Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

[abeeftec]

Listen,
I have been looking and looking around for a place that would explain the mathmatics behind ALL the tweaking settings in the UD5 or ANY EX58 motherboard from Gigabyte. I cant even find any X58 explainations.

What bothers me is there are so many new settings (or terms) in these Bios that overclocking and raising values seems like a feat in itself. Its no longer the typical, Multi FSB and Cpu Dram Ratio like it used to be.

I mean... What the heck is an Uncore? and why does my UD5 with Bios F9m show it as twice my Ram but with F9 and F10 it shows it at 2.5 times on auto?

I mean is this correct? Or is this set up for a 6 core and I just have to set it to x16 to get my double? and why the change?

SO many questions that if there was an explaination of what these settings actually change in the grand scheme of things no one that actually can do math would need to ask a million questions on forums for weeks wondering how to get optimum overclocks on air, water , cascade, or chillers. Please someone that knows this stuff help us out that dont know where to look to find the explanations to these settings.

I get a little tired of hearing," I dont know what they do" " just set what I tell you to set". I want to know what they are because that is TWEAKING a board. Just changing the main settings is not being able to get everything out of the processors and boards.

Thanks

[profJim]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

A google search similar to:
x58 bios guide OR tutorial
will help you piece together many of the answers you're looking for.

Hopefully someone else will be able to provide some specific links that will help out.

[JureZ]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

here is a list of links to read: (in no particular order)



Intel Core i7 Overclocking How-To - CPUs - Overclocking

Overclocking Core i7: Power Versus Performance : Does it Make Sense To Go for Maximum Performance? - Review Tom's Hardware

Core i7 Overclocking Guide - Intel - Overclocking

Overclocking core i7 920 with X.M.P - CPUs - Overclocking

Intel Core i7-920 Overclocking Guide - X-bit labs

i7 overclocking - bit-tech.net Forums

Intel Core i7-920 Overclocking Guide (page 2) - X-bit labs

Intel Core i7 Overclocking - A HotHardware How-To - HotHardware

Editor's Corner: Overclocking Core i7 : - Review Tom's Hardware

Core i7 920/940 overclocking guide - Windows 7 Forums

Core i7 920 overclocking guide

[profJim]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

^^^^ excellent list with quality sites!
Anyone have any good AnandTech links to add?

[JureZ]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

happy to oblige, here you have a few more links about i7 O C:


AnandTech: Overclocking Core i7: A Tale of Two Retail Processors?

LGA1156 Core i7 & i5 Overclocking Guide - AnandTech Forums

What amazing! OC without Brain, Easily up to 4.39GHz, Turbo boost review - AnandTech Forums


Everyday OC on a 920 DO? - AnandTech Forums



Core i7 Overclocking Guide For Beginners - Clunk's Forums.

Overclocker's Tool Kit. - Clunk's Forums.

[warren300]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

Listen,
I have been looking and looking around for a place that would explain the mathmatics behind ALL the tweaking settings in the UD5 or ANY EX58 motherboard from Gigabyte. I cant even find any X58 explainations.

What bothers me is there are so many new settings (or terms) in these Bios that overclocking and raising values seems like a feat in itself. Its no longer the typical, Multi FSB and Cpu Dram Ratio like it used to be.

I mean... What the heck is an Uncore? and why does my UD5 with Bios F9m show it as twice my Ram but with F9 and F10 it shows it at 2.5 times on auto?

I mean is this correct? Or is this set up for a 6 core and I just have to set it to x16 to get my double? and why the change?

SO many questions that if there was an explaination of what these settings actually change in the grand scheme of things no one that actually can do math would need to ask a million questions on forums for weeks wondering how to get optimum overclocks on air, water , cascade, or chillers. Please someone that knows this stuff help us out that dont know where to look to find the explanations to these settings.

I get a little tired of hearing," I dont know what they do" " just set what I tell you to set". I want to know what they are because that is TWEAKING a board. Just changing the main settings is not being able to get everything out of the processors and boards.

Thanks

follow my sig for an overclock guide,theres a rule of adjusting uncore speed as 2x the mem multi or 2x+1,whatever is the most stable..another rule is to keep qpi voltage within .5v of what your ram voltage is so not to damage the memory controller which is onboard the cpu...also its better for stability to set voltages manually,the three main voltages to keep an eye on and take off auto are your cpu/qpi and ram......hope this helps

[profJim]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

check out:
corei7_x58_bios_guide.pdf (2008-11-18 from gigabyte.us) 1.77mb

how-to-overclock-core-i7 (from pdf-search.com)

[JureZ]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

Hi prof,

I liked the link you posted.

http://images.tweaktown.com/imagebank/Core%20i7%20920%20oc%204G%202008.12.12_(ENG).pdf

Great, Thanks !

[abeeftec]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

Great Response here. love it! Thanks!

You know, I flashed to the F9 and then F10 Bios with some very strange happenings.
The QPI uncore on auto before flashing from the F9e bios was double the Ram speed.
Then after the flash it was double plus one half. I could not get a 200Bclk with either of those Bios releases. And I tried to set the Uncore back to double and still same crashes. Then I put the F9e back in and got 4.2 Turbo enabled with 1.296 vcore Stable.
Why is the F9 release and F10 So bad? Why do they Raise the Uncore to over double on auto?


One thing i just wanted to know randomly... Why is my 920s Vantage Score over 54,000 and the one on the overclock guide is only 23,000+ ?
How can they vary that much?

[JureZ]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

Congrats on your system build, it looks like a very nice system with good water cooling. What are your temps?

About the BIOS, I would say, stick with what works, and keep it until you find a very good reason to change/upgrade. As I don't have the same MOBO , or know more about it, I can't say much about the specific versions and their issues.

[warren300]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

you should be able to clock to 4.5ghz on water quite easily,lemme know if you want 4.5ghz settings

[Crom]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

Hi Warren300, I'd appreciate seeing your 4.5 settings if you don't mind posting them. Cheers, Crom

[warren300]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5









you might need to weak voltages slightly,but its a good starting point

[abeeftec]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

Hey warren,
How do you get easy tune to work? everytime I try to use that with WIN7 64 bit it chokes my PC. Im wondering if there is something im missing. And can you post bios settings for that? I am at 4.4ghz and would like to hit 5 on water just for benching. thanks


Also, Everyone who has clocked this board if you could please let me know what you set your uncore at in reference to your ram? reason is that in my board my uncore on auto ALWAYS sets itself at 2.5 times my ram speed. Never 2 times and when I set it at double ram speed it always messes the overclock up. Everyone says for quad cores it should always be double and for 6 cores it should be 1.5. SO mine being 2.5 is insane but thats the only way it works.

[JureZ]

Re: Total Settings For GA EX58-UD5

here are a few more links to i7 OC articles:

How to overclock your Nehalem (Core i7) - AnandTech Forums


ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Forum- Overclocking Intel Core i7 processors


Nehalem Calc @ Icrontic.com


Ultimate Core i7 Overclocking Guide -- We Push Nehalem to its Limits | Maximum PC


Intel core i7 Series batch guide**UPDATED EVERY 5 MIN** - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net