**[OFFICIAL]** GIGABYTE Z77X Owners Club/Discussion/Info (All Model's Welcome)

Welcome guys since some of you already own boards or will very soon I figured I would start this club now.

Official GIGABYTE Z77X Owners Club!
http://www.overclock.net/image/id/21...600/height/400

Here is GIGABYTE's Z77 Microsite: MicroSite

http://www.overclock.net/image/id/21...565/height/678

Subzero OC Results:
6.6ghz SPI 1M with UD3H
6.5ghz SPI 32M with G1 Sniper 3
3000+MHz memory 16GB with 4DIMMs by coolalr
3000MHz with 2.8ghz stable 16Gb with 4 DIMMs by Me
Mad22 UD3H OC with 116BLCk and 2800mhz memory

Latest BIOS at Tweaktown forums or HWbot


If you need help please post, i will update this thread a bit as launch gets closer. If you have questions or issues please post them here.

People are asking how to install Lucid MVP, b/c they can't get it to install easily, here is what I did:

#1 Go into the BIOS and switch Init Display First to IGFX, and make sure iGPU is enabled.
#2 change from my GPU as monitor output to motherboard's video out
#3 go into windows, and then install the Intel VGA drivers off GIGABYTE's website
#4 Make sure my NVIDIA drivers were installed
#5 Install MVP and TaDa

does UD5 is a top model? (exclude Sniper)

Currently yes. However G1 Sniper 3 is top model, like ROG is top model for aseus

And Wich model can replace my actual and "old" P67A-UD4-B3 ?

Z77X-UD3H is perfect for that.

New BIOS released:

G1.Sniper 3 - F4b
GA-Z77X-UD3H - F8a
GA-Z77-D3H - F12b

so much to choose from. oi Sin! we want more info :D

I would greatly appreciate if someone could be very specific about the fan control to fill in the missing gaps in my understanding.

On the UD3H and UD5H (I would imagine these are the two boards people will consider the most) there are 5 fan headers, 1 of those for the CPU. The manual shows them as all being 4 pin (PWM) fans, which are able to take a 4 or 3 pin connection.

There are controls within the BIOS listed in the manual where we could select a default of normal or silent, additionally we can define slope PWM.

The questions I have are..

Is it limited to manual control for PWM fans only - in other words would I have to dump the 140mm fans I have already and replace them with PWM.

It mentions fan control for 1/2/3 fans and the CPU. I can manage with just 3 case fans controlled in this way, however is there just one control for all 3 or are there 3 separate controls?

setting fan control mode to "voltage" instead of "PWM" is meant for 3-pin fans. then you can use smart fan with 3-pin. I know this is how it is for CPU, iw ill test and see if doing this also makes it happen for the 1-4 system fan headers.

Thanks, Sin. I'd like to go Gigabyte this time around, but with Asus I know what I'm getting with fans... I just looked at the cost of replacing fans with PWM and it's quite a fair amount.

New BIOS released:

G1.Sniper 3 - F4f
G1.Sniper M3 - F4
GA-Z77X-UD5H - F6g
GA-Z77X-UD3H - F8b
GA-Z77X-D3H - F7e
GA-Z77M-D3H - F6b
GA-Z77MX-D3H - F11a

New BIOS released:

G1.Sniper M3 - F5a
GA-Z77X-UD5H - F6h
GA-Z77X-UD3H - F8d

- Improve SandyBridge CPU compatibility
- Improve iGPU compatibility
- Added ability to save 8 BIOS profiles now in BIOS and USB
- Custom names for profiles
- 19.Apr 12

More is coming.....

G1.Sniper M3 - F5b
GA-Z77X-UD5H - F6i
GA-Z77X-UD3H - F8e
GA-Z77X-D3H - F7h
GA-Z77-D3H - F12d
GA-Z77M-D3H - F6d
GA-Z77MX-D3H - F10b

is out on TT forum.

if you have issues with sandy bridge 2600K please flash this BIOS to fix both issues(loop and oc fail message)

Waiting on an SSD and GTX 680 which will arrive on Monday then will be setting up, will use my nice clocking 2500K first then switch to Ivybridge on the 29th.

I hope this works well on the Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H, tempted to get 32GB Ram!

Click here >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAdRsQJBEBE

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/9793/ramdisk1.jpg

I put together a new system with the UD5H and I cannot get any sound output whatsoever. Anyone else have issues with sound? I'm guessing it's a bad board but figured I'd check.

Update: I found that the motherboard thinks there is something plugged into the front panel audio even when there isn't. Even if there is no front panel audio connected to the motherboard it still shows the port as connected. So the only way to get audio out of the speakers is to configure the sound card to play two audio streams at all times. Pretty crappy... might be sending this one back.

yea i think you should RMA, i haven't heard of that.

Anyways the latest BIOS that just released, F6I for the UD5H solves teh issues with the 2600K including the looping before booting and the OC failed. Also solves the gaming mouse issues.

new BETA were released today for all boards which should fixes issues.

Nvm i'm dumb.

G1.Sniper 3 - F4g is out.

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setting fan control mode to "voltage" instead of "PWM" is meant for 3-pin fans. then you can use smart fan with 3-pin. I know this is how it is for CPU, iw ill test and see if doing this also makes it happen for the 1-4 system fan headers.

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Did you ever get around to doing this? The cost of changing the fans is prohibitive, so I'd have to go with a board that'd control them on 3 pins... Asus boards are capable, but I'd like to try a Gigabyte board for a change.

Picked up my Z77X-UD5H today, have seen some good things with it online and decided to jump in. Waiting on getting hold of an Ivy CPU now, definitely looking forward to taking it for a spin on water, then LN2. Also have some Team Xtreem 2400 C9 ram on the way. Can't wait to see how the combo plays together.

I'm having an issue with hdd's randomly dropping out. I had a drive in a hotswap bay disappear and I wasn't able to get it to show up in the OS until I moved it from one SATA port to another. I had another in a windows based mirror disappear then reappear in a failed redundancy state and I wasn't able to import it back into the array. I also have the Bluray drive set to use drive letter Z: but after about 20 minutes it will move to the next available drive letter.
I haven't RMA'd yet and I'm still on BIOS F4. At this point I don't think a BIOS update will fix these issues and I might just be stuck with the RMA option. Just wanted to check to see if anyone else saw similar behavior.

you are at BIOS F4, so you didn't want to jump up 2 BIOS families to F6I? IMO you should b/c that updates Intel's RAID ROMs and such. There are a lot of XHCI settings, you might want to check them. The SATA control is the chipset after all. Also if you use port SATA5 that port and the mSATA port switch between each other so the mSATA doesn't take up a whole PCI-E lane. You should at least update the BIOS that is what GB is going to tell you to do.

hey man play with LN2 is very fun with these boards.

Will post my results here. Lookin forward to your guide sin.
Should I be using sata port 5 ? I think I have a hd or dvdrw plugged in

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you are at BIOS F4, so you didn't want to jump up 2 BIOS families to F6I? IMO you should b/c that updates Intel's RAID ROMs and such. There are a lot of XHCI settings, you might want to check them. The SATA control is the chipset after all. Also if you use port SATA5 that port and the mSATA port switch between each other so the mSATA doesn't take up a whole PCI-E lane. You should at least update the BIOS that is what GB is going to tell you to do.

hey man play with LN2 is very fun with these boards.

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Correction... I was actually on F5. I didn't really want to Flash a beta BIOS since this is my stable system. I flashed it anyway but I also moved my data drives (which are 2 2tb mirrored and 2 640gb mirrored to the Intel SataII ports. I had the 2 640gb on the GSATAIII ports.

I moved my hot swap bay to the first GSATAIII port and my DVD to the isolated GSATAIII port on the bottom of the board. Now the DVD drive doesn't show up.

There appears to be 9 usable internal SATA ports as long as the mSATA port isn't used. 5 sata III and 4 sata II. Is that not correct?

G1.Sniper 3 - F4
GA-Z77X-UD5H - F6
GA-Z77X-UD3H - F8
GA-Z77X-D3H - F7
GA-Z77-D3H - F12
GA-Z77M-D3H - F6
GA-Z77MX-D3H - F10

is out on TT forum.

I have ha prob with my z77 ud5h. Have not much experience with this board. I pushed my cpu clock (2700k) too far. 5 Ghz was stable, 5,2 ghz now doesn´t boot os and i cannot enter bios stable. So now i can´t go back to 5 ghz.
Is there a way to boot with standart settings without clearing cmos ?

Other boards i had, automaticly started with save setting when oc fails. But now with this board it always boots with my to high 5,2 ghz setting.

Thx

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Originally Posted by BMWMASTER81

I have ha prob with my z77 ud5h. Have not much experience with this board. I pushed my cpu clock (2700k) too far. 5 Ghz was stable, 5,2 ghz now doesn´t boot os and i cannot enter bios stable. So now i can´t go back to 5 ghz.
Is there a way to boot with standart settings without clearing cmos ?

Other boards i had, automaticly started with save setting when oc fails. But now with this board it always boots with my to high 5,2 ghz setting.

Thx

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if something acts weird like that you should reflash the BIOS, but first you don't want to reflash BIOS at 5.2ghz of course.

So do this:
goto the last page of the BIOS and hit "load optimized defaults" then press f10 and save and reboot.
Then put the new BIOS F6 on a USB flash rive formatted in FAT32 and then go into the BIOS and press f8, find the BIOS on the drive and flash it.
Then once it is done flashing it will ask you if you want to power down or reboot, press reboot.
Then go into the BIOS and go and do again "load optimized defaults" save and then reboot and then start messing around.


BTW about your drives not showing up, are you by chance using the Marvell ports instead of the Intel's ones? I think GSATA is for Marvell?

I just got New PSU today still had few boot loops. Ive since flashed to F6 seems much better. I then reset all my bios settings to 4.8GHz.
I also used Alt-F10 method to Backup MAIN bios to BACKUP Bios...all went fine i selected Reboot at the end..is this OK??
I didnt flick the on-board BIOS switch...Did i miss anything?

The boot loop i get now seems longer but it does recover and boot..will try lil extra juice.
Also just want to confirm do i need to increase IMC & VTT (i7 2600K) on this F6 bios...still no PLL option

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Originally Posted by sin0822

setting fan control mode to "voltage" instead of "PWM" is meant for 3-pin fans. then you can use smart fan with 3-pin. I know this is how it is for CPU, iw ill test and see if doing this also makes it happen for the 1-4 system fan headers.

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I don't want to come across as nagging you, Sin, but did you get a look at that? Feel free to tell me you didn't and won't. Just trying to decide on a MB for IB. :)

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BTW about your drives not showing up, are you by chance using the Marvell ports instead of the Intel's ones? I think GSATA is for Marvell?

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I have 7 hard drives connected and 1 optical drive. The only ones that seem to be stable are the 2 Intel Sata3 ports. Ports 0 and 1.
I have a Windows RAID 1 array setup on the Intel Sata2 ports. Ports 4 and 5. That array seems to fail often. It has rebuilt 2 or 3 times a day in the past couple days.

So to directly answer your question. The optical drive that doesn't show up is on one of the Marvell Sata3 ports and the drive that keeps failing the array is on port 4 which is one of the Intel Sata3 ports.

Is F6 bios newer than F6h/F6i?

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Originally Posted by itznfb

I have 7 hard drives connected and 1 optical drive. The only ones that seem to be stable are the 2 Intel Sata3 ports. Ports 0 and 1.
I have a Windows RAID 1 array setup on the Intel Sata2 ports. Ports 4 and 5. That array seems to fail often. It has rebuilt 2 or 3 times a day in the past couple days.

So to directly answer your question. The optical drive that doesn't show up is on one of the Marvell Sata3 ports and the drive that keeps failing the array is on port 4 which is one of the Intel Sata3 ports.

Is F6 bios newer than F6h/F6i?

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F6 is newer so far for me the BEST

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I don't want to come across as nagging you, Sin, but did you get a look at that? Feel free to tell me you didn't and won't. Just trying to decide on a MB for IB. :)

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yea if you set to voltage then its 3 pin for all if you set to PWM its PWm for all. IMO just set voltage for all, as you can still use SMART controls, and the 4 pin fans all have the ability to work in 3 pin ways.

Yea BIOS F6 is the final BIOS for the F6_ BEtas, so if there is a F7A ort F7F or something, then that is later than F6, but if there is F7 then that is the final of the F7F for instace beta.

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Originally Posted by irfs

I just got New PSU today still had few boot loops. Ive since flashed to F6 seems much better. I then reset all my bios settings to 4.8GHz.
I also used Alt-F10 method to Backup MAIN bios to BACKUP Bios...all went fine i selected Reboot at the end..is this OK??
I didnt flick the on-board BIOS switch...Did i miss anything?

The boot loop i get now seems longer but it does recover and boot..will try lil extra juice.
Also just want to confirm do i need to increase IMC & VTT (i7 2600K) on this F6 bios...still no PLL option

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Can you describe what happens now? because I tried after F6I and F6H to make it loop like it did before with a 2600K and I couldn't get it to do it.

If the board loops like you think it does, and recovers while you are OCing, that isn't a boot loop that is OC recovery checking your OC for stability to make sure it can POST. It typically will occur when you are OCing where the board will seem like it it booting, but it will just reset itself to post code 15 maybe once or twice, and then it will finally boot all the way, that is GB's OC recovery mechanism.

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If the board loops like you think it does, and recovers while you are OCing, that isn't a boot loop that is OC recovery checking your OC for stability to make sure it can POST. It typically will occur when you are OCing where the board will seem like it it booting, but it will just reset itself to post code 15 maybe once or twice, and then it will finally boot all the way, that is GB's OC recovery mechanism.

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When I experience this it usually reboots 3 times and then went back into the BIOS with stock settings but my last custom settings input ready to be saved.

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Can you describe what happens now? because I tried after F6I and F6H to make it loop like it did before with a 2600K and I couldn't get it to do it.

If the board loops like you think it does, and recovers while you are OCing, that isn't a boot loop that is OC recovery checking your OC for stability to make sure it can POST. It typically will occur when you are OCing where the board will seem like it it booting, but it will just reset itself to post code 15 maybe once or twice, and then it will finally boot all the way, that is GB's OC recovery mechanism.

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You prob right Sin re GB's OC recovery i nudged up the voltage a lil and now Fingers crossed system is AAAA OK :0 im a happy bunny its taken me quite some time (cost of a extra PSU) Im stable im sure its F6 thats cured my issue.


board is bootin fine now. Before after 3 or 4 shutdowns id have startup issue. Now after F6 ive shutdown and started like 8 times with no issues. I might put up some bios screenies later Sin if u dont mind giv em a look over pls.

Kind regards

Irfy

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When I experience this it usually reboots 3 times and then went back into the BIOS with stock settings but my last custom settings input ready to be saved.

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Yea that is called Safe Mode when the board figures something is wrong with your OC, that is what the board is supposed to do. Without it we woudl have to clear the CMOS and lose all settings all the time. Sometimes however instead of 3 reboots it might do 2 and then boot up just fine if the OC is all good.

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Originally Posted by irfs

You prob right Sin re GB's OC recovery i nudged up the voltage a lil and now Fingers crossed system is AAAA OK :0 im a happy bunny its taken me quite some time (cost of a extra PSU) Im stable im sure its F6 thats cured my issue.


board is bootin fine now. Before after 3 or 4 shutdowns id have startup issue. Now after F6 ive shutdown and started like 8 times with no issues. I might put up some bios screenies later Sin if u dont mind giv em a look over pls.

Kind regards

Irfy

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Good to hear it man, listen we can do one better than just take screen shots, if you goto the last menu where it says save profile, you can save your profile to a USB thumb drive, and send it to me and I can try it on my system!!! I can fix anything if I see anything that is bad and I can send ti back to you and you can just load it up! It is a new feature implemented with Z77 and BIOS F6I, i tested and you can transfer from one board to another as long as they are both Z77X-UD5H. But you should also do the screen shots as it is easier and other people can chime in.

Pretty cool huh?

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Yea that is called Safe Mode when the board figures something is wrong with your OC, that is what the board is supposed to do. Without it we woudl have to clear the CMOS and lose all settings all the time. Sometimes however instead of 3 reboots it might do 2 and then boot up just fine if the OC is all good.


Good to hear it man, listen we can do one better than just take screen shots, if you goto the last menu where it says save profile, you can save your profile to a USB thumb drive, and send it to me and I can try it on my system!!! I can fix anything if I see anything that is bad and I can send ti back to you and you can just load it up! It is a new feature implemented with Z77 and BIOS F6I, i tested and you can transfer from one board to another as long as they are both Z77X-UD5H. But you should also do the screen shots as it is easier and other people can chime in.

Pretty cool huh?

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Yep pretty Darn cool giv me few mins i'll try do now

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Yep pretty Darn cool giv me few mins i'll try do now

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Pls bear in mind i dont have a VGA card yet so maybe i need more juice. im also overclocking IGPU

your OCing the iGPU ????/ HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA GReat! :D

If you have stability issues change your IMC voltage to 1.095v.

Hey :)

Just about to start my build, does anyone know what the latest BIOS is for the GA-Z77X-UD5H ? on Tweaktown their is F6? but I have seen an F6k which fixes some usb keyboard issues?

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Hey :)

Just about to start my build, does anyone know what the latest BIOS is for the GA-Z77X-UD5H ? on Tweaktown their is F6? but I have seen an F6k which fixes some usb keyboard issues?

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Go with F6 most likely Final or nearly...Workin perfect so far

yes F6 is the latest, if it is F6 or F7 then F6X, F6I, F6H, F6K are all before F6. F7X, F7I, F7H, and F7K would all also be before F7.

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Hey :)

Just about to start my build, does anyone know what the latest BIOS is for the GA-Z77X-UD5H ? on Tweaktown their is F6? but I have seen an F6k which fixes some usb keyboard issues?

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Where you see F6k?
Edit:
I found,thanks.

New GA-Z77X-UD5H - F6 dated 26.April on line.
(Yesterday F6 -OC problem)

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yea if you set to voltage then its 3 pin for all if you set to PWM its PWm for all. IMO just set voltage for all, as you can still use SMART controls, and the 4 pin fans all have the ability to work in 3 pin ways.

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Excellent - you're a fountain of knowledge! That's me settled on Gigabyte then... just need to decide between 5H and 3H. :)

yea BTW you set all of the system fans in one SMART fan setting, so you control the CPU seperatly and then the system all together seperatly.

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Excellent - you're a fountain of knowledge! That's me settled on Gigabyte then... just need to decide between 5H and 3H. :)

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I will chime in here... I have both boards here in my posession. Im planning a writeup comparing both boards and will post it in the review section this weekend. Hopefully, it will help you make your decision. Both are boards are quite excellent though, Id say, between UD3 and UD5 its a matter of what you want out of the board. If you are gaming with it I'd say UD5 as it provides better "gaming features" with a headphone amp, x-fi mb, bluetooth + wifi etc. If you plan to bench exclusively, id say UD3 cuz it gets the job done with very utilitarian precision... its lean and mean :)

ivybridge testing will have to take place on monday for any questions or tests you guys want performed. sin0822 does an outstanding job already, but hey 2 heads are better than 1 right?

yea two heads are always better one than!
I have both boards as well, and I have to be honest, I think the UD5H is slightly better in terms of how it acts under LN2 in terms of not CBBing, but the UD3H is better in terms of restarting without a hard restart. THe UD5H can reboot and save setting and boot up without CBB, the UD3H triggers CBB more often, but it is possible to start it without a CBB, depends how you left windows. THe UD3H and the UD5H power delivery are pretty much equal, the UD3H uses some extreme high rated MOSFETs(like 58 and 90A ), double the rating of that of the UD5H';s fets, so power delivery is no issue. The OC however I cannot tell on which is higher, they are equally really high.

The audio on the UD5H is better, and the UD5H has more connectivity, and in my opinion has a better USB implementation on the backpanel, b/c on the UD3H you can only use two ports until you install drivers. I will release my UD3H review soon probably later today with Ivy Bridge comparison, but I don't run as many benchmarks as ZenEffect.

F6 seems to have resolved all the issues I was seeing. :up:

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yea two heads are always better one than!
I have both boards as well, and I have to be honest, I think the UD5H is slightly better in terms of how it acts under LN2 in terms of not CBBing, but the UD3H is better in terms of restarting without a hard restart. THe UD5H can reboot and save setting and boot up without CBB, the UD3H triggers CBB more often, but it is possible to start it without a CBB, depends how you left windows. THe UD3H and the UD5H power delivery are pretty much equal, the UD3H uses some extreme high rated MOSFETs(like 58 and 90A ), double the rating of that of the UD5H';s fets, so power delivery is no issue. The OC however I cannot tell on which is higher, they are equally really high.

The audio on the UD5H is better, and the UD5H has more connectivity, and in my opinion has a better USB implementation on the backpanel, b/c on the UD3H you can only use two ports until you install drivers. I will release my UD3H review soon probably later today with Ivy Bridge comparison, but I don't run as many benchmarks as ZenEffect.

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UD5 also has PWM switching frequency options in the bios which UD3 lacks. Im having an issue right now... wont go into it as I suspect the OS is acting a bit off. Gotta re-load and re-test to see if it resolves it before making any real comments about what is going on. On UD5, I had the same behavior as UD3. I load OS from a USB drive, if its not in the "right" set of ports, it will drop the drive before installing windows making the install fail. UD5 also does not like my mouse, but then again... 99% of boards tested will not work with this mouse. I think the mouse firmware is broken somehow and a very select few boards ignore the error. CM Storm Inferno? yea piece of junk imho. it worked fine in all boards for 2 days then began exhibiting this behavior.

lol nice mouse, i always install my OS through a CD or DVD, idk i don't have enough USb sticks laying around haha.

The PWm switching frequency was available for the UD3H in previous BIOS versions, however it was removed as when we tested it there was no affect on max OC or stability point, even under LN2 switching frequency had no effect. You can ask Dino about this too, when benching all you really need to change is the LLC even under Ln2, however that is with Ivy, i suspect that with Sandy since sandy pulls more power it might be needed to increase the current capability, otherwise the board OCes the PWm settings on its own.

BTw early on i had issues with keyboard not working, try to enable or disable port 80H emulation, see if that helps.

I just ordered the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 OC WF3X :) Mrs gona kill me

Have been playing with ram tweaking on my Z77X-UD5H and so far I'm pretty impressed. Not very good PSC so stuck at 2500 for 32M stability. 2x2gb Tridents F3-16000CL9D-4GBTD. Got many more kits coming in the next week or so, so if people don't get annoyed by it I'll continue sharing my ram results on Ivy. :)

http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...ivytrident.jpg

Hey Sin just got some Samsung Green 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit (MV-3V4G3D/US) got 2 x packs 16GB
Havin a play on this mobo. Do i need more IMC or VTT to run DDR 2133MHz ? does it depend on my CPU aswell ? so many peeps are getting 2400+ speeds on this memory. I just want a taste of 2133. I tried but cant seems to stabalise at 2133. Pls check with GB eng if this mem could be added to the compatibility list.
Any1 wid the same mobo and mem pls help

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Have been playing with ram tweaking on my Z77X-UD5H and so far I'm pretty impressed. Not very good PSC so stuck at 2500 for 32M stability. 2x2gb Tridents F3-16000CL9D-4GBTD. Got many more kits coming in the next week or so, so if people don't get annoyed by it I'll continue sharing my ram results on Ivy. :)

http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...ivytrident.jpg

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Please share!!! :D

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Hey Sin just got some Samsung Green 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit (MV-3V4G3D/US) got 2 x packs 16GB
Havin a play on this mobo. Do i need more IMC or VTT to run DDR 2133MHz ? does it depend on my CPU aswell ? so many peeps are getting 2400+ speeds on this memory. I just want a taste of 2133. I tried but cant seems to stabalise at 2133. Pls check with GB eng if this mem could be added to the compatibility list.
Any1 wid the same mobo and mem pls help

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You will ned Ivy Bridge to get over 2133 with Z77, or at least with multipliers alone. I haven't seen anyone really OC that memory with sandy.

Ya with 2600K you deff will need to increase VTT and IMC. IDk how good these kits do on 2600K.

Try VTT of 1.15v and IMC of 1.145. Try two sticks first then you can do 4 later, idk how well SB's IMC can handle 16gb.

sb sucks with 4 sticks lol, you'll have to increase tCl and other parameters

@irfs, I have the UD5H & 2 of those kits running at stock so I know they at least work ok on this board.

I'll have a quick play tonight & let you know if there's anything funky to be done to get them up to 2133 stable however I also have Ivy so maybe what I find won't be any help to you other than at least knowing 2 x 4GB of green run @2133.

Any1 know what headphone amp chip UD5H is using or can check in case it's not covered up.

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@irfs, I have the UD5H & 2 of those kits running at stock so I know they at least work ok on this board.

I'll have a quick play tonight & let you know if there's anything funky to be done to get them up to 2133 stable however I also have Ivy so maybe what I find won't be any help to you other than at least knowing 2 x 4GB of green run @2133.

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Thanx bud let me know how it goes. So do u hav 16GB in total or 2 sticks? Later tonight gona hav a play with 2 sticks and higher imc & vtt

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Thanx bud let me know how it goes. So do u hav 16GB in total or 2 sticks? Later tonight gona hav a play with 2 sticks and higher imc & vtt

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Will do, I have 2 kits of the MV-3V4G3D/US making 4 x 4GB / 16GB

@irfs, I've had a quick go at 16GB 2133 & yes it runs but no stability :-(

8GB 2200 10,10,10,30,128,1T @ 1.43V runs SPI 32M just fine :shrug:

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Any1 know what headphone amp chip UD5H is using or can check in case it's not covered up.

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two DRV632: http://www.ti.com/general/docs/lit/g...2&fileType=pdf
One is used for the front panel audio headers, and the other for the backpanel. They are pretty good.

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@irfs, I've had a quick go at 16GB 2133 & yes it runs but no stability :-(

8GB 2200 10,10,10,30,128,1T @ 1.43V runs SPI 32M just fine :shrug:

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thanx im gona try 2 sticks now...did u get several beeps from your int speaker wid 4 dimms? (Slots furthest away from cpu)

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thanx im gona try 2 sticks now...did u get several beeps from your int speaker wid 4 dimms? (Slots furthest away from cpu)

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My board is not in a case so no speaker although I do have one for the bench! I only gave it an hour of messing about maybe I could have used the speaker & the post codes to work out what was going on but as I only need 4 ~ 8GB of RAM I just figured I'd give it a shot.

So far both channels appear to be as good as each other although I am using the furthest away slots for just 2 DIMMS.

Although 2 x 4GB run & will 32m @ 1.43v I'm finding they need way more to pass prime.... like 1.58 ~ 1.6v..... maybe I can tweak something out to reduce it.... soon find out.

beeps? Look for post codes, code 51 and 15 are usually memory.

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My board is not in a case so no speaker although I do have one for the bench! I only gave it an hour of messing about maybe I could have used the speaker & the post codes to work out what was going on but as I only need 4 ~ 8GB of RAM I just figured I'd give it a shot.

So far both channels appear to be as good as each other although I am using the furthest away slots for just 2 DIMMS.

Although 2 x 4GB run & will 32m @ 1.43v I'm finding they need way more to pass prime.... like 1.58 ~ 1.6v..... maybe I can tweak something out to reduce it.... soon find out.

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running 2 x 4GB slot 1 & 2 DDR3 2133 10 10 10 28 1N 1.45v VTT 1.15v IMC 1.145v Soo far so good i hope it holds :)

try running SPI 32m it is pretty decent at giving you a quick go on memory stability.

New BIOS out:

G1.Sniper 3 - F5
GA-Z77X-UD5H - F7

Here's my first attempt at stability with the Samsung's..... I dropped to 10,11,10,30,128,1T as 10,10,10 needed about 1.6v to be 1/2 stable in Prime/IBT

GFLOP's look a bit low I've seen 125 ish a few times & SPI 32M time is looking quite poor.... 7m22s in W7! at this speed.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...GHZDDR2200.png

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Gen 3 CPU Data sheets

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www...-datasheet.pdf

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www...-datasheet.pdf

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Here's my first attempt at stability with the Samsung's..... I dropped to 10,11,10,30,128,1T as 10,10,10 needed about 1.6v to be 1/2 stable in Prime/IBT

GFLOP's look a bit low I've seen 125 ish a few times & SPI 32M time is looking quite poor.... 7m22s in W7! at this speed.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...GHZDDR2200.png

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Gen 3 CPU Data sheets

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www...-datasheet.pdf

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www...-datasheet.pdf

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Ive dropped speed down to 1866 cas 9 9 9 27 1t 88 1.4v 4-dimms seems fine.. just cant do 2133 :( took 680 for a spin tried MVP played some SniperV2. I think its time to stop fiddling and Enjoy !!!

When i launch GB Tweak launcher i see all the ram timings but nothing for the frequency or voltage, all fields empty

Prior to F7 Bios I had to use the USB ports at the back of the motherboard so that my USB sticks showed up in Q Flash, I also had to remove my G500 Mouse! in Windows 7 no problems with USB ports.

Now I can now use the front USB ports on my Corsair 650D case to update the Bios now, the USB sticks shows up in Q Flash now after updating to F7 Bios. :) :)

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When i launch GB Tweak launcher i see all the ram timings but nothing for the frequency or voltage, all fields empty

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I had that but if you hit apply the voltages come back, I re-installed the chipset & management engine & now it works right from opening.

I also flahsed the new F7 bios on my backup & it runs for me anyway just like F6L..... no change with the 16GB Samsungs but I guess F7 is the final retail/official after F6L.

yea the intel management software is key for BCLK and multiplier changes going smoothly.

has anyone tried F7A?

Does the max power need to be increased to 95w in the BIOS?

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yea the intel management software is key for BCLK and multiplier changes going smoothly.

has anyone tried F7A?

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I have not even tried F7 yet still rocking F6 lol, any change log? where is f7A?

Even F8a is out today.:D

amazing haha, any change log Mr Stasio?

Hi Sin i thought id leave IMC and VTT on auto just to see what happens. System deffo suffers issues like you said the voltages dont stick. Ive put em both back up now it deff makes a difference to stablity. I do find that by putting too much gives me less scores on cinebench, i suppose its jus bout findin the sweet spot.

Ive been busy testing SniperV2 and 3d benchies with GB 680, everything seems sweet jus movies thru VLC stutter quite a bit. Poss Nvidia driver issue.

Curious, what is the difference between the purple and blue capacitor's, apart from the actual colour? mine are all blue.

I noticed on a forum I regularly use someone has a GA-Z77-UD5H-WiFi and that one has purple capacitor's.

I've installed Bios F8a running fine...

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Hi Sin i thought id leave IMC and VTT on auto just to see what happens. System deffo suffers issues like you said the voltages dont stick. Ive put em both back up now it deff makes a difference to stablity. I do find that by putting too much gives me less scores on cinebench, i suppose its jus bout findin the sweet spot.

Ive been busy testing SniperV2 and 3d benchies with GB 680, everything seems sweet jus movies thru VLC stutter quite a bit. Poss Nvidia driver issue.

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yea just keep the two within 5mv of each other, so the QPI/VTT 0.005v above IMC voltage. With SB it needs voltage change, but with IB not so much on air.

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Curious, what is the difference between the purple and blue capacitor's, apart from the actual colour? mine are all blue.

I noticed on a forum I regularly use someone has a GA-Z77-UD5H-WiFi and that one has purple capacitor's.

I've installed Bios F8a running fine...

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@Nelly Hi what kind of 3dmark 11 scores you gettin with ur rig?

Ive managed P13249 this is wid MVP.. do u get stutter wid ur 680 using vlc? gamin is smooth so far but only tried 1 game.
I also flashed F8a no probs

Same here for F8a..... all good :up: although the board still dont like 4 x 4GB Samsungs @ 2133+ or even 2 x 4GB above 2200.

did you loosen up the 3rd timings?

Hiya i bought a Z77X-D3H yesterday and i have came across a problem my board has stopped running in dual channel memory mode can only get single channel. Has anyone had these problem.

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Hiya i bought a Z77X-D3H yesterday and i have came across a problem my board has stopped running in dual channel memory mode can only get single channel. Has anyone had these problem.

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1 & 2 or 3 & 4 slots?
Page 16 in manual.

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1 & 2 or 3 & 4 slots?

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Slots 4 and 2 are not letting me boot just goes on a loop. Tryed a stick each. Whenever i try slot1 and 2 ot 3 and 4 for dual channel it goes in a loop.

Looked in bios it channel A that wont accept memory.

do you have other memory to try?

Yh have try some other memory and same results.

i would RMA the board, that is not a good sign.

Hey if you try to take out the GPU, and run off the iGPU, do you get memory issue? Yesterday i was using a GT220 for the first time on a UD3H, and installing memory, and i kept getting 51 error which i assumed was only for memory. Then I took out the GPU and plugged HDMI into the board, and it worked. I turn the system off and pluged the GPU back into the board and the HDMI into the GPU and no issue.

BTW I did a review of the UD3H, please let me know what you guys think!!!
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...cy-Comparison)

I am going to post up some OC profiles in there later today.

Am just running the hd4000 off the ivybridge. waiting for a 7970 to come. Am going to rma board maybe go for a z77 gene.

"did you loosen up the 3rd timings?"

Yup ......

The wi-fi on this mb is advertised as dual-band bluetooth/wi-fi. What I'm wondering is whether the wi-fi would broadcast on both bands to my LG BD670 blu-ray player. It would also be nice if I could set up a DLNA server as well (like on the Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe which unfortunately is out of my budget). The BD670 manual states the following:

This player is equipped with an IEEE 802.11n (Dual-band, 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz band) wireless module,
which also supports the 802.11a/b/g standards.
For the best wireless performance, we recommend
using a IEEE 802.11n certified Wi-Fi network (access
point or wireless router).

Frequency Range for North America
5.15-5.25 GHz (ch. 36-48),
5.725-5.825 GHz (ch. 149-161)
5.825-5.850 GHz (ch.165)


UPDATE: Nevermind, I just answered my own question here: :rolleyes::p:

http://www.gigabyte.us/products/prod...px?pid=4135#ov

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Curious, what is the difference between the purple and blue capacitor's, apart from the actual colour? mine are all blue.

I noticed on a forum I regularly use someone has a GA-Z77-UD5H-WiFi and that one has purple capacitor's.

I've installed Bios F8a running fine...

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Think It may have something to do with where the PCB was made

Purple= China

Blue= Taiwan

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Then again I have just seen a UD3H with Purple caps made in Taiwan!!!

they ran out of blue caps so they changed the manufacturer and the new manufacturer has different color caps. Same specs.

What sort of BCLK you guys getting on Air/Water?

I'm finding about 107 ~ 8 is where my board will boot happy then you need to tease up the BCLK 1 at a time to get to 110.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...200110BCLK.png

I picked up a "ud5h" a few days back and I'm now running the F8a bios. I've been experiencing some strange lock ups/screen freezes when trying to change settings in BIOS while testing the o.c. on my 3570K. It has happened so far on f4, f6, and f7 bios. I'm not sure if this is just a "sample" peculiarity with my board or if the volts are to low for a given multi or if it might be something else that I'm over looking? I'm even thinking about possibly exchanging the board for another one. I've also noticed that there doesn't seem to be a setting for enabling/disabling PLL overvoltage or a setting for enabling/disabling cpu spread spectrum?

Brief Prime blend @45x:
http://i695.photobucket.com/albums/v...eblendload.png

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I picked up a "ud5h" a few days back and I'm now running the F8a bios. I've been experiencing some strange lock ups/screen freezes when trying to change settings in BIOS while testing the o.c. on my 3570K.

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I have seen the same thing with mine & thought it was low vcore however it turned out for me anyway to be a memory timing too tight tRWDRDD.... slackened it from 3 ~ 4

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I have seen the same thing with mine & thought it was low vcore however it turned out for me anyway to be a memory timing too tight tRWDRDD.... slackened it from 3 ~ 4

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Thanks C-N

I'll try adjusting that memory timing. I also just happened to swap over to a different kit of ram in an attempt to see if it might be somehow dram related.

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I picked up a "ud5h" a few days back and I'm now running the F8a bios. I've been experiencing some strange lock ups/screen freezes when trying to change settings in BIOS while testing the o.c. on my 3570K. It has happened so far on f4, f6, and f7 bios. I'm not sure if this is just a "sample" peculiarity with my board or if the volts are to low for a given multi or if it might be something else that I'm over looking? I'm even thinking about possibly exchanging the board for another one. I've also noticed that there doesn't seem to be a setting for enabling/disabling PLL overvoltage or a setting for enabling/disabling cpu spread spectrum?

Brief Prime blend @45x:
http://i695.photobucket.com/albums/v...eblendload.png

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this happens to me when the system is not stable enough, it will lock up, but it wont do it the same every time. The BIOS puts a load onto the CPU and memory. Try the timings or try more vcore. If you are having odd issues that you think are just odd, then RMA the board.

Yea PLL OV is automatically engaged for ANY OC. This isn't an issue as IB can resume from S3 sleep just fine with it enabled, but a few users have asked for it to be added in for users to disable if they want(mainly SB users). So hopefully we will see a BIOS with it son, as i reported it to HQ.