Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[Infa]

How many of you are getting past 200 BCKL? now i have tried a few bios, and F5G are the best one, keeping stable at 1.34 QPI/VTT 200 BCKL.
F6B was a no go at the same settings, not even 1.40 did the trick to even post, F5 Final were tricky, did not load windows either..
1.26 at 3.8Ghz, but heat is getting to me stock cooler and 100c after a minute, hangs before that at about 90+. still amazed it can do this at stock cooling, good cpu?

#3841A627

Someone got any good tips on high BCKL?

And also, EasyTune 6 is just crashing with MFC thing... would be sweet to use this though, why doesnt it work ?
should i go with EasyTune 5?

cheerio

[Hornet331]

ET6/GETS is fixed with F6a or higher (on vista 64bit).

To bad S3 is sill buged with F6c.... need to wait for F6d.

[GAR]

OK, so official F5 is on the gigabyte website now, so which is newer F5 or F6A?

[Hornet331]

newest:

for ud5 -> f6b.
extreme -> f6c.

[roadtonowhere08]

I am currently running my CPU at 3.6GHz using 1.41875v and the IOH is at 1.2v. All other voltage is Auto or at the xmp profile of my RAM (which is running at 1520MHz). Multi/Bclk is 19/190.

All CPU cores - 45-50C idle and <65C non benchmark load
Motherboard diode - 50-52C
Northbridge - 60-64C

I am running all fans at 7v in a Lian-Li A20B case. I read as long as CPU temps are less than 80C, all will be well. I am pretty sure I will always be under that. What does seem high though is the Northbridge temperature. It went up around 10C because of the OC. Is that normal, even though 1.2v into the IOH is less than the 1.3v prescribed?

Simfan: what kinds of voltages do you think I can get away with having the RAM at xmp timings (9-9-9-24) at 1520MHz?

[safan80]

New BIOS (released 27.02.09):

GA-EX58-Extreme - F6c
GA-EX58-UD5 - F6b
GA-EX58-UD4P - F7c
GA-EX58-UD3R - F5c
GA-EX58-DS4 - F6b

Fix cold start (QPI / Vtt bigger than 1.280V)

link?

[road-runner]

How many of you are getting past 200 BCKL? now i have tried a few bios, and F5G are the best one, keeping stable at 1.34 QPI/VTT 200 BCKL.
F6B was a no go at the same settings, not even 1.40 did the trick to even post, F5 Final were tricky, did not load windows either..
1.26 at 3.8Ghz, but heat is getting to me stock cooler and 100c after a minute, hangs before that at about 90+. still amazed it can do this at stock cooling, good cpu?

#3841A627

Someone got any good tips on high BCKL?

And also, EasyTune 6 is just crashing with MFC thing... would be sweet to use this though, why doesnt it work ?
should i go with EasyTune 5?

cheerio

I tried DICE for the first time today and F6b hoping it was better than F6a, had to flash back to F5g to get over 190. I managed 222 x 21 boot and 220 x 21 bench 3DMark 06. I wished easytune would work with F5g...

http://service.futuremark.com/result...&resultType=14

[roadtonowhere08]

I found my final settings. Nothing too extreme for this site, but I am happy.

CPU: 3.66GHz
RAM: 1544MHz

Cpu Multi: 19x
Bclk: 193
RAM Multi: 8
XMP Profile On
CPU Vcore 1.38750v (1.36v on Everest)
QPI/VTT 1.240v
IOH Core 1.240v
DRAM 1.65v
HT: On
Turbo: Off
Speed Mode: Standard

Temps:
CPU Cores: 38-41C Idle 65-70C Load (Using Everest System Stability Test)
Northbridge 57-61C
Motherboard 48C

Simfan, thanks for the tips

[Simfan]

I tried DICE for the first time today and F6b hoping it was better than F6a, had to flash back to F5g to get over 190. I managed 222 x 21 boot and 220 x 21 bench 3DMark 06. I wished easytune would work with F5g...

http://service.futuremark.com/result...&resultType=14

Strange. I used my f5g settings on f6b with no problem. I must have a setting higher than it needs to be but not sure which one. It is definitely not Vcore.

[stasio]

link?

As always,TT forum

[safan80]

As always,TT forum

Well I'm not going to let you get lazy

[road-runner]

Strange. I used my f5g settings on f6b with no problem. I must have a setting higher than it needs to be but not sure which one. It is definitely not Vcore.

I am going to try F6b again on water and see whats up, I tried while on DICE and the acetone boiled over and I started getting errors. If I can get easytune to work I will try DICE again...

[dennismagic]

newest:

for ud5 -> f6b.
extreme -> f6c.

Thanks^^

hope F6c can be better than F5g(my best one)

[C3D76]

F5g (for the Extreme) must be one of the only BIOS's I haven't tested yet. It sounds pretty good and I wouldn't mind trying it out.
Does anyone know where I can find it?

Cheers

Ced

[hlonipha]

F5g (for the Extreme) must be one of the only BIOS's I haven't tested yet. It sounds pretty good and I wouldn't mind trying it out.
Does anyone know where I can find it?

Cheers

Ced

tweaktown forums google is your friend

[stasio]

tweaktown forums google is your friend

The funny thing,he is active member there.

[C3D76]

Thanks,

I never noticed the "previous BetaBios" link... lol.

[Hornet331]

so here we go again ->

F6d for Extreme
F6c for UD5

http://www.jzelectronic.de/jz2/news....ige2&z=1&ssl=1

But S3 still dont works (so im not gona try it).

[GAR]

I wish we had change logs for these beta's, im going to keep F5 official, working great so far, also has anyone been able to overclock the pci-e bus?

[stasio]

Hornet331,
where is download link?
Btw,this I know from yesterday and is in test

[Hornet331]

Hmm, seems jz hasn't uploaded them.

I thought he already did, since he usually announces it, if he don't uploads them. (Usually you can select the version in the drop down menu at the bottom of the page).

Well, guess we have to wait for another source.

[stasio]

Now can be download from TT Forum

[technut36]

what is the best my dominator 1600 c8 on this board with a 920, currently its at stock timings. I see a lot of folk with much better specs than the dominator

so the question is can my dominators dominate, and to check i need your help.

[YukonTrooper]

Has anybody attained higher clocks on F5 compared to F4?

[roadtonowhere08]

Right now, I am running the same OC as my last post but using F5 Final BIOS. When I go to shut sown the computer, it turns off normally, but it fires right back up again. I read online that this could be the LAN, so I disabled wake-on for both LAN ports through device manager, and I even disabled them in the BIOS. Nothing seems to work; the computer will not stay shut off. It did this in the F6A BIOS as well. It is driving me NUTS.


EDIT: This seems to be working, taken from http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/19...own-bios-error

I think this is the registry entry I changed to fix the problem, but as outlined on this page, some people were unable to boot after using it, so proceed at your own risk:

Start Regedit and navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Set the value of PowerDownAfterShutdown to 1.