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

[panzer948]

Thanks CC and RD for the memory suggestions.
Looks like 2x2Gb of G.Skill's PC8000 PQ is the consistent suggestion.
Anyone else having success on the X38-DQ6 with 2x2GB?

That's what I have, except I have four of them installed for a total of 8GB. Vista 64 recognizes all 8 and using about 15 to 20% of the ram during mild computing.

[Celerator]

That's what I have, except I have four of them installed for a total of 8GB. Vista 64 recognizes all 8 and using about 15 to 20% of the ram during mild computing.

Wow. Any occasions when you come close to using 8GB?

Thanks!

[Sobek]

Looks like I'm not alone!

http://forums.amd.com/game/messagevi...&enterthread=y

It's the 5th post down, the one with all the videos. Take a gander at the TF2 video he posted, that is EXACTLY what happens with me too... Coincidence that we're both using HD's on an x38 chipset? I know of one other person who has this exact same issue who is also using 2900's on a gigabyte x38-dq6. In some ways, this is both good, and bad news. Good that I'm not alone, bad that it seems unfixable.

Where to from here? Anyone think this is something Gigabyte could fix? It would seem to be limited to X38 chipsets, so there's bound to be something they can do... One can dream, right?

[Alcibiades]

Wow. Any occasions when you come close to using 8GB?

Thanks!

Speaking for myself, I have some big image files and compressed files that are like over 6-8GB, and let me tell you unzipping an 8GB file goes real quick on my system until I run out of ram and then it takes like 30 minutes to finish it off at a slow crawl, so yeah 8GB of system memory would do it in about 2 minutes or something.
I have 2x1Gb by the way.

Also good for image, sound and video editing.