• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Where Are The Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 Motherboards?

Page 9 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Originally posted by: Salamandar
Originally posted by: BrianDickens
I've been running my QX6850 on the GA-X38-DQ6 for a few days now and I must say - I'm happy! It all works as it should. And finally, I could even venture a bit of overclocking. Last Sunday I've been dabbling a bit with the BIOS settings and so far I have reached 3.5ghz. That's quite nice and for now it'll do 🙂
Click to expand...

Very nice indeed, how to do keep it cool ?
Click to expand...

I'm using a Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme with a Scythe SFF21F fan. Under heavy stress (a multithreaded Prime95), I reach 65 degrees Centrigrade max which is still acceptable 🙂
 
Originally posted by: BrianDickens
I'm using a Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme with a Scythe SFF21F fan. Under heavy stress (a multithreaded Prime95), I reach 65 degrees Centrigrade max which is still acceptable 🙂
Click to expand...

Hmm.....this is not bad at all, what RAM do you use and how do you cool them ?

May u stat. the RAM settings that you are using?
Also what voltage are you running that CPU at ?


 
Originally posted by: Salamandar
Originally posted by: BrianDickens
I'm using a Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme with a Scythe SFF21F fan. Under heavy stress (a multithreaded Prime95), I reach 65 degrees Centrigrade max which is still acceptable 🙂
Click to expand...

Hmm.....this is not bad at all, what RAM do you use and how do you cool them ?

May u stat. the RAM settings that you are using?
Also what voltage are you running that CPU at ?
Click to expand...

I'm using OCZ PC7200 DDR2 RAM at 2.2V and 4-4-3-15 at which it has been rated. No extra cooling for the RAM btw. Hmmm, it's running at 800mhz I now see, that's wrong. Should have been near 900mhz, must have forgot to set something properly in the BIOS. I'll do that tonight when I'm home again.

The CPU is currently at 1.4125V (or something like that), but that's more because of results of higher overclocking attempts. Initially I tried to reach 3.6ghz using 8x450mhz but somehow that didn't work at all too well (not Prime95 stable, one thread quit after an hour with a rounding error). Finally I just tried 10x350 to reach 3.5ghz and that's been running fine ever since. Perhaps I'll leave it at this for a while so the CPU can "burn-in". Later on I should be able to go higher.
 
I was thinking of overclocking but since my PC is fast enough for my needs I'm going to back off the process of overclocking and buying a cooling system for the time being !

My Target now is to wait for ATI new cards and maybe buy 2 for CF support with my x38 since I heard amazing thing about CF support on this chip.

 
OK I made a fresh install of windows vista 64 and the x-fi doesn't cause BSOD any more !!!

Creative has some new drivers I should try.

Any word on the F6 series BIOS for the x38-DQ6 ?

 
Good Afternoon Mr. Sal.

Glad to hear that you might have solved the BSOD problem. I am presently using the F6b BIOS and it seems to work just fine. Hope that helps. Best regards. TheBeagle 😀 :beer:
 
Originally posted by: TheBeagle
Good Afternoon Mr. Sal.

Glad to hear that you might have solved the BSOD problem. I am presently using the F6b BIOS and it seems to work just fine. Hope that helps. Best regards. TheBeagle 😀 :beer:
Click to expand...

Have you tried to overclock with the f6b, any changes ?

 
Hello Mr. JasTech.

As has been oft quoted, "each journey begins with the first step." In the world of OC, it is always best to take small, individual steps, and then measure and consider one's success (or failure) to that point. Since you have already started at a point past where I would have suggested you begin (362 x 9 = 3.25GHz), I would suggest that you also advance the core voltage to 1.4500 and not advance to more than 1.4625V. You might try to tweak the memory a bit, but not more than 2.150, at least to start.

It has always been my position that ripping speed is great, so long as it's STABLE, all the time! If it's not stable, it's really worthless, other than to boast to someone that you were able to get it to a certain speed point, albeit briefly - and maybe right before the unmistakable aroma of overheated (a/k/a "cooked") components filled the air - LOL.

Since I began messing around with OCing a Q6600 (G0) a few short months ago, I have concluded that most of the OCing which is 35% or more (on air) over the base 2.40GHz is beginning to push the envelope a bit. I realize that some very sophisticated rigs have all sorts of exotic cooling systems that will certainly allow for a higher OC. However, one must then wonder (aside from gaming, of course) what are you going to do with that bit of extra speed when, and if you get it? At what point does the principle of "diminishing returns" begin to overwhelm the extra bit of OC?

In any event, best of luck with your OCing endeavors, and keep us posted on your results. Best regards to everyone. TheBeagle 😀 :beer:

PS. Tomorrow is Veterans Day in the USA - We should all take time to sincerely thank all the brave men and women that have served in the Armed Forces of our Nation. Without their individual and collective sacrifices, we would certainly not be a free nation today! God Bless Them - One And All!!


 
Mr Beagle, An added prayer for them too! I was using the Gigabyte OC tool and didn't save it so I don't know how stable it would have been. I will start with the slower speeds as you suggested and enter the BIOS and do it myself this time. What settings do you have on the G.Skill? Sense we run the same stuff 🙂 Thanks, JAS
 
Oh, I will be playing Crysis and that Quake Territories. So I just might need some extra speed, may need more memory too.
 
Hello Mr. JasTech.

I'm running 4 sticks of 2GB each = 8GB of the G.Skill DDR2 1000 stuff. It seems that 2 sticks (4GB) runs quite a bit differently than 4 sticks. I'm not sure why that is, but that's the way it turns out in my rig. You can likely get 4GB to run stable @ 5-5-5-15 between 1050 and 1080 MHz @ 2.150V. You might have to go to 2.200V, but that creates a fair bit of additional heat, at least on my sticks it does. These G.Skill 2GB sticks seem to run much cooler than the Crucial Ballistix 1GB sticks that I was using.

I really wish I had a full knowledge of what all the other voltage settings meant and their affect upon the whole OCing of the CPU, and how each of them interacted with the CPU and each other. I have never been able to find any type of "plain English" explanation of all those settings. If someone knows where to find such information, I'd like to know so I can enlarge my understanding of those matters. Obviously, Gigabyte put them into the CMOS setup routine for a purpose, I just wish I knew how it all impacted the OC of the CPU.

Best regards. TheBeagle 😀 :beer:
 
Howdy Mr Beagle! Nice to see you up this morning (my time anyways)lol. I will try those settings and see what happens. I plan on adding 4x120 fans to my case. They are so quiet and nice draft too. Thanks, JAS
 
Originally posted by: JASTECH
Oh, I will be playing Crysis and that Quake Territories. So I just might need some extra speed, may need more memory too.
Click to expand...

Crysis? Oh boy! You really need every little bit of extra performance you're able to get. I recently played the singleplayer demo on my rig... damn... even though the game's auto-detect settings had everything set to very high, the game was a slideshow. Only on medium would the game at acceptable framerates.

Then again... 1920x1200 might be too taxing for a game like Crysis. However, since I have a LCD monitor I want to stick with the native resolution of 1920x1200 to avoid scaling. Scaling the image is really ugly - or rather, blurry.

I have now pushed my quad-core QX6850 from 3 to 3.66ghz. I'm going to install the Crysis demo again this week to see how it fares now.
 
Hello Mr. Sal and Mr. JasTech.

On the issue of firewalls, I actually have had very good luck with Norton Internet Security 2007 and now 2008. The NIS firewall seamlessly replaces and enhances the Vista FW. I know a lot of folks were not too happy with some Norton products in the past, especially SystemWorks (the world's biggest resource hog), but NIS is quite another story. It also received the Editor's Choice award 2 years running. The thing I also like about it is that you have some degree of flexibility and control over how it functions. I use a Linksys WRT350N router which has, of course, NAT hardware firewall built into it. But, I also like the added security of a well-functioning, two-way software firewall just in case a gremlin tries to invade my rig. Have a nice day. TheBeagle 😀 :beer:
 
From what I know most software fws don?t do very well, so I have to agree with Mr JASTECH on that. I?ve read a study once that claimed that they could only stop ~10% of the ?real? threats. I?ve been using NIS from 2004 to mid of this year and my personal experience with it is not too bad. Overall it was very good for security but it was using too much out of a system?s resources. Way too much for such a program. This was evident mostly during boot. With ver 2006 I had some problems especially with PCs running Oracle. This, along with the overall ?weight? of the program made me stop using it but I?m still using Norton antivirus on home pcs. 2007 & 2008 editions are quite good and they do offer some basic fw functionality without taxing the system too much.

Usually people (myself included) tend to focus on negative things and totally overlook anything positive. With Vista, M$ did a real good job on security. It may be hard for some people to discern this amongst all problems that still plaque this OS but companies that develop av and fw programs have taken good notice of it. Most such companies felt the impact of Vista right where it hurts the most, in their wallet.

The bottom line is that a good software fw even if basic, along with a hardware fw even if a simple one built in a router like Mr Beagle has, is a good combination for any home pc/user. If someone is using Vista then you can add this to the equation and end up with a great defence against any threat. Just my 2 cents.
 
I'm searching an answer for this:

Installed my new gigabyte x38 dq6 just yesterday and I came to this serious trouble: spdif out digital output desn't work.
Drivers seems to be installed properly, everithing works: analog connectors, digital output and dts capabilities too but only if I use the coaxial connection. I'm sure decoder is ok (coaxial works fine), cable too (tested in different devices).
If I try to use optical out the decoder doesn't recognize any stream of data. Strange thing is also that inside the spdif optical out there is no red light (is red light is necessary to work for optical connection, or not?): asked a pair of owners of this new MB and they've told me their optical output is without any sort of light coming out too, but both of them can't make further investigations (they don't own any decoder for testing)
Anyone using this nice MB with a spdif optical cable?
Click to expand...
Original thread here: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2118124&enterthread=y
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top