Gigabyte EX58-UD3R rev. 1.0 (Need help)

[Dimix]

linkHey guys I've placed myself in a pretty shitty place. Now I've only been in your forums for like 5 mins and already I helped myself to a ton of info. Recently just bought a new system so this is my first.

i7 920
Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
6 Gig of Patriot Mem
CorsairTX 850watt PSU
2 260GTXs core 216
WD 640 Gig

Now somehow when I bought everything I freakin grabbed the wrong mobo from newegg.com, I would just look at the first price to think that was the mobo, so I didn't order the SLI ver. (kicking myself) to my relief I read that from you guys that Gigabyte supports the SLI mode and I have to flash the BIOS, now I have never really done this, so I wanted to make sure I get this right.

This is the link I went to with the support. Now I dled the F5 version already, do I have to flash the BIOS with version F2 thru F4 first? Or can I go ahead and just flash the F5 version and be done with it, I just ordered a Gigabyte SLI bridge from ebay so that is covered. Thanks for your help.

 

[lopri]

You can go ahead and flash with F5 BIOS. Do not worry about F2, F3, or F4. They're there just in case when you experience trouble F5 BIOS you can fall back to earlier BIOS.

Edit: Clicked on the link and I see F6 BIOS as the latest? Anyway, welcome to AnandTech Forums.

 

[Dimix]

So F6 includes everything from F5 and below right? Has anyone done this once with no problem.

 

[hectorsm]

Yes. That is the way it usually works. I am using the F6 BIOS right now. Mine came with F2 so I updated to F6 directly.

 

[yusux]

Why does it have to be flashed to F5 in order to support SLi?