Sharing BIOS profiles with the EX58 UD5..

DavyBoy

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I just figured this out earlier on when I was saving a profile for 4.2GHz in my BIOS.

When you press F11 to save it, there is an option to save the profile to a hard drive, I thought to begin with it would save it to my internal hard drive, but when I selected it, it wouldn't let me do anything, anyway, I then plugged in my USB pen drive, and tried again, and it let me save the profile to the drive.

So that means that us UD5 owners can save our profiles and then share them with each other, though we have to be on the same BIOS version for this to work as you couldn't use a BIOS profile from F7 BIOS on F8 or F9 BIOS'es...

I thought I would share this with you guys incase any of you were interested.

I didn't know this was possible until tonight!!! :D

I know each chip requires different voltages etc to be stable, but at least it would give people a baseline to start their own tweaking if you get me??
 
Sure, this would work. I'll probably join in uploading them, though don't think I'd download any.

I'm not sure it's a good idea. People most inclined to use one of these are those who are least inclined to overclock it themselves, and I fear that we would see an increase in new UD5 owners asking really stupid questions like 'downloaded stable 4ghz bios but crashes so my computer is crap and I want to send it back for refund'.

Only time will tell I suppose, can't see ocuk objecting at least.
 
Can do this with most motherboard especially most of the ASUS range with the EZ Flash in the bios. Like you already said every chip has it's own voltage requirements and max fsb, but the main problem I see is someone being malicious and putting unsafe voltages or other damaging settings and uploading for public use. Or maybe even uploading the wrong bios all together.

Probably best doing it the long and painfull way of typing out each option and making a thread for the exact motherboard so people can compare settings and know exactly what everyone uses and not blindly flashing the motherboard.
 
I would like to be able to try a profile uploaded by someone who gets high bclk like 222 with the pcie overclock trick because it has never worked for me and not sure if i am missing something. it would be pretty cool to be able to find uploads like this.
 
@chiLLZ
You need a specific bios (easy) and a hardmod (very difficult). It features a good soldering iron, a steady hand and moving a resistor on the motherboard. My guess is the bit you're missing is the soldering.

What do you want 222 for? Your processor isn't going to run at that speed without impressive cooling
 
I hadnt even thought that far ahead, It wont even boot when its cold at 217 when using a much lower milti, its this that is on my mind. It was just a curiosity. I was under the impression that the ud5 could hit 222 with out a hard mod when raising the pcie to something like 105.

but as my hands are like jelly theres no way that i am putting soldering iron near my ud5 :eek:

as you say theres no way this chip i have is going to run stable at 222 with out very good cooling.

My point was that it would be cool to get a profile from someone who really knows what they are doing, I have actually kind or regretted not going for a ocuk ud5 d0 bundle that way I would have a profile
 
UD5's can only do 103MHz PCIe clock without the hardmod, at least both of mine are limited to this, and from what I have read on XS everyone elses seems to be as well, like jon said, you need to hardmod the board in order to go any higher than this.

Same with the 222MHz Bclk wall on these mobos, although this is also processor dependant as well, one of my chips won't POST with anything more than 218 Bclk, whereas my other one does 222 no problem.

Also Jon is right, in that you are never going to need 222MHz Bclk anyway unless you are using some serious cooling, and even then it wouldn't be for 24/7 usage, only for benching really..

@Jon, I wouldn't be using BIOS profiles from others neither, I just figured that it could be of some help to people who are new to overclocking X58/i7 systems, people with stable overclocks could give these guys their profiles which would give them a baseline to work from, you know?

And it is also good for people like me who like to try out different BIOS'es, as it means I can save a bunch of profiles for each BIOS, so whenever I update to a new one and I don't like it, I can flash back to the previous version, and then load my profile from my USB pen drive instead of having to play around with the settings again to try and find stability.
 
DavyBoy said:
UD5's can only do 103MHz PCIe clock without the hardmod, at least both of mine are limited to this, and from what I have read on XS everyone elses seems to be as well, like jon said, you need to hardmod the board in order to go any higher than this.
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Forgive me for my ignorance in this regard, but what benefits do you really get from overclocking the PCIe bus clock? As far as I can see, most GPUs barely saturate PCIe1 @16 lanes, if you are providing PCie2 @16lanes which this board will allow for 2 GPUs simultaneously, then why overclock the PCIe bus?
 
Raising PCIe frequency can help when trying to hit higher Bclk... it has nothing to do with speeding up your GPU's...

Google it and read for yourself, or search XS also..
 
It has something to do with unlinking it from the Bclk I think, don't quote me on that though, this is what it used to be with Core 2 based processors.
 
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