GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R - BSOD

Shaye87 · 2 Jun 2009 at 06:03

Mine seem to be stable now but the temps are a bit high I think,
43-45 on idle, and up to 78 on 100% load on all cores... everything on stock, including the cooler.

Ragnarok · 2 Jun 2009 at 14:13

Another result, got it working perfectly at all stock volts and the ram underclocked. if your using a tower cooler, it hasn't got the heatsink fan blowing air over the north bridge heatsink and voltage regulator heatsinks. When I placed a spare old 80cm fan and even slowed it down untill it was inaudible over the rest of my system with my fan controller and had it blowing air from the ram area towards the northbridge cooler. Suddenly it overclocks allot more easily and stable too. take it away and it'll BSOD when you stress it.

So I think you need some airflow round the Northbridge. if your case is a wind tunnel it may be ok. If necessary add a quiet Northbrige fan too.

Shaye87 · 2 Jun 2009 at 14:42

I got like 6 fans + CPU fan = total of 7! :O

Ragnarok · 6 Jun 2009 at 14:09

you have the stock Intel cooler though which the Northbridge and Voltage regulator heatsinks where designed for. If you have a tower cooler, it doesn't blow any air round there you need to force air around that area somehow!!

Imagine if you had a Thermalright true in there. Thats what I have

jaybee · 22 Jun 2009 at 13:03

I built a rig the other day with this mobo. Core I7 920 DO. I ad to update to BIOS F6 to get 920 DO support otherwise you get issues when you manually set the FSB.
I got it up to 3.2ghz on stock volts, ram manually set to 1.64v and 8 8 8 24 1.
I had hyper threading on. never thought to try it with it off. It would post 3.5ghz at stock volts but wasn't stable. I didn't want to spend ages on it so stuck with 3.2ghz. Why is it sensitive to Hyperthreading being on? Surely you would want that on anyway?