Official Gigabyte X48/X48T-DQ6 bios+info thread

[De1337]

Did anyone experience very hot stock cooling with this board?
I recently installed X48-DQ6 in a friends computer, and even at stock settings, the heatsinks on NB and vreg etc godt very warm to touch, even at idle.

System temp didn't read more than 30-35 or so, as far as i remember, but still burning heatsinks.

Q9450, 9800GTX, Corsair TX750W, 2x2gb pc6400 corsair ram.

Anyone?

[T_M]

What airflow do you have?

[De1337]

watercooling on CPU.

80mm back
120mm back
80mm top
psu top
3x120mm front (radiator here)

but there is a space between the 3 front and the actual case, to prevent hot air from being blown into the case

[T_M]

So what airflow do you have actually directed at the NB?

[De1337]

well, none.

But that shouldn't be necessary either, since the board is not at all overclocked and the CPU doesn't emit much heat because of the water block.

I thought you meant general case airflow. I'd say that that is pretty decent.

I thought this was the whole point in silentpipe :P

[Richard Dower]

New Realtek 8111B/C LAN drivers, dated April 21st:

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

[X4er0]

How many people here flashed bios from within windows (@bios) or floppy drive, when do the mobo manufacturers start using USB stick recognition from within bios to use USB stick as a media?

[Richard Dower]

Bios flashing within Windows using programs such as @BIOS is alot safer then it used to be, it's pretty solid these days....but, i always use the embedded BIOS system, Floppy is dead now...QFlash has been using USB drives for over a year now...it's very solid and fast.

I never use Floppy, a USB drive these days is very safe and consistent, i've flashed many times.

[T_M]

The cooling system is designed for a sytem that will be running a HSF on the CPU. The airflow from that radiates out across the cooling heatsinks. With water cooling you dont get that hence your heat problems.

[X4er0]

Bios flashing within Windows using programs such as @BIOS is alot safer then it used to be, it's pretty solid these days....but, i always use the embedded BIOS system, Floppy is dead now...QFlash has been using USB drives for over a year now...it's very solid and fast.

I never use Floppy, a USB drive these days is very safe and consistent, i've flashed many times.

So bios is flashable via usb using Qflash, well going to try tonight, never tried it, always blowing the dust of floppy drive and flash

[Supershanks]

X4er0.
all you need is to format your usb drive in FAT/Fat32 so it can be seen in dos, which can't access NTFS file system. Put the bios file on it & then flash from within bios. It's a breeze.

[X4er0]

X4er0.
all you need is to format your usb drive in FAT/Fat32 so it can be seen in dos, which can't access NTFS file system. Put the bios file on it & then flash from within bios. It's a breeze.

Thank you very much, i knew that NTFS can't be read in DOS, so format fat32 usb stick, place bios F5a on the stick and flash from within the bios.

Thanks again.

[Richard Dower]

Realtek 889A codec drivers, version 1.91:

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

[Richard Dower]

Did anyone experience very hot stock cooling with this board?
I recently installed X48-DQ6 in a friends computer, and even at stock settings, the heatsinks on NB and vreg etc godt very warm to touch, even at idle.

System temp didn't read more than 30-35 or so, as far as i remember, but still burning heatsinks.

Q9450, 9800GTX, Corsair TX750W, 2x2gb pc6400 corsair ram.

Anyone?

It's normal, the X38 is the same....i added a buttload of copper ramsinks to the NB to add some extra cooling.

[De1337]

Good to know

Also no real problems with it either, so cant be all wrong.

and by the way..
The water cooling is thermaltake, came with the case. The backplate has some sticky pad under it, so it's stuck to the mobo, but we'd actually like to turn it ninety degrees (we didn't realise we could do this at the time:P), since it's making contact between two solderings on the backside of the board. We prevented contact by sticking some lil thin piece of plastic between the backplate and one of the solderings. But it's pretty much stuck, and we have no clue how to remove it without damaging the board.

Anyone?

[Richard Dower]

The Jmicron controller burns to the touch also, i put a nice copper ramsink on that to chill it out, Newegg stock alot of copper ramsinks that do the job.

[Richard Dower]

X48-DQ6, F7f beta bios:

http://www.jzelectronic.de/jz2/index.php

http://rapidshare.de/files/39217941/x48dq6f7f.exe.html

[X4er0]

Ok, if anybody wants to use Qflash in combo with usbstick, FAt32 is a "no" go, must be simple FAT, so format in FAT otherwise mobo/ Qflash can't read the file.

[Richard Dower]

New X48T-DQ6 review:

http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index....reviews&id=751

[Supershanks]

Didn't wind it up much although in fairness I've struggled with my Q6600 , both E8200 & E8400 run great but , Q6600 Go isn't prime stable at my normal 3.6k It seems to be down to GTLref , though the settings are identical to the x38 which rran the cpu up to 8x465 stable. Small FFts fail after at best 2 rounds , highest i've managed so far is 1hr 22min when core #3 failed using 9x380

[Ace-a-Rue]

Ok, if anybody wants to use Qflash in combo with usbstick, FAt32 is a "no" go, must be simple FAT, so format in FAT otherwise mobo/ Qflash can't read the file.

well, Qflash read my USB stick which is in FAT32 (4 gig stick).

[CadESin]

Good to know

The water cooling is thermaltake, came with the case. The backplate has some sticky pad under it, so it's stuck to the mobo, but we'd actually like to turn it ninety degrees (we didn't realise we could do this at the time:P), since it's making contact between two solderings on the backside of the board. We prevented contact by sticking some lil thin piece of plastic between the backplate and one of the solderings. But it's pretty much stuck, and we have no clue how to remove it without damaging the board.

Anyone?

I had to pull one of those backplates off the back of my friends MB. I used thermal compound remover to disolve the adheasive and a bit of hard prying, however the MB was going back for RMA so I have no clue if it worked after I took the backplate off, sorry.

One note, the Thermalright bolt thru kit use to have adheasive, but the one I got in the mail yesterday for my new build does not, makes it a bit harder to mount the HS, but at least it won't become stuck on the back of my MB anymore.

[Supershanks]

Ok, if anybody wants to use Qflash in combo with usbstick, FAt32 is a "no" go, must be simple FAT, so format in FAT otherwise mobo/ Qflash can't read the file.

Think your right, flashed today & only USB drive seen. I have also have a small partition on a hd which i can use for the odd mobo that has issues with usb. Have just checked it' is formated as fat32. Qflash didn't see it but Abit IX38 Quad & Asus P5E3 did

[De1337]

I had to pull one of those backplates off the back of my friends MB. I used thermal compound remover to disolve the adheasive and a bit of hard prying, however the MB was going back for RMA so I have no clue if it worked after I took the backplate off, sorry.

One note, the Thermalright bolt thru kit use to have adheasive, but the one I got in the mail yesterday for my new build does not, makes it a bit harder to mount the HS, but at least it won't become stuck on the back of my MB anymore.

That bad huh?
Did it leave a lot of residue stuck on the mobo after you got the plate off? We're thinkin on using a zalman plastic frame that i have to spare, if we cant get the thermaltake one back on (i.e. if its get sticky or whatnot). I dont suppose another backplate will change anything about the cooling really, as long as it keeps it in palce.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Think your right, flashed today & only USB drive seen. I have also have a small partition on a hd which i can use for the odd mobo that has issues with usb. Have just checked it' is formated as fat32. Qflash didn't see it but Abit IX38 Quad & Asus P5E3 did

you are not doing something right...it works perfectly on my bootable USB stick...might be that it has to be bootable...i used the "HP" tool to make it bootable.