** Official ** Gigabyte UD3 P45 Series -- EP45-UD3 / EP45-UD3R / EP45-UD3P

Hi guys,

I'm trying to step away from my old 975x board (D975XBX2 Badaxe2) and upgrade to one of the latest chipsets. It looks like P45 is my safest bet because I want the ICH10 and don't want to pay out the ear - would you guys say that the Gigabyte UD3 series is a serious contender for the P45 belt (aside from the Asus Extreme boards) ?

I'm not really sold on the board design, I hate the color scheme and wish it was more uniform. Also I'm kind of bummed they didn't provide 90* SATA ports but I guess I can't have it all. However from all the research I've done, it looks like this is a pretty stable board for a damn good price if I step up to a P45 - do any of you have any input or can suggest any alternatives that I should consider? I was looking at the DFI P45 series motherboards as well because I really like their board designs; stability is my absolute number one concern though.

Thanks in advance!

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Originally Posted by firas

did you notice the 5-7-7-7-20 timings? this can't be normal right?

I am not 100% certain but I think that after you set the "Driving Strength Profile" to 1066 this will now show the timings in your bios. I noticed the same thing when I first started with this board and after I began enabling some things with my ram CPUZ began reporting the correct timings.

firas, try and set extreme memory performance to disable,it should help.my g.skills do the same if its on auto,but be careful when you change it to disable it will reset the cpu multiplier and fsb.i always start my OC by disabling this first then set up the OC.

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Quote: Originally Posted by xavisimao @fatguy my BIOS setting MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.) Robust Graphics Booster ...............: Auto or Fast CPU Clock Ratio ..........................: 8 CPU Frequency ...........................: 3.0 Clock Chip Control Standard Clock Control CPU Host Clock Control..................: [Enabled] CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) ............: 375Mhz PCI Express Frequency (Mhz) .........:100 C.I.A.2 .................................:[Disabled] Advanced Clock Control [Press Enter] CPU Clock Drive...........................: <<< 800 PCI Express Clock Drive.................: <<< 900 CPU Clock Skew (ps)....................: <<< MCH Clock Skew (ps)...................: <<< DRAM Performance Control Performance Enhance...................: [STANDARD] Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.).....: Disabled (G)MCH Frequency Latch...............: [Auto] System Memory Multiplier ..............: 3.00A Memory Frequency (Mhz) ..............: 1050 DRAM Timing Selectable ................: [Manual] Standard Timing Control CAS Latency Time........................5 tRCD .........................................5 tRP'...........................................5 tRAS..........................................15 Advanced Timing Control tRRD...........................................3 tWTR..........................................5 tWR............................................6 tRFC...........................................56 tRTP...........................................4 Command Rate (CMD) ....................:2 Driving Strength Profiles Driving Strength ............................1066 Channel A Static tRead Value.........................:10 tRD Phase0 Adjustment...................:Auto tRD Phase1 Adjustment...................:Auto tRD Phase2 Adjustment .................:Auto tRD Phase3 Adjustment..................:Auto Trd2rd(Different Rank)....................:Auto Twr2wr(Different Rank)...................:Auto Twr2rd(Different Rank)...................:Auto Trd2wr(Same/Diff Rank)..................:Auto Dimm1 Clock Skew Control...............:Auto ps Dimm2 Clock Skew Control...............:Auto ps Specs: Intel Q6600 @3.0 ghz Gigabyte EP45-UD3R Corsair Dominator 2x1gb 1066mhz Palit GTX260 Sonic Silverstone DA750 WD Raptor 74GB WD Caviar Black 640GB

Your missing your voltage setting ;)

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Originally Posted by PortCitySlim

I am not 100% certain but I think that after you set the "Driving Strength Profile" to 1066 this will now show the timings in your bios. I noticed the same thing when I first started with this board and after I began enabling some things with my ram CPUZ began reporting the correct timings.

Change it to manual and set your timings manually. My GSkill 8800s got picked up as 5-7-7-20, they are actually 5-5-5-15 so I've manually changed them and havent had an issue.

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Originally Posted by dnottis

Change it to manual and set your timings manually. My GSkill 8800s got picked up as 5-7-7-20, they are actually 5-5-5-15 so I've manually changed them and havent had an issue.

Under the profile, if I set disable I see 5-7-7-20, my next option is "profile2" is I set that then it shows up correctly as 5-5-5-15@1066.

disable extreme memory profile all together.

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Originally Posted by PortCitySlim

Auto setting usually lets the board decide the setting and if the board determines that disabled is the most stable then that is what you will get on auto. I noticed that when set to auto on my current setting it is the same thing as enabled. Somebody with more knowledge about this board would know for sure.

How can I check if it's disabled or enabled? Something like MemSet or only by benchmarking with Everest or something?

One more thing...Drive Strength Profile. What does it do exactly and are there any benefits in setting this manually instead of auto?

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Originally Posted by PortCitySlim

I never use any of the Advanced BIOS crap like Virtualization/Thermal Monitor/No-Execute since this can cause stability problems

Isn't Thermal Monitor a good thing to have enabled since it protects the CPU from damage due to overheating?

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Originally Posted by Touche

How can I check if it's disabled or enabled? Something like MemSet or only by benchmarking with Everest or something?

One more thing...Drive Strength Profile. What does it do exactly and are there any benefits in setting this manually instead of auto?

If you benchmark under disabled and then under enabled and compare that to your results on auto you should be able to detect what the auto setting is doing.

I usually set the drive strength profile to the level that covers my memory overclock. If I am trying to run 1100mhz ram then I set to the 1200OC level. I am not exactly sure what it does and I have not got the anwser from anyone yet about it.

Got my new P45 UD3P after fighting with a busted open box P5Q-E from the 'Egg, so far so good. Updated to F8F beta bios and bumped a few things... Ram is at 1105Mhz (GSkill 8800). NB volts are 1.16v ;)

http://3dxtreme.net/other/Q9550%20L8.../3900-UD3P.jpg

Anyone have E8400 settings? I'm stuck around 3780 but haven't changed my ref's yet.

Sli ?

This board dont run sli does it ? thought it ran crossfire, i saw system vipers pc mark scores, and is running 2 nvidia 295s:shrug:

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Originally Posted by Hoss331

hmmm, that should have booted 3.6 no problem. Have you tried that quick boost in ET6?

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Originally Posted by coop

anniku989, try those again but disable the " DDR Write Training" and raise "tRFC" to something like 58. It is easy to change after boot w/memset.

The original settings that hoss posted with coop's tweaks didn't boot either, BUT i used ET6 to oc to 3.6 and it booted and ran fine!

Shall I post up what it set everything to by default for that run and see where its causing this?

anybody know how to check RMA status with gigabyte? i had to send my board in to repair and i cant seem to figure out how to check the status.a phone # or some online site would help out.

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Originally Posted by anniku989

The original settings that hoss posted with coop's tweaks didn't boot either, BUT i used ET6 to oc to 3.6 and it booted and ran fine!

Shall I post up what it set everything to by default for that run and see where its causing this?

Please do :up: I haven't used ET to overclock, and I'm really interested in how it
does it.
Thank you
I have heard that it will do a stable overclock pretty good. I would like to see the voltages that it uses.

Gigabyte RMA Status

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Originally Posted by radaja

anybody know how to check RMA status with gigabyte? i had to send my board in to repair and i cant seem to figure out how to check the status.a phone # or some online site would help out.

Hey radaja, that's why you're absent from the thread! I bet you miss your board!

Well today it's all done thru the website, you can check status there:
http://rma.gigabyte-usa.com/DirectRMA/EndUser_Main.asp

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Originally Posted by anniku989

The original settings that hoss posted with coop's tweaks didn't boot either, BUT i used ET6 to oc to 3.6 and it booted and ran fine!

Shall I post up what it set everything to by default for that run and see where its causing this?

post up a full template please

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Originally Posted by dnottis

Got my new P45 UD3P after fighting with a busted open box P5Q-E from the 'Egg, so far so good. Updated to F8F beta bios and bumped a few things... Ram is at 1105Mhz (GSkill 8800). NB volts are 1.16v ;)

http://3dxtreme.net/other/Q9550%20L8.../3900-UD3P.jpg

Very nice, however I've personally found the F4 and F4Pi BIOS the best for 45nm quads :up: Might want to give them a spin.

jor3lBR,this new dfi UT-P35-T2R is a great board for duallies and its holding me over nicely but GOD YES i miss the hell out of my UD3P.im selling my E8500 so i just installed my 9650 in the dfi and it is quite hard to get it going so far 450x9 is as far as ive gotten.I JUST WANT MY UD3P BACK NOW.ps,thanks for the link

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Originally Posted by radaja

anybody know how to check RMA status with gigabyte? i had to send my board in to repair and i cant seem to figure out how to check the status.a phone # or some online site would help out.

That site wont update and they wont send you an email letting you know they received it or when they ship it back

But if you call them they have the status on it and will give you a tracking number if/when it has been shipped.

Gigabyte (626)854-9338, I think option 2 or 4

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Originally Posted by ghost_recon88

Very nice, however I've personally found the F4 and F4Pi BIOS the best for 45nm quads :up: Might want to give them a spin.

It came with F6 but so far F8F has been better to me. If I run into issues I'll try F4. What were you able to do with F4 that was giving you problems with the newer bioses? Higher Fsbs? Stability?

speedeuphoria,thanks for the phone#.

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Originally Posted by radaja

jor3lBR,this new dfi UT-P35-T2R is a great board for duallies and its holding me over nicely but GOD YES i miss the hell out of my UD3P.im selling my E8500 so i just installed my 9650 in the dfi and it is quite hard to get it going so far 450x9 is as far as ive gotten.I JUST WANT MY UD3P BACK NOW.ps,thanks for the link

DFI needs the GTL shown as % rather than those numerical values, and CPU/NB clock skew, if it had those options your 9650 would be no match for it :rofl:

Im planning on getting this mobo, would this increase the max OC on my Q6600 ?

Currently i can do 3.2Ghz (400*8 ) with 1.335v bios or 3.4Ghz (425*8) at 1.415v bios, 3.6is bootable and semi-stable at 1.5xx vbios

what's happened with your board, radaja?

not really sure,it started first by not recognizing my harddrive at random then it just stopped booting.Shiranui-Gen-an,your right,but i think im getting the hang of it now.my quad seems to like 110/112/108 for a vtt of 1.37.

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******Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)****** Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto ] CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 9x ] Fine CPU Clock Ratio............................[ + 0.0 ] CPU Frequency 3.4GHz............................[ 400 x 9.0 ] ******Clock Chip Control****** CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled ] CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 400 ] PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).....................[ 100 ] C.I.A 2 [Disabled] ******Advanced Clock Control****** CPU Clock Drive.................................[ 1000mv] PCI Express Clock Drive.........................[ 1000mv] CPU Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps] MCH Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps] ******DRAM Performance Control****** Performance Enhance.............................[ Standard ] Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)....................[ Auto ] (G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ Auto ] System Memory 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Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ******Motherboard Voltage Control****** Load-Line Calibration...........................[ Enabled ] CPU Vcore [ 1.25 ]...................[ auto ] CPU Termination [ 1.20 ]...................[ auto ] CPU PLL [ 1.50 ]...................[ auto ] CPU Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ Auto ] MCH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ auto ] MCH Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ Auto ] MCH/DRAM Refernce [ 0.900 ]...................[ auto ] ICH I/O [ 1.500 ]...................[ auto ] ICH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ auto ] DRAM Voltage [ 2.10 ]...................[ auto ] DRAM Termination [ ]...................[ auto ] Channel A Ref [ ]...................[ auto ] Channel B Ref [ ]...................[ auto ] *****************Advanced BIOS Features********* Limit CPUID Max to 3 ................. [disable] No-Execute memory Protect ............ [enabled] CPU Enhance Halt (CIE) ............... [enabled] C2/C2E State Support ................. [enabled] C4/C4E State Support ................. [enabled] CPU Thermal Monitor................... [enabled] CPU EIST Function..................... [enabled] Virtualization Technology ............ [enabled]

^^^ These settings DO boot (& its stable) @ 3.6, and i'm reading 1.30 vcore in windows

I set all the last one's to all disabled like all of you have, and it didn't work (that was the only change to the above settings).

I'm going to try upping it a bit more (3.8 maybe) and see if it'll boot with those enabled

EDIT:
Same settings above, except multi @ 9.5 (9.5 x 400 = 3.8) and boots & runs fine. Seems to be adjusting fine as far as voltages go. vcore is around 1.33

Quote:

Originally Posted by firas

did you notice the 5-7-7-7-20 timings? this can't be normal right?

Quote:

Originally Posted by PortCitySlim

I am not 100% certain but I think that after you set the "Driving Strength Profile" to 1066 this will now show the timings in your bios. I noticed the same thing when I first started with this board and after I began enabling some things with my ram CPUZ began reporting the correct timings.

Quote:

Originally Posted by radaja

firas, try and set extreme memory performance to disable,it should help.my g.skills do the same if its on auto,but be careful when you change it to disable it will reset the cpu multiplier and fsb.i always start my OC by disabling this first then set up the OC.

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Originally Posted by dnottis

Change it to manual and set your timings manually. My GSkill 8800s got picked up as 5-7-7-20, they are actually 5-5-5-15 so I've manually changed them and havent had an issue.

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Originally Posted by SpeedEuphoria

Under the profile, if I set disable I see 5-7-7-20, my next option is "profile2" is I set that then it shows up correctly as 5-5-5-15@1066.

sorry it was my mistake, at the beginning I set the “DRAM Timing Selectable” to manual, but that caused problems, tried to change various settings but nothing worked! so I left it at auto.

now I discovered that when it was at manual it was like this:

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CAS Latency Time...............[ 5 ].........[ 5 ] tRCD...........................[ 5 ].........[ 5 ] tRP............................[ 5 ].........[ 5 ] tRAS...........................[ 15 ].........[ 5 ]

corrected it and everything is running smoothly now :up:

at this moment my “DRAM Performance Control” is:

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Performance Enhance.............................[ Turbo ] Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)....................[ Auto ] (G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 333 ] System Memory Multiplier........................[ 2.40B ] Memory Frequency ..............1066...... ......1020 DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual]

first it was like this

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Performance Enhance.............................[ Turbo ] Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)....................[ Auto ] (G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 400 ] System Memory Multiplier........................[ 2.0D ] Memory Frequency ..............1066...... ......890 DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual]

then I tried to follow what PortCitySlim said and what i was in the link I mentioned to higher my ram frequency.

2.4 multiplier wasn’t available when latch is @ 400, but it was @ latch 333 (and came with the letter B not D)

i'm thinking of giving 2.5 a shot to bring the frequency a little bit higher than 1066 since my memory voltage now is set to 2.1 (which my shallow knowledge gives me a feeling that my current frequency doesn’t require it :shrug: )

@PortCitySlim: you encouraged me to the 3600 idea and that’s what I did :up: but at lower voltages than you mentioned, I even managed to pass prime95 at less vcore but left it at 1.25 (in bios) since it’s already too low

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******Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)****** Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto ] CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 8 ] Fine CPU Clock Ratio............................[ + 0.5 ] CPU Frequency 3.6GHz............................[ 425 x 8.5 ] ******Clock Chip Control****** CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled ] CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 425 ] PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).....................[ 100 ] C.I.A 2 [Disabled] ******Advanced Clock Control****** CPU Clock Drive.................................[ 800mv] PCI Express Clock Drive.........................[ 900mv] CPU Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps] MCH Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps] ******DRAM Performance Control****** Performance Enhance.............................[ Turbo ] Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)....................[ Auto ] (G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 333 ] System Memory Multiplier........................[ 2.40B ] Memory Frequency ..............1066.............1020 DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual] CAS Latency Time...............[ 5 ].........[ 5 ] tRCD...........................[ 5 ].........[ 5 ] tRP............................[ 5 ].........[ 5 ] tRAS...........................[ 15 ].........[ 15 ] ******Advanced Timing Control****** tRRD...........................[ 4 ]..........[ Auto ] tWTR...........................[ 4 ]..........[ Auto ] tWR............................[ 6 ]..........[ Auto ] tRFC...........................[ 72 ].........[ 54 ] tRTP...........................[ 4 ]..........[ Auto ] Command Rate (cmd).............[ 0 ]..........[ 2 ] ******Channel A Timing Settings****** Static tRead Value [ 8 ] ................[ 9 ] tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 7 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 9 ] ................[ Auto ] Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ] ******Channel A Driving Settings****** Drive Strength Profile..........................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ******Channel B Timing Settings****** Static tRead Value [ 8 ] ................[ 9 ] tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 7 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 9 ] ................[ Auto ] Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ] ******Channel B Driving Settings****** Drive Strength Profile..........................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ******Motherboard Voltage Control****** Load-Line Calibration...........................[ Enabled ] CPU Vcore [ 1.25 ]...................[ 1.25V ] CPU Termination [ 1.20 ]...................[ 1.20 ] CPU PLL [ 1.50 ]...................[ 1.50 ] CPU Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ Auto ] MCH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ 1.240 ] MCH Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ 0.800 ] MCH/DRAM Refernce [ 0.900 ]...................[ 0.96 ] ICH I/O [ 1.500 ]...................[ 1.500 ] ICH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ 1.100 ] DRAM Voltage [1.8]...................[2.1 ] DRAM Termination [0.9]...................[1.050] Channel A Ref [0.9]...................[1.050] Channel B Ref [0.9]...................[1.050] *****************Advanced BIOS Features********* Limit CPUID Max to 3 ................. [disable] No-Execute memory Protect ............ [enable] CPU Enhance Halt (CIE) ............... [disable] C2/C2E State Support ................. [disable] C4/C4E State Support ................. [disable] CPU Thermal Monitor................... [enable] CPU EIST Function..................... [disable] Virtualization Technology ............ [disable]

still concerned about the 2.1vram (here had similar settings @ 0.9) :confused: and same vcore with higher FSB

90 minutes stress:
http://s5.tinypic.com/iyfo2e.jpg

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Originally Posted by firas

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******Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)****** Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto ] CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 8 ] Fine CPU Clock Ratio............................[ + 0.5 ] CPU Frequency 3.6GHz............................[ 425 x 8.5 ] ******Clock Chip Control****** CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled ] CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 425 ] PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).....................[ 100 ] C.I.A 2 [Disabled] ******Advanced Clock Control****** CPU Clock Drive.................................[ 800mv] PCI Express Clock Drive.........................[ 900mv] CPU Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps] MCH Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps] ******DRAM Performance Control****** Performance Enhance.............................[ Turbo ] Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)....................[ Auto ] (G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 333 ] System Memory Multiplier........................[ 2.40B ] Memory Frequency ..............1066.............1020 DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual] CAS Latency Time...............[ 5 ].........[ 5 ] tRCD...........................[ 5 ].........[ 5 ] tRP............................[ 5 ].........[ 5 ] tRAS...........................[ 15 ].........[ 15 ] ******Advanced Timing Control****** tRRD...........................[ 4 ]..........[ Auto ] tWTR...........................[ 4 ]..........[ Auto ] tWR............................[ 6 ]..........[ Auto ] tRFC...........................[ 72 ].........[ 54 ] tRTP...........................[ 4 ]..........[ Auto ] Command Rate (cmd).............[ 0 ]..........[ 2 ] ******Channel A Timing Settings****** Static tRead Value [ 8 ] ................[ 9 ] tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 7 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 9 ] ................[ Auto ] Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ] ******Channel A Driving Settings****** Drive Strength Profile..........................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ******Channel B Timing Settings****** Static tRead Value [ 8 ] ................[ 9 ] tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 7 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 9 ] ................[ Auto ] Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ] ******Channel B Driving Settings****** Drive Strength Profile..........................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ******Motherboard Voltage Control****** Load-Line Calibration...........................[ Enabled ] CPU Vcore [ 1.25 ]...................[ 1.25V ] CPU Termination [ 1.20 ]...................[ 1.20 ] CPU PLL [ 1.50 ]...................[ 1.50 ] CPU Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ Auto ] MCH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ 1.240 ] MCH Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ 0.800 ] MCH/DRAM Refernce [ 0.900 ]...................[ 0.96 ] ICH I/O [ 1.500 ]...................[ 1.500 ] ICH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ 1.100 ] DRAM Voltage [1.8]...................[2.1 ] DRAM Termination [0.9]...................[1.050] Channel A Ref [0.9]...................[1.050] Channel B Ref [0.9]...................[1.050] *****************Advanced BIOS Features********* Limit CPUID Max to 3 ................. [disable] No-Execute memory Protect ............ [enable] CPU Enhance Halt (CIE) ............... [disable] C2/C2E State Support ................. [disable] C4/C4E State Support ................. [disable] CPU Thermal Monitor................... [enable] CPU EIST Function..................... [disable] Virtualization Technology ............ [disable]

The first thing that catches my eye is your MCH/DRAM Reference. I would adjust this to 1.050 like your channel A/B reference. These settings I gave you last night for 2.1v RAM are exactly the same settings that Hoss331 is using for his overclock stability and they are passing 8+ hour Prime95 blends. I use a lower ram voltage but it lowers down easily enough, for every .02v you lower your RAM you will notice that the reference for that lowers .01v. I am at 2.00v RAM and a 1.000 reference.

Leaving your CPU TM and No-Execute might not cause you problems(I used to run with them enabled). But remember down the line when you try a blend/OCCT RAM large ftt packet test that disabling these can sometimes solve buggy instability problems.

Setting your performance enhance to turbo might not improve your performance overall, after tweaking you might get better settings to boot on standard. I would say that you should start with Standard and after your finished tweaking everything see if you can run on Turbo. My RAM settings are exactly as follows...

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******DRAM Performance Control****** Performance Enhance.............................[ Standard ] (G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ Auto/333 ] System Memory Multiplier........................[ 2.40B ] Memory Frequency ..............1066.............[ 1128 ] DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual ] CAS Latency Time...............[ 5 ].........[ 5 ] tRCD...........................[ 5 ].........[ 5 ] tRP............................[ 5 ].........[ 5 ] tRAS...........................[ 15 ].........[ 15 ] ******Advanced Timing Control****** tRRD...........................[ 4 ]..........[ Auto ] tWTR...........................[ 4 ]..........[ Auto ] tWR............................[ 13 ]..........[ Auto ] tRFC...........................[ 68 ].........[ 54 ] tRTP...........................[ 4 ]..........[ Auto ] Command Rate (cmd).............[ 2 ]..........[ 2 ] ******Channel A AND B Timing Settings****** Static tRead Value [ 8 ] ................[ 8 ] tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 7 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 9 ] ................[ Auto ] Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] DDR Write Training..............................[ Enabled ] ******Channel A AND B Driving Settings****** Drive Strength Profile..........................[ 1200 OC ] Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ]

And this is what I get when I run Everest....
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6550/everest1w.jpg

Does anyone know whether separate NB watercooling is an option?

Or does the whole sink needs to be removed thus the MOSFET's need an extra cooler too?

Thank in advance,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Allubz

Does anyone know whether separate NB watercooling is an option?

Or does the whole sink needs to be removed thus the MOSFET's need an extra cooler too?

Thank in advance,

you can take off the NB and heatpipe hold the MOSFET's HS and hold the heatpipe and twist heatpipe it and it should pop lose, i did it with mine and it worked need to take off the v-card to slide out the heat pipe :up:

Quote:

Originally Posted by firas

at this moment my “DRAM Performance Control” is:

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Performance Enhance.............................[ Turbo ] Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)....................[ Auto ] (G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 333 ] System Memory Multiplier........................[ 2.40B ] Memory Frequency ..............1066...... ......1020 DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual]

first it was like this

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Performance Enhance.............................[ Turbo ] Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)....................[ Auto ] (G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 400 ] System Memory Multiplier........................[ 2.0D ] Memory Frequency ..............1066...... ......890 DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual]

then I tried to follow what PortCitySlim said and what i was in the link I mentioned to higher my ram frequency.

2.4 multiplier wasn’t available when latch is @ 400, but it was @ latch 333 (and came with the letter B not D)

i'm thinking of giving 2.5 a shot to bring the frequency a little bit higher than 1066 since my memory voltage now is set to 2.1 (which my shallow knowledge gives me a feeling that my current frequency doesn’t require it :shrug: )

At 425fsb you should be using the 266/2.50A. If port sent you my template the only reason its set to 2.00 is because this ram will not run with the 2.40B strap at 482FSB. For me 2.00D at PL9 gives me slighty better everest scores than 2.00B at PL10. Also am I seeing that correctly you have PLL set to 1.15?

Heatpipe logo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dom7184

you can take off the NB and heatpipe hold the MOSFET's HS and hold the heatpipe and twist heatpipe it and it should pop lose, i did it with mine and it worked need to take off the v-card to slide out the heat pipe :up:

It is recommended to uninstall the Heatpipes from the motherboard then use a hair dryer to heat the double sided tape that hold them together and then twist them out.

Never do this with the heatpipes attached to the mobo.

i've just bought another ud3r, now i've a pair.
just a question at the moment: how does work xmp? is it really useful?

@jor3: does domino liquid cooling works well? maybe i'm going to buy it ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jor3lBR

It is recommended to uninstall the Heatpipes from the motherboard then use a hair dryer to heat the double sided tape that hold them together and then twist them out.

Never do this with the heatpipes attached to the mobo.

well it worked and i didnt feel like taking out the mobo to take off the mofest hs off :p:

thats why i like my Danger Den Torture Rack :up:

Quote:

Originally Posted by PortCitySlim

The first thing that catches my eye is your MCH/DRAM Reference. I would adjust this to 1.050 like your channel A/B reference. These settings I gave you last night for 2.1v RAM are exactly the same settings that Hoss331 is using for his overclock stability and they are passing 8+ hour Prime95 blends. I use a lower ram voltage but it lowers down easily enough, for every .02v you lower your RAM you will notice that the reference for that lowers .01v. I am at 2.00v RAM and a 1.000 reference.

aha ... so the "MCH/DRAM Reference" is somehow connected with A/B reference?
I’ll set it to 1.050, but do you think I should try to lower the ram voltage a little bit?
2.060 with 1.030 A/B reference and MCH/DRAM Reference? like what you gave Hoss331 here ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by PortCitySlim

Leaving your CPU TM and No-Execute might not cause you problems(I used to run with them enabled). But remember down the line when you try a blend/OCCT RAM large ftt packet test that disabling these can sometimes solve buggy instability problems.

ok I’ll disable it, I just thought that those would help me not frying CPU or Memory

Quote:

Originally Posted by PortCitySlim

Setting your performance enhance to turbo might not improve your performance overall, after tweaking you might get better settings to boot on standard. I would say that you should start with Standard and after your finished tweaking everything see if you can run on Turbo

will set it to standard, I just kept it to Turbo cuz that’s what it was when everything was at stock

do you think I should set “Static tRead Value” at 8 instead of 9 like your settings? Specially that mine already shows 8 as a default value!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hoss331

At 425fsb you should be using the 266/2.50A. If port sent you my template the only reason its set to 2.00 is because this ram will not run with the 2.40B strap at 482FSB. For me 2.00D at PL9 gives me slighty better everest scores than 2.00B at PL10. Also am I seeing that correctly you have PLL set to 1.15?

didn’t really understand but I’ll give 266/2.50A a shot
you mean "CPU PLL"? it's @ 1.50 not 1.15

manny thanks for all the help everyone

Sounds perfect, thank you a lot!

Finally...had to use 333 strap and GTLs needed to be .838, its prime blend, small and LinX stable over 4.0Ghz.

http://3dxtreme.net/other/Q9550%20L8....312v-UD3P.jpg

very well. what about vcore settng in bios? does it vdrop a lot?

if any one is interested im selling my two g.skill pc8800 kits 2x2gb for a total of 8 gigs and my E8500 EO Q827A272 in the F/S section.i just got my first set of g.skill 9600's and soon to be getting another,so no need for the 8800's.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnottis

It came with F6 but so far F8F has been better to me. If I run into issues I'll try F4. What were you able to do with F4 that was giving you problems with the newer bioses? Higher Fsbs? Stability?

Better stability and higher FSB. As a reference test, I used F4 and kept everything on auto except vcore, PLL, and VTT. I was able to run 471x8.5 P95 stable for an hour. Every other BIOS with the exact same settings (vcore, PLL, and VTT were manually set to the same options as I did in F4) failed P95 within 10 mins.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghost_recon88

Better stability and higher FSB. As a reference test, I used F4 and kept everything on auto except vcore, PLL, and VTT. I was able to run 471x8.5 P95 stable for an hour. Every other BIOS with the exact same settings (vcore, PLL, and VTT were manually set to the same options as I did in F4) failed P95 within 10 mins.

I switched to F4 to hit what I did above. Thanks for the tip seems to be working well for me!

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnottis

I switched to F4 to hit what I did above. Thanks for the tip seems to be working well for me!

hmm... i think i wanna try it out also mine cam with the F6 for my Q

cuz does it flash back easy or i need to do the same crap with asus mobo to flash to an older bios ?

also anyone know which one os good for dual cores [E8500] ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dom7184

hmm... i think i wanna try it out also mine cam with the F6 for my Q

cuz does it flash back easy or i need to do the same crap with asus mobo to flash to an older bios ?

also anyone know which one os good for dual cores [E8500] ?

Put F4 on a flash drive, reboot, go into bios hit F8 for Qflash and flash it like using AltF2 on an Asus, was cake and no issues going back either.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnottis

Put F4 on a flash drive, reboot, go into bios hit F8 for Qflash and flash it like using AltF2 on an Asus, was cake and no issues going back either.

thanks right now im on F7 but wanted to try F4 since it should be better for Q BRB :up:

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghost_recon88

Better stability and higher FSB. As a reference test, I used F4 and kept everything on auto except vcore, PLL, and VTT. I was able to run 471x8.5 P95 stable for an hour. Every other BIOS with the exact same settings (vcore, PLL, and VTT were manually set to the same options as I did in F4) failed P95 within 10 mins.

i've a xeon x3370 under bios F5. i should try to flash F4 for some tests :)

@dnottis what are your settings ?

also can you try 8X500 ?

Load-Line Calibration
CPU Vcore
CPU Termination
CPU PLL
CPU Reference

MCH Core
MCH Reference
MCH/DRAM Refernce
ICH I/O
ICH Core

DRAM Voltage
DRAM Termination
Channel A Ref
Channel B Ref

I also am currently trying F4

So far its good

Quote:

Originally Posted by PortCitySlim

If you benchmark under disabled and then under enabled and compare that to your results on auto you should be able to detect what the auto setting is doing.

I've just benchmarked with Everest and there's absolutely no difference between enabled/disabled/auto.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Touche

I've just benchmarked with Everest and there's absolutely no difference between enabled/disabled/auto.

i've tried too. no difference.

Load-Line Calibration - enabled
CPU Vcore - 1.34xx (dont recall which one, but it's one of the 1.34 options)
CPU Termination - 1.26v
CPU PLL - 1.57
CPU Reference - .838

MCH Core 1.26v or 1.28v
MCH Reference .838
MCH/DRAM Refernce AUTO
ICH I/O - lowest selectable
ICH Core - lowest selectable

DRAM Voltage - 1.82v
DRAM Termination - AUTO
Channel A Ref - AUTO
Channel B Ref - AUTO

also can you try 8X500 ?
Yep but my chip doesn't like 500. It boots but it's very unstable.

i suggest to manually set the mch gtl and to increase cpu gtl ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by firas

aha ... so the "MCH/DRAM Reference" is somehow connected with A/B reference?
I’ll set it to 1.050, but do you think I should try to lower the ram voltage a little bit?
2.060 with 1.030 A/B reference and MCH/DRAM Reference? like what you gave Hoss331 ?

Sure lower it away, if it passes keep lowering it:)

Quote:

Originally Posted by firas

will set it to standard, I just kept it to Turbo cuz that’s what it was when everything was at stock

do you think I should set “Static tRead Value” at 8 instead of 9 like your settings? Specially that mine already shows 8 as a default value!

SURE! That is what I was meaning about using standard and trying better Tread values and write training. Set your to stardard and see how low your Tread value will boot, that is after you get your multi and ram speed set to your liking.

Quote:

Originally Posted by firas

didn’t really understand but I’ll give 266/2.50A a shot
you mean "CPU PLL"? it's @ 1.50 not 1.15

manny thanks for all the help everyone

I would follow Hoss331's advice with setting a higher RAM Multi, Hoss helps me with my settings and is pretty good at this stuff.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnottis

Load-Line Calibration - enabled
CPU Vcore - 1.34xx (dont recall which one, but it's one of the 1.34 options)
CPU Termination - 1.26v
CPU PLL - 1.57
CPU Reference - .838

MCH Core 1.26v or 1.28v
MCH Reference .838
MCH/DRAM Refernce AUTO
ICH I/O - lowest selectable
ICH Core - lowest selectable

DRAM Voltage - 1.82v
DRAM Termination - AUTO
Channel A Ref - AUTO
Channel B Ref - AUTO

also can you try 8X500 ?
Yep but my chip doesn't like 500. It boots but it's very unstable.

Use .63x as the multipler for figuring out GTLs.

VTTx.63=GTL voltage

So, if VTT is 1.20, do 1.20x.63=75.6v, or in this case you would chose .76v in the GTL list. Same method and format goes for the NB. Using that formula I was able to get a CPU-Z validation with my Q9550 at 555FSB on air :up:

Quote:

Originally Posted by firas

ok I’ll disable it, I just thought that those would help me not frying CPU or Memory

I would not worry about the Thermal Monitor and your current overclock. Your not going to experience high load temps so Thermal Monitor is going to be useless for you. Even at my clock speeds sometimes I do get my chip a bit hot(If I linpack) but the important thing to do is monitor your temps and even if they get above 70C as long as your not running that hot for a long period of time your not going to "fry" one of these Q9550/Q9650 chips.

Quote:

Originally Posted by simone18

i've tried too. no difference.

Done some more testing - no difference in Everest benchmark but there is in stability. DDR Write Training Enabled gives me Linpack errors. I've set it to disabled.

Getting over 450 FSB..

Hello everyone.

I just got a UD3P, and installed it in the machine. My problem is that I can´t boot over 450FSB, even 451FSB is a no go. It just begins to beep at boot.:(

It is otherwise very stable at 9x450FSB. (Prime95)..

Is there a setting in the bios, that can causing this??

Running F4 Bios... (Q9650)..

Quote:

Originally Posted by zyfer

Hello everyone.

I just got a UD3P, and installed it in the machine. My problem is that I can´t boot over 450FSB, even 451FSB is a no go. It just begins to beep at boot.:(

It is otherwise very stable at 9x450FSB. (Prime95)..

Is there a setting in the bios, that can causing this??

Running F4 Bios... (Q9650)..

Can you please post your bios/voltage settings so someone can look at them and see if we can figure out your problem.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghost_recon88

Use .63x as the multipler for figuring out GTLs.

VTTx.63=GTL voltage

So, if VTT is 1.20, do 1.20x.63=75.6v, or in this case you would chose .76v in the GTL list. Same method and format goes for the NB. Using that formula I was able to get a CPU-Z validation with my Q9550 at 555FSB on air :up:

Nice, I was wondering if there was a way to calculate it. What is the max VTT should be is it 1.4v for quads?

I'm at 1.26 or 1.28 when I went higher - so I still need to be about .80+ for the GTL which is about where I was. My problem with going lower is that Prime Blend was failing. Bumping it where I am now fixed that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnottis

Nice, I was wondering if there was a way to calculate it. What is the max VTT should be is it 1.4v for quads?

I'm at 1.26 or 1.28 when I went higher - so I still need to be about .80+ for the GTL which is about where I was. My problem with going lower is that Prime Blend was failing. Bumping it where I am now fixed that.

Try this out. FWIW, for me the F4 didnt clock any better then the F7.

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******Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)****** Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto ] CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 8.0 ] Fine CPU Clock Ratio............................[ + 0.5 ] CPU Frequency 4.0GHz............................[ 471 x 8.5] ******Clock Chip Control****** CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled ] CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 471 ] PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).....................[ 100 ] C.I.A 2.........................................[ Disabled ] ******Advanced Clock Control****** CPU Clock Drive.................................[ 900mv ] PCI Express Clock Drive.........................[ 900mv ] CPU Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps ] MCH Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps ] ******DRAM Performance Control****** Performance Enhance.............................[ Standard ] (G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 400 ] System Memory Multipler.........................[ 2.00D ] Memory Frequency 1066...........................[ 942 ] DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual ] CAS Latency Time................................[ 5 ] tRCD............................................[ 5 ] tRP.............................................[ 5 ] tRAS............................................[ 15 ] ******Advanced Timing Control****** tRRD[4].........................................[ 3 ] tWTR[4].........................................[ 3 ] tWR[8]..........................................[ 6 ] tRFC[72]........................................[ 54 ] tRTP[4].........................................[ 3 ] Command Rate (cmd)[0]...........................[ 2T ] ******Channel A Timing Settings****** Static tRead Value [ 11 ] ...............[ 9 ] tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 5 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ] ******Channel A Driving Settings****** Drive Strength Profile..........................[ 1066 ] Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ******Channel B Timing Settings****** Static tRead Value [ 11 ] ...............[ 9 ] tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 5 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ] ******Channel B Driving Settings****** Drive Strength Profile..........................[ 1066 ] Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ******Motherboard Voltage Control****** Load-Line Calibration...........................[ Enabled ] CPU Vcore [ 1.15 ]......................[ 1.34375 ] CPU Termination [ 1.20 ]...................[ 1.300 ] CPU PLL [ 1.50 ]...................[ 1.500 ] CPU Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ 0.848 ] MCH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ 1.300 ] MCH Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ 0.863 ] MCH/DRAM Refernce [ 0.900 ]...................[ 0.910 ] ICH I/O [ 1.500 ]...................[ 1.500 ] ICH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ 1.100 ] DRAM Voltage [ 1.800 ]...................[ 1.820 ] DRAM Termination [ 0.900 ]...................[ 0.910 ] Channel A Ref [ 0.900 ]...................[ 0.910 ] Channel B Ref [ 0.900 ]...................[ 0.910 ] ******Advanced BIOS Features****** Limit CPUID Max to 3............................[ Disabled ] No-Execute memory Protect.......................[ Disabled ] CPU Enhance Halt (CIE)..........................[ Disabled ] C2/C2E State Support............................[ Disabled ] C4/C4E State Support............................[ Disabled ] CPU Thermal Monitor.............................[ Disabled ] CPU EIST Function...............................[ Disabled ] Virtualization Technology.......................[ Disabled ]

Anyone try out the official F8 yet?

Any suggestions on how to go higher? I used to do 445x9 on my Abit IP35-E

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...20x9Test18.jpg

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnottis

Load-Line Calibration - enabled
CPU Vcore - 1.34xx (dont recall which one, but it's one of the 1.34 options)
CPU Termination - 1.26v
CPU PLL - 1.57
CPU Reference - .838

MCH Core 1.26v or 1.28v
MCH Reference .838
MCH/DRAM Refernce AUTO
ICH I/O - lowest selectable
ICH Core - lowest selectable

DRAM Voltage - 1.82v
DRAM Termination - AUTO
Channel A Ref - AUTO
Channel B Ref - AUTO

also can you try 8X500 ?
Yep but my chip doesn't like 500. It boots but it's very unstable.

well my multi is 8 on my Q so i got it stable at 500X8 but with 1.44v on CPU Termination & MCH Core the only ones i set are those and CPU Vcore & DRAM Voltage the rest I set to Normal

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghost_recon88

Use .63x as the multipler for figuring out GTLs.

VTTx.63=GTL voltage

So, if VTT is 1.20, do 1.20x.63=75.6v, or in this case you would chose .76v in the GTL list. Same method and format goes for the NB. Using that formula I was able to get a CPU-Z validation with my Q9550 at 555FSB on air :up:

whats GTL Voltage & VTT ? CPU Termination

vtt on this board is cpu termination and gtls are the references

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hoss331

vtt on this board is cpu termination and gtls are the references

Yep and the "Static tRead" is the Performance level. MCH Frequency latch is the same as the bootstrap/FSB Strap on other boards. Would I be correct to assume that the "Performance Enhance" is similar to the ASUS "Clock Twister" ram setting?

Also, if anyone ever comes up with an explanation as to what the "Drive Strength Profile" actually does and the correct way to set it for certain clocks, please post the answer. Thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by zyfer

Hello everyone.

I just got a UD3P, and installed it in the machine. My problem is that I can´t boot over 450FSB, even 451FSB is a no go. It just begins to beep at boot.:(

It is otherwise very stable at 9x450FSB. (Prime95)..

Is there a setting in the bios, that can causing this??

Running F4 Bios... (Q9650)..

try higher cpu termination voltage on quad?

Quote:

Originally Posted by PortCitySlim

Also, if anyone ever comes up with an explanation as to what the "Drive Strength Profile" actually does and the correct way to set it for certain clocks, please post the answer. Thanks

My guess is internal NB latencies. If you choose the 1066 profile Im sure performance will be a bit slower but more stable OC.

You know overclocking has lost it's "fun" factor. With all these settings and voltages its so much more frustrating now. It was great when you had vcore, NB and SB voltages and none of this crap with GTL references to deal with.

I was telling a friend last night, I do love this new chip and board but it took alot of messing with to get it stable....I really missed the simplicity of overclocking my Q6600 on the P5B-deluxe and P5K-E that didn't have quite so many options you had to fool with. I can only imagine the end of easy overclocking is past and it's probably going to get more difficult.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnottis

My guess is internal NB latencies. If you choose the 1066 profile Im sure performance will be a bit slower but more stable OC.

So setting it to "OC-1333" will yield even higher NB latencies?

Quote:

Originally Posted by zyfer

Hello everyone.

I just got a UD3P, and installed it in the machine. My problem is that I can´t boot over 450FSB, even 451FSB is a no go. It just begins to beep at boot.:(

It is otherwise very stable at 9x450FSB. (Prime95)..

Is there a setting in the bios, that can causing this??

Running F4 Bios... (Q9650)..

which revision? 1.0 or 1.1?

Try a higher FSB with a lower multi, say 8x500 or 8x525 and so on. It will perform better too!

Quote:

Originally Posted by turbotrey

Any suggestions on how to go higher? I used to do 445x9 on my Abit IP35-E

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...20x9Test18.jpg

i finally got through to gigabyte and they said that my board was sent out on tuesday,so with any luck i should have it up and running with my 9650 by the weekend.I CAN NOT WAIT,but i have to.its gonna be a great weekend for sure.

Quote:

Originally Posted by radaja

i finally got through to gigabyte and they said that my board was sent out on tuesday,so with any luck i should have it up and running with my 9650 by the weekend.I CAN NOT WAIT,but i have to.its gonna be a great weekend for sure.

Whats wrong with your board? Do think i can change mine just tell then that my board is not ok? BUt my board is fine, just doesnt feel confortable with high fsb like 500+, and if i change maybe i can get more from it...

Quote:

Originally Posted by simone18

which revision? 1.0 or 1.1?

Is there a noticible difference? :shrug:

Quote:

Originally Posted by systemviper

Is there a noticible difference? :shrug:

Rev 1.1 sticker, fat ddr2 slots and diferent pwm 2 and sb heatsinks, same OC's results. :up:

Viper great GTX scores on vantage mate :clap:!!!!

I want that 9.5 multi! You have any info on when intel plans to release that processor and the Q9750?

just a screen
[IMG]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6096/550n.jpg[/IMG]

xbiusx,my board first stopped recognizing my harddrive randomly then it just wouldnt boot anymore.to your question,no they will just send the same board back if they find nothing wrong.the only time they give a different board back is if they cant repair the one you send.im hoping they that they could repair mine cause its a decent board.but if not oh well ill just have to learn what the new one likes.COOP,nice fsb.what is that program that looks like everest in your SS?

^^ that is AIDA32. It is free and has quite a bit of information but could use more comprehensive benchmarks.

thanks ill give it a go.

Hi Guys,

I have a problem with my UD3P and I hope someone can help me...

Whenever I set to 'Sleep' in Vista and I try to wake the system from sleep, the system will power-up for 3 secs then power-down.

The system will keep repeating the above process (i.e., powering up for 3 secs and powering down without waking up properly) until i manually switch off the PSU.

Any idea why this happens? I have not installed Gigabyte's Dynamic Energy Saver and S3(STR) mode is already enabled in Bios.

Here are my specs:
Q9650 (w/Xigmatek s1283) + Gigabyte P45 UD3P
SilverStone Zeus ST75ZF 750W
Team Xtreem Dark PC2-8500 1066MHz
8800GTX

EDIT: ok.. i searched abit and realised this is an existing problem. any fixes yet?

S3 is broken, I dont think they have a fix yet. :shakes:

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Originally Posted by Hoss331

S3 is broken, I dont think they have a fix yet. :shakes:

Try BIOS F9a released today.
Link on TT Forum

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same OC's results.

i dont think so. some people here in italy have ud3r rev1.1 and they aren't able to go over 450fsb. ram only in 1:1. it hasn't same performance of rev1.0
obviously, not all rev1.1 are so bad ;)

i’ve not spent much time with this ud3r (rev 1.0) ddr3 board yet, it's just not like i used to have a lot of time with the ddr2 ones.
but anyway, i just have some time to play with the board again and share what happens.

this is the first time running prime95 to test some of my voltage and ref. voltage settings.

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3015/20090306185037.png

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/107/20090306200500.png

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Originally Posted by simone18

i dont think so. some people here in italy have ud3r rev1.1 and they aren't able to go over 450fsb. ram only in 1:1. it hasn't same performance of rev1.0
obviously, not all rev1.1 are so bad ;)

well i have 1.1 GA-EP45-UD3P and its easy to get 450fsb I can get 4GHZ stable on my X3350 but its when i get closer to 500 i need more CPU Termination & MCH Core then below 500 :shrug:

and on my E8500 i gotten 7.5X600 :D

1.0 vs 1.1 vtts for high clocks

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Originally Posted by simone18

i dont think so. some people here in italy have ud3r rev1.1 and they aren't able to go over 450fsb. ram only in 1:1. it hasn't same performance of rev1.0
obviously, not all rev1.1 are so bad ;)

All I can say that I had some extensive testing done on both UD3P Rev1.0 and Rev1.1 in several different boards and they are all the same to me. Same voltages for same clocks and voltage stability also the same.

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Originally Posted by Dom7184

well i have 1.1 GA-EP45-UD3P and its easy to get 450fsb I can get 4GHZ stable on my X3350 but its when i get closer to 500 i need more CPU Termination & MCH Core then below 500 :shrug:

and on my E8500 i gotten 7.5X600 :D

Coming up my new IBT&Prime95 stable Q9650@4680Mhz (520x9) rams at 1300Mhz PL8. I only needed 1.32vtt but MCH Core is needed a little bit more then usual from 1.45 to 1.60.

Vtt for 4752Mhz stable also doesn't need to go higher then 1.36vtt.:up:

jor what was the pll needed for that?

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Originally Posted by Jor3lBR

Coming up my new IBT&Prime95 stable Q9650@4680Mhz (520x9) rams at 1300Mhz PL8. I only needed 1.32vtt but MCH Core is needed a little bit more then usual from 1.45 to 1.60.

Vtt for 4752Mhz stable also doesn't need to go higher then 1.36vtt.:up:

well i guess you just got some good Chips and i still need to mess with the ref volts

got my replacement today,it is a different board,rev 1.0 and now i'll have to see what this board likes.im installing xp right now.so ill be back with an update on how well it performs.BY THE WAY IM ONE HAPPY GUY RIGHT NOW,VERY EXCITED.its almost like when i first got it

Lets talk about Memory bandwidth and stability with MCH voltage. I noticed on my board that 1.22Mch works good as well as 1.26 and 1.32. If I set 1.24/1.28 I loose bandwidth. Another user has backed this up as well. He found that using the 1.24/1.28 that loosening the sub timings gained back the lost bandwidth that 1.22/1.26 MCH provided, very strange indeed.

I will have to step up and do more thorough testing now that it has been confirmed, to see exactly what is going on and to see how/if stability is affected as i never messed with the MCH that gave me less bandwidth.

help me decide :D

Tomorrow I will receive my new UD3P. Verry excited :D ... But currently I have only an E2160 CPU. Do UD3P OC well E2160 CPU-s? Can anyone here share some settings and results with this combo?
I had a C0 E8400 that was a verry bad clocker ... sold it and now I have a thougth time deciding what CPU should I choose in his place ... I'm currently trying to decide between E8400,E8500 and Q9550. I'm tempted to choose E8400 because the big oc's attained on them that i see in this thread ...
and I kind of got the impression they tend to oc higher and easier than E8500's.
But the order for the cpu is gonna happen next week only :). Just wanna see what u suggest ... what u preffer ... E8400 over E8500 or E8500 over E8400?

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Originally Posted by radaja

jor what was the pll needed for that?

Hey Rad the PLL needed was between 1.5 to 1.56 nothing more then stock will do. I will post settings soon again but I have to try this out on the UD3P as well (latest 4860Mhz_1300ddr2 was achieved on the Extreme) but I always find the A03 on the UD3P less moody to setup. :up:

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Originally Posted by Dom7184

well i guess you just got some good Chips and i still need to mess with the ref volts

Nah no hand picks here I got a old batch from eBay when these first came out. Then I got a chip for a friend (SergioAndres) and said that I would deliver with UD3P running Prime95 stable at 4500Mhz with less the 1.4vcore and 1.32vtt on his cpu. So no matter the chip these board can put them to good use :up:

testing DDR3-2000 with dual SuperPi 8M and a SuperPi 32M (for stability test only) on this exceptional quality and low price board

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/720...0307024447.png

i also hope to get DDR3-2100...

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/461...0307035325.png

and might be DDR3-2200. the board already boot with an overclocked ram and at this ram speed, just couldn't get into Windows yet.

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Originally Posted by stasio

Try BIOS F9a released today.
Link on TT Forum

S3 still not working. :(

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Hey Rad the PLL needed was between 1.5 to 1.56 nothing more then stock will do. I will post settings soon again but I have to try this out on the UD3P as well (latest 4860Mhz_1300ddr2 was achieved on the Extreme) but I always find the A03 on the UD3P less moody to setup.

maye those italian people have particularly unlucky boards...they're not all newbye to oc ;)

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Originally Posted by Jor3lBR

There is a bug on the 2:40b strap that wont let you boot with 2 sticks of 2Gb above 1.4vmch set in Bios (some can go higher some lower).

You can use 2:40B strap as long as your Vmch in bios is around 1.40v. You can change that thru ET6 later if needed.

So try to boot 1066 with 2:40b strap and low Vmch then report back. :up:

Here is what I have come up with. On my board(And apparently Hoss's board as well) the voltage for MCH has nothing to do with getting the 2.4B multi to boot. At 9x470FSB I have tried 1.34, 1.36, 1.38 and 1.40 MCH voltage. All of my attempts failed to boot. I began lowering the FSB down from 9x470 in 10mhz increments, at 430FSB all of a sudden I was able to boot into windows no problem(This was done all on 1.34/1.34 MCH/VTT). After I was able to boot at 430FSb I began raising the FSB by 1mhz untill I could no longer boot. I discovered that as long as the FSB was under exactly 435FSB you can boot with 2.4B and above 434FSB you can not boot with 2.4B strap.

All that said, the 2.4B strap is the most important one for myself to use with my 9x470-9x475 clocks because of the limitations of my 1100mhz RAM. Because the single most useful RAM multi to me is bugged I am really getting pissed at Gigabyte for not having this thing fixed already. I have been booting at 434FSB and then raising the FSB with ET6, however there is a problem with that. One of my programs(Fritz GUI) will not recognize the change that ET6 has made, even though my processor is running at 4.23ghz the program is reporting 3.9ghz and this is causing very annoying performance issues with my game engines.

Does ANYONE know if Gigabyte is planning on fixing this problem in the future? Has anyone contacted Gigabytes support people about this? If there is a good e-mail to reach them at let me know and I am going to start bugging the :banana::banana::banana::banana: out of them until they resolve it in a bios update.

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Originally Posted by firas

aha ... so the "MCH/DRAM Reference" is somehow connected with A/B reference?
I’ll set it to 1.050, but do you think I should try to lower the ram voltage a little bit?
2.060 with 1.030 A/B reference and MCH/DRAM Reference? like what you gave Hoss331 ?

will set it to standard, I just kept it to Turbo cuz that’s what it was when everything was at stock

do you think I should set “Static tRead Value” at 8 instead of 9 like your settings? Specially that mine already shows 8 as a default value!

didn’t really understand but I’ll give 266/2.50A a shot
you mean "CPU PLL"? it's @ 1.50 not 1.15

manny thanks for all the help everyone

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Originally Posted by PortCitySlim

Sure lower it away, if it passes keep lowering it:)

SURE! That is what I was meaning about using standard and trying better Tread values and write training. Set your to stardard and see how low your Tread value will boot, that is after you get your multi and ram speed set to your liking.

I would follow Hoss331's advice with setting a higher RAM Multi, Hoss helps me with my settings and is pretty good at this stuff.

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Originally Posted by PortCitySlim

I would not worry about the Thermal Monitor and your current overclock. Your not going to experience high load temps so Thermal Monitor is going to be useless for you. Even at my clock speeds sometimes I do get my chip a bit hot(If I linpack) but the important thing to do is monitor your temps and even if they get above 70C as long as your not running that hot for a long period of time your not going to "fry" one of these Q9550/Q9650 chips.

266/2.50A didn’t work … BSOD during windows startup.
anyway latch@333 with multi@ 2.04B is good for running@ close to stock for me (1020)

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i wonder why ET6 show 0.9 for DRAM Termination & channel A/B reference & MCH/DRAM reference though they are 1.050 in bios!
after work i'll try 2.060 with 1.030 , if it worked i'll give 1.920 with 0.960 a shot

I managed to pass P95 at like 1.16** vcore, can I set it to that or it’s not a good idea to go below stock?

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Originally Posted by firas

i wonder why ET6 show 0.9 for DRAM Termination & channel A/B reference & MCH/DRAM reference though they are 1.050 in bios!
after work i'll try 2.060 with 1.030 , if it worked i'll give 1.920 with 0.960 a shot

I managed to pass P95 at like 1.16** vcore, can I set it to that or it’s not a good idea to go below stock?

ET6 does the same thing for me. If your current overclock is passing 1.16vcore small ftt's in prime 95 that means your CPU is stable at that speed. For me that would mean time to test my ram/nb in a blend using the same CPU vcore, if the blend passes several hours then you got your stability for that overclock. Settings look fine, I do not know if your setting your MCH reference correct but your RAM references look good. Good luck with your Blend!

not convinced with this motherboard

hi lads
I bought this after reading countless good reviews and have played with it for some time,only managed to get 5 different sets of ram to run at a max of 1120 mhz, that was 2gig kit of crucial ballistix on 5-5-5-15, tried this with corsair pc2-6400c3 - no go there - had crucial tracer 2gig - no go - had 2gig kit reapers pc2-9200 - they were unstable on this board - got 4gig pc2-8500 g-skill they can only go 1080mhz - do i need to loosen those timings a bit - thinking about team xtreme aswell but they are quite expensive,maybe its the cpu which is limiting me.
i have a xeon 3045 - quite hard as only have multi of 6 or 7 - 450fsb -hate the ram options on this - linked to fsb,so anything above 450fsb - u need ram that can hit 1100mhz -think that is not great-given that this board is capable of running ddr2 ram at 1366+ mhz
did have a qx9650 for a couple of weeks,but as soon as i altered voltages the temps on the cpu rocketed,so i sold that- i like the xeon as it runs ultra cool just struggling to find the right set of ram that can take me higher.
wanted to also ask in the bios on health management what things in there need to be disabled,and what ram recommendations would you lads suggest,
any advice would be great,cheers in advance
regs
paul

Got my GA EP45T UD3P (1.0). Do we use same thread for DDR3 boards?

GA EP45T UD3P/Q9650+Water/Kingston Hyperx 1800/High Power 1000W

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Originally Posted by PortCitySlim

Here is what I have come up with. On my board(And apparently Hoss's board as well) the voltage for MCH has nothing to do with getting the 2.4B multi to boot. At 9x470FSB I have tried 1.34, 1.36, 1.38 and 1.40 MCH voltage. All of my attempts failed to boot. I began lowering the FSB down from 9x470 in 10mhz increments, at 430FSB all of a sudden I was able to boot into windows no problem(This was done all on 1.34/1.34 MCH/VTT). After I was able to boot at 430FSb I began raising the FSB by 1mhz untill I could no longer boot. I discovered that as long as the FSB was under exactly 435FSB you can boot with 2.4B and above 434FSB you can not boot with 2.4B strap.

That is your board specifically then Slim, I was testing with stock settings and 4Gb, all same results 2:40 is bugged for any volts above 1.440vmch no matter Mhzs...

But that doesn't mean you can't solve this problem, as I said many times before but people refuse to read, just set 1.40mch in BIOS, boot into Windows and use ET6 to raise it.

I'm using 4Gb's at 1250-1300ddr2 PL8 using 2:40 strap above 1.5vmch with no problems here.