Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[Lukee]

rge - I also tried qpi on slow - yes very painfull to watch 3dmark06 run.
My score dropped from 24900 to 3000 - qpi on slow is correctly named - slowwwwwwwww.

Lukee - what vdimm are you at now? - 1.65 - I see it.

I raised VDimm to 1.84. I'm pretty sure that I can run it at a lower voltage, but I haven't started tweaking it yet.

[safan80]

I raised VDimm to 1.84. I'm pretty sure that I can run it at a lower voltage, but I haven't started tweaking it yet.

I'm not willing to raise the Vdimm that high yet since the ram is the most expensive part.

[Lukee]

I'm not willing to raise the Vdimm that high yet since the ram is the most expensive part.

Hehe.. I'm not willing to keep this 24/7, just doing a bit of testing and this was a starting point. I'll start bringing it down a bit after testing.

[safan80]

Hehe.. I'm not willing to keep this 24/7, just doing a bit of testing and this was a starting point. I'll start bringing it down a bit after testing.

let me know your voltages when you get them down and you can pass 8 hour prime blend.

[lowdog]

Update;

If the cmos is cleared by removing all components of off the mobo and removing the battery and placing a jumper on the cmos pins for at least an hour minimum then replacing all components then the board boots fine.......however if I then shut down and try to power on the system again there is no boot and I have to go through the whole procedure again.

Bigest POS board I have ever owned.

[safan80]

Update;

If the cmos is cleared by removing all components of off the mobo and removing the battery and placing a jumper on the cmos pins for at least an hour minimum then replacing all components then the board boots fine.......however if I then shut down and try to power on the system again there is no boot and I have to go through the whole procedure again.

Bigest POS board I have ever owned.

I had the same problem with my evga X58... the X58 bioses just are not up to par yet.

[Hornet331]

Update;

If the cmos is cleared by removing all components of off the mobo and removing the battery and placing a jumper on the cmos pins for at least an hour minimum then replacing all components then the board boots fine.......however if I then shut down and try to power on the system again there is no boot and I have to go through the whole procedure again.

Bigest POS board I have ever owned.

it seems you have the same cold boot bclck hole i have.

150mhz bclck works with cold boot.
151-199mhz bclck works with out a problem, but board resets after clodboot
200mhz bclck board cold boots.

I can live with that cause i intended anyways to go for 200mhz bclck, thought i need a bit higher QPI voltage is still only @ 1,35V + i have 12gb ram that puts addidtional streß on the mem controller.

[lowdog]

it seems you have the same cold boot bclck hole i have.

150mhz bclck works with cold boot.
151-199mhz bclck works with out a problem, but board resets after clodboot
200mhz bclck board cold boots.

I can live with that cause i intended anyways to go for 200mhz bclck, thought i need a bit higher QPI voltage is still only @ 1,35V + i have 12gb ram that puts addidtional streß on the mem controller.

Cold boot hole......man, I'm talking STOCK bios settings let alone any overclocking. This POS is won't boot at all after powering down even though I have now found that I don't need to strip the board down all I have to do is leave if for half an hour then it may or may not boot up again.

Also no matter how many times I mash the Ctrl-I keys it won't let me into the Intel raid utility.....omg...pos Gigabyte