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

[Caped Crusader]

I guess I should have stated my question better, what I meant was if I could get it to run at 1000+ with 4x2GB I would be happy, but thanks for the response anyhow .

Ok, I get it

I guess that with proper cooling you might get it to run stable.

[Caped Crusader]

i have the X38-DS4, so i think its ok to post my issue in this thread.

I just got my second 3870 for crossfire. Now my OC is unstable (445x9), resulting in hard lock ups. Stock clocks are fine, so my guess is the NB need more voltage, agree?

i have no idea what in bios to change for the NB voltage, any suggestions will be appreciated!

You need to rise the FSB VOLTAGE OVERCONTROL on your M.I.T. BIOS section.

You might also want to try rising the (G)MCH OVERVOLTAGE CONTROL, which is the memory controller bus.

[ThatGuy16]

You need to rise the FSB VOLTAGE OVERCONTROL on your M.I.T. BIOS section.

You might also want to try rising the (G)MCH OVERVOLTAGE CONTROL, which is the memory controller bus.

Thanks man!

i upped the G MCH only, i set it to +0.025. Its alot more stable, im going to run some tests and see if it need another small bump

[Caped Crusader]

Thanks man!

i upped the G MCH only, i set it to +0.025. Its alot more stable, im going to run some tests and see if it need another small bump

Sure dude, good luck

[ThatGuy16]

Thanks

i played crysis for about 30minutes, then crysis got the "not responding".. not sure if its a coincidence or not. Im going to run orthos or OCCT for a couple hours later on and see if i need to set it to +0.05v instead of +0.025v.

Is 50c fine for the "board" temp?

[Caped Crusader]

Thanks

i played crysis for about 30minutes, then crysis got the "not responding".. not sure if its a coincidence or not. Im going to run orthos or OCCT for a couple hours later on and see if i need to set it to +0.05v instead of +0.025v.

Is 50c fine for the "board" temp?

Hmmm, 50C for the northbridge is perhaps too high. I get 31 ~ 33C on average on my X38-DQ6. Do you have proper cooling inside he case? NB with a bit of overvoltage tends to get quite hot. Ensure you have good airflow over that area of the board.

[ThatGuy16]

50c is on full load such as an hour of crysis. Its about 33c doing normal tasks..

Is that fine? i do have a side fan that blow on the video cards, so that also give the nb some airflow.

[Kojo]

Hmmm, 50C for the northbridge is perhaps too high. I get 31 ~ 33C on average on my X38-DQ6. Do you have proper cooling inside he case? NB with a bit of overvoltage tends to get quite hot. Ensure you have good airflow over that area of the board.

Hi all first post here

I find it hard to believe your NB doesn't get warmer than 33C, unless you have watercooling or something better.
The problem here is that, atleast my X38 DQ6, shows 2 temps for mobo. And afaik hardwaremonitor is one of the very few tools showing me the 2nd temp aswell. 1st temp is like Crusader described idle it's ~28C stressed it's max 35C after few hours gaming. This I think is the temp of the heatpipe somewhere ???

Now 2nd temp in hardwaremonitor is more likely the NB, mine shows 28C idle, and around 55C fully stressed for a few hours. And yeh the NB gets fairly hot on the x38 DQ6. I have a 92mm scythe fan cooling NB and mostfets heatsinks on mine now.

[Caped Crusader]

50c is on full load such as an hour of crysis. Its about 33c doing normal tasks..

Is that fine? i do have a side fan that blow on the video cards, so that also give the nb some airflow.

Oh, if that's after full load then it's pretty normal. I misunderstood and thought that it was on idle

[Caped Crusader]

Hi all first post here

I find it hard to believe your NB doesn't get warmer than 33C, unless you have watercooling or something better.
The problem here is that, atleast my X38 DQ6, shows 2 temps for mobo. And afaik hardwaremonitor is one of the very few tools showing me the 2nd temp aswell. 1st temp is like Crusader described idle it's ~28C stressed it's max 35C after few hours gaming. This I think is the temp of the heatpipe somewhere ???

Now 2nd temp in hardwaremonitor is more likely the NB, mine shows 28C idle, and around 55C fully stressed for a few hours. And yeh the NB gets fairly hot on the x38 DQ6. I have a 92mm scythe fan cooling NB and mostfets heatsinks on mine now.

That's not far from what i'm getting aswell: 33C idle and 50 ~ 55 under full load. I get my readings from Everest as it is perhaps the only program that doesn't give me totally messed up readings.

I'm also using a Cooler Master CM690 case with 5 120mm fans (2 front intake + 2 outtake side panel + 1 outtake back). It works great for case airflow

[Richard Dower]

Will the current F8d beta support the Q9450??

[Richard Dower]

Realtek 889A codec drivers, version 1.88:

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

[Hornet331]

Hmmm, 50C for the northbridge is perhaps too high. I get 31 ~ 33C on average on my X38-DQ6. Do you have proper cooling inside he case? NB with a bit of overvoltage tends to get quite hot. Ensure you have good airflow over that area of the board.

DQ6 has no Northbridge temp sensor, the temp it shows is the case temp, the seconed on is the cpu mobo temp sensor.
I have no clue where gigabyte has located the case sensor. For the old ds4 it was above the first pcie slot.

[Caped Crusader]

DQ6 has no Northbridge temp sensore, the temp it shows is the case temp, the seconed on is the cpu mobo temp sensor.
I have no clue where gigabyte has located the case sensor. For the old ds4 it was above the first pcie slot.

WTH?! Are you sure about that?

Then how will I be able to get NB temps?

[doompc]

Guys, something strange is hapening with my X38T-DQ6.
When setting vcore over 1.4v it becomes very unstable, raising the voltage instead of drooping it, but still ocasionaly dropping it down...

My QX6700 works flawlesly at 3.2GHz with only 1.28v, and needs about 1.42v for 3.6GHz.

At 3.2GHz everything is ok, I get about 1.31v vcore idle and 1.28v full (1.3750v set in the BIOS).

But to get 1.42v I need to set about 1.55v, I get about 1.44v idle but when I run the CPU at 100% the vcore goes crazy, varying from 1.41v to as high as 1.52v!

I'd like to know if anyone else have seen the same, or if my board is bad...

[Hornet331]

WTH?! Are you sure about that?

Then how will I be able to get NB temps?

plain and simple:

its not possible to read it out with software.


you can masure it with a ir/laser temperature gun or attach a sensor to the heatsink, but both methods will not give you a 100% accurate temp, but they get really close.

[Caped Crusader]

plain and simple:

its not possible to read it out with software.


you can masure it with a ir/laser temperature gun or attach a sensor to the heatsink, but both methods will not give you a 100% accurate temp, but they get really close.

So, no onboard sensors that can be read with software? Is this something exclusive to Gigabyte boards?

[ubiquityman]

Just received a EX38-DQ6. Not sure what the difference is between the EX38 and the X38. Anyone know?

[ThatGuy16]

Its suppose to save energy i think, but once you start overclocking which disables most of the energy saving features.. I'd imagine its no different

[Richard Dower]

EX38 lacks that crappy Molex connector on the PCB (thank god), adds LEDs for overclocking. The PCB hasn't changed that much at all...but if you had the X38 and EX38 side by side and examined closely i'm sure you'd notice things.

GB said they were revising the trace paths, making them shorter/more efficient.

[BigDK]

The EX38 looks more like a rev 2 X38 DQ6 than a new board in its own right.

Can't say I'm amused by the way the X38 has been made obsolete so quickly and then replaced by the same board with very minor revisions to it, and branded a new board.

[Caped Crusader]

The way I see it, X38-DQ6 is still an awesome board (even with its small flaws) and I'm not switching to another (GB or whatever) anytime soon. I still wanna try one of the new Quads with it and see how far it goes.

[BigDK]

I agree with the view that its a great board.

Mine runs very stable and has a lot of ports which I tend to use most of.

I've now cranked my Q6600 up to 3.8 24/7 100% stable, and the memory is running at 1125 5-4-4-13

Only issue I now have is sometimes after it shuts down, it goes into boot cycle at power up, when that happens I need to switch psu off for a few seconds. This only happens about 20% of the time, and I can live with that easily enough.

I'm waiting to get a new core 2 quad in mine but so far the setup is better than anything I've used before.

[6_6_6]

Hornet331, thank you for the information. I was under the wrong impression that first temp measurement was for northbridge.

I have no fans in my system. I have not experienced any instability so far at 3.2 GHz 8x400 and I have done extensive stress testing for days. I havent paid much attention to nb since its temps seemed normal under heavy stress testing. Apparently I had no idea.

I have only 1.35v, +0.25v DDR2, +0.05 gMCH. I have not set any voltages for FSB.

I wonder what is happenning to my northbridge. When do you think this is going to explode?

I was going to get Asus Maximus but it was not available then. I wish I had waited.

plain and simple:
its not possible to read it out with software.

[Hornet331]

with decent airflow around the nb you can even go 1.6V (+0.325) and the nb is still ok, but i wouldn't do it without a extra fan for 24/7.