Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

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Are you completely sure it won't go down any more? If so that's great news, and you can get +1 mult for real then

My statements are based on the GA-EX58-Extreme and F3 bios.

Positive. Intels boards shows (visible setting) the core limit/TDP settings, disable them and turbo = max multi +1. I asked GB tech support to relay a message to ask for 9x mem divider and to make the TDP/core limit settings visible to play with, sometimes they try suggestions, sometimes not have to wait and see.

You can try it yourself, I have probably changed bios back and forth 15+ times, to many to count stress runs...you can flash to any f4 bios (i have extreme as well), run 2 versions of linpack or run prime, or can even run prime and linpack at same time, you can not make turbo disengage...the tdp/core limit is off. See pic from intel board. See second pic with prime, ht on, turbo on, linpack and prime running simultaneously load 100.3%, realtemp is using intel white paper on core i7's so load is accurate.