Gigabyte UD5P quick review and time Trial

[chew*]

Good things come to those who are patient, this is the bios I was using for the higher mem clocks on the gskills

[shaolin95]

Do you have any input on this two last posted bios?
One is at Gigabyte's website and mentions something about the ACC but the other one I cant find any info about.

[chew*]

use f4g.

[keenan]

Would F4G unlock an X3 aswell...?

[chew*]

Would F4G unlock an X3 aswell...?

would not know, I have no known unlockable 720's here......in fact I only have 1 720 here.....

[keenan]

ALright, I'm running prime on F3B bios with all 4 cores enabled, once I'm done I'll flash to F4G and find out...

[shaolin95]

My 720 do not unlock no matter what ACC option I use so no concerns there for me. :-)

[charged3800z24]

I just loaded f3b and now there is a f4g about in the wild LOL... so far 3.8ghz 1.5v 720BE with 4cores. I can't get the f4g, I figure I will give f3b a run for a while anyhow.

[shaolin95]

Thats a super sweet 720 you got my friend. I cant unlock the 4th core and seem to be stucked at 3.6Ghz.

[iandh]

F3b unlocked fourth core 1hr OCCT stable at stock. I have some gaming to do right now but I will post OC results within a day or two.

[charged3800z24]

Thanks, this is not as good of a OCing chip as my 940 it seems. I just downloaded f4g and will try out 4core on it. I will let you know if it works.

[charged3800z24]

f4g is a no go. I even clr CMOS completely. I am going back to f3b

[shaolin95]

What do you mean is a no go? What is wrong with it?

[keenan]

Just tried it aswell, doesnt unlock the 4th core...

[keenan]

so far 3.8ghz 1.5v 720BE with 4cores.

Can you do a 3Dmark 06 CPU Test and tell me your score please..

[shaolin95]

May I also ask if that OC, OCCT stable?

keenan, did you notice any difference in OC capabilty between the two bios?

[charged3800z24]

Can you do a 3Dmark 06 CPU Test and tell me your score please..

I am down a 4850, and will have to run a single.

[charged3800z24]

Here is a 3.9ghz/2600NB/2000HT/1600RAM - Single 4850 800-1200

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=10298489

[charged3800z24]

for comparison here is my 940BE @ 4.0ghz 2600HT/2600NB same single card config.

[PaganII]

Yikes! My F4d bios failed after 24 hrs. F3b I get "invalid image", same for F4g.

[iandh]

Yikes! My F4d bios failed after 24 hrs. F3b I get "invalid image", same for F4g.

Oh crap man, I've got my fingers crossed for you. I only ran F4d for about that long, happy I switched to F3b... hopefully the same doesn't happen to me.


Can you describe the events surrounding when it failed?

[PaganII]

Hey, reflashed F4d and usb keyboard seams to work again.
Can't get F3b to work.
Easy tune reports 720BE as AMD Sempron Toliman 65nm, family F, model 4, stepping 2, ext family 10, ext model 4

Zone Alarm firewall the apparent cause of runaway cores, excessive cpu cycles with no reported process in task manager.

[shaolin95]

Good for you...I bet that was scary. :-)
I am currently OCCTing my four cores at 3.6Ghz 1.39V...wish me luck.

[iandh]

F3b caused S3 sleep to be broken just like the original F3, so switched back to F4d and sleep now functions perfectly again.

The extra core was nice and all but I would rather have functioning suspend mode since I use it fairly often.

[shaolin95]

28mins left for OCCT and 3.6Ghz (my current 3 core max ) with 4 cores is doing fine. :-)