X58A-GD65 Stock

Just thought I'd chime in here to say the MSI X58A-GD65 is a great board for lengthy stable use.
I wanted something that was stable, and would overclock until I hit certain temps, then leave it alone.
I use my 4U ATX 6 nights a week and use it 8-12 hours a day.
The stock cooling is fine for my mere 3.5GHz speed using the i7 930.
I actually hit 4.2GHz w/o any effort using the Easy Switch, but the temps were too high, so I then just did my tweaks manually from reading various tricks from members.
If anyone is looking for overclocking moderately with stock parts, and 24/7 stability, and at a cheap price.....
This Dog Will Hunt...
Thanks MSI.
Intel and Supermicro boards are no longer my first choice.

I will be using some SUperTalent USB 3.0 RAID sticks for storing 40-50GB sized instrument libraries after CES in a few weeks too.
The X58A's Marvell chip is the newer one, and not the one Asus and Gigabyte used on the first X58's as they stumbled over each othjer to get their products to market.
I will be posting some results here after the show.
This board is such a pleasure to use, and since stability is what keeps my payscale higher than most I look forward to using an 8 port hub and being the first guy to run a professional DAW w/o Mechanical HDD's, or SSD's.
MSI stability should be preached as well as their effortless 4.2GHz Easy Switch right out of the box on stock parts....
I prefer the stability and cool temps w/ a slight OC and stock parts.
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year..
Or whatever they celebrate In Taiwan...
XIE XIE

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MOVED: X58A-GD65 BIOS: should I update it to version 22.3?

This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Undervolting & Modding Corner.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=148171.0

Ok, so here's my system:
Win7 64bit Ultimate
MSI X58A-GD65 BIOS V22.2B8
Intel i7 930 (D0) (OC @4.2GHz)
RAM OCZ 3x2GB kit OCZ3RPR2000C8LV2G (OC @1.6GHz)
OCZ RevoDrive 80GB
2x WD Caviar 500GB 7200rpm SATAII
Sapphire Radeon HD 5870
Enermax Liberty Eco 620W (ELT620AWT-ECO)
Even if I remove the OC, all the APS LEDs are lit up. I shot a short video that I took with stock settings and system at idle, so that you can see what it look like.
I add that the problem was present even with the original BIOS v22.1 (and the PC was not overclocked, as it was impossible to do so with that BIOS).
Therefore, I was wondering if there are some settings that I should check, or if I can hope that v22.3 will solve the issue.
But I would also like to know other users' opinion regarding the fact that I'm using a beta version of the BIOS, and if for this reason I should upgrade it in any case.
Thanks again!

X58a-GD65 ram timings keep resetting

Hello all,
I am having some trouble with my X58A-GD65 mobo.
My system specs:
MSI X58A-GD65 running latest bios (ends in .22 i believe, im at work so i cant check)
I7 930 (D0), Vcore 1.15,
6gb Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600mhz, 1.64V
powercolor ATI 5850
I am having a problem where every time i restart my computer, my ram timings appear as all zeros. The computer boots fine despite the all zero timings and shows 9-9-9-24-88 in cpuz. This occurs regardless of my memory multiplier or voltage ( I have tried several settings from 1.5V to 1.65V), currently I am running a very mild 3.4ghz overclock but the problem exists on stock clock settings too. This only happens after a cold reboot, it works fine when i first save the settings such as 8-8-8-24-1T and I haven't found any stability testing issues after 6 hours of prime95 or memtest. The problem existed with the previous bios version too, I upgraded to try to resolve the problem. Has anyone seen or heard of such a condition or have any suggestions. I would be happy to provide any additional information if it would help.
A second issue I am having is that my bios doesn't appear to have the option to enable or disable XMP which all the screen shots of MSI bios I can find have below memory Z in the cell menu. If I could find it or use it I would try one of the XMP profiles and see if the bios would allow them to stay.
Thanks in advance!

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A second issue I am having is that my bios doesn't appear to have the option to enable or disable XMP which all the screen shots of MSI bios I can find have below memory Z in the cell menu. If I could find it or use it I would try one of the XMP profiles and see if the bios would allow them to stay.
Latest official BIOS appears to be 22.3 as of today anyway. As for X.M.P., after downloading & reviewing the manual, it didn't show it as an option with this mainboard in the BIOS Cell Menu screenshot.

4GB out of 6GB on X58A-GD65 triple channel mode

I'm having some issues with ram with this board - 6GB installed, 6GB detected by CPU-z, but only 4GB detected by BIOS and Task Manager/Resource Monitor. I have tested all the ram individually and they have been found to be working.
First I tried installing the ram on the DIMM1 (black slot) but system won't POST, only power for a few seconds before powering down again. Only managed to POST when the module was installed on DIMM3.
Summary:
DIMM1: Failed to POST
DIMM3: BIOS registers as 2GB (correct)
DIMM1+DIMM3: BIOS registers as 2GB
DIMM1+DIMM3+DIMM5: BIOS registers as 4GB
DIMM3+DIMM5: 4GB
DIMM2+DIMM3+DIMM5: 4GB
DIMM3+DIMM4+DIMM5: 6GB (dual channel)
DIMM1+DIMM2+DIMM3: 2GB
DIMM1, DIMM3 and DIMM5 are black.
DIMM2, DIMM4 and DIMM6 are blue.
My problem seems similar to this guy's with his EVGA board: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=360061&mpage=1
Tried finding bent pins on the board but there wasn't any. Also tried reseating the CPU twice.
Not sure if it is a BIOS problem, because many people on Google are having this problem with other boards, but it was fixed by either BIOS update, fixing bent pins or reduce cooler mounting pressure, but none seems to work for me.
Should not be ram problem as this problem occurs with 2 sets of ram, Team Group Xtreem Dark 1600 MHz CL8-8-8-24 6GB (3X2GB) and OCZ Fatal1ty 1600 MHz CL7-8-8-20 6GB (3X2GB), but I may be wrong.
If it helps, my system specifications are as follows:
CPU: i7 950
Mobo: MSI X58A-GD65 with v22.1 BIOS (Latest)
RAM: OCZ Fatal1ty 1600 MHz CL7-8-8-20 6GB (3X2GB)
Video: 2 X Zotac GTX460 AMP 1GB
Sound: Auzentech X-Fi Prelude
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
Thanks a bunch.

Still no luck. Even with stock cooler. The pictures show just now's results.
One thing I noticed that the socket is a little loose as shown below.
Compare the shadow at the "screw". I can lift it up by roughly 1mm and shake it about. Could that be the problem?

X58A-GD65 USB3 problem with WD MyBook

Hi,
I have X58A-GD65 with i7 processor, 6 GB RAM, 4 internal HDD, 4 external HDD, Win 7 x64. Two of the external are WD MyBook Essential USB 3.0/2.0.
My Renesas drivers are v 2.0.34.0 (the ones from the board page).
When I plug two of the WD drives, only ones can be seen. Both on BIOS level and Win 7 level.
Any insight or any newer drivers that work?
Sincerely
Bülent

I memory serves corretly, there is a firmware update available from WD that pertains to this.
Also have you checked in the disk manager? Perhaps one needs to be set up.

Missing "Init display first" on x58a-gd65

Hello. I have X58A-GD65 motherboard with core-i7 on it.
Also I have two videocards -- nvidia gtx460 and gt430. I have two monitors and need both of them to be connected to gtx460 (and gt430 is needed to be headless). Gtx460 is plugged into the second pci-express slot and gt430 is plugged into the first -- it's needed to avoid overheating.
So the problem is that I see post message and bootloader choosing screen only with a monitor connetcted to gt430 and it's unacceptable. If I have both of monitors plugged to gtx460 I see nothing until the OS is loaded (I have both linux and windows).
All of my previous motherboards were based on AMI bios too and they had an option "Init display first" in which I could set the main PCI-E port. But your motherboard for unknown reason is missing that option -- I tried V22.1, 22.2, 22.3 versions (with 22.0 I have memory issues).
What can I do to set init display at the second pci-express?
Thanks in advance.

Quote from: Jack on 19-June-11, 05:05:53
Please note that your motherboard is not "our" motherboard in any meaningful sense. This is a user-to-user forum, not MSI Technical Support.
Excuse for "your board" -- I actually have written to support too and the messages are similar.
Quote from: Jack on 19-June-11, 05:05:53
Mh, none of my motherboards in the last couple of years (must have been 7 or 8 different models) really had an option to specify the exact slot used for video output. The choices were usually: Onboard/IGP, PCI-Express and PCI, never however PCI-E #1, PCI-E #2, PCI-E #3 etc.
Actually I had at least two Gigabyte motherboards that supported that feature. And also there are some clues that there is a version of bios for subj motherboard, because there is such an option in at least one of reviewes on this motherboard (look at the 4th screenshot): http://www.overclockers.ru/lab/38886_2/Obzor_materinskoj_platy_MSI_X58A-GD65.html#4
And also there are messages like this on that problem: http://www.overclock.net/monitors-displays/838532-second-pci-e-primary-display-help.html#post10910073
That means that it must be in that bios, because my previous botherboards with AMI bios onboard also supperted that option.
Quote from: Jack on 19-June-11, 05:05:53
If you really have an over(!)heating problem with a dual-card configuration consisting of a mid-level and a low-level (!) card, then the primary problem I see here is quite insufficiant cooling/case ventilation and I am definately sure that that can be worked out and solved for good with a little bit of effort/problem oriented cooling improvisation.
I was not very accurate (because didn't want to specify unnecessary details). It's not an overheating problem in general sense. I'm actually a CUDA developer and I use gt430 as debugging board with and I need a disabled watchdog for some reasons. And because of the same reason I need both cards to be connected to pci-e@16 because pci-e@4 appeared to be too slow for massive computations (I used that scheme before but now it's the bottleneck). Thus I need to have cards in the 0th and 1th pci-e accordingly. But gtx460 is two-slotted card and if gtx460 is in the 0th slot and gt430 is in the 1th, gt430 blocks exactly the place where the gtx460 fan is situated. So the gtx460 temp increases up to 80C under 100% load. That's not a problem but the fan of gtx460 starts spinning at 3000rpm and it's very annoying. Temperatures of other devices stay below 50C.
But if I put gtx460 in the 1th slot and gt430 in the 0th there is a plenty of space in front of gtx460 and all the temperatures stay below 45C even if both cards and the CPU are all loaded at 100% => no annoying noise and fan spins at 800rpm.
That's the point actually.
Quote from: Jack on 19-June-11, 05:05:53
In any case, for costum BIOS fixes (your problem seems very, very ideosyncratic) you need to contact MSI Technical Support:
I've written them already and waiting for answer. I thought that forum could be more fast (and it appeared to be true:) . And I thought that there may be some means (turning on hidden options in bios for example) that support couldn't tell me about because of some intra-policies

Overclocking MSI X58A-GD65

Greetings to all!
I would like to overlock my computer properly in order to be able to achieve better perfomance in gaming
That is due to the reason I don't want to spend more money to this computer (I have already spent a lot)
My system build is:
Tower: CoolerMaster Cosmos RC-1000
PSU: CoolerMaster Real Power M850
CPU: Intel Core i7 920
CPU Cooler: CoolerMaster V8
Motherboard: MSI X58A-GD65
RAM: OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Intel® i7 Triple Channel [3x2GB, 1600 MHZ, 8-8-8-24
SSD: A-Data X25 80GB by Intel (Model: SSDSA2MH080G1GN) [Sata 2]
VGA: Sapphire Radeon HD4870 1GB
HDD1: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB (WD1001FALS) [Sata 2]
HDD2: Western Digital 250GB [Sata 1]
HDD3: Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB (WD6402AAEX) [Sata 3]
Optical 1: Samsung 223QRSMN DVD-RW [Sata ?]
OS: Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
As you can see my build can be considered high-end.
So far I have overclocked CPU to run at 3.0 GHZ and RAM speed at 1800 MHZ.
If I set CPU to run at a higher speed the system boots fine but the OS refuses to start
Also I have encountered some hang ups in games. I believe it's because of the automized RAM timings.
In order to overclock I have to access the "Cell Menu" in BIOS Settings.
The Cell Menu has exactly these options:
Current Core Frequency: 3.00 GHZ (150x20)
Current DRAM Frequency: 1800 MHZ
Current QPI Frequency: 4.8000 GT
->CPU Specifications (it has information about what technologies Core i7 920 supports)
->CPU Feature: Intel EIST, Intel C-State, C1E Support, Overspeed Protection, Hyper-Threading Function,
Execute Bit Support, Set Limit CPUID Max Val to , Intel Virtualiation Tech, INtel VT-d Tech
->Intel Eist: Disabled, Enabled, Auto
->C1E Support: Disabled, Enabled
->Adjust CPU Base Frequency (MHz): 100-400 mhz (Current: 150)
->Adjust CPU Ratio: 12-21 (Current: 20)
->Adjusted CPU Frequency (MHz): 3000 mhz
->Memory -Z: DIMM1,3,5 Memory SPD Information
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DIMM 1 Memory SPD Infromation
Memory Type: DDR3 SDRAM
Max Bandwidth: DDR3-1066 (533 MHZ)
Manufacture: OCZ
Part Number: OCZ3X1600LV2G
Serial Number: 00000000
->X.M.P Support Information:
Code: [Select]
X.M.P Support
Max Bandwidth: DDR3-1800 (900 MHZ)
Memory Voltage: 1.65V
SDRAM Cycle Time: 1.111ns (1CLK)
DRAM TCL: 10.000 ns (9CLK)
DRAM TRCD: 10.000ns (9CLK)
DRAM TRP: 10.000ns (9CLK)
DRAM TRAS: 30.000 ns (27clk)
DRAM TRFC: 90.000 ns (81clk)
DRAM TWR: 15.000ns (14CLK)
DRAM TWTR: 7.555 ns (7clk)
DRAM TRRD: 6.000 ns (6CLK)
DRAM TRTP: 7.555ns (7clk)
SDRAM Cycle Time: 1.875 ns (1CLK)
DRAM TCL: 13.125ns (7clk)
DRAM TRCD: 13.125ns (7clk)
DRAM TRP: 13.125ns (7clk)
DRAM TRAS: 30.000ns (16clk)
DRAM TRC: 49.500ns (27clk)
DRAM TRFC: 110.000ns (59clk)
DRAM TWR: 15.000ns (8clk)
DRAM TWTR: 7.500ns (4clk)
DRAM TRRD: 7.500ns (4clk)
DRAM TRTP: 7.500ns (4clk)
Current DRAM Channel 1 Timing: 0-0-0-0
Current DRAM Channel 2 Timing: 0-0-0-0
Current DRAM Channel 3 Timing: 0-0-0-0
DRAM Timing Mode: Auto(1), Unlick(2), Link(3)
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If set to Auto (1):
Advance Dram Configuration: Is grayed out
If set to Unlick(2):
->Advance DRAM Configuration:
Code: [Select]
CH1 1T/2T Memory Timing: 1-3
CH1 CAS Latency (CL): 4-15
CH1 tRCD: 3-15
CH1 tRP: 3-15
CH1 tRAS: 9-31
CH1 tRFC: 30-255
CH1 tWR: 0-15
CH1 tWTR: 0-15
Ch1 tRRD: 0-7
CH1 tRTP: 0-15
CH1 tFAW: 15-63
CH1 B2B-CAS Delay: 0-31
[color=#696969]Current CH1 tdrRDTRD,TWR,TRD,TRD etc... [/color]
->Channel 1 Advance Timing: Auto, Manual
---> If set to Manual these options appear:
CH1 tdrRdTRd: 3-9
CH1 tddRdTRd: 3-9
CH1 tsrRdTWRr: 3-17
CH1 tdrRdTWr: 3-17
CH1 tddRdTWr: 3-17
CH1 tsrWrTRd: 11-25
Ch1 tdrWrTRd: 2-8
CH1 tddWrTRd: 2-8
CH1 tdrWrTWr: 3-9
CH1 tddWrTwr: 3-9
CH1 tsrRdTRd: 4 or 6 DRAM clocks
CH1 tsrWrTWr: 4 or 6 DRAM clocks
CH1 Round Trip Latency: 1-255
Then I have Channel 2 and 3 which have the same options as Channel 1
->Extreme Memory Profile: Disabled, Profile 1, Profile 2. If set to a profile option "Extreme Memory Profiles Mode: Advance" appears
-> Memory Ratio: Auto, 3-8 (Current: 6)
Adjusted DRAM Frequency DRAM Frequency (MHz: 1800)
->Uncore Ratio: Auto, 6-20 (Current: 12)
Adjusted Uncore Frequency (MHZ): 3600
->QPI Configuration: Quote
QPI Links Speed: Full-speed, Slow-mode (Current: Full)
QPI Frequency: Auto, 4.8 GT, 5.866 GT, 6.4 GT (Current: Auto)
->Clockgen Tuner: Quote
CPU Amplitude Control: 700-1000mv (Current 900MV)
PCI Express Amplitude Control: 700-100mv (Current 900MV)
CPU CLK Skew: Normal, 100-1500ps (Current Normal)
IOH CLK Skew: Normal, 100-1500ps (Current Normal)
->Adjust PCI Frequency (MHZ): Auto, 37.3 42 (Current Auto)
-> Adjust PCI-E Frequency (MHZ): 100-200 MHZ (Current 100)
-> Auto Disable PCI/PCI-E Frequency: Enabled, Disabled (Current Enabled)
->CPU Voltage (V): Auto, +0.00-+0.630 (Details: when voltage is high the text is colored in red meaning that's its dangerous), -0.020- -0.320 (The text is colored in grey meaning that these options are safe) (Current: +0.300)
->CPU PLL Voltage (V): Auto, 1.00-2.43 (When voltage is high or very low, text is red-colored) (Current: 1.85)
->QPI Voltage (V): Auto, 0.88-1.83 (When voltage is high or very low, text is red-colored) (Current: Auto)
->DRAM Voltage (V): Auto, 1.20-2.77 (When voltage is high or very low, text is red-colored) (Current: 1.65) (Details say: "According to the INtel CPU spec, DRAM Voltage setting 1.65v may damage the cpu permanently. It is strongly recommended that you install the dram with the voltage setting below 1.65V. "
->DDR_VREF_CA_A,B,C: Auto, 0.510-1.225 (When voltage is high or very low, text is red-colored) (Current: Auto)
->DDR_VREF_DQ_A,B,C: Auto, 0.699-0.985 (When voltage is high or very low, text is red-colored) (Current: Auto)
->IOH Voltage (V): Auto, 0.76-2.64 (When voltage is high or very low, text is red-colored) (Current: Auto)
->ICH Voltage (V): Auto, 0.70-2.13 (When voltage is high or very low, text is red-colored) (Current: Auto)
-> Spread Spectrum: Disabled, Enabled
Text in blue means that these options are Disabled by me
Reasons: These technologies conserve power, I want to have better perfomance not to conserve energy.
Text in grey means that these options cannot be changed
Ouf, that all the options in Cell menu... This motherboard must have been designed for professional overclockers.
So any suggestions, any guides that I should follow?
I have heard and seen on the internet that Core i7 920 can reach 4,0 GHZ but not quite stable can I achieve such perfomance with good stability?
How do I get the real full specifications of these RAMs?
Should I enable some of the CPU features to conserve power and have a better temperature?
Should I enable also green power?
PS) Again to clarify it. I'm aiming for perfomance.

Quote from: Jack on 23-November-10, 21:46:51
It does not make sense to try overclocking the CPU and rhe memory at the same time, as it does not allow you to know if stability problems are caused by instable memory settings or instable CPU related settings.
Because of that, you should split your whole OC task into two obectives:
1. Objective: Overclock the CPU, not the memory.
2. Objective: Once the desired CPU Overclock is reached & stable, start worrying about the memory.
To reach your first objective, please keep your memory speeds as low as possible (keep it @DDR3-1066) and focus on the processor only.
So should I leave all the RAM options to Auto?

X58A-GD65 Oc Easy Switch

HI Guys. I have a i7 950 3.07 which i was planning on overclocking. I have the X58A-GD65 mobo and was thinking of using the easy switch as a basic overclock. Im a little worried about my ram however. I have 4gb (2x2gb) at 1333mhz. If i use the easy switch is this going to fry my ram as its not 1600mhz? I have heard that you can unlink your ram so it stays at 1333mhz? If so how do you do this?
Sorry if this is a really nooby question
Regards
Paul

When the OC Switch is used, which basically changes the clock speed on the hardware level, the BIOS should automatically adjust the Memory Ratio to the new clock speed, at least after a CMOS Clear (which you should do after changing switch positions).

X58A-GD65 - Marvell Raid SataIII - Problem

Hello,
I've got a serious problem with the Marvell Sata3 Controller on my X58A-GD65 MO/BO.
At the boot, when the Controller is getting initialize the Computer just stay there for ever and I must take off all the devices (HDD & Dvd-rom) from it to start my computer,
some times it might get pass the initialization but the Windows can't see the Devices on the Controller, or some times it Stack on boot shows only the Windows boot screen (I've got Win7 64bit)
I've got Intel i7 950 @ 3.07mhz
with 6X 500GB sata2 at iche10 @ RAID5
12GB ram 1333mhz
2X Nvidia 9600GT (not sli)
1X Nvidia 9800GT
Thank you

Thank you for your answers,
I've got 2X PSU, one for MO/BO 850w, and one 750W for the HDD and GPU.
I didn't tried to remove any Ram or any Gpu cause is the Computer from my work and it want lot of time to make all this tests... but if I disable the Marvell-sata3 Controller from the Bios all works perfect!! Also if I put the Hdd and Dvd-rom from Marvel to Intel Controller it works great.
Also if I disable Intel sata controller and remove all the Hdd from it and Boot my system from Marvell sata3 controler after a while the Marvell controller it will freez at Initialization at the boot.
It's Marvell sata controller problem but I don't know how to fix it, also I search the web and there are lot of people having problems with this controller (not only Msi Mo/bo)

X58A-GD65 overclock problem

Hi all,
I just got the X58A-GD65 and updraded the BIOS to V2. I'm trying to get my Dominator 2000GT and intel i7 950 to 2000mhz and 4ghz respectively.
I can get the memory up to 2000mhz using XMP on auto and manually giving it 1.65v. Very stable!
I can also get the CPU to 4.2ghz with the base clock and multiplier to 175mhz and x24, again stable.
The problem is I can't get them both working together, when I enable the XMP feature on the memory, it remove the multiplier value on the CPU and doesn't allow me to change the base clock speed. It just runs them at it's own speed of 3.42ghz which is a good speed, but I know i can get 4ghz+ from my CPU.!
Where am I going wrong guys?

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I'm trying these settings as you recommend but I can't get it to post.
Probably need more CPU V. Raise in small increments & check for post. In no way should it need to get up to 1.400, so the limitation will most likely be RAM speed & a limitation of the CPU IMC. In this case, recommend manually setting your CPU to the speed you want & set the RAM to 'best speed' in conjunction with the bclk you have selected.
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Memory timings 1T - 8 - 9 - 8 - 27
The XMP profile at 2000, uses CR of 2 not 1. That 'may' be the problem at that speed.
With a bclk of 176, mine are currently running 1760 CR 1, 8 9 8 24, tRFC 88 @ 1.62V's.
Added: In the spirit of the pursuit of science, I did some more testing. The mainboards are capable, the RAM is capable, but it does seem to ultimately rest with the CPU itself what it can handle. This screenshot is most likely an 'exception to the rule' & 'non' typical of capability for a standard 1366 i7 9xx series. This is with an i7 970 which has much different operating limits. * DRAM V. 1.68V's with VDroop reads 1.66V's in CPUID H/W Monitor.
* WARNING.....Maximum DRAM voltage for other than i7 970 or 980X is 1.65V's! Permanent CPU damage/degradation may be the result!

X58A-GD65 brutally slow speeds on SATA lll

I've got a X58A-GD65 motherboard with an Intel 510 120GB SSD connected to the SATA lll port, with this setup I get the following speed:
Read: 180MB / s
Write: 80 MB / s
When I connect it to SATA ll instead I get the following speeds:
Read: 280MB / s
Write: 210MB / s
Which indicates the drive is OK because it maxes SATA ll but doesn't come near it at all on SATA lll.
I've read around and there have been a couple of reviews on this board indicating that all boards have this bad SATA lll speed, is this true? Currently the place where I bought the board has it for testing, but I suspect that I will get a new board which will have the same problem. Is this true?
If so, is there a workaround for the problem or do I need to get a completely different board?
Thanks,
Filip

Quote from: HU16E on 28-April-11, 16:51:51
Setting AHCI with an SSD enables NCQ, which by some is considered detrimental. I know it causes problems trying to go from IDE Mode to AHCI after the OS is loaded, but not sure if you can go from AHCI to IDE Mode. If it is ok to do that, your write speeds may improve.
Thanks H - I'll do some research on NCQ and decide what to do.
For some reason though, after putting it to Sleep for a few hours, then testing again this morning - my Read/Writes are back to what they were on day one... Go figure. I didn't reboot, go into the BIOS or do anything it just got better.
First one is last night right after rolling back.
Second one is this morning.
Any thoughts on what changed?
Thanks again!

X58A-GD65 - firmware update RENESAS/NEC USB3

Hi,
I would like to ask, if have anyone some expreriences with RENESAS/ NEC USB 3.0 chipset firmware updating.
For rev.3 is latest firmware 3.0.2.8.0.8.
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/nec.htm
Current version on my X58A-GD65 MB is 3021.

Yes I had with some devices.
Now, It seems, that with latest firmware & driver it's works fine.

X58A GD65 with Vertex 4 240gb SSD Sata3 issue

Hey all,
Was hoping to get some help with an issue I have with my X58A GD65 board. I've just installed a Vertex 4 240gb SSD and I can't get it to run at the speeds it should which are around 500mb/s read and write.
It's plugged into the white sata3 port and it's just about breaking 200 mb/s..! :( I've been reading bits online and I think this is to do with a bad Marvell AHCI driver? I'm currently running 1.2.0.1032.
How can I solve this? What drivers should I be running?
Thanks
-Mcbonio

Make sure the ide mode is achi. If the os was installed using ide you will need to make some registry changes.
http://www.neowin.net/news/neowin-guide-how-to-change-from-ide-to-ahci-without-reinstalling-windows
Update the firmware of the ssd to the most recent and if that is no help, update the bios of the mainboard.
Note: Make sure to use the forum flash tool and download the bios from msi's website if you need to do this: >>MSI Downloads<< (I would link directly, but msi globals & usa's website has been having problems today.)

X58A-GD65 and RAM Team [TXD34096M2000HC9DC]

Hi, all versions of the BIOS does not provide a stable system with memory Team [TXD34096M2000HC9DC]. On 1600mhz the system starts, but has many errors. On 1800 and 2000, the system does not run. Without overclocking system does not start with a memory frequency above 1333. Working memory was tested on another system, all is fine.
i7 950 @4 (20*200)
MSI X58A-GD65 (bios v22.2)
Team (TXD34096M2000HC9DC-L) 6*2Gb 2000mHz (12Gb) 1.65v
Inno3D GTX 470
Kingston SNVP325S212 (SSD 128 Gb)
Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate
Zalman ZM1000-HP 1000W
Sorry for my English

Quote from: HU16E on 03-December-10, 11:57:43
QPI 1.45V's? CPU voltage is cranked up +0.41 for a 4.0 OC? What does bios H/W Monitor CPU Vcore read, & bios Green Power Vcore at that setting? My i7 950 gets 4.0 with only needing 1.296V's! I wouldn't think any more than a high of 1.375V's would be needed unless the CPU is a real dud. Since the RAM is rated for 2000, may as well give it a try with these settings since your multi & bclk is at 20X200, CR 2, 10 10 10 28, Mem. Ratio 5, Uncore Ratio 10, DRAM V. 1.65V's, QPI 1.30V.s. If that don't work, I would recommend setting the RAM up this way, Mem. Ratio 3, Uncore Ratio 6, CR 1, 9 9 9 24, DRAM 1.60V's, QPI on Auto.
Probably caused by over-volting something, that is part of the CPU Voltage Regulator Module (VRM)
As a guess when you over-volted back in Dec. it caused irreparable damage and it finally failed.

X58A-GD65 and win 8

Hello,
First time poster here
I have the MSI X58A-GD65 motherboard running currently Vista64.
I would like to upgrade to win 8; but I can't see any drivers for win 8, ie chip-set/Lan/etc...what do I do in this situation? is it a non-starter and I have to use win 7 instead? or does the win 8 install have everything the MB needs?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Regards

As long as the components installed are not anything exotic that requires special drivers, it will probably work, but the question is why mess with it? Windows 7 64 bit is proven, has drivers, and works great! Who needs all the GOP, VBIOS, Secure Boot, embedded license key, and potential headaches?
As you can tell, I am not a Windows 8 fanboy. All my rigs run W7 or XP.
An uncle of mine runs Windows 8 on his X58 Big Bang XPower, but he has pretty standard hardware, no RAID, no SSD's, has GTX 295's in SLI, WD spinner HDD's, etc..

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