Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[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.