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

[pangingIII]

radaja,

you're welcome. about the fan on NB, i just put a fan there the computer case is not in stand up position, it lays on its side on a table.


i shutdowned and powered off the system again for a while, just to checking to see if there will be a overclock failure,
the system boot right up just fine, then i went into bios and changed the MCH core voltage from the previously setting 1.20v to 1.22v (i thought maybe there is some secret behind the MCH core at 1.20v maybe it's more than that), anyways, then the system boots into Windows and i'm running Prime95 x64....

[radaja]

pangingIII ,thanks for the info. keep it up.

[systemviper]

I just hit 4.0GHz on my Q6600

I was going to run more benchmarks and tweak ram. But then I saw my Vcore. I enabled load line calibration and instead of decreasing volts from BIOS to Windows it increased them. I couldn't get 4.1GHz to boot Windows, not sure what settings were wrong, but figure it out later.

Edit: Dam I just remembered I could have lowered it using easy tune .

You should try to back down your Vcore, I was able to to 4G on my Q6600 with 1.48v and I feel that can be 24/7 with a good cooler...

sweet

[Rich3077]

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

I started with a Tpower with this rig with a Zigmatek 1283 cooler. My experience was opposite of yours. With the Biostar board the temps where so high that I couldn't even benchmark at 3.8 Ghz (q9550) because temps would reach 80 Celsius. It may have been a bad seat on the heatsink or something. TPower board died a few hours into testing so I got the Gigabyte board. The only thing I did different on the new board was I used the IC Diamond thermal paste. Now while at 3.8 Ghz I haven't gone past 52 Celsius while doing prime. (Again, I probably had a bad seat on the Biostar board)


I Am loving this board, I installed it and then read this thread.. and in no time I am at 3.8 Ghz with my q9550. (8x475 CPU 1.264 volts, mem at 1:1) I am several hours into testing without a hint of instability. I can do 4.0 Ghz but prime drops a core and Windows feels laggy. I will be purchasing another very soon to replace the aging Abit board in my dually rig. Also considering a q9650 with this board to replace my dually rig.

Thanks to everyone who has posted.

Edit: Forgot to mention, I am using the F4 BIOS

[fatguy1992]

You should try to back down your Vcore, I was able to to 4G on my Q6600 with 1.48v and I feel that can be 24/7 with a good cooler...

sweet

Yeah I will, I can't believe I didn't realize that i could lower my Vcore with easy tune 6 . Oh well thats what happens when I oc when I'v just woken up. Anyway I had it stable at 1.5v once.

[radaja]

heres my highest cpu clock to date.

[CryptiK]

Very nice SPI32M there radaja, strong board to handle 556 FSB & 667 MHz.

[radaja]

thanks cryptik.

[Sgt_Strider]

I need help guys. For some odd reason, my second SATA hard drive isn't detected by Windows. The weird thing is that the drive is detected in the BIOS and the cables are all plugged in, but I don't see the second drive in Windows XP. What am I doing wrong?

[nugzo]

I need help guys. For some odd reason, my second SATA hard drive isn't detected by Windows. The weird thing is that the drive is detected in the BIOS and the cables are all plugged in, but I don't see the second drive in Windows XP. What am I doing wrong?

Is it in device manager? Also check computer management. Right click on My computer, then manage, then disk management.

[Peakr]

I need help guys. For some odd reason, my second SATA hard drive isn't detected by Windows. The weird thing is that the drive is detected in the BIOS and the cables are all plugged in, but I don't see the second drive in Windows XP. What am I doing wrong?

Is the drive formatted? Format it in dos first.

[Sgt_Strider]

Is it in device manager? Also check computer management. Right click on My computer, then manage, then disk management.

Yes it's detected in device manager. However, it doesn't have a volume number and it's using the GPT protective partition. The second drive is more like my data drive and it doesn't have a file system. I forgot to mention that I used Vista to format the drive. Now, my main computer is running on Windows XP Pro. Could that be the reason why it can't detect the second drive?

[Peakr]

Was it formatted in 64bit? Have to reformat it to use in XP pro 32bit then.

[Sgt_Strider]

Was it formatted in 64bit? Have to reformat it to use in XP pro 32bit then.

No, it was formatted with Vista x86, but I don't think that matters.

[Peakr]

Sounds like your going to have to convert that gpt to mbr. Think there are some utilities out there able to do that.

[pangingIII]

Very nice SPI32M there radaja, strong board to handle 556 FSB & 667 MHz.

the board itself sure like it will and can handle more CPU and RAM clocks. would you be kind to sent your ram kit to me and let me try it for a few days?
as far as i can see these Gigabyte UD3x P45s based boards are very good board and for its price too.
i like my UD3R since the day one i try it, even it's a cheaper (in price) board, it feels me like i am having a quite better board than my previous boards (p35-dq6/ds4, ex38-ds4, p5k-e, p5q-d).
at first it was not easy to overclock with this baord, took me a few hours to get used to it, after that it's quite easy to overclock with it and also get a stable overclocked system easy.

radaja, have to tried not to overclock your ram at the same time but using 1:1 and see how far you can go with the cpu?

[radaja]

pangingIII,only when using the 9 multi.the highest i could go 4424.but while trying these memory OC i noticed i could get the cpu higher using the 8 multi.think i will try 1:1 now and see what it can do.

[pangingIII]

radaja, try the 32M Superpi with a more higher CPU clocks and just ran your ram 1:1 5-5-5-15 you should be able to get a much better score with your e8500 and the ram kit you use.

here is my maxed out when using this 8GB RAM, btw, it's still pretty stable.

555x8 e8400 8GB RAM 1:1 DDR1110 PL10. Superpi 32M and Everest results (everest's are not bad at all when using 1:1 with this P45 board, it seems like the scores are better than what i used to see in my P35's)

[radaja]

pangingIII, nice. it does look like if i could could get 560x8 or higher w/1:1 i should be able to beat my SPI 32m score. by the way that is a nice e8400 you have 4439at 1.36.sweet.UPDATE- maybe the 8gigs of ram make a difference in SPI 32,mine didnt do to well.

[C-N]

Finally got some time to play about with my UD3P over the weekend & I got to say this is a strong board

I run 10H of prime @ 4350mhz with 4 x 1GB sticks of ram on the 266 strap & my HD4870X2. My DFI LP UT P45 run out of puff at 4350mhz on the 333 strap & it didn't like my 4870x2 much either so all in all Im a happy Gigabyte camper.

The Everest read & latency are a little down on the DFI but thats just a tweaking thing. I ran my mem a tad slacker the PL on channel a @ 8 instead of 7 on the DFI & the DRAM "Performance Enhance" was slackened off to standard to keep the NB voltage low.

Here's what I did to get her stable.

CN

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GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P (BIOS F4)

INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q9650 YORKFIELD 3.0GHZ 12M L2 CACHE (Q820????? / E0)

OCZ PC2-8500 SLI 4 x 1GB PN:OCZN1066SR2GK

GECUBE HD4870X2 1GB (8.12 DRIVERS)

1 X HITACHI DJ 80GB HD

SONY DUAL LAYER DVD RW (DRU-820A)

OCZ GAMEXTREAM 700W PSU

WINDOWS XP PRO SP3

CPUCOOLING: WATER 1/2" TUBING, D-TEK FUZION V1 (4.5MM NOZZLE), LAING D5 VARIO, PA130.3, 3 X 100CFM PANAFLO 120MM FANS

******Gigabyte EP45 UD3P******

Q9650 484 X 9 4350MHz 

Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto     ] 
CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 9        ] 
Fine CPU Clock Ratio............................[ 0        ] 
CPU Frequency 4.35GHz...........................[ 484 x 9  ]

******Clock Chip Control******

CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled  ] 
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 484      ] 
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).....................[ 100      ] 
C.I.A 2 [Disabled] 

******Advanced Clock Control******

CPU Clock Drive.................................[ 1000mv   ] 
PCI Express Clock Drive.........................[ 1000mv   ] 
CPU Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps      ] 
MCH Clock Skew..................................[ 50ps     ] 

******DRAM Performance Control******

Performance Enhance [Standard] 
Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)....................[ Disabled ] 
(G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 266MHz   ] 
System Memory Multipler.........................[ 2.50A    ] 
Memory Frequency 1066...........................[ 1210     ] 
DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual   ] 

CAS Latency Time................................[ 5        ] 
tRCD............................................[ 5        ] 
tRP.............................................[ 5        ] 
tRAS............................................[ 15       ] 

******Advanced Timing Control******

tRRD............................................[ Auto     ] 
tWTR............................................[ Auto     ] 
tWR.............................................[ Auto     ] 
tRFC............................................[ 35       ] 
tRTP............................................[ Auto     ] 
Command Rate (cmd)..............................[ Auto     ] 

******Channel A Timing Settings******     

Static tRead Value        [ 7 ] ................[ 8        ] 
tRD Phase0 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto     ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto     ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto     ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto     ] 

tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank)   [ 8 ] ................[ Auto     ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank)   [ 8 ] ................[ Auto     ] 
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank)   [ 7 ] ................[ Auto     ] 
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 9 ] ................[ Auto     ] 

Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto     ] 
Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto     ] 
DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto     ] 

******Channel A Driving Settings****** 

Drive Strength Profile..........................[ Auto     ] 
Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto     ] 
cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto     ] 
ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto     ]
clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto     ]

Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto     ] 
cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto     ] 
ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto     ] 
clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto     ]

******Channel B Timing Settings******     

Static tRead Value        [ 6 ] ................[ 8        ] 
tRD Phase0 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto     ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto     ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto     ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto     ] 

tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank)   [ 8 ] ................[ Auto     ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank)   [ 8 ] ................[ Auto     ] 
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank)   [ 7 ] ................[ Auto     ] 
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 9 ] ................[ Auto     ] 

Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto     ] 
Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto     ] 
DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto     ] 

******Channel B Driving Settings****** 

Drive Strength Profile..........................[ Auto     ] 
Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto     ] 
cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto     ] 
ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto     ]
clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto     ]

Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto     ] 
cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto     ] 
ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto     ] 
clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto     ]

******Motherboard Voltage Control******

Load-Line Calibration [Enabled] 
CPU Vcore         [ 1.23750 ]...................[ 1.42500  ] 
CPU Termination   [ 1.20    ]...................[ 1.40     ]
CPU PLL           [ 1.50    ]...................[ Normal   ]
CPU Reference     [ 0.766   ]...................[ Normal   ] 

MCH Core          [1.1      ]...................[ 1.300    ]  
MCH Reference     [0.760    ]...................[ Normal   ] 
MCH/DRAM Refernce [0.900    ]...................[ Normal   ] 
ICH I/O           [1.500    ]...................[ Normal   ] 
ICH Core          [1.100    ]...................[ Normal   ] 

DRAM Voltage      [1.800    ]...................[ 2.180    ] 
DRAM Termination  [0.900    ]...................[ Normal   ] 
Channel A Ref     [0.900    ]...................[ Normal   ] 
Channel B Ref     [0.900    ]...................[ Normal   ]  

******Advanced BIOS Features******

CPU Multithreading..............................[ Disabled ] 
Limit CPUID Max to 3............................[ Disabled ] 
No-Execute memory Protect.......................[ Disabled ]  
CPU Enhance Halt (CIE)..........................[ Disabled ]  
C2/C2E State Support............................[ Disabled ]  
C4/C4E State Support............................[ Disabled ] 
CPU Thermal Monitor.............................[ Disabled ] 
CPU EIST Function...............................[ Disabled ] 
Virtualization Technology.......................[ Disabled ]

PRIME95 + 2x CPU-Z, CORETEMP & MEMSET



EVEREST CACHE & MEMORY:(READ 10124MBS LATENCY 50.8NS)

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...ry4x1GBStd.jpg

3DMARK2001:(SCORE 82718)

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...z/3DMARK01.jpg

3DMARK2003:(SCORE 82612)

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...z/3DMARK03.jpg

3DMARK2005:(SCORE 30062)

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...z/3DMARK05.jpg

3DMARK2006:(SCORE 24487)

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...z/3DMARK06.jpg

AQUAMARK 3:(SCORE 261,172)

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...z/AquaMark.jpg

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
484 x 9 = 4350MHz @ 1.40v
4 x 1GB 5-5-5-15 2T @ 2.18V DDR 1210

[Ghostleader]

Finally I´m stable

but first I would like to say thank you to SpeedEuphoria, radaja and most all pangingIII who made this possible. Thanks guys

Here it´s, 450 4050 1200 555 15 tRD7 Turbo, it passed 50 loop LinX, 5hrs Prime95 Blend, 1000% HCI memtest and 2hrs of loop with Crysis Benchmark Tool (Harbor Assault).



I know, my chip isn´t the best but it need that much juice (1,36 under load) to stable, therefore the temp, maybe if I reset my HSF I can cut 5C.

I´m not impress by the Bandwidth and latency but then again I´m use to X48 DDR2 performance.


But I most say, I still think this P45 chipset is a very sensitive one.

0,02 volt in either directing and it´s unstable or it even worst, it won´t boot and it´s the same with the MCH ref, two steps in either directing and it won´t play.

I now move on to 500 8 4000 1200 555 15

[radaja]

C-N very impressive OC. Ghostleader,nice to see your making some headway.i also agree with you 100% about pangingIII, his help is greatly appreciated.

[1nsane]

Here are my results sp far fsb wise. CPU not yet testet much. But it doesn't seam to run very well :-/

PLL i had to raise to 1,15 because of boot issues.

You think the MB Volts are fine ?



Bios Settings

MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.) 
 
Robust Graphics Booster ..................: Auto
CPU Clock Ratio ..........................: 8 
Fine CPU Clock Ratio......................: +0.0
CPU Frequency ............................: 4.16GHz (500x8.0)
  
Clock Chip Control  
Standard Clock Control  
CPU Host Clock Control....................: Enabled 
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) .................: 520
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz) ..............: 100 
C.I.A. 2..................................: Disabled  

Advanced Clock Control 
CPU Clock Drive...........................: 800mv  
PCI Express Clock Drive...................: 900mv  
CPU Clock Skew (ps).......................: 0ps  
MCH Clock Skew (ps).......................: 0ps 
 
DRAM Performance Control  
Performance Enhance.......................: Turbo
X.M.P............................................: Disabled
MCH Frequency Latch......................: 333MHz 
System Memory Multiplier ................: 2.00b
Memory Frequency (Mhz) ..................: 1040  
DRAM Timing Selectable ..................: Manual

Standard Timing Control 
CAS Latency Time.........................: 5
tRCD ....................................: 5
tRP......................................: 4 
tRAS.....................................: 15  
Advanced Timing Control [Press Enter]  
tRRD.....................................: 3  [Auto]
tWTR.....................................: 3  [Auto]
tWR......................................: 6  [Auto]
tRFC.....................................: 52 [Auto]
tRTP.....................................: 3  [Auto]
Command Rate (CMD) ......................: 0  [Auto]
Channel A  
Channel A Timings Settings  (all on Auto) 
Static tRead Value......................: 10 (manuell) 

Channel B  
Channel B Timings Settings   (all  on Auto)
Static tRead Value......................: 10 (manuell)
  
Motherboard Voltage Control  

Load-Line Calibration.....................: Enabled
CPU Vcore...............1.25000V..........: 1.387500 
CPU Termination.........1.200V............: 1.260  
CPU PLL.................1.500V............: 1.150
CPU Reference...........0.760V............: Auto (0,76V ET6)
MCH/ICH  
MCH Core................1.100V............: 1.340 
MCH Reference...........0.760V............: 0,698 (0,66  ET6)
MCH/DRAM Reference......0.900V............: Auto 
ICH I/O.................1.500V............: 1,500 
ICH Core................1.100V............: 1,100 
DRAM  
DRAM Voltage............1.800V............: 1,920 
DRAM Termination........0.900V............: Auto 
Channel A Address Vref..0.900V............: Auto 
Channel B Address Vref..0.900V............: Auto 

Advanced Settings  
Limit CPUID Max. to 3.....................: Disabled  
No-Execute Memory Protect.................: Enabled
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)...................: Disabled  
C2/C2E State Support......................: Disabled  
x C4/C4E State Support....................: Disabled  
CPU Thermal Monitor 2(TM2) ...............: Disabled 
CPU EIST Function.........................: Disabled  
Virtualization Technology.................: Enabled 

[radaja]

1nsane,looks good. but im amazed that its able to boot at all with that low of pll. mine doesnt like anything below 1.57. ive tried 1.50 no boot. but like i said good job

[Ghostleader]

Here are my results sp far fsb wise. CPU not yet testet much. But it doesn't seam to run very well :-/

PLL i had to raise to 1,15 because of boot issues.

You think the MB Volts are fine ?

doesn't seam to run very well, hmmm 16hrs Prime95

What are you not pleased with?


Your volt look pretty good except for PLL maybe, PLL 1,15 seems a little low, 1.50 are normal, if higher FSB try 1,50