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

[Richard Dower]

Oh, i just broke in the 105th page....

And to celebrate...how about new Intel Chipset drivers?

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

[Hornet331]

Have Gigabyte forsaken us??....it's been over a month since the last bios update...come on GB!

well its gigabyte, new board in the same category means no support for last gen.

[Richard Dower]

I see some vendors in Germany are selling out of Gigabyte boards, discontinued product lines. The P35-DS3 is a dead line for sure. Many other boards are out of stock. Guess thats it for P35 and X38, they'll move all production lines over to X48 and P45.

[ChrissTi]

I would like to see a screenshot of the DPC checker on your system, if its not too much trouble. You might be one of the lucky ones but from what i'm seeing on different forums it looks like about 90% have the problem on all Gigabyte boards.

Fist of all check that your sound card is on the first PCI from up to down, not the last, because the last shares a physical IRQ with other devices.
Here you are my second screenshot:

[Richard Dower]

Second from bottom PCI slot?...i always use that myself.

[REVHEAD]

Fist of all check that your sound card is on the first PCI from up to down, not the last, because the last shares a physical IRQ with other devices.
Here you are my second screenshot:

Well dam ,I am running crossfire so its a no go for me, the second card gets in the way if the 1st pci slot, I wonder if the Asus Maximus Extreme is suffering from the same problems? I have on on the way .

[truehighroller]

Is there a good way to figure out what the motherboard chipset is getting as far as voltage goes? Is there a program for this that I can use?

[freqy]

hey truehighroller

notice you got :
Q6600 G0 @ 3.6Ghz 1.38v~
Thermalright Extreme 120mm Fan

how hot you running using prime95 and measuring with coretemp?

[truehighroller]

hey truehighroller

notice you got :
Q6600 G0 @ 3.6Ghz 1.38v~
Thermalright Extreme 120mm Fan

how hot you running using prime95 and measuring with coretemp?

Hmm I think it was around 56c I beleive or 62c I can't remember. It wasn't much though.

[freqy]

amazing temp for such a high clock speed.

ive just had to turn mine down from 3.2 to 2.8ghz?(quad) during these hot days. i'm at around 64c at 100 percent (prime @ 2.8ghz , coretemp) using a Scythe ninja.
then again it is hot here.

i was at 3.24ghz at around 60c during the winter. i got a shock last week when the sun came out.

[truehighroller]

I want to know if there is a program to tell me what the voltages are on my mch exc.. Any one have suggestions?

[Buggalugs]

Fist of all check that your sound card is on the first PCI from up to down, not the last, because the last shares a physical IRQ with other devices.
Here you are my second screenshot:

(Oh sorry you did already post a screenshot)

Wow thats the best one i've seen. I think you are lucky because thats the only one ive seen that doesnt have spikes.

Ya i have it in the first (highest slot). I have tested in many different ways, with clean installs, sound card in , sound card out , different video cards, different ram, PSU etc etc.

I only notices it when i added a pci-e 2.0 video card to my system. When i had a pci-e 1.0 card like you it was ok so i dont know.

Truehighroller i dont think there is a program that can tell you that.

[truehighroller]

That sucks well what are the defaults then?

[Richard Dower]

Realtek 889A drivers, version 1.92: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false

[187(V)URD@]

He has probably speedstep enabled. He has to disable it in BIOS to prevent windows to fall back to stock speed.

It is disabled, the bios says 3.6ghz and in windows only 3ghz.

EDIT: NVM he pulled it off. 2bad you can do remote assistance in Bios


EDIT2: whats the difference between gigabytes ram dividers eg: 2.00A 2.00B.
Whats with the A,B,C,etc ...

[Richard Dower]

New Jmicron drivers for the onboard SATA2 chip, version 1.17.37 WHQL:

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/W....17.37WHQL.zip

[ChrissTi]

(Oh sorry you did already post a screenshot)

Wow thats the best one i've seen. I think you are lucky because thats the only one ive seen that doesnt have spikes.

Ya i have it in the first (highest slot). I have tested in many different ways, with clean installs, sound card in , sound card out , different video cards, different ram, PSU etc etc.
.

Sorry I didn't noticed that you have a PCIe soundcard. Mine is only PCI.
Try to remove it and remove anything on PCI / PCIe, except your VGA, and do some testing.

[Richard Dower]

EP45-DQ6 approaching....i'm done with the X38!

[REVHEAD]

EP45-DQ6 approaching....i'm done with the X38!

Laterz enjoy the gay 8x8 crossfire

[Richard Dower]

For anyone that hasent' migrated to a 4GB kit, you gotta see this deal!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231145

4GB kit, 1000MHz (will overlcok easy to 1066Mhz) for $75....with free shipping!

[Caped Crusader]

Laterz enjoy the gay 8x8 crossfire

LOL!

[ChrissTi]

EP45-DQ6 approaching....i'm done with the X38!

Well what happens if till the end of year Intel, finishes the new memo controller included CPUs ?
Will you buy another one, and change the CPU ?
Buying a new mobo right now, is like throwing the money on the window.
I think, I'll wait and see what intel is cooking.

[Richard Dower]

^...um, yeah!...i'll see what LGA1160 looks like and how much it'll cost to upgrade. I'll still probably transition anyways...though it's gonna be expensive as i'll need a new mobo/CPU and DDR3 memory.

[REVHEAD]

^...um, yeah!...i'll see what LGA1160 looks like and how much it'll cost to upgrade. I'll still probably transition anyways...though it's gonna be expensive as i'll need a new mobo/CPU and DDR3 memory.

This may enlighten you
Gigabyte's P45 motherboard plug-fest


Looks like if you purchase the Exreme version, you get a free Motherboard with the Heatsink you just purchased.

[steve30x]

This may enlighten you
Gigabyte's P45 motherboard plug-fest


Looks like if you purchase the Exreme version, you get a free Motherboard with the Heatsink you just purchased.

I wish we had computer hardware stores like that here in Ireland. Its kind of hard to find good computer hardware here. I get most of my parts online because of this problem.