Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[CodeRush]

road-runner, while using DICE, did you experienced any motherboard cold-bugs or something?
I tried my i7 920 @ Extreme on DICE about 2 months ago, and couldn't get any better results as on cold water because of strange behavior of motherboard:

system can't boot if Vcore > 1.53875 (BIOS). It goes to infinite power on/power off loop with following error codes: 11, 22, 55. Tried F4m instead of F5e and nothing changed.

On cold water, same system with same settings (just remove DICE container and set up waterblock) started normaly with 1.6 Vcore / 1.6 Vqpi. WTF is going on?

[andyr(uk)]

Hi ,can you tell me what the 5 blue leds are for by the side of the ram and what are you using to monitor your qpi and nb temps

[EtherWind]

Hi ,can you tell me what the 5 blue leds are for by the side of the ram and what are you using to monitor your qpi and nb temps

If your talking about the 5 LEDs to the top right of the RAM (straight row up and down):

Page 25 of UD5 rev1.0 Manual - "The onboard CPU overclock LEDs indicate on which level the CPU is overclocked. The higher the overclock level, the more the number of lighted LEDs. Off: Normal Condition / F_LED1~F_LED5 : Blue"

If your asking about the 5 LEDs to the top left of the RAM (3 and then 2 LEDs side by side)

"Temperature indicator LEDs - ... The LEDs are off when the temperature is below 60C; the green LED lights up when the temperature is between 61-80C; the red LED is illuminated when the temperature exceeds 80C"

There are also LEDs for NB temps beside the NB.

[andyr(uk)]

If your talking about the 5 LEDs to the top right of the RAM (straight row up and down):

Page 25 of UD5 rev1.0 Manual - "The onboard CPU overclock LEDs indicate on which level the CPU is overclocked. The higher the overclock level, the more the number of lighted LEDs. Off: Normal Condition / F_LED1~F_LED5 : Blue"

Yeah it was those ones i was a bit concerned with but no probs then as i got all 5 on , finally getting somewhere with this board, proving to be a good one , wasnt too sure to start with as i never had a Gigabyte board before. Prime stable at 4.0Ghz so quite pleased , now reducing the cpu volts to see when i lose it.

[EtherWind]

Yeah it was those ones i was a bit concerned with but no probs then as i got all 5 on , finally getting somewhere with this board, proving to be a good one , wasnt too sure to start with as i never had a Gigabyte board before. Prime stable at 4.0Ghz so quite pleased , now reducing the cpu volts to see when i lose it.

I've never actually paid that much attention to them. I wonder at what overclock speed all five of them turn on... I'd guess around 3.6 or something.

Interested to see how low you get the voltages at 4.0, my sweet spot is definitely 3.8/1.325v otherwise I have to crank the power up too much for a 24x7 system for my comfort level.

[andyr(uk)]

I've never actually paid that much attention to them. I wonder at what overclock speed all five of them turn on... I'd guess around 3.6 or something.

Interested to see how low you get the voltages at 4.0, my sweet spot is definitely 3.8/1.325v otherwise I have to crank the power up too much for a 24x7 system for my comfort level.

I get all 5 leds on at 4.0Gig and at 3.8 i get 4 leds on. I get the lights flashing on and off like crazy on cold boot at 4.0 Gig so i am back at 3.8 at the min untill i can do a bit more tweaking but volts at 4.0 gig will run prime stable at 1.425 volts , i have been reducing it and priming it and i am suprised how low its going.Just need to get over this initial startup problem , i am on F5 bios ,is this any good or is this why i have this issue?

[EtherWind]

I get all 5 leds on at 4.0Gig and at 3.8 i get 4 leds on. I get the lights flashing on and off like crazy on cold boot at 4.0 Gig so i am back at 3.8 at the min untill i can do a bit more tweaking but volts at 4.0 gig will run prime stable at 1.425 volts , i have been reducing it and priming it and i am suprised how low its going.Just need to get over this initial startup problem , i am on F5 bios ,is this any good or is this why i have this issue?

Most people here seem to like BIOS F5G or F4J... But it wasn't until I switched over to F6A (and some other stuff) that my boot loop problems went away finally. There are much smarter people then I here though, so hopefully they can help you out. But you might want to try F5G and see what happens, as that seems to be the current flavour of choice (aside from the F4J holdouts).

[Splave]

road-runner, while using DICE, did you experienced any motherboard cold-bugs or something?
I tried my i7 920 @ Extreme on DICE about 2 months ago, and couldn't get any better results as on cold water because of strange behavior of motherboard:

On cold water, same system with same settings (just remove DICE container and set up waterblock) started normaly with 1.6 Vcore / 1.6 Vqpi. WTF is going on?

Did you hit the 222 wall? On reg water, I cant go higher. Raising voltages does nothing

[ReverendMaynard]

Did you hit the 222 wall? On reg water, I cant go higher. Raising voltages does nothing

You see this thread?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...27#post3703627

basically, the dude hit the same wall and overcame it with SetFSB. Give it a shot bruva.

[road-runner]

road-runner, while using DICE, did you experienced any motherboard cold-bugs or something?
I tried my i7 920 @ Extreme on DICE about 2 months ago, and couldn't get any better results as on cold water because of strange behavior of motherboard:

On cold water, same system with same settings (just remove DICE container and set up waterblock) started normaly with 1.6 Vcore / 1.6 Vqpi. WTF is going on?

Only problem I had was I could not boot at 223, I could boot at 222. I am going to give it another try soon now that I finally got easytune working in 64 bit windows...