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

[Richard Dower]

Did you read somewhere that it doesn't support it ?

I didn't read anywhere that it DOES support the Q9450...why, did you?
CPU support list does not list the Q9450 as being supported.

[ubiquityman]

Regarding the EX38-DQ6, strangely enough, I drove a Prius for the first time last week when I rented a vehicle in Los Angeles.

IMHO, the EX38-DQ6 and the dynamic power saving is somewhat analogous to driving a Prius.

It's interesting to watch the system clock up and clock down, with what looks like dynamic adjustment of both clock and voltage.

Power is getting pretty costly, but in terms of computing costs, it's still pretty small. Where I'm at, electricity is about 3.3 cents per kWh, a 50W reduction in power (if that is even possible with this mobo), running 7/24 equates to only $14.25/year. Not really that significant, but I don't know yet what the maximum reduction would be. (I doubt it would be more than 50W though) I have a Kill-A-Watt meter, so I will be trying that in the near future when the system is overclocked to see how it does with dynamic power reduction.


I'm still trying to get my system together right now so I haven't starting overclocking yet. Originally, I put my 4-drive Matrix RAID10 + RAID5 array onto the DQ6, but it didn't boot from the array properly, so I had to create a new array. This time, I didn't bother with the RAID5, but just did RAID 10.

Strangely after I installed Windows, something happened (not sure what), but it appeared like I lost 2 drives. There were 2 drives that if connected to the Intel SATA on the mobo, would cause the mobo not to boot. However, connected to the purple JMICRON SATA ports was no problem at all.

So, I connected those drives to the JMICRO SATA, reformatted. Updated the BIOS to version F2, moved the drives back to the Intel SATA and everything is working again. So I'm going to try to create the RAID10 array and then restore my backup.

It takes several hours each time, so each night I can do 1 run at this. Hopefully, I can get my system fully restored, then I will try overclocking.

[REVHEAD]

Regarding the EX38-DQ6, strangely enough, I drove a Prius for the first time last week when I rented a vehicle in Los Angeles.

IMHO, the EX38-DQ6 and the dynamic power saving is somewhat analogous to driving a Prius.

It's interesting to watch the system clock up and clock down, with what looks like dynamic adjustment of both clock and voltage.

Power is getting pretty costly, but in terms of computing costs, it's still pretty small. Where I'm at, electricity is about 3.3 cents per kWh, a 50W reduction in power (if that is even possible with this mobo), running 7/24 equates to only $14.25/year. Not really that significant, but I don't know yet what the maximum reduction would be. (I doubt it would be more than 50W though) I have a Kill-A-Watt meter, so I will be trying that in the near future when the system is overclocked to see how it does with dynamic power reduction.


I'm still trying to get my system together right now so I haven't starting overclocking yet. Originally, I put my 4-drive Matrix RAID10 + RAID5 array onto the DQ6, but it didn't boot from the array properly, so I had to create a new array. This time, I didn't bother with the RAID5, but just did RAID 10.

Strangely after I installed Windows, something happened (not sure what), but it appeared like I lost 2 drives. There were 2 drives that if connected to the Intel SATA on the mobo, would cause the mobo not to boot. However, connected to the purple JMICRON SATA ports was no problem at all.

So, I connected those drives to the JMICRO SATA, reformatted. Updated the BIOS to version F2, moved the drives back to the Intel SATA and everything is working again. So I'm going to try to create the RAID10 array and then restore my backup.

It takes several hours each time, so each night I can do 1 run at this. Hopefully, I can get my system fully restored, then I will try overclocking.

The power saving may not be much but its something, think about it in equation to all the computer users in the world, the savings would be tremendous.
At the end of the day it shows that Manufacturers are slowly making an effort to curb greenhouse gases. Eventually we will all have to play taxes on the emmitiones each individual puts out.

[jbloggs]

The power saving may not be much....

Bit of a gimmick I reckon!

[jmas]

Hi,

I've just flashed to the F8 BIOS and I've noticed a new entry named: "Fine CPU Clock Ratio for 45nm [+0.0][+0.5] " Any idea about what is it? If I set it to +0.5 the resulting speed in BIOS is 400x9.5=3800 Mhz. But once in windows CPU-Z reports 400x9=3600Mhz. I have an Intel e8400.

[zicada]

Hi,

I've just flashed to the F8 BIOS and I've noticed a new entry named: "Fine CPU Clock Ratio for 45nm [+0.0][+0.5] " Any idea about what is it? If I set it to +0.5 the resulting speed in BIOS is 400x9.5=3800 Mhz. But once in windows CPU-Z reports 400x9=3600Mhz. I have an Intel e8400.

Thats for CPU's like the E8500, that comes with a multi of 9,5. You would have to have an unlocked cpu (ES or EE) to be able to set that setting manually.

[ChrissTi]

I didn't read anywhere that it DOES support the Q9450...why, did you?
CPU support list does not list the Q9450 as being supported.

It doesn't mean that it doesn't support it. Q9450 it's just like QX9650 and QX9770, with multi locked to 8x, and Q9550 with multi locked to 8,5