Official Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 Info Thread

[Supershanks]

ooks like gigabyte put out an updated "F5" offical bios and they have a special "FLASHSPI.EXE" and Autoexec.bat included...so...no "Qflash" is my impression to get F5 flashed...might be the problem; that is the built-in Qflash program...if they changed the boot block and Qflash doesn't update that area, that would cause your bios to continuously to loop.

Sounds about right to me .
Sounds like your just waiting for Abit then now

Maybe I'll look into that if I get really bored.

Yep be interested to hear if you get bored

[Ace-a-Rue]

YUP!...if no Abit, i will be floundering in electronic la-la land!

[Supershanks]

YUP!...if no Abit, i will be floundering in electronic la-la land!

I don't think this is Kansas .... It's electronic la-la land

[Ace-a-Rue]

you PASS the American Movie history question...CONGRATULATIONS!

[Supershanks]

you PASS the American Movie history question...CONGRATULATIONS!

[loonym]

We've worked over asus, should we have a go at abit next?

[Ace-a-Rue]

they are fair game especially in light of there delinquent release of the IP45 and IX48 (maybe no release)

[Supershanks]

We've worked over asus, should we have a go at abit next?

Aye not much sport there , especially in view as Ace says of the no shows

[Ace-a-Rue]

anybody have an interest in the biostar Tpower IP45 board?...was looking at that one...might just forget abit and go over there to see how that does...people are getting excellent FSB's out of it.

[Supershanks]

anybody have an interest in the biostar Tpower IP45 board?...was looking at that one...might just forget abit and go over there to see how that does...people are getting excellent FSB's out of it.

We've worked over asus, should we have a go at abit next?

Looks like we are

Haven't checked out the Biostar

[loonym]

Waiting for abit could set you back a generation or 3 the way things are going. I don't have any first hand knowledge of the biostar but the threads I've read here all seem quite positive. I bought a p45 for a cruncher but in the end with my choices being biostar and msi the neo3 won because of the budget factor.

[Supershanks]

Waiting for abit could set you back a generation or 3 the way things are going

At least
Last MIS board I had was a neo 754. MSI comnfuse the Cr*p out of me , so many boards , all with the dsame fecking name

[Ace-a-Rue]

Universal abit lays-off more staff
As of the end of July 2008, most of the Research and Development team have been laid off, and between 3-4 people from almost every engineering department from Quality Control to Field Application Engineers too. Everyone from the previous PM team who designed the likes of the MAX and Fatal1ty series that many enthusiasts grew to love have all moved on over the last year. There doesn’t seem to be much left of what was once a prosperous and productive team well worth recognition. Some of those PM members went to Biostar, and others went to Foxconn

Link:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/9878/u...aff/index.html

this was posted over in the IP35 Pro thread by Kadozer

[Ace-a-Rue]

Looks like we are

Haven't checked out the Biostar

i know, kind of hard to believe!

[Supershanks]

Be interesting to see what take Nathan - AbitUK has on that news.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Be interesting to see what take Nathan - AbitUK has on that news.

hmmm...his job might be in jeopardy...i think he said he was about 5 months with abit when he posted that about a month ago.

[loonym]

Link:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/9878/u...aff/index.html

this was posted over in the IP35 Pro thread by Kadozer

Maybe that's why nobody from abit has posted here in awhile. I can picture a couple guys in a small office with crates for desks arguing over who should answer the phone.

[Moose2]

Maybe that's why nobody from abit has posted here in awhile. I can picture a couple guys in a small office with crates for desks arguing over who should answer the phone.

You mean cup on a string.

[Supershanks]

Maybe that's why nobody from abit has posted here in awhile. I can picture a couple guys in a small office with crates for desks arguing over who should answer the phone.

And the smart arse telling the other they have to produce some mobos to sell them

[Ace-a-Rue]

i thought i would have my biostar TPower I45 by now but it won't make it until monday or tuesday.

my new thread http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=196973

[Vertigon]

Firstly I want to say what a great forum this is and there really are some well informed people here. I have been surfing around trying to get to the bottom of the F5 bios fiasco and thankfully I found some great info here. Sorry to hear about all the boards that had to be RMA'd, I trashed a nokia phone once and it sure feels miserable.

I do have a question, I was going to update to the F5 bios because I have my computer dynamically overclocked and the standard DES doesn't work with it. DES advanced is meant to support overclocking but what I want to know is will it enabled my cores to load to 80% plus before the core speed increases? Because now it'll climb from 2Ghz to 3.8Ghz without actually loading all 4 cores.

Thanks in advance.

[Ace-a-Rue]

sounds like you are really talking about "EIST" and "C1E?"...those two Intel features are the ones that roll back your power consumption and multi to conserve power while you are in an idle state...when you attempt to put a demand on the cores, the Mhz, vis-a-vis multiplier, will increase up to default to handle the demand...in order for 4 cores or 2 cores to all be engaged up to 80% or more, means the program has to be designed to engage all the cores simultaneously.

you can open "Task Manager" and click on the "Performance" tab, as you manipulate your program, to see how many cores are at work.

as to this forum, i think it is one of the best ones around!...WELCOME!

[Vertigon]

Firstly thanks for the reply. I did have it hard clocked through bios initially with my cpu going from 2Ghz to 4.2Ghz in one step then I started fiddling with gigabytes cpu intelligent accelerator feature which I think is great, because it overclocked gradually but was sadly percentage limited to around 20% even though real figures were around 25%. I managed around 3.7-3.8Ghz with that, which I didn't mind as it was a better way to use the computer from day to day.
I was perhaps thinking DES advanced would give me more loading before the core speed began to increase but that doesn't seem likely and that's why I thought about risking an F5 flash.
I am going to do some research to try and get my CAD program to utilise my cpu better, so thanks for the tip.

[zoolio]

Does anyone know if it safe to use the updated F5 Bios dated 21/07/08?

[Vertigon]

Good question, I am wondering the same thing myself, if you go back a few pages I think the USA site has a recent one. Check carefully, I know I will. Also is everyone using Qflash or is there something better now, I know people have been complaing about @bios.