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

[jonathankru]

Thank you. Just so use to Asus board. Still figuring out whether I like this board or the P5Q-E better. So far the P5Q-E give me higher overclock compare to the UD3P with my Q6600. Need to play around more with the UD3P setting.

I am not sure how well it shines with 65nm Quads, but i think it is with the 45nm Qauds that it really works well.

But as i have seen the right settings make a world of difference.

Good luck

[paul_]

Ugh I keep watching good advice go by in here... I'm not gonna mess with my OC further until my build is totally done, and that means 1 RMA'd vid card, 2 kits of RAM RMA'd, and once those are done, 2 more kits of RAM purchased and delivered. Arrgh... I just need to remember that my build will be great, I'll just keep telling myself that and it will all be ok... :P

[OC Nub]

So i used your settings which worked really well.
I got into the windows boot options screen and my Vista became corrupt.
Something about missing a winload.exe or something (maybe my RAID is acting up). But i managed to boot into my win xp64 fine. It kept getting stuck in windows so i upped the cpu voltage one notch at a time until it let me into windows properly (Which ended up being 1.4v bios/ 1.36v in windows)

I am now running Prime Blend for 15 minutes without an error yet with all 8Gigs. Which is a great start.

Nice!!!
You may be able to get vcore down by going up on vtt. You said your chip liked vtt. I haven't needed more than 1.320v vtt but my highest vid CPU is 1.250v . In a lot of cases the high vid CPU's run cooler.

[coop]

I haven't tried "Extreme", have always used "Turbo". So 500fsb is hard with "Xtreme"? Also, to clarify for my own sake..."Extreme" with PL9 is faster than "Turbo" with PL8 ?? Do you have some Everest memory screens you can show? That would be great as I am curious to try "Extreme" mode now! Thanks!!

Well, it always blows when your wrong. I don't have Everest installed. But I ran a few 32m pi and PL8 is faster everytime than Extreme at PL9. I initially did some 4m pi and it was faster with Extreme, but doing 32m PL8 Turbo was faster.
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[Bagira]

hi, guys. It's possible it, that the q9550-em giga byte ep45-ud3p went better into a motherboard than ep45-ds3r-in? Into this the ds3r-in simply win blackness is receiving with the same settings only at a screen than ud3p.
somebody can tell it besides which one the best one q9550 on the forum? Possibly prime stable picture from him?

[Osterman]

Me again, now I have the settings for a 100% stable OC on my CPU.

And... Huston we got a problem!

Well not that big, but it made me pi on my pants

Some days before now, when I made a CMOS, I set all those settings I have shown you and... It wont boot. And I figure that the problem was vcore, just I have show you I was using 1.35v, now Im with 1.36250 and it is working properly.
But I cant figure why the first time I set it, it works fine... I mean excellent (almost 10hs of prime95) and when I do CMOS y dies, I think its releated with amount of volt charge or something like that when you try various OC, I got this theory because, as you know, when you unplug the electric cable from the psu, it mades a discharge...

I really dont know, and I made a silly theory jaja.

What you think??

[Jupiler]

Pushing my Q9650 a bit higher.
Just tested Prime small, ran ok for several hours.
We'll see later if it's fully stable at that speed.

[jonathankru]

Thanks to OC NUB i now have all 8 gigs of my ram running much better
Now to start seeing what the CPU can do.

[rubber5]

hi i wanted to ask if running a q9450@3.5ghz is ok for long use.
I used intel burn test 30 times on max and my temp went to 73c but if i use prime it only goes to about 58c is this ok for the temp or is it to hot
please help me as im not sure if i will burn it out
thanks

[rubber5]

Thanks to OC NUB i now have all 8 gigs of my ram running much better
Now to start seeing what the CPU can do.

can i ask do you get a benifit on 8gb of memory in games i was thinking on up grading from 4gb to 8 but im not sure what do you think
thanks

[OC Nub]

Nice job jonathankru, congrats!!

[OC Nub]

hi i wanted to ask if running a q9450@3.5ghz is ok for long use.
I used intel burn test 30 times on max and my temp went to 73c but if i use prime it only goes to about 58c is this ok for the temp or is it to hot
please help me as im not sure if i will burn it out
thanks

58c in Prime is fine.

[jonathankru]

Nice job jonathankru, congrats!!

Couldn't have done it so easily without your help

can i ask do you get a benifit on 8gb of memory in games i was thinking on up grading from 4gb to 8 but im not sure what do you think
thanks

I don't think it helped much in games but i use cad software which can demand lots of ram especially in Vista. But 8 Gig of ram can be a real cow to get stable, so if it is just games you are worried about i would do it.

[rubber5]

Couldn't have done it so easily without your help



I don't think it helped much in games but i use cad software which can demand lots of ram especially in Vista. But 8 Gig of ram can be a real cow to get stable so if it is just games you are worried about i would do it.

after running prime now i have it stable its going to hit 65c but i dont know what a (safe) temp is when overclocking what would you say
sorry to be a pain
thanks

[Hoss331]

65c is fine. For me, as long as temps stay below 75c under small prime I wont worry about it since it will never get that hot under normal daily use.

[little_prince]

can i ask something? Which BIOS is the best for OC with this mainboard, i ve seen many guys used F5

Help me plz!

[stw500]

There is no OC-Bios for this Board.

Some say F4 is the best, some F7 and some F9.

Choose what you like...

[jonathankru]

I agree, I have found F9 to be quite good. But have not tested F4 yet.

What is the most stable (oc friendly) strap on this board because i have found 2.40b to be the best for me so far but while reading this thread there have been many people who say that it is very buggy?

Thanks

[18 is # 1]

Well not that big, but it made me pi on my pants

Is that SuperPi?

[18 is # 1]

So after 48 hours with this mobo, I'm VERY stable at 4.1 GHz:


But I should be able to run these LV Blades much faster. What do I need to do about my other options (skews, etc...)?


I did modify the sinks

I was impressed by their impressions (nice contact)

[the_real_7]

Im BaCK

I did the bios temp HOSS331 recommended , wow my system responding much better , very smooth ... good looking out dude. now the bad news im priming pass 7 hours actual did 9 according to results sheet , but pc did ultimately crash , where should i go from here to figure out , i pretty good at oc but ive never seen a system crash so far along so it makes it that much harder , should i just try again and see if maybe it was just a glitch , thanks again for everyone's help

******Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)******
 
Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto     ]
CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 9        ]
Fine CPU Clock Ratio............................[ + 0.0    ]
CPU Frequency 4.05GHz...........................[ 450 x 9.0]
 
******Clock Chip Control******
 
CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled  ]
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 450      ]
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..................................[ 0ps     ]
MCH Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps     ]
 
******DRAM Performance Control******
 
Performance Enhance.............................[ Standard ]
(G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 400      ]
System Memory Multipler.........................[ 2.00D    ]
Memory Frequency 1066...........................[ 900     ]
DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual   ]
 
CAS Latency Time................................[ 4       ]
tRCD............................................[ 4       ]
tRP.............................................[ 4       ]
tRAS............................................[ 12      ]
 
******Advanced Timing Control******
 
tRRD[3].........................................[ 3       ]
tWTR[3].........................................[ 3       ]
tWR[6]..........................................[ 6       ]
tRFC[54]........................................[ 52      ]
tRTP[3].........................................[ 3       ]
Command Rate (cmd)[0]...........................[ 2T      ]
 
******Channel A Timing Settings******     
 
Static tRead Value        [ 8 ] ................[ 9       ]
tRD Phase0 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
 
tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank)   [ 6 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank)   [ 6 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank)   [ 5 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ 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        [ 8 ] ................[ 9       ]
tRD Phase0 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
 
tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank)   [ 6 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank)   [ 6 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank)   [ 5 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ 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         [ 1.15    ]...................[ 1.38875 ]
CPU Termination   [ 1.20    ]...................[ 1.280   ]
CPU PLL           [ 1.50    ]...................[ 1.500   ]
CPU Reference     [ 0.760   ]...................[ 0.835   ]
 
MCH Core          [ 1.100   ]...................[ 1.300   ]
MCH Reference     [ 0.760   ]...................[ 0.850   ]
MCH/DRAM Refernce [ 0.900   ]...................[ 1.000   ]
ICH I/O           [ 1.500   ]...................[ 1.500   ]
ICH Core          [ 1.100   ]...................[ 1.100   ]
 
DRAM Voltage      [ 1.800   ]...................[ 2.100   ]
DRAM Termination  [ 0.900   ]...................[ 1.000   ]
Channel A Ref     [ 0.900   ]...................[ 1.000   ]
Channel B Ref     [ 0.900   ]...................[ 1.000   ]

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

[Hoss331]

Im BaCK

I did the bios temp HOSS331 recommended , wow my system responding much better , very smooth ... good looking out dude. now the bad news im priming pass 7 hours actual did 9 according to results sheet , but pc did ultimately crash , where should i go from here to figure out , i pretty good at oc but ive never seen a system crash so far along so it makes it that much harder , should i just try again and see if maybe it was just a glitch , thanks again for everyone's help

Try this one.

******Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)******
 
Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto     ]
CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 9        ]
Fine CPU Clock Ratio............................[ + 0.0    ]
CPU Frequency 4.05GHz...........................[ 450 x 9.0]
 
******Clock Chip Control******
 
CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled  ]
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 450      ]
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..................................[ 0ps     ]
MCH Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps     ]
 
******DRAM Performance Control******
 
Performance Enhance.............................[ Standard ]
(G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 400      ]
System Memory Multipler.........................[ 2.00D    ]
Memory Frequency 1066...........................[ 900      ]
DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual   ]
 
CAS Latency Time................................[ 4       ]
tRCD............................................[ 4       ]
tRP.............................................[ 4       ]
tRAS............................................[ 12      ]
 
******Advanced Timing Control******
 
tRRD[3].........................................[ 3       ]
tWTR[3].........................................[ 3       ]
tWR[6]..........................................[ 6       ]
tRFC[54]........................................[ 52      ]
tRTP[3].........................................[ 3       ]
Command Rate (cmd)[0]...........................[ 2T      ]
 
******Channel A Timing Settings******     
 
Static tRead Value        [ 8 ] ................[ 9       ]
tRD Phase0 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
 
tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank)   [ 6 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank)   [ 6 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank)   [ 5 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto    ]
 
Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto    ]
Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto    ]
DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto    ]
 
******Channel A Driving Settings****** 
 
Drive Strength Profile..........................[ 1066    ]
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        [ 8 ] ................[ 9       ]
tRD Phase0 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment     [ 0 ] ................[ Auto    ]
 
tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank)   [ 6 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank)   [ 6 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank)   [ 5 ] ................[ Auto    ]
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto    ]
 
Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto    ]
Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto    ]
DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto    ]
 
******Channel B Driving Settings****** 
 
Drive Strength Profile..........................[ 1066    ]
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         [ 1.15    ]...................[ 1.37500 ]
CPU Termination   [ 1.20    ]...................[ 1.280   ]
CPU PLL           [ 1.50    ]...................[ 1.500   ]
CPU Reference     [ 0.760   ]...................[ 0.835   ]
 
MCH Core          [ 1.100   ]...................[ 1.280   ]
MCH Reference     [ 0.760   ]...................[ 0.850   ]
MCH/DRAM Refernce [ 0.900   ]...................[ 1.050   ]
ICH I/O           [ 1.500   ]...................[ 1.500   ]
ICH Core          [ 1.100   ]...................[ 1.100   ]
 
DRAM Voltage      [ 1.800   ]...................[ 2.100   ]
DRAM Termination  [ 0.900   ]...................[ 1.050   ]
Channel A Ref     [ 0.900   ]...................[ 1.050   ]
Channel B Ref     [ 0.900   ]...................[ 1.050   ]

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

[jonathankru]

Hey guys. My 4.05Ghz run is 100% stable (which i am happy with as a 24/7 clock) but what i cant understand is i am running 333 and 2.40b. If i choose any other strap it will just get stuck in a boot loop. Even 333 and 2.00b wont work.

I tried every combo and the one i am using now is the only one that will boot.

Has anyone had a similar experience?

Thanks

[Jupiler]

Did you change the "Static tRead Value" under Channel A + B Timing Settings?

With 333 and 2.0B, you'll have to change it to 9 or 10. It wouldn't boot on my rig my rig either if I left it at 8.
With 333 strap and 2.40B, I can change the option to 8 and it will boot with no problems.

[OC_Newbee]

Hey guys. My 4.05Ghz run is 100% stable (which i am happy with as a 24/7 clock) but what i cant understand is i am running 333 and 2.40b. If i choose any other strap it will just get stuck in a boot loop. Even 333 and 2.00b wont work.

I tried every combo and the one i am using now is the only one that will boot.

Has anyone had a similar experience?

Thanks

What bios are you on? I had the same strap problem with bios f8, after upgrade to f9 the problem went away.