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

[Zucker2k]

Which RAM would you recommend for this board an 8 GB setup? I am thinking about this board + Q9550 + 8 GB RAM, but I dont know if it would be stable. I am dreaming about 8.5x480 FSB at 1:1 RAM. Is it possible with 2.1V RAM kits, like the Corsair TwinX 1066 CL5? If not, I think I will go with i7 920, but that woud be much much more expensive...

Get G.Skills the PC2-8500 will do just fine for your needs.

Nice Zucker2k we have twin quads lol Cheers
Sergio

That's sweet; I have nothing, but great respect for that chip of yours

Well here is my E8400


FPO:Q842A861 vid 1.20

I think it's quite acceptable. What do u think guys?

Very nice chip you got there. Very nice.

well i slipped my botcott is over got a ud3r
lets just hope she dont die in less than 3 weeks
first boot @500x9 on q9650
now i just need another cooler my tuniq isnt cutin it
can somebody tell me where are the gtl settings lol

zsamz, you owe me a set of d9gmhs for all the grief you've given us for being "gigabut" owners. I'd like to see what Jor3lBR has to say to you. Anyway, to gigabuttville - we eat quads for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!

[tool_462]

Not only do we eat the quads, we eat them at the highest FSB you can imagine and it takes us little tweaking to get there

[Zucker2k]

Not only do we eat the quads, we eat them at the highest FSB you can imagine and it takes us little tweaking to get there

You betcha! (In S. Palin's tone).

[andressergio]

That's sweet; I have nothing, but great respect for that chip of yours

Thank you mate i saw you have a Xeon ? am i right ?

Cheers
Sergio

[zsamz_]

zsamz, you owe me a set of d9gmhs for all the grief you've given us for being "gigabut" owners. I'd like to see what Jor3lBR has to say to you. Anyway, to gigabuttville - we eat quads for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!

wait the board is still alive lets see if it will last
we both know failure rate is high on these i got rev 1.1 so might get lucky lol
i only booted it 1 time waitin on heatsink i dont wanna take heatsinks from other rigs i get my sink on tuesday n aimin for 5ghz on air with the help of my a/c
dont worry i'm sure the board will chew up a pair of my best d9ghm thankfully i didnt sell em all i got 6 sets that will do 1200+
before 2008 all boards gigabut made were garbage woopdidoo they finally made a board that didnt suk lol
i was averagin a gigabut every 5 weeks so ... cross your fingers n toes lol
1 thing thats reassuring my freinds gigabut is still alive @ 500x8 since i set it up for him i gave him greif for buyin the board lol
i coulda saved money buyin gigabut v-cards but i had to stick to my boycott
damn i shoulda sold my q9650

ya Jor3lBR you told me but i didnt have a quad and bandwidth still suks on the board

[EliTE22]

wait the board is still alive lets see if it will last
we both know failure rate is high on these i got rev 1.1 so might get lucky lol
i only booted it 1 time waitin on heatsink i dont wanna take heatsinks from other rigs i get my sink on tuesday n aimin for 5ghz on air with the help of my a/c
dont worry i'm sure the board will chew up a pair of my best d9ghm thankfully i didnt sell em all i got 6 sets that will do 1200+
before 2008 all boards gigabut made were garbage woopdidoo they finally made a board that didnt suk lol
i was averagin a gigabut every 5 weeks so ... cross your fingers n toes lol
1 thing thats reassuring my freinds gigabut is still alive @ 500x8 since i set it up for him i gave him greif for buyin the board lol
i coulda saved money buyin gigabut v-cards but i had to stick to my boycott
damn i shoulda sold my q9650

ya Jor3lBR you told me but i didnt have a quad and bandwidth still suks on the board

l
can we see some comparison of the BAD bandwidth?? too ur good bandwidth?
just wondering

[dnottis]

Which RAM would you recommend for this board an 8 GB setup? I am thinking about this board + Q9550 + 8 GB RAM, but I dont know if it would be stable. I am dreaming about 8.5x480 FSB at 1:1 RAM. Is it possible with 2.1V RAM kits, like the Corsair TwinX 1066 CL5? If not, I think I will go with i7 920, but that woud be much much more expensive...

Using GB UD3P, G.Skill PC2-8800 DDR2-1100 8GB Memory @ 1.8v running 471FSB 1:1. Perfectly stable.

[radaja]

well i slipped my botcott is over got a ud3r

OMG,i never thought this would happen zsamz!but im glad it did
you have made a great decision.

[zsamz_]

l
can we see some comparison of the BAD bandwidth?? too ur good bandwidth?
just wondering

the board is on an average of 500mbs lower than a dfi p35 p45

[zsamz_]

OMG,i never thought this would happen zsamz!but im glad it did
you have made a great decision.

me neith
i just couldnt sell this damn cpu till i what what it can do
hey if the board dies i get a refund
just another toy to me lol
you know i would never have for a dually lol
man this board is a pure n00b board like drivin on auto

[Jor3lBR]

ya Jor3lBR you told me but i didnt have a quad and bandwidth still suks on the board

l
can we see some comparison of the BAD bandwidth?? too ur good bandwidth?
just wondering

Lol zsam you finally made a move:

"You see there is only one constant. One universal. It is the only real truth. Causality. Action, reaction. Cause and effect." Merovingian.

You now have a Quad (cause), you need to buy a UD3 (effect).


Well Elite said it all, bandwidth means nothing with a Quad running at 3.6Mhz... I had sky high bandwidth with my Quad on a DFI that would never pass 450fsb.

Now I have 5Ghz with the same quad and the speed is just not even fair to compare Bandwidth is overrated.

You will really enjoy this board, I hope you have a Quad that can keep up with it

[zsamz_]

Lol zsam you finally made a move:

"You see there is only one constant. One universal. It is the only real truth. Causality. Action, reaction. Cause and effect." Merovingian.

You now have a Quad (cause), you need to buy a UD3 (effect).


Well Elite said it all, bandwidth means nothing with a Quad running at 3.6Mhz... I had sky high bandwidth with my Quad on a DFI that would never pass 450fsb.

Now I have 5Ghz with the same quad and the speed is just not even fair to compare Bandwidth is overrated.

You will really enjoy this board, I hope you have a Quad that can keep up with it

yup i never really bothered with this thread lol
i was limited to 475fsb
was gonna go i5 but you never know what cpu you get
and ddr3 is overrated

[stasio]

GA-EP45-UD3R - F11

-Improve CPU compatibility
-XHD RAID Support
-Fix Memory-mapped I/O in 32-bit system
Released date:31.Aug 09

Anybody got GA-EP45-UD3P - F10f BIOS?
If yes,please post here.Thanx

[poldo]

thanks for posting this new BIOS, stasio. Hopefully, this will address my VDROP and VDROOP issues with my UD3R. 1.4 in BIOS drops to 1.38 in PC Health Status and 1.36 in Windows then VDROOP puts it in 1.34~1.35

EDIT: is this official? How come I don't see it at Gigabyte Taiwan or US' website? Only F9 is there.

EDIT (again): Nevermind, I found out where you got the link through your sig.

[Zucker2k]

Thank you mate i saw you have a Xeon ? am i right ?

Cheers
Sergio

Yes, a Xeon W3520, the i7 920 equivalent.

[Ghostleader]

@zsamz_

You finally made it, to Gigabyte, am I the cause for this or is it your quad.

Rather easy to get 500 with it, wasn´t it, now you have to have a good set of ram that can do DDR2-1200+, then you can play with the guys at the top.

Good luck with your Gigabyte adventure.

[stasio]

thanks for posting this new BIOS, stasio. Hopefully, this will address my VDROP and VDROOP issues with my UD3R. 1.4 in BIOS drops to 1.38 in PC Health Status and 1.36 in Windows then VDROOP puts it in 1.34~1.35

EDIT: is this official? How come I don't see it at Gigabyte Taiwan or US' website? Only F9 is there.

EDIT (again): Nevermind, I found out where you got the link through your sig.

Good

[poldo]

Hey guys, I dunno how to say this but the new BIOS for UD3R is good. At the same clockspeed, I needed to tune CPU GTL Ref to get this mild overclock stable but with the F11, it just passes everything at stock voltages. Here's one running for 2 hours now.



I left the memory timings loose though because when I put my initial settings with the F9 BIOS, the computer just wouldn't boot so I loosened the timings including tRD settings and stable so far.

[zsamz_]

@zsamz_

You finally made it, to Gigabyte, am I the cause for this or is it your quad.

Rather easy to get 500 with it, wasn´t it, now you have to have a good set of ram that can do DDR2-1200+, then you can play with the guys at the top.

Good luck with your Gigabyte adventure.

i got a coolmaster 212 commin gonna conect the a/c straight to heatsink n see how far i can go
i got a few sets of ddr2 left lol a few do 1300 easy lol

[Oztopher]

How much wattage does your q9650's generally draw on load? cos my Q6600 @ 3.8 w/ 1.45v draws 230watts... It can pass prime small all day, but it never passes linpack, it keeps blue screening with 'UNCORRECTABLE_HARDWARE_ERROR' which always meant not enough vcore at lower clocks. But if i try to increase to 1.472v my pc shutdown at the same point it blue screened.

This is PSU related right? Because atm i have a thermaltake 750w......... im thinking about getting a decent corsair PSU, anything else you guys recommend?

[nugzo]

wait the board is still alive lets see if it will last
we both know failure rate is high on these i got rev 1.1 so might get lucky lol:

What board are you talking about? For as many people that have this board, i can almost gaurantee it has a lower failure rate than even its higher dollar competitors, from all manufacturers. I've personaly installed 10+ UD3P/R for friends and customers and own 2 P's myself. I havent had any issues. This board is way more reliable than my old maximus II Formula. I went through 2 of them. Also had a bad DFI P45. I've also been using the cheaper Micro Atx UD series boards for motherboard replacements in OEM sysyems. Havent had a failure yet (knock on wood) I was using MSI for the OEM replacements previously, and had a few DOA's with them. So to the point, from personal experience, these UD Series boards are rock solid.

[tool_462]

What board are you talking about? For as many people that have this board, i can almost gaurantee it has a lower failure rate than even its higher dollar competitors, from all manufacturers. I've personaly installed 10+ UD3P/R for friends and customers and own 2 P's myself. I havent had any issues. This board is way more reliable than my old maximus II Formula. I went through 2 of them. Also had a bad DFI P45. I've also been using the cheaper Micro Atx UD series boards for motherboard replacements in OEM sysyems. Havent had a failure yet (knock on wood) I was using MSI for the OEM replacements previously, and had a few DOA's with them. So to the point, from personal experience, these UD Series boards are rock solid.

He has some weird thing against Gigabyte, given the track record of these boards being some of the most popular and beaten upon boards and their high rate of non-failure, nobody is really sure why he hates them so much except himself

Probably because they overvolt RAM a little so he fries his D9's that would've fried anyway since he doesn't compensate for the overvolting

[Engmus]

Hi guys first time poster looking for some help overclocking my system. Below are specs.

Intel Q9650
Gigabyte EP45UD3P Ver 1.6
G.skill Trident DDR2-1200 (9600) 1.8v memory
Kingwin Mach1 1220MA1S Power Supply
EVGA 295 GTX
Intel X25-E 64gigabyte SSD
Coolermaster V10 CPU Cooler.
.

I"ve currently gotten a blend\prime\orthos stable 4.05ghz overclock on my Q9650. Below is the setup.

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Robust Graphics Booster = Turbo
CPU Clock Ratio = 9X
CPU Freqency = 4.05GHZ (450x9)

CPU Host Clock Control = Enabled
CPU Host Frequency = 450
PCI Express Frequency = Auto
C.I.A.2 = Disabled

-Advanced Clock Control-
CPU Clock Drive=1000mv
PCI Express Clock Drive=900mv

---
Performance Enhance = Standard
Extreme Memory profile (X.M.P) = Disabled
(G) MCH Frequency Multiplier = 2.66D
Memory Frequency = 1066\1200
Timings 5-5-5-15
Channel A\B Driving Settings = OC1200


---
LLC = Enabled
CPU VCore=1.38750 (1.36 in CPU-Z)
CPU Term=1.360
CPU PLL=1.590
CPU Ref=0.886

MCH Core=1.360
MCH Ref=0.901
MCH/DRAM Reference=.0940
ICH I/0 = 1.570
ICH Core=1.200

Dram Voltage=2.100V - Pink
Dram Term= 1.050 - Pink
Channel A Ref= 1.050V - Pink
Channel B Ref= 1.050V - Pink

---

Anything unlisted is auto.

Im not sure what I could adjust for stabilty or bring up for additional performance, ive overclocked in the past but not since my AMD Athlon XP3000 and i've had a few rigs since then but im not fimilar with alot of these terms and had done lots of readings and found this "Blend" to work well thus far. Please let me know if anything stands out as a sore thumb.

Also I have a very nice high air-flow 10,000 RPM fan screwed into the Northbridge heatsink it stays very cool, (Pulled the blue gigabyte label\metal cover off).

My CPU temps are at idle roughly 32c, load 50.

Thanks!

[zsamz_]

What board are you talking about? For as many people that have this board, i can almost gaurantee it has a lower failure rate than even its higher dollar competitors, from all manufacturers. I've personaly installed 10+ UD3P/R for friends and customers and own 2 P's myself. I havent had any issues. This board is way more reliable than my old maximus II Formula. I went through 2 of them. Also had a bad DFI P45. I've also been using the cheaper Micro Atx UD series boards for motherboard replacements in OEM sysyems. Havent had a failure yet (knock on wood) I was using MSI for the OEM replacements previously, and had a few DOA's with them. So to the point, from personal experience, these UD Series boards are rock solid.

a freind of mine has a pc shop and 10% has some sort of failure mostly no post
just remember these machines runing stock that fail lol
i recomended to him the ep45 series n hes happy with sales and keeps alot of em in stock but you should see the boxes full of rmas
p5q vanila has alot of usb ethernet failures
msi to me is is mostly crap voltage regulators
as for my failures 5 p35c-ud3r boards average 5 weeks each
i had a x38-d6q and was happy when it died after 3 weeks
i know the ud3X series are good but quality control is bs either you get a good board or
i gave gagabut another chance only because after 10+ years of their boards they finally made a good board lol
i learned not to trust the so called overclockers that were sponsored by gigabut they were praising the p35 series and the x38 series even a whore will tell you shes good lol or her pimp will woop her ass
i trusted a few freinds from xs that told me the board was good


tool:i'm no noob i never trusted windows or bios voltages
its easy to use a dmm
if a board kills a set after 3 days @ 2.24v real or a set every few weeks and ram never went over 28c its a POS to me mushkin greg knows verry well how many sets of munshkin were eaten and was nice sent me a pair of redlines instead of my xp2-8500
i'm guessing you never had a p35-ds3r

[Hoss331]

I dont know if this has been posted before, but here are some real voltages on a UD3R 1.1 (F6 bios if it matters). Tested with a DMM and when I get time Ill test my UD3P 1.0.

          BIOS    Idle   Load
vcore	  1.400  1.408  1.416
pll	  1.450  1.475  1.533
	  1.500  1.577  1.634
	  1.570  1.597  1.655
nb	  1.300  1.326  1.341
vtt	  1.300  1.328  1.347
vdimm     2.200  2.236  2.244