Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[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