A big Thank you to Gigabyte and Dinos22

From a offhand comment to Dinos22 and then him following up Gigabyte sent the WCG team 6-Gigabyte EX58A-UD3R boards to pass out to the team.
I threw a bunch of names into my spaghetti collander :rofl: and had my 79 year old Mother pull out the six winners.
Here's the six winners:
1)MysticMerlin
2) Shaotai
3)LU523
4)Plan B.
5)Solid
6)Don_XVI
The boards have all arrived to the winners and some have been built.
I would like to Thank Gigabyte for this generous donation and also to Dino for making this happen.
What I can say to the company and to Dino is that these boards will be put to good use in our quest to find the cures for AIDS,Cancer and many other diseases.
Thank you.:up:

Congrats to everyone who won!

Gigabyte and Dinos22 proved that they are willing to walk the walk. Thanks again for helping this team fight some very terrible diseases. :clap: :clap:

Huzzah! Moar Powa! Power to rule the --ahemcoughcough-- Fight AIDS with. >_> <_<

You're not gonna sing the doom song now are you? 0_o

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Congrats to everyone who won!

Wish I had won. :(

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Haha, don't we all...

Congrats guys, Look forward to seeing how these babies crunch!

And major props to Gigabyte for stepping out and doing this and to Dinos for making it possible. :clap:

Congrats to the winners! And thanks to Gigabyte! U3DR's are good boards, I own 2 in crunching rigs and will buy more.

Congrats to all :)

I have one X58A-UD3R (rev 2.0) crunching away at 3.8 steadily...

It actually needed a slight voltage bump to be stable compared to the X58-UD3 it replaced but that is probably down to release versus relatively mature bios...

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You're not gonna sing the doom song now are you? 0_o

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I dunno. I might, if I thought it would do anything for our numbers. :P

I have mine cruching now. I played around with Vail a bit on it. Got Win 7 on it now. Going at an easy 3Gighz for now. Many thanks to Dinos22 and Gigabyte for what they did for us. I am going to try and do a small review of the board. I am no pro when it comes to it, so hang in there.
I just wish it was not so hot here in Atlanta. I would reallly see what it would do.

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I have mine cruching now. I played around with Vail a bit on it. Got Win 7 on it now. Going at an easy 3Gighz for now. Many thanks to Dinos22 and Gigabyte for what they did for us. I am going to try and do a small review of the board. I am no pro when it comes to it, so hang in there.
I just wish it was not so hot here in Atlanta. I would reallly see what it would do.

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I feel ya, it was 101F with humidity you could cut with a knife yesterday and we had a cool 92F here today. That is two days this week that were 101F with high humidity. :explode2:

oh man! i was so close!!!1111!!1 LOL, congrats guys, put em to good use

Glad to help out where possible. I know you boys will put the boards to good use :up:

Let's see them up and running....throw some piccies up fellas :D

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Originally Posted by Movieman

I threw a bunch of names into my spaghetti collander :rofl: and had my 79 year old Mother pull out the six winners.

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:rofl: good one dave

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Glad to help out where possible. I know you boys will put the boards to good use :up:

Let's see them up and running....throw some piccies up fellas :D

:rofl: good one dave

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Not only is it a good one, it's the God's truth..
What a pain cutting up all those slips of paper, writing the names,etc and then done in 15 seconds!:rofl:

congrats to everyone; i know you guys probably needed an upgrade and we can definately use them on the team.

many thanks to dinos and gigabyte!!!!!!!!!!!!

so it was all the name of the active cruncher that had a chance to win it ???

I want to say thanks to gigabyte and Dino for doing this but i think this team would rather need some help from Supermicro or tyan i would rather think for some dp or mp goodness. :D

dinos and gigabyte thank you much.
movieman very good off hand comment
you should make more for the team:D
congrats guys who won and thanks for putting them
to such good use:up:

That is sweet getting donations from a major manufacturer. Congrats to the winners. Put them to good work!

So... who got put in the "hat" anyway?

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Glad to help out where possible. I know you boys will put the boards to good use :up:

Let's see them up and running....throw some piccies up fellas :D

:rofl: good one dave

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I thank you out right now :up: I am working on funding for the build. I have a GT220 and PSU so far. Have a Q6600 rig to sell to get a CPU and Ramz.
Thank you Dinos for all you did. I carry a thank you to you and Gigabyte in my sig from now on!
Scott

Good job by GA and Dinos :up:. Other should learn and do similar moves to help a good cause.
Who is going to provide the 980x's to these 6 winners?

Thx Gigabyte and Dinos22, finally got rid of my DFI :]

http://koti.mbnet.fi/ipe91/gigabyte/screenie.JPG

Lets see how this board OCs when i get my 9x120 into use since cpu does 4.2GHz easy but current 2x92 rad is holding it back.

:eek: congrats to those that won!

just curious, was there a thread on this drawing? if there was, then i totally missed it lol. if not, then was everyone crunching WCG in that hat? that's a lot of names to cut up and put in that hat for your mother. must have kept dave busy for a few hours :lol2:

Congrats to the winners! and a big thanks to Gigabyte and dinos22!:clap::clap::clap:

Thank you Gigabyte and Dinos22 :up: and congrats to all the winners :clap:

That's awesome news! Now, if I may suggest:

boinccmd --set_run_mode always

Big kudos goes out to GIGABYTE, Dinos22 and Movieman!
Let's all keep this generous donation in mind when shopping for new equipment!
I also have an older X58-UD3R that I'm quite fond of, and started the build on the X58A-UD3R last night. This will be a brand new i7-930 build for the grid!
Here are some of the parts (the complete parts picture is trapped on my phone right now):

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Originally Posted by Movieman

From a offhand comment to Dinos22 and then him following up Gigabyte sent the WCG team 6-Gigabyte EX58A-UD3R boards to pass out to the team.

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Nice. I wonder what an "onhand" comment could do?:rofl:

Build in progress Capt'n!! Thank you Gigabyte and Dinos22!!

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...00629-2048.jpg

Pretty awesome of Gigabyte. Would love to see some other companies step up as well.

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Pretty awesome of Gigabyte. Would love to see some other companies step up as well.

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I think that will happen in time.
The key isin getting them to understand that the donation they make is used to benefit us all.
Then the factor of what they donate is magnified many times.
Just in this case the six boards brought 6 systems into the team.
Those six systems will do a hell of a lot of work every day.
It's hard for me to say how much I appreciate what Gigabyte has done here.
Very nice of them!:up:

WUT

WUT WUT WUT

Things like this actually happen? People give free stuff to help do good stuff?

This is an Excellent gesture by MovieMan, Dinos22 and especially Gigabyte ...... it make me very proud that 3 of my 4 Crunchers are Gigabyte boards with the only exception being my SR-2 :up:

congrats to the winners! nice gestsure from Gigabyte too

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This is an Excellent gesture by MovieMan, Dinos22 and especially Gigabyte ...... it make me very proud that 3 of my 4 Crunchers are Gigabyte boards with the only exception being my SR-2 :up:

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Only 3?!?!?

Quit slacking!!! :p:

I have SIX here :D

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This is an Excellent gesture by MovieMan, Dinos22 and especially Gigabyte ...... it make me very proud that 3 of my 4 Crunchers are Gigabyte boards with the only exception being my SR-2 :up:

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I've bought 3 Gigabyte motherboards. Looks like I will continue this.

:up: to Gigabyte!

Thanks very much to Gigabyte and Dinos22.:up:

And congrats to all the winners.:clap:

Here is a shot of the rig up and running. It will be going on a tech station shortly. I just wanted to make sure everything was going to play nice. Currently have a 920 at 3150 with 1.2 Vcore set in bios. This the second Gigabyte mobo that I have had, so I have some learning to do.


http://bellsouthpwp.net/o/w/owen2863...l-100_1761.JPG

My experience with Gigabye has been positive, if limited. Robust boards (the one I had was second hand, full of rain, hay and manure before I cleaned it up and it ran for another 2 years at 100% 24/7)

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Here is a shot of the rig up and running. It will be going on a tech station shortly. I just wanted to make sure everything was going to play nice. Currently have a 920 at 3150 with 1.2 Vcore set in bios. This the second Gigabyte mobo that I have had, so I have some learning to do.


http://bellsouthpwp.net/o/w/owen2863...l-100_1761.JPG

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All my 920's (D0) will do 3.8 ghz @ 1.18 vcore but on the X58A-UD3R they need a bump to 1.2 vcore for that clock, probably due to immature bios....

Also for 3.8 I need 1.34v VTT and LLC on "mode 1" ...

I will give it a try and see what I can do.

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Just in this case the six boards brought 6 systems into the team.
Those six systems will do a hell of a lot of work every day.
It's hard for me to say how much I appreciate what Gigabyte has done here.
Very nice of them!:up:

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and to those who got one,if they hadnt tried i7 yet ,what a great motivator to go out and buy a new i7-930:up:
and then fire them up and add 8 more threads to the fight multiplied by six of course:D
and then if they go and get a gulftown then its even better:up:
again thanks for the great off hand comment that brought about this awesome donation dave:up:

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All my 920's (D0) will do 3.8 ghz @ 1.18 vcore but on the X58A-UD3R they need a bump to 1.2 vcore for that clock, probably due to immature bios....

Also for 3.8 I need 1.34v VTT and LLC on "mode 1" ...

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if you use a dmm you might find that they are all running about the same as different boards tend to have slightly different voltages from what is actually set in the bios

these boards are the new rev2.0 with slightly beefier VRM, On/Off charge feature too

Wow, that's awesome! Grats!

Awesome work Dinos and MM!

Sincere thanks to Gigabyte for supporting the cause.
You have moved to the top of my perpetual shopping list. :up:

I must have missed this contest too. Oh well, maybe next time. Anyway, congrats to the winners, we know they will be put to good use. Now if we can just grab 2nd place that would be sweet.

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if you use a dmm you might find that they are all running about the same as different boards tend to have slightly different voltages from what is actually set in the bios

these boards are the new rev2.0 with slightly beefier VRM, On/Off charge feature too

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Can you point me to the read points?

the chokes underneath the board have one ground and one vcore point...........its best to find a vcore point right under the CPU socket but this is close enough :up:

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if you use a dmm you might find that they are all running about the same as different boards tend to have slightly different voltages from what is actually set in the bios

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:bows:

I'm going by what cpuz reports for vcore and VTT stability testing with prime95. Crunching load temps are up slightly on my previous build with the only different hardware being the new board, but hey you are probably right....

All I know is 1.2 vcore and 1.34v vtt + LLC set to mode 1 = stable crunching on my X58A @ 3.8ghz :D

Got it running, OS installed. It's in the garage at the new house, won't have internet access for a couple weeks. Got a couple of new hard-drives, will get those running soon. This board is capable of up to 3 video cards (xfire or sli); I have a second gtx280, will get that watercooled and added into the loop. That will prevent me from using my SB pci x-fi card, but the onboard audio sounds great, I can't tell the difference. No noticeable difference in games for me...

I really like the bios. It's v2.0 board, don't know the bios rev offhand, but it has excellent system stat summary pages and many cpu & dram tweaking options. Just getting familiar with it; excellent bios & board so far. Really enjoying it. Looking forward to cranking out some WCG work-units 24/7.

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...00704-1752.jpg

Nice looking build there. Mine is still on the box. Crunching happily at 3.1. Damn the heat. Thanks again to dinos. We could not have done these builds without you. :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Where are those blue lights to show how high you've overclocked it?
Get Xtreme on it!

Great board! Easy to overclock, too! I'd recommend buying one!

Moar Pics!:rofl:

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Moar Pics!:rofl:

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You may not like what you see.

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You may not like what you see.

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Doesn't need to be pretty, needs to be functional..
These ain't for show, these are working machines!:up:

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Moar Pics!:rofl:

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Aye aye Capt'n. Soon I will dispense with the cell phone cam and break out the super-duper mega-pixel cam for some close-up hi-res pr0n.

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Aye aye Capt'n. Soon I will dispense with the cell phone cam and break out the super-duper mega-pixel cam for some close-up hi-res pr0n.

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I'll be watching..:cord:

Here's my humble rig:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/ipe91/gigabyte/IMG_4699.JPG

Thanks again for helping put a fresh i7 on the Grid!
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Crunching action pics! Got it attached to WCG this morning, here it is working on its first 8 work-units. I want to let it run for awhile and watch the temps before I get into the bios, overclocking, memory settings, etc. I will eventually break it down for an sli rebuild, but I want to get some work-units through it first. As far as looks go, this is a nice looking mobo, especially compared to some of the wacky asus color schemes. I really like the board layout. I'm looking forward to playing with this fine board.

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...o/100_1547.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...o/100_1548.jpg
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wow i totally missed this thread. i'm jealous! Congrats guys :)

Thanks again to Gigabyte and Dinos22, their support for this team is greatly appreciated. It is refreshing to see a company step up to help fight these diseases, it speaks volumes. But a special thanks to Dinos22 for making this happen, without him this would have been a lot tougher to accomplish. :clap: :clap:

Thats awsome! The reason this thread got my attention was I wanted to comment on how awsome the guys over at Gigabyte are, They just recently gave me a PILE of swag, small stuff like pen's shirts, USB stick's, laynyrd's just the same I didn't even ask for it thier just overall a really good lot. I've gotten to know a nice Lady from the PR deparment and I just can't belive just how many projects, contests, and all kinds of really cool things they are involved in, in fact I'm not sure i've seen any other major compay as involved with the community as gigabyte are!

So if any of the Gigabyte and friends folks stop by and give this a read, You guys rock!

Found minor bug from this board. Some times when i cold boot this rig the nic is turned off. To fix this i've to shutdown from OS and turn off power from psu for ~1-3min and then boot normally.

try backing off on OC maybe
odd that thing
maybe try a different bios also

There's no bios updates for rev 2.0 boards yes, only FA bios available.

are you running stock settings?

Nope, but that happens quite rarely, maybe 1 boot out of 10, doesn't really matter since this rigs normal uptime is around 2-3 weeks :P

More crunching with this fine board. Any ideas where the temp sensors are on the board (TMPIN 0-2)?

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...rambo/wcg1.jpg

nice but go to advanced settings and get away from that BOINC screensaver./.:D

yes I know, but it looks good for the screenies. Off normally

Here's an interesting video of a Gigabyte mobo manufacturing process. It looks like the x58a-udr3 in the first thread pic, early on in the video process it another mobo, and one of the finished mobo runs is the x58a-udr3's. Very cool, very interesting to see the way some processes are automated and some are manual. Clean looking facility.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=256100

Hate to say it but I have not had any time to play around with mine. It is crunching along at stock for now. Once the heat drops then I will overclock it and see what it can do.
I did find out that it will run without a graphics card.

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I did find out that it will run without a graphics card.

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how does that work :D

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how does that work :D

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just use a gpu to install everything and then take off the gpu and let it run, you can know its running by boincview or by the results from this specific computer at the wcg stats page.I would run my pc also gpu-less but i am also in the colatz conjecture and gpugrid team so every pci-e slot i have is occupied by a gpu.

Only way I found it out was that my GTX470 decided to crap out on me. Did not have a spare card so I was like what the heck lets give it a try. First I pulle a card from SLI LE. No boot that way. Tried the Gigabyte and it was on. I did pick up another cheap card to have on hand.

Loving this board. Got my i7 960 up to 4.0GHz easy with some minor voltage bumps. I've been taking it slow with this board/chip/ram so far, trying to get some work-units out of the way first. and playing Oblivion and Fallout3 on the side.

sweet :up:

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sweet :up:

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What the heck are yhou doing in here?
Jeez, you think your name was in the thread title or something!:rofl:

Want to say thanks again to you and Gigabyte for the boards.
They are just good and stable!:up:

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They are just good and stable!:up:

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Agreed, the UD3R gets the "TRN crunching seal of approval :up:" I love that the bios doesn't have limited OC'ing features vs other boards in this price range. Other companies seem to limit BIOS features in thier $200 price point offering vs. their higher end models.

Supporting the team makes my crunching hardware purchases choices even easier. I'll be ordering many more Gigabyte boards in the very near future. :up::up: