E760 , MEM unable to 2:10

Just bought my new ftw3 with an 980x i7 , how do I know if I have to upgrade my BIOS? Icant identify the Bios version , I installed CPU-z and only tells thst the FTW3 version Bios is 6.00G , how do I know if the version 77 is installed?

The results in everest are: Versión del BIOS Release Number IX586871 date 06/08/10 , How do I know if this is the version 77 bios?

So maybe we get new bios' by how many pages this thread gets?  come on posters, lets get evga's attention and get a new bios out XD

I think that they have to address compatibility with i7 970 as well.  Currently it appears that these boards cannot run turbo multiplier on the i7 970.

jethc9

dejanh

I think that they have to address compatibility with i7 970 as well.  Currently it appears that these boards cannot run turbo multiplier on the i7 970.

I don't have my 970 yet (hopefully tomorrow) but if it's anything like the other i7 chips, turbo is disabled once you change the multiplier from the default setting.

I'm talking about the default setting.  Turbo does not work on EVGA boards with i7 970.  I already confirmed that with a few people.
 

I'll post a screenshot for you in a bit.  Can you send me a screenshot of it working as well from your system?  No tool reports it working for me, including i7TurboGT.

CraptacularOne

Turbo works fine on my board with i7 970.

24/7 settings:

Well bollocks.  Care to share your BIOS settings and BIOS version you are using?  I really want to understand what is happening here and why me and a few other people I spoke to were unable to get Turbo to work.  I sent you a PM just in case you see that before this

CraptacularOne

Answered your PM but I'll post it here too. I'm running the latest bios 77 for my board (E758 X58). Nothing special about the settings I'm using. I'm running a 161 bclock, with turbo on which gives me a 25 multi. VTT is set to +150mv RAM voltage is 1.55v CPU is 1.1825v set in bios, with a 1.2v IOH. Everything else is at the lowest voltage setting in the bios.

Are you using a lower than stock multi? For instance are you trying to run a 20 multi with your bclock at 200 for 4Ghz? If so, if you set a lower than default multi for your CPU, turbo will not activate. Turbo only activates if you are on the default multi for your CPU.

Running E759 Classified here and no dice at all at getting Turbo going.  Can you load your CPU and check whether your turbo is really working with i7TurboGT, RealTemp, and ELEET?  I had CPU-Z show the turbo multiplier once only without any load on the chip but as soon as load gets applied the multiplier is gone.  This was only CPU-Z that showed it for a split second.  Here is my board after CMOS reset, first with EIST and Turbo Enabled...
 

 
As you can see no turbo...and now with EIST Disabled and Turbo Enabled...
 

 
Again, as you can see, no turbo.
 
This is exactly what other E759 and E760 users I spoke to reported and they also reported that as soon as they moved to a non-EVGA board (in specific examples it was Rampage III Extreme) the Turbo multiplier was working just fine, directly implying that this is an issue with these boards, most likely the board BIOS.

CraptacularOne

Perhaps it's a specific issue with some Classified boards that turbo does not work with i7 970's. My board is the plain Jane regular old E758 X58 board and it works fine with my 970 and turbo.

All cores and threads loaded 100% and turbo remains:

Well now this pisses me off even more.  Darn
 
Thanks for the information!

CraptacularOne

Sorry to disappoint

Have you tried perhaps rolling back to an earlier bios?

No, not yet and I'm not a big fan of rolling back BIOS updates to be honest.  I should not have to do that.  I did contact Jacob about this however already.  He said he's looking into it.  Hopefully I get a quick answer.  I already had to put up with the stink of this board burning up my 24-pin, and the fact that my fan controllers died a couple of months after buying it (bought it at launch)...now this is just another problem in the long line of issues...the board is great otherwise, but some of these things just get me.
 
They really need to release a fix for this problem fast

dejanh

CraptacularOne

Sorry to disappoint

Have you tried perhaps rolling back to an earlier bios?

No, not yet and I'm not a big fan of rolling back BIOS updates to be honest.  I should not have to do that.  I did contact Jacob about this however already.  He said he's looking into it.  Hopefully I get a quick answer.  I already had to put up with the stink of this board burning up my 24-pin, and the fact that my fan controllers died a couple of months after buying it (bought it at launch)...now this is just another problem in the long line of issues...the board is great otherwise, but some of these things just get me.

They really need to release a fix for this problem fast

 
Agreed, how frusterating is it to know that we paid a premium for a damaged product

Hrmm, I remember EVGA posting a modification that would be needed to run the newer Xeon chips on these same boards, but I had totally forgotten about it.  I'm assuming it's the same modification you're referring to.  I can't find the thread (I'm sure it's in the old archived forums somewhere) but I swear it was only needed for the Xeons due to the dual QPI link.
 
Here's a link to the mod I am referring to on Kingpin's site, which seems to indicate it's needed for all the 32nm chips, not just the Xeons. : http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=599 
 
In any case, interesting find dejanh, and thanks for posting your experiences!

Mod seems to be too risky for my blood. I'll wait for the appropriate bios fix.

Brazen_NL

Oh, is this the mod which involves shorting two places on the mobo? If so, yeah, I'\d send it in of at all possible.

 
Yea that's the one.
 
I hope the next bios corrects this issue without me having to short out points on the mobo.