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

[ghost_recon88]

Has anyone noticed a temperature difference with different BIOS? Reason I asked is because with my Q9550, it runs about 15c hotter underload on this board then it did with my TPower. I have all the same voltages and everything, but the temps are still always hotter. I've even cleaned off the TIM and tried a new layer but it made no difference. I'm using BIOS F4. On my TPower it would run about 55c @ 4GHz with a TRUE. On this board however, it runs 66-70c under full load with the same voltage and everything Could it be the fact that on the TPower I used .63x GTL Ref and here I'm using .76x GTL Ref?

Edit: Just lowered my voltage to 1.2v from 1.25v and temp wise it didn't make any difference. I was running the same clock speeds too