Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[tipes]

I am now using F5A bios, i have gone back to the stock cooler, as my Thermalright was not making full contact with the IHS, horrible contact. Anyway i have a Noctua P12 on the way, using stock cooler at 3.36GHZ with 1.120v. Nice and stable.

Hi Gar,

Have you tried lapping the Ultra 120 ??? How are you finding the F5A bios for stability/overclocking etc

Will have to check my 120 extreme to see how it is sitting - my idle temps at stock with turbo mode enabled are 36.31,32,30 room temp about 19c

prime temps at load 62,58,58,57 at 21 multi 2.8gig

Mark

[SteveRo]

Hi Gar,

Have you tried lapping the Ultra 120 ??? How are you finding the F5A bios for stability/overclocking etc

Will have to check my 120 extreme to see how it is sitting - my idle temps at stock with turbo mode enabled are 36.31,32,30 room temp about 19c

prime temps at load 62,58,58,57 at 21 multi 2.8gig

Mark

Tipes and Gar - 965 at stock with c's and EIST on - at idle - I am at 30C (open case). Room temp is about 19C.
(during oc - I send this guy to 100 (short duration) almost every day).

[tonytiger]

I am still having problems,I have tried bios f4k but i still have the same problems:-

I can post normally up to bclk 172 ,anything over and i cannot post normally.System restarts a few time before displaying the overclock error.

BCLK 171 and 172 are untstable anyway with hard locks in vista and even in the bios.Turbo on/off or ht on/off makes no difference also using more voltage on the below settings makes not difference.If i cannot boot above 172 i cannot test!

f4 offical bios. tried f4k,f4l and f5a
I am now running 21 x 170 3570Mhz
vcore 1.2875
qpi/vtt 1.18
qpi pll 1.84
cpu pll 1.14
ioh core 1.12
ich i/o 1.58
ich core 1.14
dram 1.66 manually set 8,8,8,24 2T
qpi,unicore and mem on auto (make no difference if i set x36,x16,x8)

also cpu clock drive set to 800mv pcie set to 900mv

all other settings on auto
All power saving options off.

I have run linx on the above settings for 2 hours.

Does anyone else have trouble over bclk 170?I must have a bad cpu or motherboard.I think i might try another board once the chipset matures , there will be some better board released i am sure.