UnOfficial EVGA X58 Classified Owners Thread

[Michowski]

I switched to the 74 bios and I can honestly say ive had nothing but problems. I havent touched my system in close to a year settings wise and recently got a waterblock for my mb over summer and just felt like seeing if I could push it a little more past 4.2. Updated my bios and having a hell of a time getting stable at 4.2 now. I know im rusty and not a veteran or anything but I dont remember having to fight this hard to reach stability at 4.2. Whats the best bios concensus for a 920 D0 chip.

[0xdeadbeef]

The best BIOS for 45nm CPUs is S22D. Check out this changelog for 759 Classified:

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?high=&m=6305

[Michowski]

I looked on evga's site and didnt see those. I got the 760 classified

[cstkl1]

I switched to the 74 bios and I can honestly say ive had nothing but problems. I havent touched my system in close to a year settings wise and recently got a waterblock for my mb over summer and just felt like seeing if I could push it a little more past 4.2. Updated my bios and having a hell of a time getting stable at 4.2 now. I know im rusty and not a veteran or anything but I dont remember having to fight this hard to reach stability at 4.2. Whats the best bios concensus for a 920 D0 chip.

Redo ure rtls
They are now tighter.
Example my 4.5 bclk 215 dram 2150
Previous bios 60,63,65
Bios 73/74 is 60,62,63

[Mafio]

The best BIOS for 45nm CPUs is S22D. Check out this changelog for 759 Classified:

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?high=&m=6305

change log is the same for 759 and 760?

Redo ure rtls
They are now tighter.
Example my 4.5 bclk 215 dram 2150
Previous bios 60,63,65
Bios 73/74 is 60,62,63

with bios 74 i have alot of problem to boot @ 245 MHZ of BCLK, with 44 i'm 32M stable at 245.
and it's not a problem of tight RTLs, i always set them manually.

with 980x the things completly change, bios 74 make all more stable.

[0xdeadbeef]

This guy at EVGA's forum keep track of all 759 BIOS. I don't know if there is a similar thread for 760s.

[cstkl1]

change log is the same for 759 and 760?



with bios 74 i have alot of problem to boot @ 245 MHZ of BCLK, with 44 i'm 32M stable at 245.
and it's not a problem of tight RTLs, i always set them manually.

with 980x the things completly change, bios 74 make all more stable.

well thats what happened to my hypers from moving from bios J to 73/74

had to make my rtl's tighter.

[Aedubber]

Funny you guys are talking about this cuz i cant seem to OC my rig and be stable anymore as well. Dunno if its either the damn DOminator mem sticks or the latest BIOS messing things up. I was able to hit 4.2 with HT on Stable in LinX and now it wont pass 17 seconds, also my memory is not staying stable even when i have applied the recommended volts for its settings, 1 i cant boot up or 2 i cant get past the starting windows section. I have tried a few different settings with the mem but dont seem to hold up. I have a weird problem tho, i will defualt everything and then apply the XMP profile1 to the memory right, save & exit. I use CPUid and the mem isnt even hittin the XMP1 settings which should be 1866- 933MHZ , i am getting 530mhz.. I am EXTREMELy annoyed with this crap , i had recently applied a nice fullcover waterblock to the MB as well.. Been really thinking about ditching this MB and picking up maybe the rampage III.

[owikh84]

Funny you guys are talking about this cuz i cant seem to OC my rig and be stable anymore as well. Dunno if its either the damn DOminator mem sticks or the latest BIOS messing things up. I was able to hit 4.2 with HT on Stable in LinX and now it wont pass 17 seconds, also my memory is not staying stable even when i have applied the recommended volts for its settings, 1 i cant boot up or 2 i cant get past the starting windows section. I have tried a few different settings with the mem but dont seem to hold up. I have a weird problem tho, i will defualt everything and then apply the XMP profile1 to the memory right, save & exit. I use CPUid and the mem isnt even hittin the XMP1 settings which should be 1866- 933MHZ , i am getting 530mhz.. I am EXTREMELy annoyed with this crap , i had recently applied a nice fullcover waterblock to the MB as well.. Been really thinking about ditching this MB and picking up maybe the rampage III.

hmm my board, everything changes right after putting the ek blocks. BSOD etc... previously w/o the wb was able to clock dram 2150Mhz at 1.65v vdimm but now seems need to adjust to 1.74v.

[Aedubber]

Yup I get bsods all the time , it's so hard for me to OC for some reason .. Strange that you say after the ek mb wb it takes so much voltage for your mem .. Wonder why?? Problem is that I wouldn't wanna fry my memory cuz I have nothing to cool off my mem .. And now I recall something , I remeber when I had vdroop enabled I hadseen that it pushed my memories voltage up to 1.70 !! And that's when I was almost at 1700 MHz with 4.2 ghz on CPU ..I'm gonna try the bios from like 2-3 bios' back .. Had a good run then

[cstkl1]

Funny you guys are talking about this cuz i cant seem to OC my rig and be stable anymore as well. Dunno if its either the damn DOminator mem sticks or the latest BIOS messing things up. I was able to hit 4.2 with HT on Stable in LinX and now it wont pass 17 seconds, also my memory is not staying stable even when i have applied the recommended volts for its settings, 1 i cant boot up or 2 i cant get past the starting windows section. I have tried a few different settings with the mem but dont seem to hold up. I have a weird problem tho, i will defualt everything and then apply the XMP profile1 to the memory right, save & exit. I use CPUid and the mem isnt even hittin the XMP1 settings which should be 1866- 933MHZ , i am getting 530mhz.. I am EXTREMELy annoyed with this crap , i had recently applied a nice fullcover waterblock to the MB as well.. Been really thinking about ditching this MB and picking up maybe the rampage III.

eh
i got a r3e with full wateralso
and so does owikh
eh i say no to r3e..unless its a x980 it uses a lot of voltage for everything.
hmm owikh thats one of the signs when my hypers started dying.. inconsistent vdimm voltage
one day can one day cannot.

ade post ure bios template
including cpu and mem ( if its dominators.. with the rev no)
but hmm cant help to notice u just got some 460's.. so looks like some lowgap or ioh voltage issue

[Aedubber]

Ok ya I will tonight when i get home .. And yes I am currently running SLI now .. I returned all my settings back to stock .. Is there a template you can maybe provide and I can try to use ? My CPU is 940 co and all my testing I run is on LinX with 20 passes .. I just don't understand or why all of a sudden comps acting weird !? I had no issues OCing ever before . Also , how do I take a screenshot of my bios setup ?? Thanks

[cstkl1]

Ok ya I will tonight when i get home .. And yes I am currently running SLI now .. I returned all my settings back to stock .. Is there a template you can maybe provide and I can try to use ? My CPU is 940 co and all my testing I run is on LinX with 20 passes .. I just don't understand or why all of a sudden comps acting weird !? I had no issues OCing ever before . Also , how do I take a screenshot of my bios setup ?? Thanks

hmm looking at the proc 940 and gtx460 sli

ure problems started when u went sli with gtx460 rite.

[Aedubber]

I'm not sure to be honest with you but I think with the latest bios update I was having probs

[ChaosAD]

So 74 is the best bios for 980x. But we dont have a best bios for 920. I wanted to try 44 and 74 but if you think that there is no performance gain maybe i shouldnt bother at all

[owikh84]

eh
i got a r3e with full wateralso
and so does owikh
eh i say no to r3e..unless its a x980 it uses a lot of voltage for everything.
hmm owikh thats one of the signs when my hypers started dying.. inconsistent vdimm voltage
one day can one day cannot.

hmm don't know bro I just feel that the full wb has wrecked my board & make it bad. and yeah i smell the hypers is going to die slowly

[Michowski]

The 74 bios are terrible for the 920. Cant get 4.2 stable with them when before I had it perfectly stable with ht on and everything. I hope there is somebody out there who can say what bios work best for the 920.

[davidm71]

Can someone please clarify that even though I set my ram to 1.65 its reading 1.71 in the Health status and everest pages...

Thank you...

[hlonipha]

Can someone please clarify that even though I set my ram to 1.65 its reading 1.71 in the Health status and everest pages...

Thank you...

The board tends to overvolt a bit. Best way to check is a multimeter. The only way I check volts on my system to ensure it won't fry cause bios and other programs cant read this voltage accurately. Seen many like that before.

One like this should do the trick.

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1...&blockType=G18

[Mafio]

The 74 bios are terrible for the 920. Cant get 4.2 stable with them when before I had it perfectly stable with ht on and everything. I hope there is somebody out there who can say what bios work best for the 920.

as stated about 15 post before 44 is the best for 920

[cstkl1]

for me its 73/74.

44 had me stuck at 213bclk 2130mhz CL7/CL8

[ChaosAD]

as stated about 15 post before 44 is the best for 920

I ll give 44 a try then. I hope it will work the best for me too.

EDIT: Just saw cstkl1 responce, cmon make up your mind I think i have to try both of them in the end...

[Mafio]

i don't know what to say, i need to retry this 74 bios, maybe i had made some mistake when i tried it the first time.

[Mafio]

ok, i've retested the 74 bios, it seems as good as 44 - probably the first time i tested it i've made some mistake.
with exactly the same bios settings and OS 74 is a bit faster that 44.
EVGA also added tRL setting that is quite usefull.

bios 44 // 8.59.936



bios 74 // 8.59.797



the only problem with 74 is that i can't restart the PC, when windows is shutting down i always have freeze and post error code display show F5.
i've this issue on 2 EVGA 760.

[cstkl1]

ok, i've retested the 74 bios, it seems as good as 44 - probably the first time i tested it i've made some mistake.
with exactly the same bios settings and OS 74 is a bit faster that 44.
EVGA also added tRL setting that is quite usefull.
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the only problem with 74 is that i can't restart the PC, when windows is shutting down i always have freeze and post error code display show F5.
i've this issue on 2 EVGA 760.

nice
hmm i cannt run my setting for 73/74 to work in 44

100% will get usbuhci error on linx.

btw lol testing corsair airflow pro on dom gt 2k 8-9-8-24
seems
prime (custom 128fft-4096fft 5.5gb) is the most strenous
compare to linx 5518mb
compare to memtest HCI
and compare to memtest86+

its still weird that these psc's dont run tRTP 7 and 8
it can do 6 and below or 9 and above.

so maybe thats y some ppl are having issues with their 2133 9-9-9-24 kits with the preset strap mch 1866/2133 which uses trtp 7

seriously nice rams.. got one now running 2100 7-10-7-27 at 1.64v only (Dmm load)