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

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I have personally experienced this problem, not with SATA but with SCSI. I overclocked the PCI bus, and everything ran stable for a few days, but after some extended period of time, my system became noticeably unstable. I had previously done some burn-in testing at the overclocked configuration, but apparently I didn't do it long enough. In the end, I figured out the SCSI adapter/drives were slowly being corrupted. I'd get a bad bit every few hours. over time, this accumulated in files/data.

In the end, I backed down the PCI bus, reformatted and reinstalled the OS, then everything was fine.

I was especially reffering to SCSI devices, and I too use each a Promise and the Intel ICHxR on SB. So if for most of us utilizing even the AHCI/RAID on Intel ICH9R, you do need to up the SB volts a tad to keep stable. I notice it performs smooth on Intel SATA RAID 0+1 at only 1.10v and 1.55~1.58v on the SB_1.5.

I also can get away with a PCI-E bus to 110 w/ NB of 1.5v to 500FSB so it just depends. You should run some sort of HDD utility to find what does best.

EIST: It can be used on certain CPU's and mild overclocks with some stability, but at aslight responsiveness drop during stepping. For X38, & P35 400FSB is pretty much a stock FSB, so if you have a new 1333FSB CPU then full auto with EIST is doable if BIOS allows. I only know of Abit & DFI (at least the P35 "Blood Iron") to be stable at 400 with CPU to auto and enabled EIST. Abit also fullly supports C1E+TM2, technically reffered to as C+P state (not limited TM1) so the VID+FID reduce together.