OC3D Review: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 X58 Motherboard

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Yeah did it too now, with my mother's usb stick :p

Turns out the drive needs to be formatted and really in FAT32, not the FAT vista displayed on my other usb stick.

EDIT: now that I'm on the F4 bios, my rig has started making periodic sounds which sond like soft beeps. It seems to be coming from the motherboard :/
 
name='webbo' said:
It (s775) would get it's ass handed to it ;)
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I`m not so sure it would, definately not enough to class the i7 in the same sense u might a maclaren f1.

I don`t know, I mean switch out a 9450 for any of those that will clock to 4ghz on air on a x48 and run it against an x58 setup at 4ghz and see what happens.
 
name='Rastalovich' said:
I`m not so sure it would, definately not enough to class the i7 in the same sense u might a maclaren f1.

I don`t know, I mean switch out a 9450 for any of those that will clock to 4ghz on air on a x48 and run it against an x58 setup at 4ghz and see what happens.
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The Mclaren F1 quote should not be taken out of context m8 as I was referring to the cost not performance;).

As always the advantages will depends greatly on what you are actually using the PC for. For general browsing and emails then I doubt you would see a difference between a celeron and an i7. Programs that require lots of memory bandwidth will definately benefit from i7 thanks to the triple channel DDR3.

I just had a quick look at the CPU (Dhrystone/Whetstone benchmarks) and the i7920 betters a Q6600 by over a third albeit clock for clock the i7 does have a 266mhz advantage. Unfortunately we don't have a standard Yorkfield CPU to compare against, only the QX9770 as shown in the P6T review. I doubt we will be putting the i7 up against older hardware anymore as the 9770 was used to form a basis for comparison as there was simply nothing else to compare the P6T/i7 combo to.
 
I suppose the only question to ask here then is - is the x48 chipset better than the nVidia 790 ? and would 4g be better than the 2g ?

I know for a while we tested q6600 on the 4 series chipset, which I don`t think is a fair reflection on the 4 series, and a double jump in generations wouldn`t be fair, although embarassing if any real comparisons were indeed established.

Rightly or wrongly, maybe I`m questioning the comparisons down the line.
 
Heads-up for those considering this mobo: the JMB322 SATA chipset is flaky as hell. In two separate Vista 32-bit installations it first caused intermittant system freezing during AVCHD media playback. Next time around drives on either RAID0 or straight Port Multiplication on the JMB322 drop out of the OS. Reboot is required to bring them back. Web searches reveal this to be a problem with JMicron (a relatively new player in the chip manufacturer line) from the start. I"m hoping to replace this with another manufacturer's board (ASUS maybe) - one which does NOT use JMicron jmb322 or jmb363 chips.

You've been warned.
 
name='tseax' said:
Heads-up for those considering this mobo: the JMB322 SATA chipset is flaky as hell. In two separate Vista 32-bit installations it first caused intermittant system freezing during AVCHD media playback. Next time around drives on either RAID0 or straight Port Multiplication on the JMB322 drop out of the OS. Reboot is required to bring them back. Web searches reveal this to be a problem with JMicron (a relatively new player in the chip manufacturer line) from the start. I"m hoping to replace this with another manufacturer's board (ASUS maybe) - one which does NOT use JMicron jmb322 or jmb363 chips.

You've been warned.
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Thanks for the headsup. As a general rule of thumb I always try to avoid using anything other than ICH8/9/10 etc controllers. They are just so well supported and have never given me any grief (Apart from on an ASUS P5K...which was ASUS fault anyway) :p
 
Ditto. With 6 SATA drives available on the Intel Chipset I doubt many would use the JMicron controllers anyway, especially for RAID as they are slower than the Intel iirc. Cheers for heads up though, valuable info.
 
looks like a solid motherboard, though i wish my p45 UD3P also had the same colorscheme for it's ram and sata slots..
 
Great review mate, as always.

Gigabyte has really improved their color scheme, but nevertheless I have always liked their mb's. They were always great performer like they’ve shown also with this newest edition. But for my taste the price's of the i7 platform are way too high for now.
 
yea, 'interesting' is one way to put it..

oh well, fruit loops and fruity pebbles taste great. /off topic
 
nice review m8.i was looking at getting the EVGA Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard but after reading this it has changed my mind,what do you lot think EVGA Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard or EX58-UD5 X58.Maine use for this rig will be high end gaming and overclocking thanks for your time
 
I can't recommend the UD5 enough tbh. It's a great clocker and supports tri-SLI and crossfireX so is perfect for gaming.

I haven't tried the EVGA though and look forward to doing so.
 
name='Webb' said:
I can't recommend the UD5 enough tbh. It's a great clocker and supports tri-SLI and crossfireX so is perfect for gaming.

I haven't tried the EVGA though and look forward to doing so.
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thanks allot,all the reviews on the EVGA have been very good and i do like the look of the mobo so i think i will get that any idea when you are going to do a review on the EVGA X 58 as this site dose do very good reviews thanks

quick question on the answer you gave me are you saying you do recommend the UD5 or you don't ?
 
name='Bungral' said:
Yep... Jimbo told me earlier, but said not to say anything, that Rich liked it so much even made sweet sweet love to the UD5 :o.....
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...unfortunately Gigabyte refused his RMA due to...well ye you know where this is going
 
Using the UD5 is like making love to a beautiful woman.

You have to caress her gently, ensuring you get to know every working detail before moving on to...bla bla bla:p

It even has an flesh coloured 'slot' - hmmmm:D

That clear enough?
 
Yeah and she also doesn't want to get up in the morning :p

= I have issues cold booting, board will power up for half a second and shut down before actually booting.

Apart from that, I'd really recommend this board :)
 
name='monkey7' said:
Yeah and she also doesn't want to get up in the morning :p

= I have issues cold booting, board will power up for half a second and shut down before actually booting.

Apart from that, I'd really recommend this board :)
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You're not flicking the right switches mate :p
 
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