Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[Geckotek]

So I finally pulled the trigger on an i7 motherboard and RAM purchase. I decided on the UD3R board and 3X1GB of G.Skill DDR3 1600 RAM. I will post results as soon as I have time to get everything assembled and spend some time clocking. I'm shooting for 4 GHz on air, cooling provided by a TRUE.

Thanks Mikesrex, I'll be following your results closely. I have my 920 and a GTX280 on the way. I've been eyeing either the UD3R or the UD4P boards as well as that exact memory.

Also, based on the recent Newegg review, I'd be interested in hearing if you have any issues w/ the NIC.

[Splave]

i think he tryed a p6t as well

[revenant]

I'm on them, those are the only two driver versions supporting the card, i tried the betas to see if that fixed the problem but no cigar. On my 12th~ hour of troubleshooting now, starting to just re-do things i've already tried..

ugh! that sux... so are you trying to get quad SLI going or just get a single GTX295 to work properly? If it's a single card, I don't think you enable SLI on it as it's kind of done in hardware... I could be off base, but anyways...

in other news, my ex58-ud5 should be here tomorrow night... gah, friday is going to blow at work.. maybe I will get sick. *cough*

[hifiking]

I have the UD5, and my 920 does 20x200 with HT, but it needs 1.5v aswell. Watercooled and f4r bios.

[JWMc]

I have the UD5, and my 920 does 20x200 with HT, but it needs 1.5v aswell. Watercooled and f4r bios.

Argh, update to at least f5a, you will need less voltage for stability.

Edit: I am sorry and I did not know about your BIOS revision. I am now testing with F4n with the same voltage results as f5a-f5d for my current 19x200 target OC with the added benefit that the system doesn't crash (LinX good, Prime almost an hour but no guarantee) when I add the third memory module. I'm sticking with 8-8-8-21-1T and seeing how it goes.

[hifiking]

It may, but I tried f5c and wasn't happy. And now that it's stable I will not break it :- )

[Lukee]

I pushed the qpi/vtt all the way up to 1.55v and my DRAM to 1.75v and it locks up after a few seconds every time in Prime95. And I was running Small FFTs instead of Blend thinking it wouldn't push the IMC as hard. If mine requires more than 1.55V I don't think I'm going to even bother. That just defeats the purpose of me going to the x19 to lower the vcore.

Right now I'm running 21x191 at just under 1.4v and testing for stability. It's been stable at 1.4v but trying to lower it a notch or two. I keep jumping around between BIOS's to see if that helps any. I've tried F4j, F4m, and F5c. I'm back on F4m now.

By chance, did you try raising your vcore a bit? Maybe it was a bit low.

Also, what are your multipliers for QPI/Uncore and memory.

Try 36x/15x/6x just to see if you can get the 211 bclk to work.

[Lukee]

Ive tried 5 cpu's and none of them could do 20x200 with HT enabled.

I can do 200x21 but with 6x memory and 15x uncore and it was stable at least for 2+ hours prime and since I really only play games, that was fine with me.

Hopefully, I'll be getting a new chip in the next few days.

Settings were

Qpi 36x
Uncore 15x
memory 6x
HT on Turbo On
Vcore 1.44 bios(1.408 CPUZ)
CPU pll 1.96
Qpi/vtt 1.45
Qpi Pll 1.26
VDimm 1.6 6-6-6-18 1t OCZ-1600MHz running @ 1200MHz

A couple other voltages that I can't remember.

[Xello]

ugh! that sux... so are you trying to get quad SLI going or just get a single GTX295 to work properly? If it's a single card, I don't think you enable SLI on it as it's kind of done in hardware... I could be off base, but anyways...

in other news, my ex58-ud5 should be here tomorrow night... gah, friday is going to blow at work.. maybe I will get sick. *cough*

I think i have a duff 2nd card, i tried them out on their own and couldnt get a picture from it at all. I took it to another machine and still couldn't - the blue light that's meant to come on i think to let you know the card is primary card never comes on either, so i guess the card was DOA.

Serves me right for getting them so early...

Strangely you do have to enable SLI even with just 1 of the cards though, in the control panel, for the 2 gpu's to work together. I've verified this with 3d06.

[revenant]

I guess I could have looked at your sig. *doink* sorry to hear your other card is bunk. I hate getting new dead hardware.. but who doesn't? anyways.. thanks for the info on the SLI enable.. I have used SLI for years, but never with a dual gpu card. I am looking at migrating to GTX295s myself after I get the ud5 up and running, burned in, overclocked, stable, etc.. I am hoping this board is better for me than the eclipse.

[mikesrex]

Thanks Mikesrex, I'll be following your results closely. I have my 920 and a GTX280 on the way. I've been eyeing either the UD3R or the UD4P boards as well as that exact memory.

Also, based on the recent Newegg review, I'd be interested in hearing if you have any issues w/ the NIC.

the mobo and ram will be in tomorrow, and I should have some sort of results tomorrow evening. I will, at first, be using this setup:

PC&P 750W silencer
X58-UD3R
i7-920 cooled by a TRUE
3x1GB G.Skill DDR3 1600
8600GTS

and my dual HD3870's (couldn't pass them up for 180 shipped new for the pair) will be probably be here saturday or monday.

I'm hoping for a 4GHz 24/7 stable setup.

[Xello]

I guess I could have looked at your sig. *doink* sorry to hear your other card is bunk. I hate getting new dead hardware.. but who doesn't? anyways.. thanks for the info on the SLI enable.. I have used SLI for years, but never with a dual gpu card. I am looking at migrating to GTX295s myself after I get the ud5 up and running, burned in, overclocked, stable, etc.. I am hoping this board is better for me than the eclipse.

Yeah, this is actually my first experience with SLI. Other than the DOA card, i'm over the moon with how easy everything has been, compared to my last setup. I set 1920x1080 desktop, and it just worked. I set 60hz, and it just worked. I ran Vantage and 3d06, and they just worked. No underscan, no visual corruption, no scaling issues, no dx10 issues, and Crysis on Dx10 all Very High with 25fps~ is smoother than the last setup was under DX9 High with 35fps~ !

Now to get this brick sent back.

[SteveRo]

ugh! that sux... so are you trying to get quad SLI going or just get a single GTX295 to work properly? If it's a single card, I don't think you enable SLI on it as it's kind of done in hardware... I could be off base, but anyways...

in other news, my ex58-ud5 should be here tomorrow night... gah, friday is going to blow at work.. maybe I will get sick. *cough*

If the 295 works the same way as the 9800gx2 - SLI is enabled by default when you first install the driver.

[TheKarmakazi]

If the 295 works the same way as the 9800gx2 - SLI is enabled by default when you first install the driver.

that is true

[GAR]

Yup, i tried the P6T deluxe as well, but i think 3.8ghz should be enough for me, and its fast enough for anything right now. I will settle here till 32NM comes out later this year.

[Leeghoofd]

Which temps do you get GAR with that Noctua cooler under full stress 3.8 HT on ? I would try 20 multi , Turbo on and 191FSB... runs far better then 20 x 200 as the latter requires far more vcore to get stable ( 1.38 vs 1.43 )

[SteveRo]

Which temps do you get GAR with that Noctua cooler under full stress 3.8 HT on ? I would try 20 multi , Turbo on and 191FSB... runs far better then 20 x 200 as the latter requires far more vcore to get stable ( 1.38 vs 1.43 )

The noctua is a good cooler but like all air coolers - you reach a point where vcore and cycles can overwhelm it - all OC attempts in the pic that follows was 965 under noctua with 2x ultra kaze in push pull -

[Lukee]

Yup, i tried the P6T deluxe as well, but i think 3.8ghz should be enough for me, and its fast enough for anything right now. I will settle here till 32NM comes out later this year.

I am in the same boat as yuo GAR. I've had it at 4.2, but I've been having lockups when sim racing and that totally sucks when I'm in the middle of a race and get booted and crash like half the field.

Last night, I brought it down to 200 x 19x and it completed 20 passes of Linpak so I'm going to try to raise the memory and uncore a bit and see if it stays stable.

[GAR]

Which temps do you get GAR with that Noctua cooler under full stress 3.8 HT on ? I would try 20 multi , Turbo on and 191FSB... runs far better then 20 x 200 as the latter requires far more vcore to get stable ( 1.38 vs 1.43 )

Temps are 1-3c better than my TRUE was, with 19x200, 1.28vcore, it runs 34c cool core, and 39c hot core, loads around 60's for cool core, and low 70's for hot cores. Overall i am much more happier with the build quality and quality control of the noctua

[mikesrex]

Thanks Mikesrex, I'll be following your results closely. I have my 920 and a GTX280 on the way. I've been eyeing either the UD3R or the UD4P boards as well as that exact memory.

Also, based on the recent Newegg review, I'd be interested in hearing if you have any issues w/ the NIC.

I turned turbo off, put my RAM at stock settings to run DDR3 1600MHz and set the vcore to 1.3 V. At 200X20 it posted and loaded Windows on the first try.

I haven't had a chance to extensively OC it yet, but 4GHz seemed effortless.

[revenant]

I got my board today... I have to say, it's the nicest looking mobo I have ever seen in person... from color choices to placement of things... aside from the pci-e 1x slot / nb issues, I like how the fan headers are kind of spread out at the edges, the power and reset buttons are FAR away from the pci-e slots, so like, you can get to them with lots of HUGE video cards installed... little things like that. God I hope it's not a dud for me. fingers X'd!!

[mikesrex]

So i had to go from 1.30 vcore to 1.425 vcore to get this thing stable enough to load windows and do other tasks. what a jump to just go from 200 to 210 x20

[mikesrex]

this thing takes a crapload of vcore to continue to OC

I got it stable with turbo mode at 210

[Geckotek]

the mobo and ram will be in tomorrow, and I should have some sort of results tomorrow evening. I will, at first, be using this setup:

PC&P 750W silencer
X58-UD3R
i7-920 cooled by a TRUE
3x1GB G.Skill DDR3 1600
8600GTS

and my dual HD3870's (couldn't pass them up for 180 shipped new for the pair) will be probably be here saturday or monday.

I'm hoping for a 4GHz 24/7 stable setup.

Wow, our systems might turn out almost identical. My PP&C 750W Silencer is on the way. The main difference is I just received by GTX 280 today.

What I'm truly debating is if I may want to do SLI or bump up to 12GB of ram in the future. If so, it might be the smart thing to get the UD4P today. OR, I can save the $60-$70 today and just assume that by the time I'm ready to do that I'll want another mobo as well. I'm torn. What do you guys think?

Edit: Oh, I'm starting w/ stock cooling...buying the True a bit later when I get ready to OC. Probably a new case as well.

[GAR]

this thing takes a crapload of vcore to continue to OC

I got it stable with turbo mode at 210

64bit makes it harder to get an overclock stable, what might be stable in XP, might not be in Vista 64, or windows 7 64. Also what do you consider stable? 24 hour prime blend is min IMO for a stable system. Super pi 1M is certainly not a stability test.