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

[Hondacity]

your chip is good lol

[veblen]

Hello all, I'm an enthusiast bencher with two 980Xs (and an X58A-OC) and am deciding which one to keep.

The batch numbers are:

1. 3008A515T
2. 3005F729

I haven't been able to find much information about the first one (with the T at the end) save one submission here: http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.ph...postcount=4835

I'm thinking of finally going sub-zero next year but as of now, I'm not sure how to find out which chip is the better clocker.

Both chips can hit 4.25GHz (170x25) with mem at 1020MHz 9-11-9-27, QPI 3.6GHz with 1.3vcore.

I'd greatly appreciate any help here from the expert benchers!

[donmarkoni]

There are no links to newer BIOS'es in the OP, so here they are:

F5C (7z) 2011-09-06
-Improve OCZ PCIe SSD compatibility and RAID ROM

F5D (7z) 2011-12-12
Improve ISRT+MARVELL RAID compatibility

[Razor_Blade]

I am going crazy trying to get this board working with 2 GTX 480's and an Areca Raid card. Both graphics cards were working on my Classified, but now one of them will not work in Windows anymore. I keep getting an error in device manager that one of the had a problem that is preventing it from starting (Code 43). I have the cards in the first two PCI-e slots, from the top. Nothing I have done will get the second one to start, I have tried disabling extra components, reinstalling drivers (including driver sweeping them off), moving the Areca to different PCI-e slots, but nothing is working. Do I need to have the cards in slots 1 and 3, from the top, for SLI to work? I am nearly positive that the cards are both functioning flawlessly. Any advice? Moving the cards around a ton is a huge pain in the butt, because they are watercooled.

Once I get this figured out, I need to figure out how to overclock my i7 980 on this board. It seems much pickier than the Classified.

[sin0822]

1 and 3 are best, but switch the order of teh cards around, maybe that will work.

[NoGuru]

You should still be able to pull out one card at a time and just let it hang there to test each card too.

[Gorki]

I am going crazy trying to get this board working with 2 GTX 480's and an Areca Raid card. Both graphics cards were working on my Classified, but now one of them will not work in Windows anymore. I keep getting an error in device manager that one of the had a problem that is preventing it from starting (Code 43). I have the cards in the first two PCI-e slots, from the top. Nothing I have done will get the second one to start, I have tried disabling extra components, reinstalling drivers (including driver sweeping them off), moving the Areca to different PCI-e slots, but nothing is working. Do I need to have the cards in slots 1 and 3, from the top, for SLI to work? I am nearly positive that the cards are both functioning flawlessly. Any advice? Moving the cards around a ton is a huge pain in the butt, because they are watercooled.

Once I get this figured out, I need to figure out how to overclock my i7 980 on this board. It seems much pickier than the Classified.

Did you try switching card places? Without Areca Raid card just to see if it boots correctly (with both cards)?

Once I get this figured out, I need to figure out how to overclock my i7 980 on this board. It seems much pickier than the Classified.

Wait a bit, you're just getting to know each other. Board bios is very aggressive I believe and best result require some time to straight it out, but you'll be pleased in the end.

BTW guys is it just me, board bios? I can't regulate CPU fan speed no matter what option I choose/set in bios. I'm using ordinary fan without PWM, tried two (different brand) fan and result is same they both spin at full speed?
I don't have PWM fan so I can't confirm about that.
Does anyone experiencing same problem? Bad luck?

[Razor_Blade]

1 and 3 are best, but switch the order of teh cards around, maybe that will work.

I am going to give that a try, but it is going to be a pain, the watercooling gear won't take nicely to this. The card with issues is the second one down:

You should still be able to pull out one card at a time and just let it hang there to test each card too.

Cant let them hang, I need to redo the loop every time I pull a card.

Did you try switching card places? Without Areca Raid card just to see if it boots correctly (with both cards)?

It boots fine. I get into windows and that is where the issue arises. The card is listed in device manager, but I cant use it.

[spoolindsm127]

Back on the X58A-OC wagon

Does anyone know the changes included in beta BIOS F5E?

EDIT:

GA-X58A-OC - F5e

- Fix 4G button
- 06.Mar 12