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

[truehighroller]

I had read some where to crank it up to 125 for the 8800gts 512 which I have and it will get better performance but, these boards obviously won't handle it. I was having issues with my Raid0 dropping as well so, I went back to just one 250gb drive and a 500gb external. I shot a couple of pictures to post here after slicing my damn fingure open bad,,, cutting the wire ties. I will post it in a little. I have a pretty sweet setup. I kept dropping my damn raid with 2 new western digital retail,,, 250gb 16mb chache drives that I bought, I'm pretty upset about that because I have never had any issues out of my old config of a 250gb and a 160gb in raid0 same company western digital and I get two new identical ones and have hell getting them to stay in array.

[Richard Dower]

Well I've been reading this thread for a bit over a week now, off and on.
Got in the ex38-DQ6 board as a replacement for the x38-DS4 that ended up dieing from a bad flash.

I've got a few questions on this, know I won't recall them all so they will prolly come up over a few posts.

1st, what is the major differences between the jmicron and the intel (purple/orange) sata ports onboard?
2nd, has anyone used Dinos bios revision he posted a link to?

I am not sure why everyones been changing bios' like they were going out of style, so far I've been using the one that came on the board, think it is F1.
I've been able to get 7x490 on this with minimal problems. I've had a few problems with tweaking the memory, but odds are that is just me not fully comprehending what it is I am doing with it, still working on that.
Ok, well I am sure there will be more to say on this, but drawing a bit of a blank at the moment.. shocked I've read all 2k+ posts in this thread... sheesh... lol

The Intel/Jmicron ports are basically the same..personally i use the Intel ports, but i have seen tests that show the Jmicron controller is just as fast in RAID. I always flash to the latest bios unless it has serious issues and is unusable.

New bios add features and fixes issues...but it can also introduce new problems as well.

[Richard Dower]

125MHz on the PCI-E frequency seems dangerously high to me...i'd not go past 110MHz IMO.

[Richard Dower]

Can someone take a look at my HyperPI time on 32M, is this good or bad?
Btw...i *finally* got this program to work, SuperPI won't run on Vista, HyperPI needed services disabled to run, as you can see.

[REVHEAD]

125MHz on the PCI-E frequency seems dangerously high to me...i'd not go past 110MHz IMO.

why do pple increase there pcie? its not like they are starving for bandwidth.

Mybe I should do mine? but cant see any reason to do so, allso when we enable turbo or fast on the pcie dioes this increase the Mhz?

[Richard Dower]

There seems to be (a myth) that increasing PCI-E frequency gains higher speed, i've not seen it myself. The 9600GT seems to have this thing whereby it increases the frequency and gain higher clocks...it's being discussed on the news section.

But in general i don't belive PCI-E adds much to the party, I think setting Turbo overclocks the cards GPU and memory...i think. I always leave that on Auto myself. But then someone suggested Auto also overclocks...but GPU-Z says otherwise:

[truehighroller]

Ok well, I was under the wrong impression that's fine but why the heck do both of my sata controllers go hay wire when I do it because with my 780i board I had,, I could do that and it was fine,, that sucks but, here is a good pic of my GA-EX38-DQ6 for everyone.

[Richard Dower]

Highroller...turn off the lights and lets see a pic of the LEDs.

[Richard Dower]

Guys, new and updated Jmicron divers are now available for download, version 1.17.32 WHQL:

JMB36X RAID Driver Release Note

R1.17.32WHQL (03/04/08')


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- Issue Correction
- Samsung HM160HI HDD r/w failed.
- Hot plug failed with JMB336.
- HdTach average read is slower in new driver with WD HDD.
- After resuming from sleeping, failing to access IDE HDD connected to JMB363 w/o option rom.
- 2 Sandisk Extreme III CF cards are connected, they failed to be accessed after S3.
- Power DVD 7.3 failed with Pioneer IDE DVD ROM (DVD-127D).
- RAID1 of 2 Sandisk Extreme CF cards always show not synch after rebooting.
- Pushing Power DVD 7.3 play button to play DVD in Pioneer IDE DVD ROM (DVD-127D) will have a delay of about 10 sec.
- Accessing failed with HDD or RAID size >= 1TB and < 2TB.
- The HDD is not frozon after S3 on ASUS motherboards.
- JMB360 chip rev. 2 will hang in disk accessing on ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi motherboard.
- Raid AP will mistakenly detect multiple SCSI controllers with new ASUS drivers on nVidia C73 platform.

- Note
- Append a customized key "DisableRaid0" to disable Raid0 in setup.ini. Modify setup program (JMicron normal package) and Raid AP DLL to support this feature.
("DisableRaid0=1" indicate to disable Raid 0, default is set to zero and indicate to support Raid0)


ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/

[truehighroller]

Highroller...turn off the lights and lets see a pic of the LEDs.

Which LEDs the fans or the new ones they implimented on the board where the plug used to be on my old P35 DQ6? I'm not gonna lie I couldn't figure out how to get my Fiance and I's camers to stop flashing . I tried it just wouldn't stop flashing it's a new camera so,,, it's nice but alot of options. She is the camera guru that I bought it for any way so, I will have to ask her to turn it off for me .

[Richard Dower]

The ones on the PCB...

[truehighroller]

I will say this, I just now flashed to the new bios F2 and this damn thing is solid. I haven't tweak my memory all the way yet but I do have it running at the 2.~d @ 1069 and my Q6600 @ 3.6Ghz and 1.3625v!!!!. I just did my first 3dmark06 run and it was more then happy to run through it and usually if the cpu doesn't have enough power going to it it will blue screen on the cpu test part. I had to give the cpu like 1.55v on my old p35 dq6. This thing is amazing. I have to overclock my gpu then run though the test again and tweak my memory and then I will post my next 3dmark06 score if everyoner would like

[truehighroller]

I tried to get my cpu to 4Ghz which was easy with my p35 and no go. I might have pushed her to many times,, I don't know and may never. Unless some one here says try these settings, I don't think I will ever get her past 3.65Ghz.

[Tabs]

Guys I have just got some G.Skill 1066 ram 4gb kit and I am running 400 mhz fsb for 3.6ghz.

For the life of me I cant get a 1-1 ram to fsb ratio and getting poor Everest results because of it, at the moment I am running the D strab I think to get 1066 or was it be I cant remember. Has any one got any ideas on how I can keep my cpu @ 3.6 and get my ram running at 1-1 for good read write speeds?

I am running the latest F8 final bios.

I have the G.Skill DDR2 1000 4GB kit and have the exact same issue - can't run 1:1 with my Q6600 with anything other than the original F3 BIOS. I posted about it probably 20 or 30 pages back.

Were you able to figure this out at all? I'd love to be able to use the newer BIOSes, but if I do I get instant instability, memtest errors etc at 1:1. This is at stock CPU speed and what should be a very large underclock for the memory since it only has to run at 266 to be 1:1.

With the later BIOSes it'll actually run stable at higher than 1:1 though, which just doesn't make any sense at all to me.

[REVHEAD]

I have the G.Skill DDR2 1000 4GB kit and have the exact same issue - can't run 1:1 with my Q6600 with anything other than the original F3 BIOS. I posted about it probably 20 or 30 pages back.

Were you able to figure this out at all? I'd love to be able to use the newer BIOSes, but if I do I get instant instability, memtest errors etc at 1:1. This is at stock CPU speed and what should be a very large underclock for the memory since it only has to run at 266 to be 1:1.

With the later BIOSes it'll actually run stable at higher than 1:1 though, which just doesn't make any sense at all to me.

No mate I havnt worked it out , I am stuck running the C strap now for a 8/6 Dram FSP Ratio

[Kojo]

I noticed since the first day I've had this board that in everest the Dimm1/2/3/4 Clock Fine Delay seems to change alot for no apparent reasons. It doesn't seem to affect performance much either tho, atleast I didn't see a difference when it was low or high. But I'm wondering what controls this and how, I think it's related to the performance level and the "Turbo/Extreme settings" But I also noticed the values changing just overnight without having altered anything in the bios. Sometimes it just boots with other values.

Basicly I'm not to worried about it, since it doesn't affect performance, just curious as to what it is and why ....anyone?

[truehighroller]

I have noticed that all the memory settings below the normal ones like to change all the time to but, I will say this,, they did the same exact thing on my GA-P35-DQ6 that I just RAMed because it died on me. Any way, I actually thought that I had my issue with getting my GA-EX38-DQ6 to push my Q6600 to 4Ghz resolved, and I was wrong. I upped my voltage to the mch to +.50 and it got stable or seemed that way at 3.85Ghz and then became unstable again. I'm just wondering if the board is unstable or the CPU is going out on me. I am going to be getting a new one when the Q9450s come out so, I willl deffinately know when I get that.

[BigDK]

Can someone take a look at my HyperPI time on 32M, is this good or bad?
Btw...i *finally* got this program to work, SuperPI won't run on Vista, HyperPI needed services disabled to run, as you can see.

Your sig shows you are running Vista 32 SP1, I can run SuperPi no problem at all on Vista 32 without SP1, is this just something related to the service pack, or did it never work on your Vista build?

I've already removed most of my software from Vista as I had too many issues, soon all I'll have left is my games (not impressed) was to start with but the more I use it the more I find issues.

[TheKarmakazi]

There seems to be (a myth) that increasing PCI-E frequency gains higher speed, i've not seen it myself. The 9600GT seems to have this thing whereby it increases the frequency and gain higher clocks...it's being discussed on the news section.

But in general i don't belive PCI-E adds much to the party, I think setting Turbo overclocks the cards GPU and memory...i think. I always leave that on Auto myself. But then someone suggested Auto also overclocks...but GPU-Z says otherwise:

increasing the pci-e freq does result in better performance although the difference is minimal. you are correct in saying anything over 110mhz is pushing it, and you risk damaging components. if you run 3dm06 @ 100 mhz and then run it again @ 110 you will see a difference of up to 100 3dmarks. Its a small difference but when you going for just that little bit of extra it can help. Also running at 115mhz or 120mhz just for a bench would probably be OK, but its no good for 24/7.

[DFI pit bull]

you are correct in saying anything over 110mhz is pushing it, and you risk damaging components.

Going over 110 on the pci-e will not damage components. The only thing that might happen is the os/data on your sata drive/s might get corrupted and fail to boot. Most new boards sata controller are linked to the pci-e, so as you raise it above 100 the sata drive will start struggling to keep up.
This happened to me when I raised to 130, some people go way higher without any damage, with an IDE drive of course.

[truehighroller]

Here you go and I got over the hump on the board I'm about to try 3dmark at 3.93Ghz~. This was the best it would come in because of the glare from the leds sorry.

[truehighroller]

Ok here is my link to my score. I got 15796 with a single card setuo at that speed with Vista Ultimate no updates.. 64 bit. I will do updates and see if it changes. I might be able to get service pack 1 now.
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=5814319

[truehighroller]

Ok I installed service pack 1 and I must admit they improved the performance in Vista by a decent amount I was getting 15400 with everything setup the exact same way as when I just ran it this time @ 3.6Ghz and the Video card tweaked and this time with the sp1 I got a wopping 150 more points 15550~. I don't have time to tweak it back up to 3.93Ghz tonight but, I will deffinately soon and post again my 3dmark score from that one. Good night, and I will post what settings I used if people like to.

[Richard Dower]

Guys, brand new Realtek drivers for the 889A codec, version 1.89:

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

I love Realtek!....they are really very good at updating their drivers.

[Richard Dower]

Here you go and I got over the hump on the board I'm about to try 3dmark at 3.93Ghz~. This was the best it would come in because of the glare from the leds sorry.

The LEDs look wicked!...very bright indeed.