Official Gigabyte X48/X48T-DQ6 bios+info thread

[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.

[gymenii]

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.

Well, this is originally from station drivers, but impossible to find on their site....

EDIT - Heres the direct link X48-DS4 Station Drivers

[knightsar]

I just wanted to see what you guys are running in your settings for your bios. If you have a minute I would like to compare.

Thanks in advance!

[soupratt]

HI all
Just setup my Gigabyte Ga-X48-DS5 motherboard with Q9450. I wanted to run 2 drives in Raid so installed XP with the included raid drivers for IH9R chipset. Initially appeared to run fine however on closer inspection I noted that the MX Revolution mouse was stuttering way to often on simple actions like opening up file manager and accessing the DVD drive. I ran DPC (latency check program ~ BTW if you have Kapersky antivirus it will not allow the file to run) and I was getting massive spikes into the red. Tried disabling the sound card, network adapters etc and it made not an ounce of difference. After a bit of research on the web I noted that someone had a similar issues (not with a Gigabyte board) and the solution was to change back to running IDE emulation on SATA (NOT AHCI or RAID). Tried that and also disable the accessory (non-intel) sata ports and now the PC runs smooth as silk. Not a single stutter. And DPC show all green.
I did try the new Intel Matrix Drivers and I had the latest Gigabyte bios and nothing made a difference until the RAID was disabled.

Got a new bios from Gigabyte (as a response from tech support) - F6D and it seems to have settled the latency issues right down. As noted before there were major stutter with RAID enabled, but even without latency was not quite low enough (up to 1000us sometimes).
Now with the F6D bios the latency is between 10 and 50us. Just an observation though. The CPUID (cpuz) software increases latency by a factor of 2-4 times ?? why. Also, my wireless card (DWA547) shoots up latency to > 30,000us every minutes or so especially when its checking/adjusting signal. Turn the card of and latency remains low low low < 30us.

Just heads up