Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[EtherWind]

forgive me if this sounds obvious.
get back to where you have oc freedom and then freeze your settings at a reasonably high oc.
Then make one chnage at a time and see where it breaks
post your settings and config and let folks take a look at what you have.

OK, so Im back at 3.6GHZ w 9gb RAM. Havent tried to push further yet, but this is what I have done to get there:

My situation appears to be that any time I try to overlock with my 3x2GB 1600 G.Skills in place, I cant touch my BIOS settings period without my rig going into a reboot loop that eventually resets itself back to defaults. BUT, if I just have my 3x1GB 1600 Corsair ram sticks in, I can tweak away till my heart's content, and THEN add the Gskill back in place, which then boots fine. When I do this, the only thing that BIOS appears to change are my RAM timings, which go really loose up to 10x10x10x26x2 when all 9 gigs are activated.

Here are my settings for 3.6GHZ w 9GB Ram:

QPI Link: Auto (6.48Ghz)
Uncore Freq: x17 (3060)
Isochronous: Enabled

CPU Clock Ratio: 20x (x180)
Intel Turbo Boost: Disabled
CPU Cores: All
CPU MT: Enabled
CPU (CIE): Enabled
C3/C6/C7 State Support: Enabled
CPU Thermal Monitor: Enabled
CPU EIST Function: Enabled
Virtualization: Disabled
Bi-Dir Prochot: Disabled

Performance Enhance: Standard
XMP: Disabled
Sys Mem Multiplier (Auto): 1440
Dram Timing (Audo)

CPU VCore: 1.25000V
QPI Voltage: 1.195V
IOH Core: 1.10V
Dram Voltage: 1.500V

So nothing exotic, and really conservative voltages obviously.

Will do some more experimentation later this week, but Im guessing that, again, if I dare touch BIOS with that Gskill in place i have to start from scratch with only 3gb in again to get started. Does that at all make sense? Stay tuned for further testing.