Guest boeingqa Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Guys looking at getting a ex58-extreme MB, what are people thoughts on them? THx Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boeingqa Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 OK no replys, so l decided to do ex58-ud5 thx guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Good choice. Just make sure the BIOS is UTD. Looking at the Extreme features, I think the name is appropriate .. ie if you were going to do some extreme OC'ing ... then sure. My UD5 has a gentle bit of clock on it ... and its fine ... and I'm sure I'm not pushing the envelope. The other board worth considering is the XfX - which wasn't available when I bought mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boeingqa Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 thx for that, l`ve seen people push the i7 to 4ghz... and l have the pdf from gigabyte on how to do it.. thx bud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Orbx's new Uber2 is using the EX58-Extreme and we have the i7 920 overclocked @ 4.2Ghz rock steady on air cooling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heiko Glatthorn Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Watch out, the i7 voltages are extremely sensitive. Bobo only once... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boeingqa Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Ok thanks for that, o well too late l bought the ex58-ud5 l heard its the same board apart from some diff things.. Thanks again, l`m sure l should be able to bring it to 4ghz. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 LOL! Just as I was bragging ... The Orbx Uber2 PC has crapped itself this morning. :'( First sign was that the overclock failed and it was back to default 2.67Ghz and voltage. I had not done any BIOS updates at all, so that was weird. After about 10 minutes of poking around I got a BSOD. Nice. Oh well, back to the system builder it goes for a refund if they can't get me a stable PC. It's a damn good thing I had not yet transferred my development environment across to this machine. I just was not 100% trusting of the beast after all the birth pains it went through (the system builders took a month to get me a PC which booted stable). Did I mention that I prefer laptops? Especially Dells. Dells are like a Boeing - they just keep going! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heiko Glatthorn Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Ouch, sorry to hear... looks like a component went belly up through over voltage or overheat. Nasty \. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boeingqa Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Laptops are a little pricey, well l bought the following. i7 920 ex58-ud5 antec 902 case antec 850 watt TP PS corsair ddr3 1600 6gig gigabyte gtx285 overclock to say 4ghz this should kick butt. Thx guys Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 JV - if the early BIOS on the Extreme board was the same as the UD5, the first three BIOS updates were dogs. That might go part of the way towards explaining the instability problems. When Giga-byte finally updated to a stable (F4) bios, it was to fix "CPU compatibility issues" (lol - there were only three CPUs available at the time) Sorry to hear about the death of the uberPC though ... I think I'll leave mine at its current OC until ready to upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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