Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[EtherWind]

sometimes you can overload one rail of the ps and that can cause problems.
you might try rearranging the power cabling so that you have a more equal load seen by the ps.

SteveRo, you saved my bacon!

So I rearranged my PSU rails, breaking up my 3 harddrives onto two seperate rails (2x500g, 1TB) and I also took out 6gb RAM of my 9 (removed 2gb modules). My first boot I just bumped up the chip to 3Gz with everything on Auto, and it failed out. But then pushed the voltages a small amount manually and perfect boot on second attempt at 3gz. Phew. I am back in business and can start tweaking upwards again.

I know what everyone is thinking, that 9GB is a bit ridiculous, but I do video editing with 1080p AVCHD files on Adobe CS4 and the memory makes my work purrr along very nicely. Now I just have to strike a happy balance with CPU clock and how much memory I will be able to support with my 650Watt Enermax Infinity.

But anyways, thanks SteveRo... a lot.

EDIT: Back up to 9Gb RAM and at 3.33. The RAM will limit my top-end of course, but I think the main issue was actually adding that other HardDrive which overloaded that one rail.

EDIT: Jumped the gun on the last edit. Weird, but i was trying for 3.60 and couldn't push it. Now it refuses to overclock altogether again. I didn't perform stress testing at 3.33 w 9GB, but was able to boot to Vista and post on this forum. Now nothing again. Perhaps its RAM. Will try to pull out some DIMMS again and go from there.