X58A-OC Owners Club

Thé place to show-off your X58A-OC rig. Bragging rights are yours!

BIOS - X58A-OC BIOS (F5b): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/X58AOC.F5b - X58A-OC BIOS (F4c): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/X58AOC.F4C - X58A-OC BIOS (F3): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/X58AOC.F3 - X58A-OC BIOS (014): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/X58AOC.014 - X58A-OC BIOS (006): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/X58AOC.006 - X58A-OC BIOS (F1b): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/x58aoc.f1b Drivers - Audio - Lan - Bluetooth - Raid

The World’s First Overclocking Motherboard - Designed by Overclockers, for Overclockers The marketing: The truth: Basically, this board is what overclockers have been asking for since years: a board that has none of the fancy Gamer-minded features and all of the high-quality PWM components. Although not being the perfect mainboard (I don't need 7.1 Dolby BIOS beeps), it's a first step in the right direction. Kudos to GIGABYTE for having the balls to do this!

Hi guys. I need modded BIOS for my half-dead 990X, as I plan a suicide run with it to make it completely dead. I said half-dead cause it does boot at higher voltages: set vCore and VTT to 1.45, saved, took out my 980X, put 990X and booted. After few hours of testing, conclusion was that IMC is badly damaged and Cores are almost untouched. Core speeds of 4.8-5GHz were achieved at same voltages as before, but UnCore speed of 3.6GHz was barely stable at around 1.45V and 4GHz with almost 1.5V didn't boot, while it did at 1.375V before. Then the board tried to help me with my bad overclock and reseted everything to default. C1. The fun was over. Back to 980X. …

Hello, I recently got into x58, and am currently benching a couple of Xeons. I recently ordered myself an x58a-oc to replace my Rampage II Extreme - if it actually manages to outperform it; I think currently I'm limited by how far I can go with the PCIe clock on my GPU though. My GTX 670 maxes out at 118 MHz PCIe (which brings me to 261.23 BCLK (https://valid.x86.fr/gn3eyb)), and I would like to go further in the future once the new board arrives, but given the usual x58 behaviour on that I suspect I won't be able to go much further with my current GPU. I've read somewhere that AMD cards are usually able to handle a bit more PCIe clock? Is that worth investigating?

Gigabyte X58A-OC Takes X58 Bclk World Record @ 276.42 Bclk!! Hi guys and gals! After my recent Bclk adventures on phase, I knew it was time to get this setup under some colder temps and try to secure a world record. Yesterday the board was frozen, and the world record at HWBot for Bclk was mine This is my first world record, I'm so excited!!! So, all you Ln2 users with a X58A-OC board, please let me enjoy the limelight for a little while - thanks! J/K, keep on pushing guys! This only took me about 10 minutes after booting from the settings I used on phase, tried for more for an hour or two, but this was the limit of this CPU on dice temp…

I apologize if I have this in the wrong area. I looked but this was the only one that referred to the 1366 motherboard, Gigabyte not Asus. I was able to buy a R3E with an i7 950 for $300 and I also picked up a i7 920 for $40. If anyone still remembers their settings, it would be very helpful. I currently have the i7 920 installed with the multi at 12 I'm currently stuck @ 215 on the FSB. Any suggestions???? I've also paired the board with Triple Channel Corsair Dominator GT DDR3-2000 8-8-8-24 (Hypers). I'm hoping next month to be able to purchase an i7 980x. Thank You For Your Time In Reading This Post

I bought a board a while back that was known to drop a memory channel but I chalked that up to the overall condition of the board--rough with vas everywhere. Maybe one out of ten times it would boot with the third channel. I later bought a board that was in flawless condition and all seemed well until a few weeks ago... it started dropping a memory channel as well. Recently saw that the notorious scammer Systemviper was selling one as well. He said it was treated well which is probably a lie but his was also having the same issue.... Has anyone else had this? Were you able to fix it? If so, what did you do? It looks like it's becoming common on this boa…

Last night I was tuning my 980X and OC for Geekbench (for an OCN Competition) but I was having issues pushing my CB back. Removing memory sticks didn't seen to help a whole lot... CB stayed pretty near -115°C to -120°C the whole time... Made it back to -130°C or so in single channel, but it wasn't always consistent (sometimes it would hard lock at -125°C). Does playing with the skews help move that around? Here are the voltages I was using: VCore - 1.785V QPI/VTT - 1.435V PLL - 1.60V QPI PLL - 1.32V IOH - 1.26V DRAM - 1.86V Clock skews - 800 / 900 All PWM frequency switches were set to max (1 KHz? Can't remember) Here's what I've tried: …

I've been on a long quest to get a completely functional X58A-OC since my original died a while back. I had it repaired but it failed a few days later. I tracked down a heavily used one but it's beat up and has contact issues in the socket often resulting in dropping a DIMM. Finally found one like new on eBay last week and sniped it as soon as it was listed. Snapped a few family photos:

Hey guys, Long story short, ObscureParadox and I had a benching session at my house last year and we decided to give this board a blast with a 920 D0. In the end, we gave up with it as no amount of voltage could get it to stabilise at anything over 220 BCLK. 221 would cause hanging and blue screens if the system caught it quick enough. I boot at 210 - 215 BCLK and use the buttons to raise the BCLK 1MHz at a time. Lowering the multi doesn't help, nor does changing the gearing (so it only goes up by 0.3MHz a time). We thought it was down to a duff chip, which is possible, but now it is happening again. I've got another 920 D0 here, which is rock solid at 220 BCL…

I was wondering if there was some kind of extreme OC bios available for the board which I'm not aware about. For what is a board designed purely for OC'ing I thought there might have been a few more voltage options than what is on there, but then again maybe I am expecting too much as I'm used to all the options available on the more modern motherboards. Anyway if there is could someone post a link for me so that I can download it and flash it to the motherboard. Cheers.

oke i have a quastion and i dont know if i,m in the wright forum. i want to see if this prossesor goes a bit higher or at 4.2 but temps lower. this is the setting i use for 4.2 Multi 21 Bclk 200 QPI x36 System Memory op x8 (1600Mhz) UnCore op x16 (3200) of x17 (3400) QPI volts op 1.355v and cpu vcore at 1.4 turbo of llc level 2 cie enable c state enable i get temps after 20 runs linx64 77 degrees my motherbord is a gigabyte x58a-ud7 rev 2,0 cooling h100

I'm having... hmm... experience with this board... It is very good so far, seem like CPU's need less VTT and vDIMM to run Elpida Hypers at 4000/2000/7-7-7-20-1T. But, it also killed my favorite CPU OK, it might have died anyway, but it's like borrowing a car to a friend and it breaks while he was driving. You will not hold him responsible, but it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Booted at 5GHz at 1.55V. Set vCore at 1.6V, pressed Multi+ once and made CPU-Z s/s at 5.2GHz. Restarted. Booted at 5GHz. Then set vCore at 1.645V (my 990X ran benchmarks many times at under 1.65V), then I pressed Multi+ button twice. Took CPU-Z s/s at 5.4GHz. Rebooted. Notice…

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Heyo Boys and Girls !! Tomorrow, the men (yes, men!!) from Madshrimps are heading out to the Belgian 'most powerful computer shop) TONES to help with/ host the second edition of the Tones Overclock Academy. Just like last time, 8 enthusiasts are invited to an exclusive session with the Madshrimps 'oc experts'. In return for their undivided attention, we'll give them a crash course in overclocking, extreme overclocking and of course explain them how benchmarking works. This time 'round, our main partner is GIGABYTE! Thanks to the efforts of the local marketing Guru Sibren, we were able to set up 3 X58A-OC platforms for the enthusiasts to play with. Fun, fun, fun! …

First pre-order pricing rates in EU. Not the €400 that was rumoured, but also not the $280 that was 'promised' in an earlier video. None of the stores have this board in house, so the question also remains if this will be the final retail price.

Box Box Accessories ... Board angled Board angled Board angled Front view Backside Front panel connectors SATA 3G+6G Mems slots CPU area Back panel PCI-E slots SB heatsink NB+VRM heatsink BIOS switch + Additional ATX Power 1 SB SATA 6G driver Marvell Two BIOSes Next ATX Power 2 + Main ATX Buck 2-phase controller for Mems Mems VRM - 2 analogue phases TrenchMOS mosfets Vishay NB VRM - 2 analogue phases TrenchMOS mosfets Vishay Display driver Nuvoton and display…

Need a section just for this board? What about ASUS? MSI? EVGA? This seems a little silly to me.

TeamAU boys, deanzo, T_M, dinos22, youngpro, unclefester and bob(nz) got together a week ago and did some benching with lots of different hardware. 500L of LN2 was on tap in the basement. I've put together a bunch of scores, photos and videos with us having some fun. Hope ya like it Main Hardware setup: GIGABYTE X58A-OC (006 bios) GIGABYTE X58A-UD9 (GOOC bios) Intel Core i7 990X Corsair Dominator GTX2 Hypers Kingpin Gemini+F1EE & Harshal Astra GIGABYTE GTX580 reference for 4way Asus DirectCU2 (for singles and duals) GIGABYTE 5870 GPUs (multicard) Antec TP1200 2x Corsair AX1200 Windows Vista 32bit/XP/7 The crew (dinos22, deanzo, …