***Official*** X79-UD7 Owners Club/Discussion/Info

[sin0822]

Hey guys, so this board shoudl be availible today or early next week in the USA. So i decided it was time to make a club for the owners and future owners to discuss stuff in.

GIGABYTE product page




BIOSes:
BIOSes @ TweakTown

Reviews:
SinHardware
Ninja Lane(preview)
Motherboards.org
Massman @ HWBot Thread
Bartman's Review
Guru3D


Videos:
3D BIOS @ TweakTown
5.4ghz@OCWB
UD7 Unboxing
Sandy Bridge-E Video OC Guide by Dinos22


Some OC Tips/Tricks:

• LLC is strongest at 0%(0.0mohm) and weakest at 100%(1mohm), 60% of 0.6mohm is the best IMO, the 0% is a bit harsh. 80% or 0.8mohm is the Intel stock loadline slope. Think of the mohm as the slope of the vcore, with voltage on the y axis and load on the x-axis, so slope of 0 is a straight line, and the greater the slope the more drop in voltage compared to load.
• System Agent and QPI/VTT help with OCing memory
• CPU PWM frequency goes from 0khz-2500khz, the real range for actual application is 0khz-500khz
• The PWM options like extreme perf, or balance are referring to balance of temperature and load
• max VCC for SBe is 1.4v, but SVID goes to 1.52v, so try to keep voltage as low as you can, but CPUs will die above 1.7v
• System Agent and QPI/VTT are cleared upto 1.4v each in the new Intel spec, but keep them under 1.35v
• If you don't know what to do with the PWm settings, just leave them on auto, the board does a good job of self regulation of the settings
• Profiles are in the end of the BIOS on the save& Exit screen