DFI LP UT X58-T3EH8 - First bench, bios screens etc

[eva2000]

EVA...Looking at your settings I don't know what 'VID' is although it's referenced in giga boards also. Explain? After 5 weeks or so with my giga x58-ud5, seems it's pretty straightforward to get max OC. Just increase Vcore and Vtt and get higher CPU clk up to the limit of the chip. Is it pretty much the same with the DFI board, I'm asking cause a lot of your settings don't exist on the giga board, so I have no idea if they are critical or not. I want to leverage your superb efforts as much as possible so I can get to max CPU clk as quickly as possible when I get my DFI on Tuesday. Finally, did you obtain your CPUs in Australia?

CPU VID Control = Vcore



yup got my i7 920 from initial first shipment that landed in Australia

No, was using the x8 mem divider and x16 BCLK.
Tried VTT from 1,25 to 1,55V to no avail.
WTF guys...

@eva: It's a 3838A so brand-new. How do you set the fixed 21x mult? In bios I can only select the 20x max and the turbo 21x is there in grey.. I am guessing my CPU might just hate the 20x so much that it won't even get to run the 20x with mult set to 21x, EIST and Turbo enabled
Not even at 1,55V and -20C which is weird tho?

for 21x set Turbo and EIST to enabled

for fixed 21x multi, you have to set Vista Power managment to High performance ...

Yup in Vista depending on power management you need to set to high for fixed 21x.

Thanks... but I think I know what the problem is already
My CPU is just really really crappy... it can hardly do 4,2Ghz stable with 1,58V
I need a better one, and fast.

ah ha poor clocker won't help ya any will it

Same here: 3838A. Already on sale

what's your folks full batch number for 3838A???? so we can avoid these heh

I'd like to ask Eva Unit 02 a couple of questions but first let me say that my DFI LP UT X58 will ship in a couple of days. Since this is going to be my first DFI motherboard I've been doing a lot of reading to prepare for the occasion. The online manual that I downloaded omits the BIOS information. If it wasn't for your website I would be totally in the dark.

First, what's the purpose of 'Memory LowGap' and what determines the value used?



Next, in the 'Voltage Setting' section I don't see how you set Vcore. There's 'DRAM Bus Voltage', 'CPU VTT Voltage' and 'CPU PLL Voltage'. Will I be surprised to find a BIOS section in the hardcopy manual?

I know that I've got a lot of other question but I'll stop with those.

I retired my 920 in favor of my 965 but I just might try it first.

920 batch #: 3837A902
965 batch #: 3838A610

haha ya found Eva Unit 02 photos

straight from http://i4memory.com/102537-post3.html

Memory LowGap option is for mapping local memory (add-on-cards) to system memory address size. It most like AGP port Aperture size or PCIE1gen 250M fixed mapping size. Extend it can solve when if "add-on cards" request a bigger size as like we would like to enable Qual SLI on NV new 295, it must be extend over 2048M.

Can confirm that with 2x HD4870x2 in Crossfire I had set my LowGap to around 2176 at least. With Highpoint 3520LF PCI-E x8 256MB cache controller added into HD4870x2 Crossfire, I needed at least LowGap of 2560 otherwise windows boots to a blank window and doesn't go any further. As to how this effects windows available memory, with single HD4870x2 installed and 3x1GB memory, if I set LowGap to 2560, WinXP Pro SP3 32bit sees 1.5GB available memory. If I set LowGap to 1024, WinXP Pro SP3 32bit sees 3.0GB available memory IIRC.

As to vcore above photo CPU VID control main vcore options with CPU VID Special Add which allows additional volts on top of main vcore in percentage increments up to 14.8%