***X58A-OC*** Club/Discussion/Information

[sin0822]

the bad, at different voltage levels qpi/vtt should be off even more if you increase it

[thebad]

Wow this thread went all silent!
No intention for me to go beyond 1.4V on the qpi/vtt at this point. Funny it is much closer to target on my board than most have reported. I also got my Antec Kuhler H20 LED to match the orange LED on the board... Pretty cool.

[NoGuru]

I haven't any time to play with mine. Summers are short here so need to make the most of them.

[sin0822]

yea summer, the days are long buttime is short!

qpi/vtt is different depending on the BIOS used, F5B is much better than previous BIOSes.

[bartman1973]

Hi guys ...I was able to borrow a 980x and was able to get one x58a-oc ...when i press the 4g button...what happens is the system will reboot but what is hapennig is it will be a 25 x 200 multi with just 1.31+v core set on the bios so the system will not boot...when it failed to boot and you go to the bios that is what you will see a 25 x 200 ... I cannot make the 4g button work is this a processor issue since the 980x i borrowed is one ES proc?

Seems like i need to rename the 4g button to 5g hahaha

[acebmxer]

Did you load optimized defaults save and reboot on first boot after installing cpu?

[bartman1973]

yeah i did that ... will try to get non ES cpu ... i think this has something to do with my ES processor

[maxxx]

Anyone have tips on running greater than 2133Mhz ram frequency on this board with a 980x? Of course with some capable ram.

[thebad]

It depends more on the CPU and the memory than the board. I have not been too succesful beyond 2000MHz but I am on a AIO WC so I am limited in terms of voltage.

[maxxx]

It depends more on the CPU and the memory than the board. I have not been too succesful beyond 2000MHz but I am on a AIO WC so I am limited in terms of voltage.

True, I guess more testing is needed.

[Mmichel]

http://www.overclockingstation.de/co...8aoc-a592.html

[XII]

Though I strictly play air, what BIOS is best?
Main goal : Getting up and over UD7/Rex3 and Classy settings

W3680 3005-F-553 @4.2 -1,25V
Uncore stable up to 4.01 thus far
6x4Gb @1900+ 8-9-8 1T

[sin0822]

just use the latest, they just get better, but there aren't that many BIOSes anyways. OCing really doesn't change much across BIOSes, but the qpivtt doesn't overvolt with the latest BIOS.

[XII]

As for memory clocking, anyone tested with 6x 4G`s?
Main goal would be @2000 with tight timings. 8-9-8 or better for PSC.
9-10-9 for Hynix, and if possible 9-9-8 for Micron

[thebad]

As for memory clocking, anyone tested with 6x 4G`s?
Main goal would be @2000 with tight timings. 8-9-8 or better for PSC.
9-10-9 for Hynix, and if possible 9-9-8 for Micron

It will depend more on your CPU IMC than on the board. The only 4GB sticks that have a chance to reaching 2000MHz at any timing right now are Hynix. PSC are only 2GB sticks and unless there is something new from Micron, they are stuck at 1600ish max. With 6x4GB I am able to get to 2002MHz 9-11-9-27 but I am anal about running the uncore at 2x the RAM clock. Downclocking the uncore means downclocking the IMC which means loss in memory bandwidth so any RAM overclock is kind of moot.

[XII]

It will depend more on your CPU IMC than on the board. The only 4GB sticks that have a chance to reaching 2000MHz at any timing right now are Hynix. PSC are only 2GB sticks and unless there is something new from Micron, they are stuck at 1600ish max. With 6x4GB I am able to get to 2002MHz 9-11-9-27 but I am anal about running the uncore at 2x the RAM clock. Downclocking the uncore means downclocking the IMC which means loss in memory bandwidth so any RAM overclock is kind of moot.

IMC isn`t to bad, hence the X58A-OC.
PSC/Elpida/??? Geil 2000 Ultra+ (Same chip as the Tridents, http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&daysprune=365 )
Microns are Corsair 6*4 1600 and hopefully do 1900 9-9-8 (1823 9-9-9 stuck on Rex3)

[maxxx]

I have been trying 3x2GB OCZ Blades (Hypers) at 2160Mhz configured at c7. No luck on that speed so far on bios F5b and F4c. It works beautifully on the R3E with the same proc I am testing. I am still trying though.

[Xtreme Addict]

I am done with X58A-OC

I tried it 5 times on LN2 and repeatedly it froze to death after 10 - 30 minutes, I tried all possible isolations like armaflex, eraser etc. I can bench for hours on R3E, R3 BE and UD9 but not with X58A-OC... this time it's not my fault, buttons are bugged, layout is not for overclockers, clearmos buttons and pwm clock under CPU isolation? It's not for me and this motherboard needs sometimes good clearmos, it has some problems with boot on cold... I set 600 pwm clock and after 10 minutes it killed my retail 990x on stock during Windows 7 installation... OC motherboard and there are no options like in GOOC bioses for normal motherboards, thats a joke in my opinion

results:
my 7 GHz chip on R3 BE did 6.8 GHz with pain in the asshttp://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1877094...
3D tests were about 100 - 150 MHz worse than on R3 BE

The only one positive aspect is price, in Poland it's cheaper than UD7 (it's about 360$ and tax in Poland is 23%) and have 4 PCIE for dual cards (AMD) but for me it's not enough. Maybe my sample was broken, but for me this motherboard isn't good, best GB motherboard was and will be UD9 which is amazing mobo

[sin0822]

damn that sucks man, you must be doing something wrong or have gotten a bad board, b/c that is crazy.

[Hondacity]

miravo doing something wrong? you must be kidding me

[sin0822]

Then it must be a bad board or somthing,
BTW ppl aren't perfect they make mistakes, of course not 5 times in a row lol.

I have seen him OC he is very good, i am just saying. His problems are just very odd.

[Shiranui Gen-An]

A Gigabyte board that actually overvolts VTT a bit rather than undervolting by 0.05v or more (*cough*UD9*cough*)? That's something!

[dinos22]

my max clocks in 3D are same with OC and UD9, OC sets volts differently which throws some people off a bit, especially after switching from UD9 to OC and in particular the VTT difference between the boards. That alone can have major difference in OC


ive not had a single bench session on OC board last less then at least 3 hours with some as long as 10 hours. What freezing are you referring to exactly?

[maxxx]

@Dino: any memory clocking data for this board? I am having some trouble getting stable runs on c7 @ 2160Mhz. The RAM (OCZ Blades) and processor (980x) are capable on doing this on the UD9 and R3E. I dunno what's the big difference for the X58A-OC board. Thanks in advance...

F5b bios, btw....

[Xtreme Addict]

my max clocks in 3D are same with OC and UD9, OC sets volts differently which throws some people off a bit, especially after switching from UD9 to OC and in particular the VTT difference between the boards. That alone can have major difference in OC


ive not had a single bench session on OC board last less then at least 3 hours with some as long as 10 hours. What freezing are you referring to exactly?

I didn't test my 7 GHz chip on UD9 but I will. I had 00 or 88 code after 10 - 30 minutes or totally powered off, once it froze at - 90*C
BTW

is there any newer bios for UD9 with vcore 1.9+?