Hi guys been out of action for nearly 9 months, so it's time to fire up some benching rigs
Over the weekend had a play with new Gigabyte X79-UD5 motherboard with retail Core i7 3930K 3133B464 batch Sandy Bridge-E cpu. Gigabyte X79-UD5 board photos here.
The Gigabyte X79-UD5 shipped with F3 bios, but I immediately flashed the main bios (dual bios) to F5d. Unfortunately, I think the bios still needs work as I tried every setting available and can't get Load Line Calibration (LLC) to work as I always get around 0.048v to 0.06v droop under load, so not sure how that affects my max possible overclocks ? Here's hoping more mature bios updates come
I don't have any Quad Channel X79 memory right now so can't take full advantage of the Gigabyte X79-UD5 and 8 dimm slot support. So decided for first attempt at Quad Channel on X79, I'll use 4x 2GB A-Data 2000X 9-9-9-24 1.6-1.8v rated Elpida BBSE based memory which consists of 2 sets of 2x2GB dual channel kits.
System config:
- Core i7 3930K 3133B464 Sandy Bridge-E
- EK Supreme LT H20 with Fesser 480 Rad
- Gigabyte X79-UD5 F5d bios
- 4x 2GB A-Data 2000X Elpida BBSE
- 2x HIS HD3850 CrossFire
- 60GB G.Skill Phoenix Pro SSD
- 1200W Silverstone OP1200 PSU
- Additional cooling: 180mm Silverstone fan + 140mm Xigmatech fan
- WinXP Pro SP3 32bit (cpuz not detecting all 4GB nor is it detecting SPD for memory ??)
System setup photos
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