Official Gigabyte X48/X48T-DQ6 bios+info thread

[MagnumMan]

Wall socket was pulling 1010W just the power supply. Figure 83% efficiency, that means it was providing about 840W of power to the computer. This power supply from PC Power and Cooling is supposed to be able to burst up past 800W for short periods from what I have read. Trust me it made a whining noise I did not like at all but it survived about 5 benchmark runs. I'm going to replace it soon though and got a dedicated APC 1500VA UPS as well just for the computer. Anybody have any comments on my SMbus issue?

[jaggerwild]

a Q6600 is difficult to get to 4.0 ghz and also be P95 stable...the highest i could get my Q6600 was to about 3.980 Ghz...BUT...that was NOT P95 stable.

Again, Thank you Ace
Thats about where I got it too, so I'm happy for now till I get a better CPU. I have a Q9300 but it seems to be a big dog? Any help/suggestion on it besides throwing it out the window? It would not clock up past 3.5 if I recall correctly, again if anybody has any suggestions on this CPU feel free to jump right in.

Also another question, having trouble with clocking both GPU'S in rivatuner. It shows the second one under clocking and when I try to adjust the setting for it in the drop down, after testing them it goes right back to defaults(witch shows as under clocked from the primary GPU)? So I know I'm missing something there, maybe not enough voltage? Gonna get a bigger better PSU after my next pay period. Maybe a tweak in RIVA I'm missing here?

OK guys have my system built and am not having any luck getting it overclocked. It is actually saying it is running at 1.60ghz on the Q6600. I hate to be a pain in the ass but I need to know step by step process getting her overclocked. It is my first build from the ground up and need help with the rest.
I want to get her to 3.00ghz and leave it that way for awhile. I have seen that is not to hard to archive and have a cooler just need some help from you guys.


Please Please!!!

Hello Knight,

Are you OK inside the BIOS, changing settings?
I would suggest upping the FSB multi then adjust the mem multi to keep it close to stock (at first) then do this in small increments till it will not boot then start adding voltage to the CPU first then, the PCIE, ONLY ADJUST one thing at a time to see the results of the adjustment.
MY 3.6 over clock settings/FSB OVC+0.20/FSB OVC+0.10/(G)MCH OVC+0.150/
CPU voltage 1.462/line load cali. on/MEM you will need to mess with your self to find the voltages that are good. As each is different...........

Always watch your temps when upping the CPU voltage!!! Any voltage for that matter (use Everest Ultimate@majorgeeks.com)
Post back let me know what you find............
Any questions ask first if you don't know!!!

[Ace-a-Rue]

MagnumMan: what are you using to measure the actual wattage pull from the wall outlet?

[Supershanks]

I want a bios for my X48T like this Gigabyte P45 Bios Facelift

[deltarealm]

Here is c/p of my issues with X48-DS5 mentioned in other post:

Configuration:
- Gigabyte x48-ds5
- q6600 which works on p35-ds4 at stock voltage on 333x9
- tru 120 extreme
- 2x2gb ballistix 800mhz 4-4-4-12 2.1v
- 2x 3870x22
- pc power and cooling 750w
- vista x64
- EIST, C1E, no execute memory, TM2 disabled

Situation:
- prime95 on stock settings works fine
- 333x9 crashes in prime95 almost instant making restart, or crashes after 10 minutes if i set memory to 5-5-5-15 800mhz
- tried Kingmax 2x2gb, no help from them

Tried:
- Memory at 2.3v
- mch and fsb +0.1v
- loadline calibration settings
- cpu at 1.3v (more is not needed, set top of the post)

Thanks for any help.

The Gigabyte X48-DS5 has problems, check out my thread below, others have reported lock ups as well:
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=557945

[godsfist]

Using Crucial Ballistix in the DS5 and no probs at all

[ntvh]

Hi, Nordien

What BIOS num that you used for your Mobo?, what is your cooling sysytem that you using for your baby ..water or air ?

I have a GA-X48_DQ6 for almost a week and im happy with it.
For setup see sig.
Settings:

8.5*500 = 4.250 mhz
Vcore 1.4125 in bios
Vdimm 2.15v
Vmch 1.85v
Vfsb 1.20v
DDR1000 @ 5-5-5-15



The E8500 with batch Q813A380 is a nice one ! The only thing i miss with this mobo is voltage readings and OS based overclocking control of the vfsb and vmch. Very stable and very good built quality.

[nordien]

I have a Zerotherm Nirvana 120 cooler wich is very good. Im using bios 7h beta.

This board is flying with this E8500.

[ntvh]

Thanks I will looking to that

[BulldogPO]

What is latest bios for GA-X48-DQ6?

[jaggerwild]

LIL thank you posting
21,615 in Vista 64
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=7127305

Again thank you!
More coming soon as I cool the GPU'S

[jaggerwild]

What is latest bios for GA-X48-DQ6?

F7b
http://www.gigabyte.com.pr/Support/M...ProductID=2652

[knightsar]

Again, Thank you Ace
Thats about where I got it too, so I'm happy for now till I get a better CPU. I have a Q9300 but it seems to be a big dog? Any help/suggestion on it besides throwing it out the window? It would not clock up past 3.5 if I recall correctly, again if anybody has any suggestions on this CPU feel free to jump right in.

Also another question, having trouble with clocking both GPU'S in rivatuner. It shows the second one under clocking and when I try to adjust the setting for it in the drop down, after testing them it goes right back to defaults(witch shows as under clocked from the primary GPU)? So I know I'm missing something there, maybe not enough voltage? Gonna get a bigger better PSU after my next pay period. Maybe a tweak in RIVA I'm missing here?



Hello Knight,

Are you OK inside the BIOS, changing settings?
I would suggest upping the FSB multi then adjust the mem multi to keep it close to stock (at first) then do this in small increments till it will not boot then start adding voltage to the CPU first then, the PCIE, ONLY ADJUST one thing at a time to see the results of the adjustment.
MY 3.6 over clock settings/FSB OVC+0.20/FSB OVC+0.10/(G)MCH OVC+0.150/
CPU voltage 1.462/line load cali. on/MEM you will need to mess with your self to find the voltages that are good. As each is different...........

Always watch your temps when upping the CPU voltage!!! Any voltage for that matter (use Everest Ultimate@majorgeeks.com)
Post back let me know what you find............
Any questions ask first if you don't know!!!

Thanks man I have her running at 3.00 at 1.200 v and looking may too 3.2 soon. I have good temps and maybe will clock her some more.

[jaggerwild]

Thanks man I have her running at 3.00 at 1.200 v and looking may too 3.2 soon. I have good temps and maybe will clock her some more.

Glade to hear!

New score here
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=7163361

22,090 in Vista64bit
Again, Thank you to all that posted to this link

[prljavibluzer]

I wouldn't be too sure about that, 2 of the 3870x2's would take an aweful lot of power to run. I would personally lean toward psu before mobo. Is there any way you could get ahold of a bigger psu, just for a day even, to test it out?

Edit - I looked at a review of the 3870x2 at Anandtech and a single one uses 290 watts, under load.

Please, read it carefully. It was the total system power which means that probably even good 550w PSU could handle one more card.

I found a solution. Disabled loadline calibration and released strap to 2.50A(833mhz ram). However, I still encoutered random freezes in normal usage(not benchmarking) so I had returned to XP x64 and decided to wait because it doesn't freeze on it.

[Moose2]

What is the newest bios for the x48t-dq6? I know F4 is the bios but what are the beta bios out, I have F5a but this morning when I started my computer it restarted 3 times before it shut down and I had to clear cmos to get it to go into setup, so i could go onto vista. It been running good for 3 months. (no OCing)

[MagnumMan]

Get F5d it is the best one I found. Stable on a QX9700 air cooled with a Scythe Mugen (massive cooler) at 3.8GHz, didn't have time to find a way to push it higher, was happy with DDR3-1600 and 3.8GHz on the CPU.

See the machine in my signature. In terms of voltage, at full bore this one draws over 1kW from the wall. I have a Silverstone OP1200 in my machine because the Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W was shutting down! Don't underestimate how much you power you'll need.

[Moose2]

Get F5d it is the best one I found. Stable on a QX9700 air cooled with a Scythe Mugen (massive cooler) at 3.8GHz, didn't have time to find a way to push it higher, was happy with DDR3-1600 and 3.8GHz on the CPU.

See the machine in my signature. In terms of voltage, at full bore this one draws over 1kW from the wall. I have a Silverstone OP1200 in my machine because the Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W was shutting down! Don't underestimate how much you power you'll need.

Yea I know when I upgraded to this 1000watt PS my system ran better and bench scores went up.
Thanks for the reply.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Get F5d it is the best one I found. Stable on a QX9700 air cooled with a Scythe Mugen (massive cooler) at 3.8GHz, didn't have time to find a way to push it higher, was happy with DDR3-1600 and 3.8GHz on the CPU.

See the machine in my signature. In terms of voltage, at full bore this one draws over 1kW from the wall. I have a Silverstone OP1200 in my machine because the Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W was shutting down! Don't underestimate how much you power you'll need.

are you using a battery backup/surge protector?

[doompc]

Hello guys, how are you doing?
I hope you can help me.

I'm running the X48-DQ6 with a E7200 and 2x1GB GSkill DDR2-1066.

Settings:
7x500
RAM 2.4B = DDR2-1200 5-5-5-15
tRD 7
vDDR +0.55v
vPCIe +0.2v
vFSB +0.2v
vMCH +0.25v
vCore 1.30v



I can run a full 1024k self test of Prime Blend (10 iterations), but the system will hang/crash short after I start any 3d application.
Note the +0.2v on the PCIe, without it the system will reboot short after the start of the Prime in Blend mode.

Any ideas on how to get the system 3d stable ?

[Richard Dower]

New Jmicron drivers: ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/W....17.38WHQL.zip

[Supershanks]

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[shawn1998]

Has Gigabyte completely forgot about the X48 DS4? They have bios updated for the P45 chipsets already, but still not a single one for the DS4 yet, not even a beta! What gives???

[gymenii]

Has Gigabyte completely forgot about the X48 DS4? They have bios updated for the P45 chipsets already, but still not a single one for the DS4 yet, not even a beta! What gives???

F2a Beta

Not sure what changed but I've been using for a week without problems.

[shawn1998]

Awesome, I'll give it a try. Is that a good place to look for beta's? Usually I hit station drivers, but nothing has shown up there as of yet.