Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[Jonny Manc]

My room ambient was about 18'c, but the air flow through my case is massive given the 200mm side fan blowing onto the board, the 140 & 120mm fans blowing across it and a 120mm fan blowing onto the back of the motherboard......gotta love the Thermatake Spedo AP :P

Obviously, it gets a tad warmer when the sun is out, but not too much

Will try and measure the load temps at some point today.

[esdxx]

Hi, new to the forums,

While i was waiting for confirmation, i read thru this thread. I am also owner of UD5 board. Downloaded the latest beta BIOS F8f.

Currently running at 3.8GHz stable (with turbo on), but anything higher giving me stability issues (BSOD 124). I already tried to bump cpu voltage to 1.3V, vtt to 1.34V and ram to 1.64, still BSODing in Prime.

On a side note, since i got my new board, i'v got one annoying issue with monitor (t240). When i power up or restart, it always search fo signal and blinking between HDMI, Analog and after it gets to digital, the screen turn on - by that time, the post is already somewhere at checking RAID array - well, unless i dont experience slow boot, which has been aparently another issue with UD5.

[123456iambelial]

Hi, new to the forums,

While i was waiting for confirmation, i read thru this thread. I am also owner of UD5 board. Downloaded the latest beta BIOS F8f.

Currently running at 3.8GHz stable (with turbo on), but anything higher giving me stability issues (BSOD 124). I already tried to bump cpu voltage to 1.3V, vtt to 1.34V and ram to 1.64, still BSODing in Prime.

On a side note, since i got my new board, i'v got one annoying issue with monitor (t240). When i power up or restart, it always search fo signal and blinking between HDMI, Analog and after it gets to digital, the screen turn on - by that time, the post is already somewhere at checking RAID array - well, unless i dont experience slow boot, which has been aparently another issue with UD5.

I think that BSOD 124 has something to do with vcore and CPU Vtt

[esdxx]

I think that BSOD 124 has something to do with vcore and CPU Vtt

Yeah, so i heard, but vcore is i think already quite high, from what i heard 1.275V should be enough for 4GHz.

[imaolyon]

Hi everyone, i need some help on UD5(F8e bios) with xeon w3520 #3901

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=641343

Apparently this is stable at 4.02Ghz, but when i tried turning on intel turbo boost, system refuse to boot up tried increasing voltage to 1.35V but to no avail. any way to overcome this?

[phsinc1]

Hi, new to the forums,

While i was waiting for confirmation, i read thru this thread. I am also owner of UD5 board. Downloaded the latest beta BIOS F8f.

Currently running at 3.8GHz stable (with turbo on), but anything higher giving me stability issues (BSOD 124). I already tried to bump cpu voltage to 1.3V, vtt to 1.34V and ram to 1.64, still BSODing in Prime.

On a side note, since i got my new board, i'v got one annoying issue with monitor (t240). When i power up or restart, it always search fo signal and blinking between HDMI, Analog and after it gets to digital, the screen turn on - by that time, the post is already somewhere at checking RAID array - well, unless i dont experience slow boot, which has been aparently another issue with UD5.

Concerning the monitor blinking, you have to manually change "Source to Manual instead of Auto" in the monitor's OSD

[esdxx]

Concerning the monitor blinking, you have to manually change "Source to Manual instead of Auto" in the monitor's OSD

Thanks, that helped.

In other news, i am still struggling to stabilze the 4GHz. 3.8GHz (181x21) seems to be pretty stable with 1.26V, RAM 1.64V and rest on auto. But...



I am in windows, but will BSOD after few minutes of Prime. If anyone have a suggestion, please share. I am quite a newbie, when it comes to overclocking.

My BIOS settings:
191x21
vcore: 1.281V
vtt: Auto
CPU PLL: 1.88V
RAM: 1.64VA
qpi link: x36
Uncore: at value to match 2x RAM frequency, not sure what number is it
Ram ratio: 6.0
PCI-E: auto

PCI spread centrum everythng off, except turbo and HT. Everything else is on auto i think.

Not to forget my specs: 920 D0 , UD5, OCZ 6GB 1600MHz, 720W enermax
Batch number is: 3911A318 - i never saw anyone with this # and neither google it seems, but i heard 39xxxx performing worse...
I dont really want to go higher than 1.3V with vcore, i'v already hitting 70C under load now with 1.27-28V. I'v got noctua cooler push/pull (with AS5 applied) and ATCS 840 case.

PS: What happens if you guys put too low voltage and PC wont post? At first, pc restarted and then message poped up, that overclocking failed. But recently i am not getting that, computer just keep restarting and i have to clear CMOS every single time. I am using F8F BIOS.

[M31]

I've bought one of these boards already for my planned I7 upgrade, in the next couple of days I'm going to buy i7 920, GTX285 but not sure of what memory to buy for hopefully a stable 24/7 4GHz or more overclock?

Preferably from the following UK vendors list of available DDR3.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/produc...id=701&catid=8

http://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0-24-32-0

http://www.overclock.co.uk/dept/DDR3...nnel_1002.html

Or if anyone knows a reliable supplier of good ram for this board?

I was hoping for Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) but everyone seems out of stock?

Thanks.

[orig3n]

i have to say im impressed with this F8 bios, i just upgraded from F7 and the board now boots much quicker now with ACHI and RAID enabled

I enabled XHD aswell, no idea what it does and havn't seen an improvement in HDtach or anything but it works so i left it on

For some reason my 1866C7GT would'nt run at 1866 with the F7 bios either, all good with this F8 release

[nipper575]

My room ambient was about 18'c, but the air flow through my case is massive given the 200mm side fan blowing onto the board, the 140 & 120mm fans blowing across it and a 120mm fan blowing onto the back of the motherboard......gotta love the Thermatake Spedo AP :P

Obviously, it gets a tad warmer when the sun is out, but not too much

Will try and measure the load temps at some point today.

Thanks.

Well now I'm puzzled, I have a 230mm fan blowing on my motherboard (HAF 932), yet your idle temps are a good 10'c lower than mine? You even have a similar graphics card. Obviously the extra fans are doing their part also in your case.

What does your GPU idle at, I'm still thinking that the radiant heat comming off this 260 is what is bringing my NB temps up. I'm not even sure if it's anything to worry about as I can't seem to find out what the normal and max operating temps for it are. I have prefect stability so I guess I have nothing to worry about, but I would like to know for sure.

Hi, new to the forums,

While i was waiting for confirmation, i read thru this thread. I am also owner of UD5 board. Downloaded the latest beta BIOS F8f.

Currently running at 3.8GHz stable (with turbo on), but anything higher giving me stability issues (BSOD 124). I already tried to bump cpu voltage to 1.3V, vtt to 1.34V and ram to 1.64, still BSODing in Prime.

On a side note, since i got my new board, i'v got one annoying issue with monitor (t240). When i power up or restart, it always search fo signal and blinking between HDMI, Analog and after it gets to digital, the screen turn on - by that time, the post is already somewhere at checking RAID array - well, unless i dont experience slow boot, which has been aparently another issue with UD5.

I can't be of too much help as my OC is relatively tame, but I often see people upping the cpu pll voltage. Maybe that is holding you back? Also make sure that your uncore multi is set to at least half of your RAM multi for stability.

[Jonny Manc]

Thanks.

Well now I'm puzzled, I have a 230mm fan blowing on my motherboard (HAF 932), yet your idle temps are a good 10'c lower than mine? You even have a similar graphics card. Obviously the extra fans are doing their part also in your case.

What does your GPU idle at, I'm still thinking that the radiant heat comming off this 260 is what is bringing my NB temps up. I'm not even sure if it's anything to worry about as I can't seem to find out what the normal and max operating temps for it are. I have prefect stability so I guess I have nothing to worry about, but I would like to know for sure.

GPU is currently idle at 41'c (55% fan for quietness ) with the NB at 34'c (according to Everest).

[nipper575]

GPU is currently idle at 41'c (55% fan for quietness ) with the NB at 34'c (according to Everest).

thanks.