Gigabyte GA-EP45-EXTREME Living Review

[supershanks]

difficult to say what's safe max , there's a whole raft of conflicting & wooly data these 2 here are typical:-
q9550 max vcore, temps and burn test
Safe Vcore for Q9550

I'd say for 45nm for 24/7 keep it under 1.40v, should see you ok.

[Pastie]

Thanks Shanks - I'll keep it at 3.6Ghz / 3.6Ghz ( 1.38275v ) 24/7 , and leave the higher clocks for fun

[Pastie]

Got an e-message back from Gigabyte support about running 8500 memory - noticed they're running F9a bios on their test board - hopefully it will be released soon to the general minions .........

[supershanks]

aye, just checked the 2 usual sites
stasio Bios thread
and
JZ
no sign yet of 8A.
as you say, but if their using it should be soon i'd reckom.

[Pastie]

Here's a screenie of part of the message -



Is that possibly a new intel chipset driver coming for it as well I wonder - Gigabyte drivers page shows 9.0.0.1009 driver as the latest ..........

[Pastie]

Do you know where the " Motherboard " temperature is read from in sensors Shanks ?

Since I've put the second 4870 on , it's gone up by 6c and hovers just under 50c even with the side of the case off - I cant work out where Everest is reading it from ( North bridge is reading 41c )

What's the danger temp ?

[supershanks]

sorry mate not too certain. easiest way to narrow it down is watch the everest temps & use a small fan to blow on different parts of mobo.

[Pastie]

Think I've worked out what's happening - 2nd card is blowing hot air out of the side of it onto the Southbridge ( which I think the mobo temp is read from ) . Took 2nd card out , temp dropped to 41c .
I'll keep the side panel off for a bit

[supershanks]

Aye sounds about right nice find

[graphic harbour]

Originally Posted by Pastie

F7 bios made no difference - all my 8500 memory now runs on this board in single channel for some reason , yet all the 6400 runs at dual channel interleaved - mem checked on other systems running at 8500 ........... I'm now wondering if the board doesn't like 8500 , or has it got a problem ? So many people ( including Graphic Harbour ) have had one problem or another with 8500 , I'm considering staying with 6400 mem , cancelling my Geil Evo 1 order and getting a new Ballistix 6400 4Gb kit ...

hi pastie just come across your post and thought i could show you what im up to so far,
maybe it could help
i finally think i have got a stable overclock with sleep mode also working fine,
and thanks to supershanks with some bios settings help
i had to slow down ram !!! to get stable
when tried to run ram at faster speeds it blue screened straight away
my ram is running at duel channel
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/4...overclockz.jpg