Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[Splave]

Im liking the extreme the extra NB cooling cant be a bad thing


HT enabled. 1.325vcore set LLC enabled with F3 bios, any reason to go F4G over F3?

[Xello]

Great results Bobbylite! Seems like a decent chip, Good job

Good job RGE saving me some grunt work when i go to town on this bad boy!

[zlojack]

I'm still waiting on some components to put mine together.

Driving me nuts seeing this board in its box staring at me.

[nordien]

I have the UD5 board together with some Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600C8 memory, the 6 gb kit and a Core i7 920. When i try any overclock Windows will only see 4 gb of memory. I am using Windows Vista 64 Ultimate.
Even at default settings in the BIOS, 2.66 ghz @ auto volt and the mem @ DDr 1600 XMP the system will only see 4 gb.

I have to use lots of vcore to get to 3.8 with my i7 920. 1.46 in bios, QPI @ 1.400, DDR @ 1.680. I am using BIOS f4f. F3 doesnt help. The system is stable @ 3800 but with only 4 gb. Im thinking the mem controller of the i7 920 is crap.

Does somebody have a tip ?

[Xello]

I'm still waiting on some components to put mine together.

Driving me nuts seeing this board in its box staring at me.

Join the club i have £4000+ worth of components that have been held back because of 2 little allen head screws on my EK Supreme

[Kensek]

Why Prime with Turbo and HT Off? Of Course it will result in using a lot lower VCore. But Under Water you can prime easily at 200x20 with everything On.

With Turbo and HT Disabled you can easily do 217x20.

[Ghigo]

It's your chip that is a good one, most cant do it.

Till 190 all can do it , over 195 start be luck on the chip you got.

I tested 6 chips before find one that can run 200x20 with turbo enabled

[Splave]

any tips on hitting 20x200 kensek? what mobo voltages you running?

[fornowagain]

I have the UD5 board together with some Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600C8 memory, the 6 gb kit and a Core i7 920. When i try any overclock Windows will only see 4 gb of memory. I am using Windows Vista 64 Ultimate.
Even at default settings in the BIOS, 2.66 ghz @ auto volt and the mem @ DDr 1600 XMP the system will only see 4 gb.

I have to use lots of vcore to get to 3.8 with my i7 920. 1.46 in bios, QPI @ 1.400, DDR @ 1.680. I am using BIOS f4f. F3 doesnt help. The system is stable @ 3800 but with only 4 gb. Im thinking the mem controller of the i7 920 is crap.

Does somebody have a tip ?

Which slots are they in and have you tested all the ram? You should see 6Gb in the bios or something is wrong.

[Kensek]

It's your chip that is a good one, most cant do it.

Till 190 all can do it , over 195 start be luck on the chip you got.

I tested 6 chips before find one that can run 200x20 with turbo enabled

Then the Magical setup is for sale. I bought a bunch of different X58 Mobos and CPUs and Ram kits to test and compare. This 920 works the best in the Gig EX58-Extreme.

However the i7 965 works the best in the Rampage 2 Extreme.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=209334

If I can't sell it at a fair price it goes onto one of the ten racks of Computer Equipment I have in my loft.

Up there I got Q6700s, 8800GTS', 20 GB of DDR2-800 and 1066 Ram, TRUEs, 9700NTs, Mobos, PSUs. About $10K worth of stuff when bought new. Today maybe a few grand if I felt like I needed some beer Money.

[mevorach]

where can i get f4g for ga-ex58 ex ??

[Kensek]

http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/giga...st-bios-28441/ It will be there when Stasio can track it down and link it. Currently F4e is the latest.

[Ghigo]

Got a link to the f4c or can email it to gt.shon@gmail.com ? Only bios i never tested

[Chris_redfield]

Kensek can I move into your loft?

So the only difference between the Gigabyte EX58 Extreme and the Gigabyte EX58-UD5 is the heatpipes and waterblock? Is there actually any difference between the two in terms of overclockability?

What is the SLI performance on the two boards like?

And are their any waterblocks available for the X58 chipset yet. I realise it doesn't really require it but if I wanted to watercool either board (and didn't want to use the bundled block with the Extreme,) are there any blocks that will fit this?

[Kensek]

Got a link to the f4c or can email it to gt.shon@gmail.com ? Only bios i never tested

Sent

[Ghigo]

Thx flashing it now , brb :P

[Kensek]

Kensek can I move into your loft?

So the only difference between the Gigabyte EX58 Extreme and the Gigabyte EX58-UD5 is the heatpipes and waterblock? Is there actually any difference between the two in terms of overclockability?

What is the SLI performance on the two boards like?

And are their any waterblocks available for the X58 chipset yet. I realise it doesn't really require it but if I wanted to watercool either board (and didn't want to use the bundled block with the Extreme,) are there any blocks that will fit this?

There's No room left - it's all racks of computer stuff.

[Masami]

Please guys... can you post alle the settings? Thank you...

[Ghigo]

Pff 205 bclk still no prime stable, no see clock gains compared to F3

[Kensek]

I couldn't either.

But i could run SuperPi and 3DMark06 at 205 with all the Bells and whistles on.

And i could also use SetFSB up to 208.5 to do both.

Then you get 9.33s in Pi 1M and a CPU score of 8K in 3DMK06

[nordien]

Which slots are they in and have you tested all the ram? You should see 6Gb in the bios or something is wrong.

Sometimes i see 6 gb. But only @ settings below DDR1100. Antyhting above the system will see only 4 gb in the bios and in Windows. The dimms are in the white slots.

[stasio]

Want to try EX58-Extreme-F4C

[rge]

Please guys... can you post alle the settings? Thank you...

I think it is more luck of draw than settings from what I have seen. I ran 20x200 this am and made sure only settings listed below were changed from stock.

Only difference is I have i940, so for 20x200 I have to turn turbo off, as with turbo on it would be 23x200 or 4600. Turbo will bring your multi to stock +1. However at 22x182 (native multi) I leave turbo on and it is prime stable with same vcore whether on or not, and my guess is most with i920 can leave turbo on for 20x200.

9hr prime stable (pic)
20x200, turbo off (if i920 can leave on, might wish to try off first)
uncore 16x at 1.28 qpi/vtt
QPI 36x
mem multi 8
Ram 1600 8,8,8 24 1.65 (stock for my ram)
vcore 1.35 loadline enabled.

I set everything else to stock/auto. I think all that matters is above and setting qpi/vtt high enough for uncore mhz, and then setting vcore high enough, and most importantly getting lucky with a chip that does not require too much vcore to get there.

My chip will run spi 4.6ghz at 1.49v see sig...and max superpi was at 4670mhz at 1.57 vcore with 1.6 bios, not going higher on water. Only other setting that helped in benching only was cpu pll setting 1.96 instead of 1.8.

EDIT: It also matter what bios you are running whether turbo needs more vcore than with turbo off.
Bios F3 (GB Extreme) with turbo on, loading 1 or 2 cores gives turbo, but fully loading all 4 cores with prime and turbo is inactive. So on this bios I can use the same vcore whether tubo is on or off, because while only loading 2 cores, vdroop is less, and vcore is still enough to support 2 cores at 4186.
Bios F4e (GB Extreme) with turbo on, loading all 4 cores with prime still gives turbo. In fact running prime with linpack running and with ati running...still gives turbo...in other words you will always be in turbo mode. For this bios I need a few notches higher in vcore to 1.368 or 1.375 (1.375 stable for sure) so that additional vdroop from fully loading all cores still can support 4186. ? if this is bug or just different bios parameters.

I dont know about bioses for UD5.

[fornowagain]

Sometimes i see 6 gb. But only @ settings below DDR1100. Antyhting above the system will see only 4 gb in the bios and in Windows. The dimms are in the white slots.

The correct slots. Tried the memory settings on manual? What voltage's are you using?

Maybe you have a bad stick of ram, have you memtested?

[GAR]

probably one of your modules is defective.