Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[sunn]

You have to wonder what "Fix: D0 Stepping in OC" could mean?

Ive been running at stock for the last couple of days with F8B with RAM at 1600, uncore 3200 to run memtest86, a few passes.... and no locks or restarts under norm use, so ill return to this BIOS over the weekend

With the F8D, AHCI detect so much quicker, but with the same as above (stock) it locks and restart in low load situations (how i despise something in this setup, if only i knew which to blame)

[Arcanum]

Well I think I found out what "fix for D0 stepping" means - it's actually a bug fix from a previous beta bios we never got to see, in that version D0 CPUs could not overclock as well as on the previous versions of the bios because the BIOS settings would not get applied properly.

So it's nothing specific changed that will boost your D0 oc capability, only allowing it to stay at least where it's already at ^^
EDIT: I've gotten that info from JZ electric thread by using google translate (ger->eng).


But, I did notice something strange - I have a habit of doing Aquamark 3 bench runs before and after each bios flash, and guess what? Running F8F extreme bios on my UD5 board gave me a boost of 2k-2.5k average per run on the total score, which is somewhat below 1%, but it's definately repeatable on my rig. (previous bios was F8X for extreme)
EDIT2: bios settings were 100% identical ofcourse between the two versions, maybe the addition of those 2 new settings made the difference?

So thumbs up from me