Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[FuryPT]

I found F5g needed lower VCore and QPi/vtt voltages for the same overclock than subsequent bios releases

And in Gigabyte Extreme what is the best bios till now ( where you need a lower Vcore and Vtt voltage for the same OC..)?

Cumps,
FuRy

[ReverendMaynard]

And in Gigabyte Extreme what is the best bios till now ( where you need a lower Vcore and Vtt voltage for the same OC..)?

Cumps,
FuRy

I've had pretty consistent performance and reliability with the F4J...but YMMV.

[FuryPT]

I've had pretty consistent performance and reliability with the F4J...but YMMV.

Isn't the F6F good?

And the F5G?

Cumps,
FuRy

[Hornet331]

Have you tried leaving your qpi as auto and just set your ram to 1.9v? You have to remember that for whatever reaseon the memory needs to be .5v higher than the qpi or it will become very unstable. If I have time tonight I will put f6c back on the xtreme and test this again. I have gone up to 2.0v on the ram and the qpi set to auto runs up to 1.5v's. mind you I don't think that this would be good long term though!

actually you got that wrong, the memory shouldn't excced the qpi voltage by 0.5V (thats why intel specs the max vdimm voltage with 1.85V, cause the max QPI voltage is 1.35V )

[silverfox71]

actually you got that wrong, the memory shouldn't excced the qpi voltage by 0.5V (thats why intel specs the max vdimm voltage with 1.85V, cause the max QPI voltage is 1.35V )

That could be the max but if you set your ram volts to 1.9v then start windows then open et6 you will see what I am talking about. the qpi will follow the ram volts by .5 or very close to it. I have now gone from f4j to f6c without any voltage diffences with my chip. no exceptional changes one way or another as in volts to obtain same fsb! I do beleive that each chip would have a preference to different volts in different places. I hope in the near future I can order yet another i7 and test this in more depth.

[Hornet331]

That could be the max but if you set your ram volts to 1.9v then start windows then open et6 you will see what I am talking about. the qpi will follow the ram volts by .5 or very close to it. I have now gone from f4j to f6c without any voltage diffences with my chip. no exceptional changes one way or another as in volts to obtain same fsb! I do beleive that each chip would have a preference to different volts in different places. I hope in the near future I can order yet another i7 and test this in more depth.

thats exactly what i said, at least gb was so smart that it made the auto voltage settings respect this limit.

But my problem is that every bios after F6b dont starts with more then 1.3V without a oc recover. Its reproduceable and it'S not connected to the bclck or anything else. -> set 1.3V QPI voltage in bios, cold boot -> bam, oc recover.

I can even coldboot with 200mhz bclck speed with only 1.29V Qpi voltage (but its not enough to get into windows).

I'll wait now for final F6 maybe they fix it.

[silverfox71]

thats exactly what i said, at least gb was so smart that it made the auto voltage settings respect this limit.

But my problem is that every bios after F6b dont starts with more then 1.3V without a oc recover. Its reproduceable and it'S not connected to the bclck or anything else. -> set 1.3V QPI voltage in bios, cold boot -> bam, oc recover.

I can even coldboot with 200mhz bclck speed with only 1.29V Qpi voltage (but its not enough to get into windows).

I'll wait now for final F6 maybe they fix it.

Woops!! my misunderstanding.

[davewolfs]

Is there a reason why people on this board are fans of the Gigabyte boards over the Asus P6T Deluxe boards?

[nipper575]

I am not a fan of one brand over the other, the gigabyte board works fine for me (finally, lol). I'm sure I would of been happy with the P6T also. Truth be told, I went with GB because I liked the colour and HS designs. I'm not a fanboi to any brand.

[godsfist]

Is there a reason why people on this board are fans of the Gigabyte boards over the Asus P6T Deluxe boards?

It was very suspicious they announced a revision 2 of that board within weeks of the 1st's release.. something smells

Also I plugged my 920 in and set everything to auto and got 4GHz.. never had that type of experience with an Asus but it happens regularly with Giga for me.

[stasio]

Asus P6T and P6T Deluxe boards are unable to measure DIMM voltage.

[stasio]

New BIOS released:
GA-EX58-Extreme - F6g
GA-EX58-UD5 - F6d

[Fafeifa]

F6d is pretty bad, none of my F5 final settings worked and worst is i couldn't use Q-Flash, but had to reflash it through windows back to F5, i'll wait for F6 Final.

[technut36]

I am not a fan of one brand over the other, the gigabyte board works fine for me (finally, lol). I'm sure I would of been happy with the P6T also. Truth be told, I went with GB because I liked the colour and HS designs. I'm not a fanboi to any brand.

After going through ~100 boards, i have built a preference for gigabyte boards. I must admit that most of the boards I used were under $200 and gigabyte has been nailing budget boards big time, especially the ud3 series (used 8 of these).

For cases cooler master is #1 for me. The new batch of cooler masters have a killer cable management design. when i am building pc for customers, i dont have time to drill holes and come of with schemes for cable management as I had to for most of the antecs.


Here is the bottom line, if I am building a PC for my self I usually just want the best in a certain budget disregarding the brand. But when i am building PCs for customers I want something that will require less time to assemble but still give same or better oc/temp results while keeping the price low. GB and CM thank you, you have made my life much easier. CHEERS.

[davewolfs]

Does the gigabyte board have any problems overclocking with 6 sticks of ram? In the anandtech review they mentioned that the Asus was much easier to overclock with 6 sticks of memory.

[SteveRo]

Does the gigabyte board have any problems overclocking with 6 sticks of ram? In the anandtech review they mentioned that the Asus was much easier to overclock with 6 sticks of memory.

I have oc'd with six sticks no problem, even different speeds - 3 are 1066 and 3 are 2000mhz.

[tipes]

F6d is pretty bad, none of my F5 final settings worked and worst is i couldn't use Q-Flash, but had to reflash it through windows back to F5, i'll wait for F6 Final.

Anybody else tried F6D on UD5 and had this bad results?

What is the best bios to use for UD5 that works with OC and S3 working?

Would like to know peoples oppinions.

Mark

[technut36]

I am not a fan of one brand over the other, the gigabyte board works fine for me (finally, lol). I'm sure I would of been happy with the P6T also. Truth be told, I went with GB because I liked the colour and HS designs. I'm not a fanboi to any brand.

hard to answer this question because its a personal pref. because the two products u are asking about aren't that diff.

after using the ud3p i am gb fan for life.

[nipper575]

hard to answer this question because its a personal pref. because the two products u are asking about aren't that diff.

after using the ud3p i am gb fan for life.

After going through ~100 boards, i have built a preference for gigabyte boards. I must admit that most of the boards I used were under $200 and gigabyte has been nailing budget boards big time, especially the ud3 series (used 8 of these).

For cases cooler master is #1 for me. The new batch of cooler masters have a killer cable management design. when i am building pc for customers, i dont have time to drill holes and come of with schemes for cable management as I had to for most of the antecs.


Here is the bottom line, if I am building a PC for my self I usually just want the best in a certain budget disregarding the brand. But when i am building PCs for customers I want something that will require less time to assemble but still give same or better oc/temp results while keeping the price low. GB and CM thank you, you have made my life much easier. CHEERS.

You quoted my same quote twice, lol?

Yeah you are right, it's down to personal preference. My last 4 motherboards have all been GB boards and they have all been flawless. I have had a bit more trouble with this X58 board but it is now working to my satisfaction. As long as GB keep making quality products, I will keep buying them. My main point is that both ASUS and Gigabyte have supporters who do nothing but flame the other product, it's childish.

[systemviper]

I'm working with a UD4P and i love it, check out my sig....

Freq : 4620 MHz (220 * 21)


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[LazyBum]

Is there a reason why people on this board are fans of the Gigabyte boards over the Asus P6T Deluxe boards?

I've had all kinds of boards over the years, and lately Gigabyte seems to be providing the best package to the enthusiast crowd with good solid boards, and lots of customer interaction & frequent updates. I think DFI was kind of that way for a while a few years back during the S754/939 era. I'm not sure how good they are now, after DFI-street blew up and Core Duo kicked AMD off their perch they lost me, they were too slow to get a good board out.

The Asus boards I have had were all pretty good, but their customer service and website are just plain awful Seriously, their site loads like its running on someone's cell phone and the battery is dying. Their service isn't any faster, you might as well get ready to order the next generation platform, because it will be released before you get your board back from them. However, if there's no problems, and there usually aren't with their boards, they will run for a long time. I guess its not so much that I don't like their products, I don't like their lack of customer service so I vote with my wallet.

[ReverendMaynard]

I'm working with a UD4P and i love it, check out my sig....

Freq : 4620 MHz (220 * 21)


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How would you stack it up against the Blood Rage? Very nice clocks, you're probably maxed out on the bclk but very impressive.

[Hornet331]

New BIOS released:
GA-EX58-Extreme - F6g
GA-EX58-UD5 - F6d

lol GB spits out bios versions every 3 days.... but damn... i would be happy if the only spit out once every month, if they dont always break stuff.... ah well tim to try F6g..

[Beef]

Anybody else tried F6D on UD5 and had this bad results?

What is the best bios to use for UD5 that works with OC and S3 working?

Would like to know peoples oppinions.

Mark

I'm sticking with F5g after F6a wasn't very good for my UD5 - didn't like having to bump the voltages up so high for 21x190

[PlatoonSgtElias]

nothing to do with the X58, i7 or rivatuner. It's 100% GTX285. Either suck it up or RMA it.

FAIL!
I got rid of the noise by disabling all the c1h features, the throttling and power saving stuff from the menu where you clock the cpu.