Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[cardnut99668]

What ram are you using and what is stock for it? Have you tried 1528mhz at 8,8,8,24 1t, uncore 16 or 17x along with VTT1.375 and VDIMM 1.66. If that is stable, then you can work from there or is your ram stock CAS 7 at 1600 like mine, and therefore should work at 1.65Vdimm at CAS 7.

The stock timings are 8,8,8,24, 1t. I've changed them to that, and I can now run 3 passes of Linx before the system locks. So I guess I'm making progress. I didn't think it would be so hard to run ram at stock.

[Envy]

You have a very nice chip there man!!
What can u say about IOH Core and ICH XXX settings...have they big impact on your OC? ATM I run them on auto!

well... IOH Core, ICH I/O, ICH Core helped me hit 4.5Ghz once i noticed raising CPU Vcore, QPI/VTT, DRAM over a certain point did nothing. i could finaly load windows after setting the values manualy while on auto i was just able to boot. i belive it help with stability when overcloking, not very noticeble running at 4.2Ghz. auto may do the job for some, for me i have better control of my oc setting each values manualy even if it does a small impact, maybe the small thing you need for 100% stable system and not crap your data

[rge]

The stock timings are 8,8,8,24, 1t. I've changed them to that, and I can now run 3 passes of Linx before the system locks. So I guess I'm making progress. I didn't think it would be so hard to run ram at stock.

When I first got my i7, I had one bad stick of ram that was causing me stability issues. I ran one stick at a time, 2 booted fine and were stable in linx at near max memory. The bad 1 stick by itself crashed everytime trying to run any stress test and sometimes just booting into windows. Then ran it by itself in memtest and had errors by the third pass on stock settings. RMA solved the issue on mine.

What memory do you have btw?

[Zoudo]

well... IOH Core, ICH I/O, ICH Core helped me hit 4.5Ghz once i noticed raising CPU Vcore, QPI/VTT, DRAM over a certain point did nothing. i could finaly load windows after setting the values manualy while on auto i was just able to boot. i belive it help with stability when overcloking, not very noticeble running at 4.2Ghz. auto may do the job for some, for me i have better control of my oc setting each values manualy even if it does a small impact, maybe the small thing you need for 100% stable system and not crap your data

Envy

What is your IOH Core, ICH I/O, ICH Core settings.

[hlonipha]

Envy

What is your IOH Core, ICH I/O, ICH Core settings.

he posted them one page back
Envy settings
Batch # 3838A937
CPU Vcore 1.375v in bios
QPI/VTT Voltage 1.335v
CPU PLL 1.86v
DRAM 1.64v
PCIE 1.5v
QPI PLL 1.14v
IOH Core 1.16v
ICH I/O 1.58v
ICH Core 1.14v

[CodeRush]

I have tested F5g on Extreme last night. No more fake boot, F4m settings are OK. More testing tonight.

[Hornet331]

does S3 works with oc on F5g?

Last time i tried F5e it didn't worked (workes without problems on F4j).

[cardnut99668]

When I first got my i7, I had one bad stick of ram that was causing me stability issues. I ran one stick at a time, 2 booted fine and were stable in linx at near max memory. The bad 1 stick by itself crashed everytime trying to run any stress test and sometimes just booting into windows. Then ran it by itself in memtest and had errors by the third pass on stock settings. RMA solved the issue on mine.

What memory do you have btw?

I've got the OCZ Gold 6GB kit. Thanks for your patience and help. I can now run 1528.



Next up 1910. I don't think I'll get around to attempting this until later in the week. Again, it's memtest stable, but not win stable.

Edit:
I thought of another question. Are there any aftermarket NB, mosfet, or PWM air cooling solutions that would help?

[Bei Fei]

I got my board last week I can't wait for D0 920's. Must resist lunch date at Microcenter......

[Pyr0]

new bios's posted by stasio @ tweaktown:

New BIOS in test:
GA-EX58-Extreme - F5
GA-EX58-UD5 - F5
GA-EX58-UD4P - F6
GA-EX58-DS4 - F5
BetaBIOS:
GA-EX58-UD3R - F5a
NOT OFFICIAL YET!
GA-EX58-Extreme - F5
GA-EX58-UD5 - F5
GA-EX58-UD4P - F6
GA-EX58-DS4 - F5
GA-EX58-UD3R - F5a

[Hondacity]

pyro...do you know what version of f5 is that? i downloaded it and it just tells me f5....

i have the f5e currently...

where can i download f5g? many thanks

[Pyr0]

i think the F5 version there is what's being tested for the official F5 release
i still can't use sleep with HT off and turbo on, so i flashed back to F5e again

the first post here has the F5g for the UD5 and Extreme boards
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/giga...st-bios-28441/

[Hondacity]

thanks for the link

i just tried the f5g....it doesnt fix the double boot

good thing though..i can bench uncore 20x....

i'm sub 9 at superpi1m wooot

[Pyr0]

f5 is newer than f5g and i think it should fix the double boot

[stasio]

f5 is newer than f5g and i think it should fix the double boot

Right
Btw,
GA-EX58-Extreme
Both F5g and F5 released on 13.Feb 2009
F5h released today

[Hondacity]

i guess i'm using f5h

wooot wooot

i love this new bios version...uncore at 16 17 18 19 20 are all usable...

memory x10 is not that stable though...wish it were though..max stable multiplier is x8

can i request a x9? .....puuuleeease!!!!

[CodeRush]

Interesting.
I have no fake boot issues on F5g BIOS.
10x memory multiplier is stable. Can 50 Linpack passes be the sign of stability?

[GAR]

just installed F5, my memory latency went from 34 to 48, same settings. Actually went from 34ns to 52 with everest, bandwidth is still the same, i think this might be the software issue, can anyone else confirm?

[Envy]

installed F5g yesterday, double boot was annoying on official F4.
Im quite happy with F5g, no more fake boots here, didnt notice any issue either its running flawlessly, Ill keep it until i find something isnt right.

Batch # 3838A937
my 4.2Ghz settings HT off
CPU Vcore 1.35000v in bios
QPI/VTT Voltage 1.315v
CPU PLL 1.860v
DRAM 1.600v
PCIE 1.500v
QPI PLL 1.140v
IOH Core 1.160v
ICH I/O 1.580v
ICH Core 1.140v

[GAR]

can someone please run EVEREST with the F5 bios and see if your latency has gone up, mine went from 34 to 52 now, ran it again, bandwidth is perfect but latency is too high, i want to know if this is software or hardware, thanks

[Pyr0]

can someone please run EVEREST with the F5 bios and see if your latency has gone up, mine went from 34 to 52 now, ran it again, bandwidth is perfect but latency is too high, i want to know if this is software or hardware, thanks

Hi GAR
even with the F5e bios, i'm getting pretty bad latency scores in everest 5
49.5ns is higher than when i had an x48 board lol

[GAR]

Hi GAR
even with the F5e bios, i'm getting pretty bad latency scores in everest 5
49.5ns is higher than when i had an x48 board lol

hmmm............ might be software, because bandwidth is on target, usually when latency is bad, so is the bandwidth. Have you tried Everest 4?

[Pyr0]

everest 5 is supposed to be showing the correct latency of the x58/i7

Version 5 now reports correct latency for i7 processors.

still seems high tho to me
maybe cos we were spoiled with really low scores from version 4 for a while lol

49.5ns is higher than when i had an x48 board lol

my bad for comparing latencies between versions 4 and 5.
prolly if i ran everest 5 on the same x48, latency scores would be even higher

[CodeRush]

GAR, it is definitely software problem. Everest 5 shows much more memory latency value then last Everest 4 betas. My personal best was 21.8 ns on Everest 4/F3 and 39.2 on Everest 5/F5g. Now it's 41.3 ns with my 24/7 1930 8-8-8-20-1T on Everest 5/F5h.

[zlojack]

Everest 5 was updated to read the latency properly, don't you mean?

It would be interesting to see what the differences are with the X48 boards now.

In previous EVEREST versions the special IMC optimizations of Core i7 processors managed to get around our memory latency measurement routine and optimized it beyond the expected level. That's why EVEREST v5.00 measures considerably higher memory latency scores on Core i7, and actually those high scores are the real ones. We expect the real memory latency to be at least 50% higher than the ones your could measure using EVEREST v4.60.