Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[jcool]

Nice software workaround. Might give LinX a try then instead von IBT, even though AgendGOD can probably adjust IBT just as easily.

[ReverendMaynard]

anyone have a link for F4J?

[GAR]

Ok, so far i am finding F4 official bios sucks. Failed prime after 30 mins, now back to F3, my 3.8ghz running prime 1hr and still going.

[ReverendMaynard]

Ok, so far i am finding F4 official bios sucks. Failed prime after 30 mins, now back to F3, my 3.8ghz running prime 1hr and still going.

damn Gar, did you try F4J? I have not had a single issue with it.

[safan80]

F4k is doing great for me at the moment. I got linpack stable at 3.7Ghz.
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/...a-ex58-ud5.htm

[icecold316]

Can someone help me to bring my temperatures down?

I was doing 40C idle and 75 load, yesterday with F3 Bios.

I flashed in to F4R now and temperatures went up 10C, I dont know what the hell that Bios did though.

Please let me know, what I can tweak to bring the temperature down. Everything is Stock.

[safan80]

Can someone help me to bring my temperatures down?

I was doing 40C idle and 75 load, yesterday with F3 Bios.

I flashed in to F4R now and temperatures went up 10C, I dont know what the hell that Bios did though.

Please let me know, what I can tweak to bring the temperature down. Everything is Stock.

Are you running stock air? if so get water cooling.

[pa9797]

The test are done with the latest F4 bios at aircon temp of 22d.

First I started to test @ 3.6 (180 x 20)

Vcore @1.2875
QPI @1.2
DRAM @1.64

Temp idle:


Temp load:


Temps are pretty good. Now straight up to 4Ghz.

Using the same setting as my previous UD5:

Vcore@1.38125
QPI@1.34
DRAM @1.64

Temp @ load



Yes. Is stable @4ghz too:





For your reference I posted my link on my previous UD5 thread:

http://deluxeforums.hardwarezone.com....php?t=2174311.

Do note that the test of UD5 was done outside the case whereas the extreme was in the case:

[safan80]

The test are done with the latest F4 bios at aircon temp of 22d.

First I started to test @ 3.6 (180 x 20)

Vcore @1.2875
QPI @1.2
DRAM @1.64

Temp idle:


Temp load:


Temps are pretty good. Now straight up to 4Ghz.

Using the same setting as my previous UD5:

Vcore@1.38125
QPI@1.34
DRAM @1.64

Temp @ load


Yes. Is stable @4ghz too:



For your reference I posted my link on my previous UD5 thread:


Do note that the test of UD5 was done outside the case whereas the extreme was in the case:

but does it pass Linpack?
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/12...3/LinX_0542.7z

[Splave]

any reason to go f4m over f4j?

[ReverendMaynard]

but does it pass Linpack?
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/12...3/LinX_0542.7z

If it does what you need it to do on a daily basis, whether it be folding, rendering, benchmarking, gaming, surfing....putting a system through that much stress to prove stability is for a niche crowd saf; it is far from a standard and never will be.

[jcool]

any reason to go f4m over f4j?

Haven't tried yet, but from what I gathered here:

- faster init
- some fix related to virtualisation or something
- supposedly better (ram) performance

So I'll try F4M next, but F4J is pretty good already.

[jcool]

Guys,

anyone got a link to F4M bios for the EXTREME? Hicookie's link is down. Also is there some kind of overview page where I can see/download all the versions? I am getting kind of confused here (too many bioses lol).

[ReverendMaynard]

Guys,

anyone got a link to F4M bios for the EXTREME? Hicookie's link is down. Also is there some kind of overview page where I can see/download all the versions? I am getting kind of confused here (too many bioses lol).

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1031

right there

[ante_ante]

Trying to achiev 20k in everest but dont know how i should come there, is it my memorys that suck with timings on higher speeds ? Trying F4k right now

[Splave]

any reason you are using that clock generator?

what is your uncore at

[Xello]

But linpack still stresses the cpu much more then prime.

Are you basing 'this stresses cpu more than that' etc purely on temps?

I hope not

[Hornet331]

Are you basing 'this stresses cpu more than that' etc purely on temps?

I hope not

No its based on my observation -> prime 5h stable (blend/smal) -> linpack crahed after 30min.

Prime doesn't stresses the memory part enough for Ci7.

If linpack can run for several hours everything can run.

Prime was good for C2D but it's not enough for Ci7.

I think from now on i will skip prime and just go with linpack + memtest.

[jcool]

Trying to achiev 20k in everest but dont know how i should come there, is it my memorys that suck with timings on higher speeds ? Trying F4k right now

Try running DDR3-2000+ with at least CAS8-8-8
If you don't have D9GTR/GTS or HCF0 you can forget about it altogether. D9 will need 2V+ to do it, if you are prepared to risk that is up to you (and depends on your cooling).

Also raise your uncore to around 4Ghz . CPU Mhz/QPI speed is irrelevant here, Uncore is key.

[icecold316]

Can someone help me to bring my temperatures down?

I was doing 40C idle and 75 load, yesterday with F3 Bios.

I flashed in to F4R now and temperatures went up 10C, I dont know what the hell that Bios did though.

Please let me know, what I can tweak to bring the temperature down. Everything is Stock.

Are you running stock air? if so get water cooling.

Yes, I am using the stock cooler for now. But I dont get it, why a BIOS update raise the temperatures by 10C.

I will be getting XigamTek Heatsink in couple of weeks, as they said the 1366 Adapter will be availabe in newegg in 2 weeks time.

[Xello]

No its based on my observation -> prime 5h stable (blend/smal) -> linpack crahed after 30min.

That only means that linpack is a quicker way to test though, you no doubt would have had prime error / freeze / BSOD eventually.

That's good if it's true though. I was just saying because the way prime works it could load a cpu less with small FFT yet still make it hotter in the past.

I always thought for some reason that even though prime was only using 10-20% memory, that it was cycling through the memory or something, like memtest does, to test out all of your ram Not quite sure how it works tbh.

Passed 50 runs linX @ 4.2ghz with 1.37v today, took about 2hr 50 mins i think, so i'm going to run blend til tomorrow morning just out of curiosity. If no crashes i'll probably stick with linX too

Yes, I am using the stock cooler for now. But I dont get it, why a BIOS update raise the temperatures by 10C.

I will be getting XigamTek Heatsink in couple of weeks, as they said the 1366 Adapter will be availabe in newegg in 2 weeks time.

Flash back to previous bios, test temps, verify it's a bios issue?

[ante_ante]

Try running DDR3-2000+ with at least CAS8-8-8
If you don't have D9GTR/GTS or HCF0 you can forget about it altogether. D9 will need 2V+ to do it, if you are prepared to risk that is up to you (and depends on your cooling).

Also raise your uncore to around 4Ghz . CPU Mhz/QPI speed is irrelevant here, Uncore is key.

Dont know what chip i got on my memorys. Maybe should try to check it.
Running uncore 18 on that pic.

[tipes]

Hi all,

Compliments of the season to you all - now for the question.

Just recently put together a system with Gigabyte EX58 UD5+ Corsair dominator 1600 ram And I7 920 chip all runs fine But .....

When I boot up either cold or restart the post screen - ie the first Bios screen never shows up - I have tried the setting in bios for the splash screen on or off plus pressing the Tab key but it refuses to show.

The only way I can get it to show is if I go into bios and load optimized defaults and then it shows splash screen and I can press tab key to see post screen. Anybody else seen this or know the cause of it?

I have loaded the official F4 bios to fix the resume from sleep issue with str, but I had the above problem before this anyway - any ideas anybody?

Would be grateful for input on this one

Ps the problem even happens at stock speeds - only running at 3gig at the mo - with turbo mode ie only 3 gig on 21 multi if that makes sense.

Mark

[icecold316]

Flash back to previous bios, test temps, verify it's a bios issue?

Temperature came down to low 42 to 45, after changing the QPI VTT from 1.235 to 1.215

When I loaded the bios first, easytune showed 1.43........ that is everything else on stock.

[bench2die]

do you guys get higher or most stable overclocks from f3 to f4j on the extremes?

Like any stress testing screenies with difference?