Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[jcool]

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

Like any stress testing screenies with difference?

I ditched F3 because the F12 boot menu didn't work when OCed.. with F4J it works fine.

[Xello]

Happy new year guys

My linX 3hr~ stable settings yesterday failed blend in 9hr 32mins. I guess linX isn't infallible, or you cannot use it as a quick test, certainly not 5 or 10 runs- you need to run it as long as blend.

[Hornet331]

Happy new year guys

My linX 3hr~ stable settings yesterday failed blend in 9hr 32mins. I guess linX isn't infallible, or you cannot use it as a quick test, certainly not 5 or 10 runs- you need to run it as long as blend.

who said its a quicktest anyway.

[rge]

Happy new year guys

My linX 3hr~ stable settings yesterday failed blend in 9hr 32mins. I guess linX isn't infallible, or you cannot use it as a quick test, certainly not 5 or 10 runs- you need to run it as long as blend.

QFT

Linpack is awesome for speed at quickly pinpointing OC points that are a notch or so from stable, much quicker than prime, but if going to equate to prime 12 hrs, it has to run for many hours as well.

I have yet to see a 12 hour prime blend or small ffts oc on mine fail linpack, even overnight linpack runs, though others claim to. Also on my rigs, have not seen a 100-200 pass linpack run AT MAX MEM setting fail prime yet, though others have, and no doubt possible. A 200 run linpack on max mem takes about 6 hrs. On core i7 need to run two version to get near max mem though, one at near max, other on "infinite" run of 256 or 512. The newest version use two at half max...havent played with it enough to know how it compares to max mem.

I have never had a crash from bad OC after being 12 hrs prime stable, so I will continue to use that as my gold standard, though that may change as i use linx more. Though it is not a bad idea to run at least short runs of both, after being stable in one, as they test in different ways and one or the other may pinpoint a weakness better in your particular rig.