Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[Hornet331]

My X58 setup with 12GB ram passed 53h of prime now.. guess that's enough
I won't update bios from F4J though if you guys are having trouble with later versions - also I don't see any bugs with F4J, Raid 0 with SSDs is working, boot menu is working (it wasn't with F3), and the mobo doesn't forget my OC when disconnected from the wall - nice!

Try Linx (or any other linpack client.).

My rig was 8h prime stable... crashed after 1h linx.

Needed one notch more on vcore and now it also runs 8h+ linx.

[jcool]

Try Linx (or any other linpack client.).

My rig was 8h prime stable... crashed after 1h linx.

Needed one notch more on vcore and now it also runs 8h+ linx.

It already ran like 10 hours IntelBurntest using 11,5GB ram, no problem. However, linpack currently doesn't really work for i7 CPUs, as it only runs 4 threads (CPU cores at 50% all the time). From what I gather this is intentional, since Intel officially released an "i7 compatible" linpack version - guess they are afraid of people burning out the CPUs using their crappy stock coolers

CPU is way below its limit anyway, but I can't go higher on the BCLK without using enormous amounts of QPI/VTT voltage, which I won't 24/7 (this is a customer setup after all..)

Settings/Hardware:

- EX58-Extreme Bios F4J
- i7 920, turbo enabled
- 21x170=3570 Mhz, 1,21V load Vcore
- 6x2GB Compustocx DDR3-1600 CAS9 memory, Mem divider 8x, CAS 8-8-8-20 @ 1,60V Vdimm
- Uncore auto (lol I know)
- QPI x36, QPI/VTT voltage 1,455V
- strap setting "Standard"
- all other voltages on auto

Running Vista Ultimate 64, one GTX 280, 2x 128GB Compustocx SSDs in Raid 0 (does around 260MB/s read on the ICH10R)