Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[devsk]

Enabled.

Have you tried LLC disabled?
Also, what were the load temps on that 4200Mhz overclock you showed?

[Rattle]

cod4 and cod5 work fine for me with PB ....

[ReverendMaynard]

cod4 and cod5 work fine for me with PB ....

With Win 7 RC 64bit? Doubt it unless you're going to servers with a very lenient PB setup, which I tend to stay away from.

[Jonny Manc]

Just played around 3hours of COD4, across 3 different servers and no PB issues at all. Perhaps the lazy ****ers have decided to acknowledge W7 early, who knows, but at the mo, it seems to work ok

On topic, got my UD5 running BIOS f8b with my i7 920 D0 at 3.6 (18*200) @ 1.2v (1.17v in windows).....is that considered a 'normal'-ish voltage for 3.6??

[roadtonowhere08]

My computer was working fine with an SSD and SATA HDs on the ICH10 and optical drives on the SATA2 controllers using AHCI for both ICH10 and the SATA2 controllers. I wanted to install Windows 7, and during the first go around, I messed up a driver install within the OS, so I went to reinstall it. When I rebooted again, the computer froze under the ACHI drive detect screen in the BIOS. None of the drives were ever detected. I then went back to IDE all around and used another HD that had a Vista install. It booted up fine.

My problem is I have changed nothing hardware related. I have tried to clear the CMOS, reinstall the F7 Final BIOS, and update the BIOS to F8b. I cannot get AHCI to detect any of my drives, but IDE mode works fine on another HD. AHCI was working FINE the way I wanted before. All I wanted to do was reboot and reinstall Windows 7. What I am saying is: all the hardware works. It has before in AHCI and works now in IDE. Any suggestions?

BIOS Settings (What I am attempting):

- All clocks auto or presets from a clean BIOS install
- ACHI for both ICH10 and SATA2 controllers
- SATA native mode enabled
- Intel SSD as drive to load OS on
- Any wake features disabled
- No floppy detect
- Power saving features not changed

Anyone?

[angelreaper]

Have you tried LLC disabled?
Also, what were the load temps on that 4200Mhz overclock you showed?

Yes bud drob becomes huge
Temps:

[Sparda]

Yes bud drob becomes huge
[IMG]

Nothing new there with the vdrop. I think the vreg nearly the same as the ep45 even the vdrop mod is the same. Either enable LLC , vdrop mod 5k ohm with LLC off or the pencil mod.

[rge]

only had i950 for half hour, and 5th boot, but so far loving it...4.6 ghz 1m spi stable at 1.376 vcore.

Edit: holy crap this chip is hot. I think I could run 4.5ghz 24/7 if could control temps. I started linx 5gb, came back it was on the 4th pass, temps were already 95C. Tried prime, 5 mins into it 88C...not running that o/n on my new cpu. So much for 25C ambients, 6 scythe push/pull at 1500rpms on dedicated cpu loop with PA 120.3, my i7 is laughing at it.



nice temps with 1.376 vcore

[devsk]

Yes bud drob becomes huge
Temps:

Thanks for the info. My ambient is also same and my cooler is also same. So is the CPU (W3520). So, I can expect similar results. Barring, my chip is a dud! Which it is not because I had it at 4.32 on the Asus P6T dluxe. I am just waiting for UD5.

[Chrono Detector]

I'm considering getting a Core i7 950 with the UD5, and I got a question. Whats the stock volts for the 950 and whats the max multiplier you can use? Also I'm aiming for 4Ghz on air if I get it and what kind of volts do I need to stabilize the 950?

[The Water Dog]

Just played around 3hours of COD4, across 3 different servers and no PB issues at all. Perhaps the lazy ****ers have decided to acknowledge W7 early, who knows, but at the mo, it seems to work ok

On topic, got my UD5 running BIOS f8b with my i7 920 D0 at 3.6 (18*200) @ 1.2v (1.17v in windows).....is that considered a 'normal'-ish voltage for 3.6??

Its okey...but i think you can get it highet without much more volt, i run my 920 D0 on 4ghz-1,2v prime stabil
Have you tried 4ghz with 1,2v under load in win.?

[dinos22]

rge what stepping man?

[rge]

My batch # 3847B005, got it from newegg.

[Jonny Manc]

Its okey...but i think you can get it highet without much more volt, i run my 920 D0 on 4ghz-1,2v prime stabil
Have you tried 4ghz with 1,2v under load in win.?

Thanks for that

Not tried any higher yet, waiting for some new fans to be delivered (Monday I think) and need to reseat my TRUE with the washer mod (unexplicably forgot to do it when I got my i7 ). Once its all re-done, I will try for more.

[Lsdmeasap]

Snipped in case Gigabyte would get upset, I will ask and then add back if they do not mind.

[koc]

I like the EX58-UD5 , its very easy to OC and rock solid stable mobo
I'm running my CPU @3.8 v1.12 and my memory @1900 v1.64 Only

I also reached 4.0 very easy ( 20 X 200 ) and its very stable , but 3.8 its just fine for my games

[Xello]

Was changing the paste on my cpu the other day when i accidently bent a few pins in the socket so i've ordered a replacement. Is it a problem to take out the bios chip from the old board and put it in the new one?

[Rattle]

I like the EX58-UD5 , its very easy to OC and rock solid stable mobo
I'm running my CPU @3.8 v1.12 and my memory @1900 v1.64 Only

I also reached 4.0 very easy ( 20 X 200 ) and its very stable , but 3.8 its just fine for my games

what QPI and IOH volts?

[hlonipha]

only had i950 for half hour, and 5th boot, but so far loving it...4.6 ghz 1m spi stable at 1.376 vcore.

Edit: holy crap this chip is hot. I think I could run 4.5ghz 24/7 if could control temps. I started linx 5gb, came back it was on the 4th pass, temps were already 95C. Tried prime, 5 mins into it 88C...not running that o/n on my new cpu. So much for 25C ambients, 6 scythe push/pull at 1500rpms on dedicated cpu loop with PA 120.3, my i7 is laughing at it.



nice temps with 1.376 vcore

Those temps might be fixed with a better block/rad combo. Nice clocks man!!

[rge]

Thanks, yeah my delta from air intake 26.2 C to water 32.1 C = 5.9C. I would need a Quad rad or 140x3 to get maybe another 2-3C or delta down to 4C is about the best I could do with fan speed I am willing to use, 1400 rpm 6/push/pull, and maybe another 1-2C with heatkiller, but they are out of stock everywhere. About 4-5C I could gain which would definitely help, 83 would make me much happier than 88 load. I have reseated 4x all within 1C of each other. Biggest issue is 50C delta between water temps and core temps vs 40C delta I had with my i940, not sure if all that is just hot cpu or some of it is IHS/block contact non-ideal.

So far I am settling for 4.4 prime 13hrs stable with vcore 1.34, at least temps are reasonable.

[nikolas61]

a little game on the air


EX58-EXTREME


i7 950@4738MHz air

295GTX@761/1640/1208 air

3Dmark 03 ...105433




EX58-EXTREME

7 950@4738MHz air

295GTX@761/1640/1208 air

3Dmark 05 ...40648





EX58-EXTREME

i7 950@4537MHz air

295GTX@715/1541/1215 air

3Dmark 06 ...29186




EX58-EXTREME

i7 950@4531MHz air

295GTX@763/1645/1216 air

3Dmark VANTAGE ...24909

[koc]

what QPI and IOH volts?

I only changed the CPU and Ram volts , all author volts set to Auto

[roadtonowhere08]

My computer was working fine with an SSD and SATA HDs on the ICH10 and optical drives on the SATA2 controllers using AHCI for both ICH10 and the SATA2 controllers. I wanted to install Windows 7, and during the first go around, I messed up a driver install within the OS, so I went to reinstall it. When I rebooted again, the computer froze under the ACHI drive detect screen in the BIOS. None of the drives were ever detected. I then went back to IDE all around and used another HD that had a Vista install. It booted up fine.

My problem is I have changed nothing hardware related. I have tried to clear the CMOS, reinstall the F7 Final BIOS, and update the BIOS to F8b. I cannot get AHCI to detect any of my drives, but IDE mode works fine on another HD. AHCI was working FINE the way I wanted before. All I wanted to do was reboot and reinstall Windows 7. What I am saying is: all the hardware works. It has before in AHCI and works now in IDE. Any suggestions?

BIOS Settings (What I am attempting):

- All clocks auto or presets from a clean BIOS install
- ACHI for both ICH10 and SATA2 controllers
- SATA native mode enabled
- Intel SSD as drive to load OS on
- Any wake features disabled
- No floppy detect
- Power saving features not changed

Okay, I got them to be detected by setting the BIOS to RAID instead of AHCI. If I do this, will I still be using AHCI even if I am still using a JBOD configuration? I NEED to be using AHCI according to Intel for my X25-E.

[=Pseudo=]

Anyone knows when the beta bios (F9x) referred in this thread: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=225264
will be released?

My rig is waiting for such a boost



Bclk is almost @ "the wall" (without PCIe tweaking, which I will test in a few hours)

Btw, I also tested the F8bmod bios (with the new AHCI rom) but I lost some options so I reverted to F8b normal.

[Chrono Detector]

Those 4Ghz+ benchmarks on air, are they stable? To reach that high on air is quite impressive even if it wasn't stable.