Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[GAR]

Are you guys using AHCI or IDE?

[The_Phoenix]

Are you guys using AHCI or IDE?

sata acting as ide i believe is what the setting is

[cardnut99668]

sata acting as ide i believe is what the setting is

Same here for now. The ACHI boot screen is a bit annoying because of the time it takes to detect the drives.

[GAR]

AHCI is better tho from what i have read, if you want to use the esata i believe you have to use ahci.

[technut36]

anyone here try 4850 + 4870

[Splave]

Froze at 223 1.525vcore

[SteveRo]

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.

Many folks have had trouble ocing with 3x2GB, at least you now have a procedure that works.
Try not to use auto settings - you want to set these values - not leave them up to the bios to estimate for you what is best that way you KNOW what the values are.
Uncore looks nice and low for ocing - is this 2x memory plus one click up?
Do you get better oc results turning off eist, c1e, c3, ... many folks have found they can oc higher if they turn all this off - the downside is your idle temps are usually a bit higher particularly at much higher cpu volts.
After you get your oc stable with 3gb and add back in the other 6 can you then adjust back down your timings?
If you have xmp capable memory try runing just that xmp memory, turn on xmp and see what ET6 says your voltages are at - this gives you an idea of what mem and qpi volts the memory manufacturer wants you to run when at xmp speeds.
All your voltages are nice and low - should help you keep your cpu nice and cool!
Downside is increased oc at these voltages can be had only by a very few i7s. , certainly not mine.

[SteveRo]

Are you guys using AHCI or IDE?

IDE only, seems like AHCI can complicate things, particularly when using SSDs

[SteveRo]

Froze at 223 1.525vcore

219 bclock - well done!
Best I have been able to do is 211.

[silverfox71]

has any one done a Sata to raid comparison to see if 3dmark cpu score increases or decreases?

[dennismagic]

New BIOS released 19.02.09:

GA-EX58-Extreme - F6b
GA-EX58-UD4 - F4c

TT Forum

i tried F6b and need more voltage for stablility. F5g is still the best one for me^^

[revenant]

Same here for now. The ACHI boot screen is a bit annoying because of the time it takes to detect the drives.

Really?? mine goes pretty fast I thought... faster than my raid card initialization and I have two disks and one ssd on the AHCI controller... I guess it's a pretty subjective experience tho.

EDIT: btw, my ssd works fine on the AHCI controller... but it's a game only storage device.. so it doesn't get hammered with write requests...

[Aberration]

All of my devices are SATA. Would there be a benefit to switching to AHCI?

[andyr(uk)]

Hi , i have ordered the extreme version of this board , does anyone know if any other water cooling blocks will fit the northbridge as i didnt want to restrict the flow and they are 3/8 i think

[GAR]

All of my devices are SATA. Would there be a benefit to switching to AHCI?

AHCI i believe emulates SCSI interface. AHCI should generally give better performance. I am now using it with my 300GB raptor with no issues.

[silverfox71]

Hi , i have ordered the extreme version of this board , does anyone know if any other water cooling blocks will fit the northbridge as i didnt want to restrict the flow and they are 3/8 i think

I am using the xtreme with the liquid cooling system the it comes with. I have installed the silent pipes to help keep the temps down. with a fan on the silent pipes i would have to say it helps more than the liquid cooling. I do have a small fan blowing across the pipes as well.

[The_Phoenix]

managed to get the timings even tighter down to 7-7-7-18 which is what the gskill kit i bought is supposed to be but i didnt expect it to run that tight with this much of an overclock,definatly happy with it

[ReverendMaynard]

Froze at 223 1.525vcore

lol dudes are getting pats on the back up in the extreme section using dice and ln2 on their 920's, and you come along a slap down a water cooled 223 blck.

[technut36]

Froze at 223 1.525vcore

hahahah that is some sick oc.

[RobinL]

Hellow folks,

I have bought the gigabyte x58 UD5. Now i want to use the PCI-1x slot from above for my physx card. With stock sink it doesnt fitt. It isn`t possible to use any of the pci-e 1x cards on that white slot. So i want to buying the MIPS GIGABYTE EX58 Extreme Triple chip POM for that board. If i use that WC sinks, is it than possible to use that white pci-express 1 speed slot with longer cards? I have check already one foto. If i looking very good in won`t fitt about 2mm. Or doesnt i looking good enough.
Someone has a picture with the MIPS GIGABYTE EX58 Extreme Triple chip POM sink with one pcie card in the first slot?

[TimoneX]

The top PCIe slot is usable if you simply pop the top off the heatsink. I did this then put a piece of scotch tape on both sides of a tuner card(to ensure no shorts) and it dropped right in that slot. Your card has to fit in the heatsink groove though so if it's components protrude too much it obviously won't work.

hmmm...this is kind of warped.

[RobinL]

And does it fitt with that waterblock?

[ganzir]

May I ask, where I can get those new BIOS Versions, because on Gigabyte I can only find the F4 BIOS marked as newest.

Greetz
Ganzir

[TimoneX]

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[TimoneX]

And does it fitt with that waterblock?

Are you talkin' to ME!?! Are YOU TALKIN' TO ME?!? Sorry movie moment there...

You mean the CPU block? I don't git it.

A picture is worth 1000000 words...adjusted for inflation.