Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[JWMc]

I can not get easytune to work in Vista64....

The trick I use to get the tray icon to appear is just mousing all over the 'Show hidden icons' arrow and the first tray icon until it shows up. Sometimes I have to run EasyTune two or three times AND use this trick to get it to show up.

[SteveRo]

The trick I use to get the tray icon to appear is just mousing all over the 'Show hidden icons' arrow and the first tray icon until it shows up. Sometimes I have to run EasyTune two or three times AND use this trick to get it to show up.

yep, click it three times, wait a couple seconds between click - works every time (or I guess that would be every third time, emm ...).

[euonline]

The trick I use to get the tray icon to appear is just mousing all over the 'Show hidden icons' arrow and the first tray icon until it shows up. Sometimes I have to run EasyTune two or three times AND use this trick to get it to show up.

Thanks, but I do not get any icons. what I get is the following message while loading vista:

"GUI MFC Application Has Stopped working"

* another issue is tha I have C1E and EIST enabled and some how my multy never drops to 12... it must be some other stetting that is interfering in these ones.

[moshpit]

I have the same problem with EasyTune. Neither the one from the CD that came with my mobo nor the latest version from the web site will run, both erroring out with the same error that euonline is getting.

[Xello]

My easytune that has worked flawlessly on every installation i have done since getting the board has suddenly started crashing on startup as described.

What has changed? I downloaded the latest version from the GB site

Since i never even used it to begin with i'm not even going to bother reinstalling the one from the driver cd.

[Pyr0]

easytune B8.1224.1 loads at startup for me in vista64

[ReverendMaynard]

We have very cold here in sweden just now.

What are you for complaining, I can get my cpu at this speed without problems.
So stop GRUMBLING to my records, do reached similar instead stupid...

SteveRO the original cooler that came with the cpu, i have just started to test in my chip..

I live in Canada and it's just a cold or colder here. I'm not grumbling, I just had no idea where you were from and that english wasn't your first language. Chill the eff out, and stop quoting my name in your posts like I'm after you.

Beautiful clocks by the way

[ReverendMaynard]

Well... currently i have set 1.3v in Bios, cpu-z shows 1.280v idle and 1.264v in full... 0.02v diff in idle and 0.036v in full... tell me if this is not some considerable number...

Setting to 1.3v and having 1.28v up and running is vdrop, not droop, so when you look at 1.28v to 1.264v from idle to load which is vdroop that's only .016vdroop. Beautiful if you know what you're looking at.

[icecold316]

Just an FYI for all Gigabyte UD5/xTreme owners, I was getting "IRQL not less or equal" error with Green Lan Feature enabled when running Prime and Linx. I disabled that feature and the problem is Gone.

[ReverendMaynard]

Just an FYI for all Gigabyte UD5/xTreme owners, I was getting "IRQL not less or equal" error with Green Lan Feature enabled when running Prime and Linx. I disabled that feature and the problem is Gone.

Nice find ice.

[euonline]

Find a small bug in the F5C, E and G bios for the UD5.

CPU FAN settings goes back to auto every time you enter the MIT page.

[Hornet331]

Seems i need to retests my settings with F5e

Just got a BSOD while playing TF2, guess its the ram/imc. Since with each bios version the subtimings change.

[ReverendMaynard]

Seems i need to retests my settings with F5e

Just got a BSOD while playing TF2, guess its the ram/imc. Since with each bios version the subtimings change.

you running it in standard mode?

[RedFang300]

So I have pretty much settled down to two motherboard picks that I want. Either Asus Rampage II Extreme or Gigabyte EX58 Extreme.

I am posting here to ask if 12GB of Corsair Dominator Ram TR3X6G1600C8D that they have on Newegg will work, stable and run well at 1600MHz. I know by looking at the QVL doesn't list the memory, sadly.

I really like the layout of the EX58 Extreme, it's loads of SATA ports and still support triple SLI and I can toss a Fatality sound card in there if I get bored of onboard. If I get the EX58 I will be Watercooling the board so even though the heatsinks are sweet I will be actually removing them.

I am not sure if the Extreme is the same as the UD5 with more pipes or what, but either way I will be removing heatsinks. *searches for his chainsaw*

But yes, the real major issue is can I run 12GB of those ram at 1600MHz with a 920 i7?

[YukonTrooper]

Someone mentioned in another thread that no Asus board has the "Turbo" feature, which basically gives you an extra multiplier. If this is true, I wouldn't even look at the Asus.

[bfghornet]

you running it in standard mode?

Hello Reverend. Are you asking him about standard mode because he should be using it? Im just curious because I have a UD5 and its set at TURBO. Mabey its making me less stable?

Thanks for any help.

[blossa]

Still no one that has even tried raising PCIe to say 110MHz on EX58 Extreme...?

[Hornet331]

you running it in standard mode?

jup its standard but some timinings got tighter (Read to Read latencys got from 9/9/9 to 7/6/4, Round trip latency from 74 to 64) and some got a bit slacker.

[chefnr1]

Still no one that has even tried raising PCIe to say 110MHz on EX58 Extreme...?

Hi blossa!
I have mine PCI-e 110 on my UD5, works good..

[ante_ante]

is it still just possible to change ram-timings in bios ? No memtweaker in windows works yet ??

[ReverendMaynard]

Hello Reverend. Are you asking him about standard mode because he should be using it? Im just curious because I have a UD5 and its set at TURBO. Mabey its making me less stable?

Thanks for any help.

It's not a matter of should mate, it could be a matter of necessity depending on what kind of clocks you want to hit. Standard is much, much more forgiving from what I've found and although Turbo gives you a small boost in Everest cache and bandwidth, it's small enough to overpower with sheer clock power.

[Splave]

Hi blossa!
I have mine PCI-e 110 on my UD5, works good..

has anyone proven that this is worth it at all

[blossa]

has anyone proven that this is worth it at all

Atleast it was before when benching 3D06 with ATI-cards. Over ~115mhz started to get a boost.

chefnr1: Any special settings to run 110MHz? On my Extreme board 101MHz is about max stable. :p

[jasonelmore]

Someone mentioned in another thread that no Asus board has the "Turbo" feature, which basically gives you an extra multiplier. If this is true, I wouldn't even look at the Asus.

I'm not sure who mentioned it but it's not true whatsoever.

[JWMc]

I haven't been following the Asus board thread but I think I heard that a BIOS update is coming soon to add an option to disable the TDP limit requirement for the turbo multiplier to activate. Right now Asus users can keep turbo active (21 multi on the 920) as long as they don't OC past this hard coded limit that they are temporarily stuck with. This isn't an issue for 965 owners because they can manually set whatever max multi they want and not care if turbo works past a certain clock speed.