean after a cold start are the OC settings still intact?

**freqy** · 11-26-2007, 04:58 PM

nice Feichti, where you find those? are they expensive?

**Supershanks** · 11-26-2007, 05:01 PM

Don't you have the cold boot problem, i mean after a cold start are the OC settings still intact?

yep their fine, no issues.

luck

**freqy** · 11-26-2007, 05:10 PM

(seems abit quiet on here now so may as well say hi)

im about to enter the world of gigabyte x38-dq6 ..ive read this entire thread ...lots of probs with the bios it seems ( i think gigabyte should pay you lot cash for finding all these glitches for them.

still ... its the same with all boards..ive just come from a nightmare p5k premium wifi took me 3 days to realise there was a western digital sata2 flaw my sound card wouldn't work in the latest pci slots and the dominator ram i bought was duff too hahaha 16hrs a day for nearly 2 weeks....still i learnt allot.

looking forward to getting my gigabyte ,dominator pc-8500 ..with q6600 ...and shall be on the ball with you guys posting various faults for the gigabyte team.

reason i chose this board was that the pci slots are version 2.1 so they should work with my old sound card. ? fingers crossed....also i find gigabyte very stable and reliable. i think once it works it'll be a great long serving board.

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about to build:
q6600
x38-dq6
dom pc-8500 ( with the fan thingys)
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme
western digital sata2 x many
emu and motu 2408 mk2 sound cards

**GAR** · 11-26-2007, 05:13 PM

No issues with this board, i love it, much more than my previous maximus crapius.

**Cornel** · 11-27-2007, 01:13 AM

Hello!

I've have a X38 DQ6 gigabyde mb, and i cant get it to run any faster than 266 fsb.

When i set it to 400x9 in bios, its starts with 266x9! any suggestions?

It's an q6600 g0, 4 gigs 4 sticks of kingston 9600 ram, watercooling.
cpu vcore 1.4, vdimm 2.35 volt.

I've runned this cpu on an asus mb before, at 3.6 ghz, but i got som problems with my harddisks on that board, so now i'm trying gigabyte.

**Supershanks** · 11-27-2007, 02:33 AM

i cant get it to run any faster than 266 fsb.

When i set it to 400x9 in bios, its starts with 266x9! any suggestions?

One or more of your manual settings is triggering a failed overclock.

Post your bios settings & someone will be ablle to help.

**Cornel** · 11-27-2007, 03:22 AM

Huh... i think i found it... running now at 3.6 ghz now...
i was using 1.4 volt in bios, and now i'm using 1.45 volt.
In everst it shows 1.39...

Before i used 1.3875 on my asus p5k and it worked nice...

**Richard Dower** · 11-27-2007, 04:30 AM

The SATA optival issue is still present with F7d...the bios won't detect the drive, i have to manually have the bios detect the drive (which it does) but upon restart the drive is lost again.

Does anyone know what "loadline claibration" does?...it's a new option in bios.

**merlin76** · 11-27-2007, 04:58 AM

Loadline is the correct word for Vdroop. With loadline calibration enabled loadline/Vdroop should be reduced to an absolute minimum. Currently, loadline calibration seems to be broken or does a very low job.

**Smy** · 11-27-2007, 09:08 AM

does laters versjon of winflash work with this mob?
I have F3 bios on my mob og geting low bandwith.
Is F6b bios better? And does work painless like f3?

**jonny_ftm** · 11-27-2007, 10:08 AM

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigab...48-71635.shtml

Looks like PCB v1.1 will be reserved to the next X48 with an emphasis on overclocking performance...
New buyers should really wait

**Wakuwaku** · 11-27-2007, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Supershanks

yep their fine, no issues.

luck

I have another question for you about the ATX_12V_2X/ATX connector.

There is a plastic cover on that connector which i removed and i connected 2x4 pins 12 on them as the manual says i should do.

What do you use, 8 pins or 4 pins?

**Richard Dower** · 11-27-2007, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by jonny_ftm

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigab...48-71635.shtml

Looks like PCB v1.1 will be reserved to the next X48 with an emphasis on overclocking performance...
New buyers should really wait

SCUMBAGS!, this is proof the original X38 mobo is a dud and badly designed...why else would they release and revise the PCB already?

Looks as if the heatpipe over the NB seems longer, with more fins.