DFI LP UT X58-T3EH8 - First bench, bios screens etc

[ReverendMaynard]

nice eva. Now strap 4 Kaze Ultra 2000rpm puppies to that beast rad and watch the magic of massive static pressure lol.

[eva2000]

guys what about new beta BIOS?
Im still on 17/02 issue. is it worth to update or wait for final version?

2/27 is latest public beta and 3/18 is latest pre-public beta which adds round trip latency and TREF sub timing options

I didn't notice much diff between 2/17 vs 2/27 but 2/27 was slightly better for my 6GB Corsair 2000 GT 7-8-7-20 modules.

Very nice mate, 4.3 is looking good for the Lanparty competition

thanks.. but what lanparty competition ?

nice eva. Now strap 4 Kaze Ultra 2000rpm puppies to that beast rad and watch the magic of massive static pressure lol.

haha now that would be nice to see but for now 4x120x25mm spire 75cfm fans will have to do

i7 920 @4618.9Mhz HT enabled
Super Pi 32M



i7 920 @4680.6Mhz HT disabled
Super Pi 32M



Max CPUZ Validation @4669Mhz HT enabled & @4744Mhz HT disabled

@4669Mhz HT enabled




@4744Mhz HT disabled

[Russ_64]

This one http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=222891

[eva2000]

thanks for the heads up

[masska]

hey eva, you keep on doing good things with the 920.
I was hoping you'd pop your head in on the thread http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=211579&page=9
You know this board really well and I was hoping you can give me some help.
My two 4870X2's wont post at all and I get error 26. I've tried both clearing cmos and cold cmos (battery), changing slots etc etc.The only way the system will boot is with my spare 4870 (not watercooled). I think it might be the bios, I'm still using the boxed version as I only finished the build a week ago. Tried to update the bios with a usb boot, but no go. It refuses to boot from the usb, even though is set up properly in bios to boot from usb.
I've pulled this loop apart 4 times already and I'm out of ideas with this DFI.
Any suggestions? have you come across this problem before?
Oh and I've also tried increasing mem lowgap +2560, but nothing.
Cheers mate.

[ecidious]

Do you have the two floppy drive power connectors plugged into the motherboard, all four PCI-E power cables on rails that can hande the load and have you confirmed that the cards work in another system? If you have all of the connectors plugged in correctly one or both of those cards migh be dead.

[masska]

Do you have the two floppy drive power connectors plugged into the motherboard, all four PCI-E power cables on rails that can hande the load and have you confirmed that the cards work in another system? If you have all of the connectors plugged in correctly one or both of those cards migh be dead.

no floppy on this build. are you talking about the four pin power connectors next to 1 and 4 pci slots? all power cables are connected right from the psu (ultra 1600W). cant connect them to another system just yet, as my other rig is air and my main work rig and also in the process of a rebuild.

[eva2000]

hey eva, you keep on doing good things with the 920.
I was hoping you'd pop your head in on the thread http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=211579&page=9
You know this board really well and I was hoping you can give me some help.
My two 4870X2's wont post at all and I get error 26. I've tried both clearing cmos and cold cmos (battery), changing slots etc etc.The only way the system will boot is with my spare 4870 (not watercooled). I think it might be the bios, I'm still using the boxed version as I only finished the build a week ago. Tried to update the bios with a usb boot, but no go. It refuses to boot from the usb, even though is set up properly in bios to boot from usb.
I've pulled this loop apart 4 times already and I'm out of ideas with this DFI.
Any suggestions? have you come across this problem before?
Oh and I've also tried increasing mem lowgap +2560, but nothing.
Cheers mate.

Never experienced such myself. Which PCI-E x16 slots you using ? for CF it's 1st and very last PCI-E x16 slots so double slot spacing in between






I'd first get the bios update sorted out before 4870x2 CF. As to bios update you could be suffering the slow/freeze like bios update when some boards the user loaded a pre-saved older bios cmos profile over a newer system bios. Tips #4, #5 and #6 http://i4memory.com/102537-post3.html address the bios issue if your's is similar. Full details http://i4memory.com/f80/dfi-ut-x58-t...eleased-13876/ and solution http://csd.dficlub.org/forum/showpos...&postcount=158 (just no need to reload ABS profile if you never installed ABS software). That should take care of the bios updating.


HTH

[SwIeRsZcZ]

Hi ! I have problem with entering BIOS by DEL key on my PS/2 Keybord.
Sometimes I simply can't enter BIOS when I press DEL key, then black screen appears with blinking --> _ and nothing happens. What's going on ??

/I have i920 D0 (not OC yet)

/Gskill F3-12800CL8T-6GBPI-B 3x2gb

[jcool]

Eva, you might want to think about getting one of those W3520 gems - how's 4,5Ghz primestable on water sound

[chispy]

chispy, you just set the desired multiplier via the turbo menu
Works perfectly fine for me, only thing that doesn't work is setting different mults for different turbo modes (like higher mult for 1x turbo)

Thanks jcool , appreciate your guidance bro . I had DFI explain to me how does it work , as i was using RIIE for long time the Bios difference its like night and day on those boards. Good Day mate.


chispy.

[eva2000]

Hi ! I have problem with entering BIOS by DEL key on my PS/2 Keybord.
Sometimes I simply can't enter BIOS when I press DEL key, then black screen appears with blinking --> _ and nothing happens. What's going on ??

/I have i920 D0 (not OC yet)

/Gskill F3-12800CL8T-6GBPI-B 3x2gb

is that at stock speed only or happens when you overclock ? if you overclock too far that can happen i.e. push bclk or memory too far without tweaking ich/ioh and ioh analogue voltages. Also cstkl1 reported some USB keyboards had issues not sure on PS/2. I have no probs using Logitech Elite PS/2 keyboard and Logitech Trackman wheel PS/2 mouse on Aten KVM switch.

Eva, you might want to think about getting one of those W3520 gems - how's 4,5Ghz primestable on water sound

yeah D0 is tempting but holding out longer to see how the memory controllers fair on D0 - my focus is more on memory than actual cpu speed

Amazing what a water cooling http://i4memory.com/f22/ek-supreme-l...8-t3eh8-17002/ can do for max stable bclk too. On air 228 bclk was max for 32M pi and that needed some work, but on H20 straight boot from bios 32M done at 229blck with ease! 230bclk needs a bit of tweaking as 32M hangs around 15-19th loop for now



working on higher 32M Pi bclk frequency ...

[eva2000]

230bclk boot from bios



setfsb bump from 230bclk to 233bclk

[SwIeRsZcZ]

@Eva

No I haven't overclocked yet ...

one more question, I have downloaded beta 3/18 bios, and during attempting to flash (from USB stick) I get msg : ''The version of BIOS was inaccurate''
''Please remove the floppy , download the right one and re-flash''

What's going on ?? Currently I am running 2/27 ver.

[eva2000]

you using DK X58 or UT X58 board ? bios is for UT X58

As to your problem what are your full hardware specs ? any sound card or other pci devices ? Bios settings used ? you can use template at http://i4memory.com/f80/dfi-lp-ut-x5...emplate-12919/ to post your settings.

More results from me

231bclk 32M Passed



232bclk 1M

[SwIeRsZcZ]

Ad1.

Well... I have DFI UT X58

Ad2. Yes, I have sound card Asus Xonar DX in PCIE3 slot (yellow, the second one) and GTX280 i PCIE4 (green, the last one)

In addition: One Cd-rom , 2x36GB WD Raptor in Raid0 and 1xCaviar Black 1TB

Suggestions ?? I have already tried without Disk drives , and the same problem occures.

[eva2000]

remove the sound card and put gtx280 in first pci-e x16 slot closest to cpu socket and try

and/or also try raising ioh/ich and/or ioh analogue volts a tad for raid0 - something cstkl1 reported at http://i4memory.com/f80/i7-920-d0-df...ability-16617/

[SwIeRsZcZ]

@Eve

I raised voltages on: IOH/ICH 1.1 Volt from def. 1.11 to 1.15v

and

IOH Analog Volt , from 1.10 to 1.15v .

And still having the problem... I have to keep pressing DEL all the time during reboot to enter the bios (and even this method doesn't work every time) or completely turn off computer, unplug power cord then plug itagain and try to enter bios again... NO IDEA what's going on....

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Finally I succeded in flashing to 3/18 bios. Firstly I had to downgrade my 2/27 do earlier and then flash to 3/18

[ChaosAD]

Is it better running vdroop enabled or disabled for every day use?

[masska]

Never experienced such myself. Which PCI-E x16 slots you using ? for CF it's 1st and very last PCI-E x16 slots so double slot spacing in between



I'd first get the bios update sorted out before 4870x2 CF. As to bios update you could be suffering the slow/freeze like bios update when some boards the user loaded a pre-saved older bios cmos profile over a newer system bios. Tips #4, #5 and #6 http://i4memory.com/102537-post3.html address the bios issue if your's is similar. Full details http://i4memory.com/f80/dfi-ut-x58-t...eleased-13876/ and solution http://csd.dficlub.org/forum/showpos...&postcount=158 (just no need to reload ABS profile if you never installed ABS software). That should take care of the bios updating.


HTH

I'm using slots 1 and 4 for x16.
Will try and update the bios tonight and post back.

[SwIeRsZcZ]

1. Does your FLAME FREEZER heatpipe attached to I/O connector area ''moves'' ?? I screwed it pretty hard but it still 'moves' U have the same ?

3. How can I get 22x multiplier on my i920 ? (I saw some screens by eva2000) Now I am only able to get x21 at BCLK 190 and Eist function Enabled

[eva2000]

@Eve

I raised voltages on: IOH/ICH 1.1 Volt from def. 1.11 to 1.15v

and

IOH Analog Volt , from 1.10 to 1.15v .

And still having the problem... I have to keep pressing DEL all the time during reboot to enter the bios (and even this method doesn't work every time) or completely turn off computer, unplug power cord then plug itagain and try to enter bios again... NO IDEA what's going on....

--------------------
Finally I succeded in flashing to 3/18 bios. Firstly I had to downgrade my 2/27 do earlier and then flash to 3/18

tried a different keyboard/mouse combination ?

Is it better running vdroop enabled or disabled for every day use?

24/7 i use with vdroop enabled so to adhere to intel's specs of droopage

1. Does your FLAME FREEZER heatpipe attached to I/O connector area ''moves'' ?? I screwed it pretty hard but it still 'moves' U have the same ?

3. How can I get 22x multiplier on my i920 ? (I saw some screens by eva2000) Now I am only able to get x21 at BCLK 190 and Eist function Enabled

yeah it moves a bit, alot less once i used some ceramique thermal paste on the area that attaches to the I/O on board. 22x = disable 3 cores in cpu features or enable s3 mode s63 IIRC (not sure on later as haven't played with 22x since finding out 22x has lower max bclk headroom than say 19x, 20x, or 21x i.e. 21x can hit 229bclk but with 22x max around 205-209bclk.

[drnip]

Gettin to 221 bclk is a breeze and that is where I am now. I can get there at really low volts too. Gettin past it is a different story. I am goin to have to buckle down and do a lil research as well trial and error to get past it. I read some where that when you start to get in excess of 221 bclk the pcie clock comes into play. I might need to wait until my pot mount comes in too as I read some cpus just can't hit that high of bclk without cooler temps as I am floating in the upper 40's to lower 90's at these speeds. Anyone have any tips on gettin past 221?

[eva2000]

Secret to higher bclk on DFI UT X58 http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=13569

higher pci-e frequency upto 110mhz helped with stability in 32M pi but to get the higher bclk it's in ich/ioh and ioh analag voltages and cpu vtt/vdimm.

Of course a good cpu helps as does better cooling - hence you see all sub zero folks with much higher bclk

[SwIeRsZcZ]

tried a different keyboard/mouse combination ?

What do u mean exactly ??


I OCed a little bit : (as you can know from another site) And problem with entering Bios still happens .



One more question, during Prime/Linx, Core speed differ between CoreTemp/Real Temp where multiplier was changing between 20x 21x , and CPU-z where it was most the time at the same level (4120MHz) U can notice this on above screen , compare Realtemp (4070MHZ ) and Cpu-z (4141MHz) . Is it normal ?? Which is more believable ?