Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[dinos22]

because UD5 will not be able to do vdroop through bios with current board revision
it will need to be revised as far as i know

[Nocturno]

Changing mobo then! Droop, slow post, and no chassis fan controler are things in wich P6T takes advantage.

[jcool]

Guys what bios for the Extreme can you recommend? F3 is fine but for issues with 8x mem divider at higher BCLKs.. mobo won't post -.-

[radaja]

these everest memory benchmark scores are great.this might sound dumb but i have a quick question guys,with read/write/copy in the 20k range and latencyin the mid to high 20's,can you actually feel the difference between this and 775 ddr2 boards in everyday use?cause just going by the numbers should be about twice as good.just wondering if it really translates in real world use? thanks

[flopper]

these everest memory benchmark scores are great.this might sound dumb but i have a quick question guys,with read/write/copy in the 20k range and latencyin the mid to high 20's,can you actually feel the difference between this and 775 ddr2 boards in everyday use?cause just going by the numbers should be about twice as good.just wondering if it really translates in real world use? thanks

had a 4ghz dualcore e8600 before.
4gb ram.
My i7 920 har much faster using the same OS and new installation and tested right after each others.
The i7 in my desktop are way smoother and responsive.
My expereince.

[beast200]

i had a e8500 @ 4.12 with 2 gig 1066 mem
change to 920 @ 4.2 200 x 21 and 3 gig 1600 mem
the system responses quicker and seem smoother overall
wether its worth the extra £
i think it is
the only problem i have is the lack of a mounting plate for any fuzion v1

[ReverendMaynard]

Didn't test it yet. Personally I didn't even think it was going to allow me to launch CPU-Z but it ran all tests as posted above. I'm still on air so I don't plan to push the temps at that voltage.

yea man, air just isn't cutting it. Seeing 83C on prime after an hour just doesn't sit well with me lol.

I'm going to mod my Apogee GT and see what kind of results I can get.

[icecold316]

yea man, air just isn't cutting it. Seeing 83C on prime after an hour just doesn't sit well with me lol.

I'm going to mod my Apogee GT and see what kind of results I can get.

I hit 85C on stock Cooling at Stock speed on my I7 920 within 5 mins of Prime

[japanese]

because UD5 will not be able to do vdroop through bios with current board revision
it will need to be revised as far as i know

I just don't get it, as far as i know the differences between the ud5 and the extreme is just the cooling. If it's just the cooling then why cannot be solved by bios? Unless there are pcb differences though

[ReverendMaynard]

I hit 85C on stock Cooling at Stock speed on my I7 920 within 5 mins of Prime

I never ran the stock fan, it just looked sad lol.


Air is not the way to go if you want respectable 24/7 clocks with the i7. I came to grips with that 5 minutes after I loaded up Vista and ran some tests

[ShoNuff]

yea man, air just isn't cutting it. Seeing 83C on prime after an hour just doesn't sit well with me lol.

I'm going to mod my Apogee GT and see what kind of results I can get.

I knew it was going to get hot but 83c...wow I would have freaked LOL. That is why I didn't even run prime or my favorite OCCT. I played Warhead (the train level, forgot what it is called) and it was very smooth at 4.2GHz. I am comparing this to my e8600@4.5GHz which also did well.

Rev what were your NB temps? Thanks again for posting your settings.

[Clunk]

Started a Living Review here.



Added a full set of voltage measuring points here too for anyone that's interested

[ReverendMaynard]

I knew it was going to get hot but 83c...wow I would have freaked LOL. That is why I didn't even run prime or my favorite OCCT. I played Warhead (the train level, forgot what it is called) and it was very smooth at 4.2GHz. I am comparing this to my e8600@4.5GHz which also did well.

Rev what were your NB temps? Thanks again for posting your settings.

nb temps maxed out at 56C with all the bling attached. Personally, I think it's just that....bling.

[crashmax]

I just put together my rig. The keyboard didnt work after the BIOS screen.

Then I just switched to 4-pin connector and it worked fine? Is 4 Pin enough for i7 920?

You must enable USB-Keyboard support in Bios to get it work after Bios-Screen

[hiwa]

23k passed

[Nocturno]

I just don't get it, as far as i know the differences between the ud5 and the extreme is just the cooling. If it's just the cooling then why cannot be solved by bios? Unless there are pcb differences though

Have to agree on that.

[Hornet331]

Have to agree on that.

Afaik the extreme uses other power control ICs.

[jcool]

Well the Extreme does droop as well.. kinda hard getting used to when you're coming from a 0,0-droop-no-matter-what mobo (my DFI).

[GAR]

I had both the extreme and UD5, no difference that i saw besides the cooling, i put both boards side by side and looked at every component used, looked identical.

[Splave]

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/...x58_models.htm

[rge]

nb temps maxed out at 56C with all the bling attached. Personally, I think it's just that....bling.

Mine maxed out ~54C with that huge extra heatsink attached and waterblock attached but no water going through.

Removed the big thing, removed the water block, put a tricool spotfan (quiet fan) directly on NB and now temps max out at 47C.

That big thing on mine only made 1-2C difference with on vs off, even with fan hitting going through it.

[Hornet331]

Well the Extreme does droop as well.. kinda hard getting used to when you're coming from a 0,0-droop-no-matter-what mobo (my DFI).

You never got a X38-DQ6, the droop on the EX58 is quite good compared to the X38.

The LLC option in bios never worked for me, droop was ~0.05-0.07, but at 1,6V it began to overvolt.

[tajoh111]

New Test!

Configuration:

Processor: Intel Core i7 920 (Nehalem);
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 - Bios F4K;
Ram: Corsair 6GB DDR3 1600 cas 8-8-8-24 - 1.65v "TR3X6G1600C8D";
Cooling: Air - Asus Triton 81;
Sistem: Windows Vista 64 bit.

Frequency Cpu: 4515Mhz "215x21" - Voltage: 1.37v.

Super PI 1M:



Super PI 2M:



Super PI 4M:



Super PI 8M:



Super PI 16M:



Super PI 32M:



Validazione:

CPU-Z Validator 3.0

Very Good Cpu!

Nice clocks for the volts, what batch is this?

[Isepick]

You never got a X38-DQ6, the droop on the EX58 is quite good compared to the X38.

The LLC option in bios never worked for me, droop was ~0.05-0.07, but at 1,6V it began to overvolt.

My X38T-DQ6 almost caused me not to buy the EX58-UD5. First Rev. Gigabyte boards left a bad taste in my mouth . Unfortunately a minor accident with a loose hose clamp resulted in my X38T letting out the magic smoke and I suddenly find myself looking for a new mobo, and while I'm at it I'll just upgrade to i7.

This board is the only one that puts the useless (to me) PCI slots right below the pciex16 slots so I can run my CF cards and still put both my raid cards in the pcie slots they need. BTW, this thread, and Dinos' testing thread are what convinced me to pull the trigger. Kit will arrive tomorrow.

Regrettably I'll have to use air cooling since the Mrs. demanded I not have a repeat of an accident with the water. If anyone is interested I'll be using my old 1.8v 1600 7-7-7-20 ram, so I'll throw some feedback on whether or not I toast my new 940 with it.

Peace

[Lukee]

My X38T-DQ6 almost caused me not to buy the EX58-UD5. First Rev. Gigabyte boards left a bad taste in my mouth . Unfortunately a minor accident with a loose hose clamp resulted in my X38T letting out the magic smoke and I suddenly find myself looking for a new mobo, and while I'm at it I'll just upgrade to i7.

This board is the only one that puts the useless (to me) PCI slots right below the pciex16 slots so I can run my CF cards and still put both my raid cards in the pcie slots they need. BTW, this thread, and Dinos' testing thread are what convinced me to pull the trigger. Kit will arrive tomorrow.

Regrettably I'll have to use air cooling since the Mrs. demanded I not have a repeat of an accident with the water. If anyone is interested I'll be using my old 1.8v 1600 7-7-7-20 ram, so I'll throw some feedback on whether or not I toast my new 940 with it.

Peace

Ram should work fine. I was using 7-7-7-18 1.9V 1600Mhz ram until today when my 1.65 ram came in.

I need that ram for another machine, so I bought the lower voltage one.

just make sure that Qpi/vtt - Vdram <0.5 and you'll be ok