Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[vrdublu]

The vcore drops to 1.36 in windows and droops to 1.345 under load.

I've tried all manner of memory timings which have made no difference. Yeah QPI seems to want to be high, AUTO sets it at 1.5+! Tried 1.35 and got BSOD in lynx.

What is the BSOD # 101? 124? or E3 or similar, this can tell you whether it's a CPU or QPI/Ram issue.

[Strages]

What is the BSOD # 101? 124? or E3 or similar, this can tell you whether it's a CPU or QPI/Ram issue.

Is there a thread outlining what BSODs to look for and which component they are tied to? That would be amazingly helpful.

[vrdublu]

Is there a thread outlining what BSODs to look for and which component they are tied to? That would be amazingly helpful.

No, not that I remember, but I have noticed that whenever it's a Bsod 124 than it's your QPI/VTT or RAM, normally your QPI/VTT. If it's BSOD 101, or a two digit ie: E3 or similar than it's your CPU Voltage. Also, to get stability I found that QPI/VTT isn't always what's needed, as a matter of fact too much QPI/VTT will harm your OC as much as not enough. When playing around with the Uncore, I found that the x16 multi required a little IOH Core bump, as a matter of fact, every time you bump your your Uncore, bump your IOH Core. As an example: x16 Uncore multi requires 1.18 IOH Core on my rig, to go to x17 multi I find I need 1.26 IOH Core, x18 multi requires 1.34 etc etc.........Now, increasing your IOH Core does raise the temps somewhat but at the same time helps you lower your QPI/VTT. If you look earlier in the thread I had my QPI/VTT @ 1.335 and once I discovered that messing with IOH Core helped me to stabilize the system I was able to lower it to 1.2950. Another thing for testing I have found very usefull is Hyper Pi run 32m with 16cores, if you go through it around 25min to finish and don't get "not exact in round" than your QPI/Vtt and mem are 100% stable, I found that here actually in this thread, very useful tool for testing mem and QPI in windows. I don't remember who had suggested it, but thanks if you're reading this. The other thing I use is IBT for testing the CPU cores, usually never run more than 5 instances, but for final I will do 10. Obviously if it passes than it's ok. If you get varying Gflops between runs, I have found messing with your CPU PLL helps, as in my case I lowered mine to 1.7V. Great board and platform to work with this board is, and the X58 chipset. GL have fun.

[acebmxer]

Is there a thread outlining what BSODs to look for and which component they are tied to? That would be amazingly helpful.

0x00000050 << Incorrect memory timing/freq or uncore multi
0x00000124 << incorrect qpi/vtt voltage ( to much/not enough)
0x00000101 << not enough Vcore voltage


if setting are really out of wack 124 and 101 can reverse them selves


Any other bsod other then them codes are most likely low or not enough vcore but can be qpi/vtt voltage.

[vrdublu]

F6 Bios is out, not much difference that I can see other than quicker boot times and had to bump CPU Voltage a bit. This link is for the GA-X58A-UD5 Rev 1.0. Good Bios so far http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...d=3304&dl=1#dl

[stasio]

F6 Bios is out, not much difference that I can see other than quicker boot times and had to bump CPU Voltage a bit. This link is for the GA-X58A-UD5 Rev 1.0. Good Bios so far http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...d=3304&dl=1#dl

Some members as above even don't know that is EX58 Gigabyte thread.

[Strages]

0x00000050 << Incorrect memory timing/freq or uncore multi
0x00000124 << incorrect qpi/vtt voltage ( to much/not enough)
0x00000101 << not enough Vcore voltage


if setting are really out of wack 124 and 101 can reverse them selves


Any other bsod other then them codes are most likely low or not enough vcore but can be qpi/vtt voltage.

This and the post by vrdublu have been extremely helpful already. Thanks!