Gigabyte X58A-UD3R/Extreme Discussion Thread

[In-Fluence]

Thanks for he heads up on the bios Andrea - will update asap and report back.

On another note, is anyone experiencing major lag or corruption whilst using the jMicron eSata? Having a bit of an issue on my backup drive atm, and and a little concerned about my drive or board being fudged. When copying big files, it'll start off all guns blazing and speed is good, then drive activity will just stop for a minute or so, then continue to let about 10MB of data through between 10-30 second pauses...
Listening back to audio recordings seem to stutter and pause, playback is stuttering the same when seeking back to same place, so my cause for concern grows about some of my data.
Bloody Jmicron controller seems to be behaving weirdly, and their site leaves little to be desired. Marvell don't even have any SATA drivers available, but took the time to upload a video bragging about their SATA3 performance. Luckily they sem to be operating fine.

I've upped the voltage on the ICH and IOH to see if things improve, although I fear my drive may already be hosed. I was just about to embark on a 750G RAID1, and 1TB RAID0 setup too

Luckily I do still have backups elsewhere so I will update the bios, and report back.


*edit - turns out F6m is a bit pants for me. Now trying F5 properly, if it yeilds nothing better then I might stick with F6k.


*edit 2 - MY eSata problem was to do with the stupid Jmicron drivers - If you're using the eSata on W7 x64, do not install the jmicron eSata drivers, just stick with the default windows ones (and make sure you have AHCI enabled in bios or you wont have proper hot-plug support). I'm just glad my data is safe!