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

[truehighroller]

I have DQ6 sorry, I would.

[Nuckin_Futs]

Can somebody here please share a blan or advanced BIOS template so I can heal a m8 with his settings. He has earlier X38-DQ6 (no DDR3 or EX).

Actually a few pix of the overclocking pages would be great, and or maybe some of the selections available in some of the advance pulldowns, like RAM ratio/dividers and such.

Thankx in advance!

[truehighroller]

Bets place.. all your answers,

http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/revie...-dq6-blog.html

[koc]

guys i have question about the memory strap A-B-C-D

I have been told that the right strap for my memory is D
So. i have to use either D2.0 or D2.66 strap only

Is this correct ? I mean can I use another strap ( A-B-C ) or no ?

Thanks

[truehighroller]

The new bios for mine "ex38-dq6" lets me get other straps to now so, I think it is more bios pickyness then anything.

[TyphooN]

I have flashed my board with the f3a beta bios and there doesn't seem to be any overclocking with the 2.66d strap. Still the same overclock here :P. Nothing seems worse though so I will keep it installed.

guys i have question about the memory strap A-B-C-D

I have been told that the right strap for my memory is D
So. i have to use either D2.0 or D2.66 strap only

Is this correct ? I mean can I use another strap ( A-B-C ) or no ?

Thanks

You can use the 2.66 or 2.0 strap.. look at the memory speed.. it is affected by the # in front of the strap. The strap only has to do with the (g)mch strap speed.. D is the fastest(400MHz), B is the 2nd fastest(333MHz) and so on. It tells you in the bios.

[Richard Dower]

Howdy!

[ChrissTi]

Richard Dower:
Here in my country every computer shop sells Q9450 but stock is empty ...

[steve30x]

I cant seem to get any kind of stable OC around the 3.5ghz area with this motherboard. If somebody could post some kind of template I could follow for 3.5ghz with a Q6600 and EX38-DS4 I might be able to get someplace. So could somebody please help?

[REVHEAD]

Howdy!

When wil you be ripping into the overclocking realm of this chip? I am interested in the results I am predicting that 3.6 is the limmit due to other threads on this chip and low Multi, 450 X 8 = 3.6 if you can muster 500 fsb then maybe this is my next chip , the q9650 are to exspensive still.

I think B3 and G0 are still the better value for performance and $$$

[ChrissTi]

When wil you be ripping into the overclocking realm of this chip? I am interested in the results I am predicting that 3.6 is the limmit due to other threads on this chip and low Multi, 450 X 8 = 3.6 if you can muster 500 fsb then maybe this is my next chip , the q9650 are to exspensive still.

I think B3 and G0 are still the better value for performance and $$$

Well I think that is about 3.8-4G on air because of less heat and lower voltage.

[Richard Dower]

At the moment it's overclocked on default Vocre at 3.4GHz...but i haven't stability tested at all. I just set 425x8 and it booted. I installed a fresh copy of Vista and it went fine. Dosen't mean it's stable, but at least it's holding the OC and booting.

The deafult Vcore with F9a beta is set at 1.2375V, is this correct?, also...i didn't have to increase (G)MCH or FSB voltages at all...but again the system has not been stress tested...i'll get around to all that soon.

In addition, the option CPU fine clock ratio?...it appears you can set the CPU multi to 6.5, 7.5 and 8.5x????

How is that possible?, i know you can can the multi from a range of 6-8x + 6.5 and 7.5, but how are they allowing you 8.5x?....this means you could potential get a much higher overclock if it works.

For some reason my memory bandwidth is very low, 7700...much lower then my old E6600 at 3.4GHz, it might be the memory divider...i have to check that out.

In addition, the CPU EIST fuction stays enabled even if you overclock or bump voltages, which was not the case with the E6600.

[steve30x]

Im getting realy frustrated now. Ive spent a good few hours trying to get a stable OC in this machine. I can run 3D Mark 06 through without crashing @ 3.5ghz but I cannot get the thing to pass 30 minutes of OCCT (it only passed 30 minutes once) could somebody PLEASE help.

Im going to try 2 instances of orthos with 2 cores set for each one. I hope I get better results from that. Maybe the newest version is bugged.

[truehighroller]

At the moment it's overclocked on default Vocre at 3.4GHz...but i haven't stability tested at all. I just set 425x8 and it booted. I installed a fresh copy of Vista and it went fine. Dosen't mean it's stable, but at least it's holding the OC and booting.

The deafult Vcore with F9a beta is set at 1.2375V, is this correct?, also...i didn't have to increase (G)MCH or FSB voltages at all...but again the system has not been stress tested...i'll get around to all that soon.

In addition, the option CPU fine clock ratio?...it appears you can set the CPU multi to 6.5, 7.5 and 8.5x????

How is that possible?, i know you can can the multi from a range of 6-8x + 6.5 and 7.5, but how are they allowing you 8.5x?....this means you could potential get a much higher overclock if it works.

For some reason my memory bandwidth is very low, 7700...much lower then my old E6600 at 3.4GHz, it might be the memory divider...i have to check that out.

In addition, the CPU EIST fuction stays enabled even if you overclock or bump voltages, which was not the case with the E6600.

The .5 addition to the devider will not allow you to get 8.5 7.5 yes aand so on but, not 8.5 that is for the step down from that one which I beleive has the 7.5 correct me if I'm wrong on the step down cpu part I might be there but it is for the cpus with a x.5 multi though. Bandwith must be memory devider / timings.

[Richard Dower]

New Jmicron drivers:

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/W....17.33WHQL.zip

JMB36X RAID Driver Release Note

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R1.17.33WHQL (R1.17.33.03 04/08/08')

- Issue Correction
- System will pend for 3~5 sec when turning on the power of hard disks.
- Raid AP is unable to detect the raid device in Win2003 R2 SP2 on some platforms. (Modify the DeviceIO buffer size to 64K)
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Realtek 8111B/C drivers, version 6.205:

http://www.station-drivers.com/telec...ivers.com).exe

http://www.station-drivers.com/forum...pic.php?t=2411

New Intel Chipset drivers for X38:

http://www.station-drivers.com/telec...ivers.com).exe

http://www.station-drivers.com/forum...hp?p=8469#8469

[Richard Dower]

The .5 addition to the devider will not allow you to get 8.5 7.5 yes aand so on but, not 8.5 that is for the step down from that one which I beleive has the 7.5 correct me if I'm wrong on the step down cpu part I might be there but it is for the cpus with a x.5 multi though. Bandwith must be memory devider / timings.

The option to set 8.5x is deffinately there, wether it works or not is another thing. i was running 425x8 and when i set 425x8.5 i was offered 3.6GHz....not that i tried booting with that you understand

[truehighroller]

Yah it won't it is just teasing you :P.

[koc]

You can use the 2.66 or 2.0 strap.. look at the memory speed.. it is affected by the # in front of the strap. The strap only has to do with the (g)mch strap speed.. D is the fastest(400MHz), B is the 2nd fastest(333MHz) and so on. It tells you in the bios.

thank you typhoon

[steve30x]

Something is FUBAR with this motherboard or CPU because I have the voltage for the CPU @ 1.45 and the CPU @ 3.4ghz but still at full load after 10 minutes I am getting a reading of 74 celcius from realtemp. I thought I may have had my CPU seated wrong or my water block was seated wrong so I disasembled the lot again and I am still getting super high temps with real temp. Thing is the Rador water isnt getting that hot. Also CPU-Z 1.43 says I have the CPU @ 3.8ghz. Somethings gone wrong somewhere.

[TyphooN]

You have to have bad mounting pressure, extremely low flow.. or something, those temperatures are way too high. There is nothing wrong with the motherboard that would cause bad temperatures.

[steve30x]

Ill try losening the Waterblock and see if that helps.

[TyphooN]

What are the components of your watercooling? You definitely do not want to loosen it. You want it as tight as possible.

[steve30x]

This is my water cooling kit http://www.aqua-pcs.co.uk/xspc-x2o-p...-kit-819-p.asp . I may need to upgrade it. Ive just added some water to the reservoir and got rid of any air bubbles in the loop. Ill tighten the block again.

[steve30x]

Ive just tightened the block onto the CPU and now the temperatures are even higher when Idle its showing between 45 - 46 celcius. Ill save my settings and set everything to default to see what temperatures I get.

[EDIT] Done some testing with all defaults and the temps were still very high (Above 70 celcius on full load). Ive flashed back from bios F3 to F2 and the temps are after going down by about 20 celcius on defaults. Now The temps havent gone above 57 cellcius on full load with defaults set.

[Richard Dower]

Someone pointed out that the temp on my Core#3 seems higher then the others?, seems 10C hotter then it should be, bad heatsink mounting?