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

[tool_462]

ok well my board is not a lemon
i was primin n took a 2.5 hour nap i never prime over 1 hour lol
4 sticks 1200 @500x8.5
500x9 takin 1.49v even with different gtls
1:1 divider dont work @500fsb ? lol
primin @ 4.45 @ 1.44v not worth the xtra .05 for 50mhz

Damn Gigabyte, sucks!

[Hoss331]

ok well my board is not a lemon
i was primin n took a 2.5 hour nap i never prime over 1 hour lol
4 sticks 1200 @500x8.5
500x9 takin 1.49v even with different gtls
1:1 divider dont work @500fsb ? lol
primin @ 4.45 @ 1.44v not worth the xtra .05 for 50mhz

Is that bios voltage or cpuz voltage? 1:1 works fine on both my R and P boards, what strap and pl were you trying to use. 2.00B only drops to pl 10 but 2.00D can go to pl 9.

[zsamz_]

Damn Gigabyte, sucks!

well i'm lucky so far 1 day of restin and still alive

Is that bios voltage or cpuz voltage? 1:1 works fine on both my R and P boards, what strap and pl were you trying to use. 2.00B only drops to pl 10 but 2.00D can go to pl 9.

i never go with bios volts
pl9 i dont need 4+ gigs i'll stick with 2.40b

[OC Nub]

200D pl9 works best zsamz for 1:1 or 240B if your ram is good for it. I have to say with the bad luck you've had using giga boards this is a huge step giving them another shot. After a couple bad experiences with any company I very rarely go back and try them again.

[truehighroller]

Ok guys, please help me here, I am new to this motherboard. I am able to land the following right now stable Prime and Intel Burntest and OCCT.


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Robust Graphics Booster = Auto
CPU Clock Ratio = 8 X
Fine CPU Clock Ratio = +0.5
CPU Freqency = 4.03GHZ (475 x 8.5)

CPU Host Clock Control = Enabled
CPU Host Frequency = 475
PCI Express Frequency = 103
C.I.A.2 = Disabled

-Advanced Clock Control-
CPU Clock Drive = 700mv
PCI Express Clock Drive = 700mv

---
Performance Enhance = Turbo

(G) MCH Frequency Latch = 333MHz
System Memory Multiplyer (SPD) = 2.40B
Memory Frequency = 1140
Timings 5-5-5-18
Channel A\B Timing Setting(s) = 8


---
LLC = Enabled
CPU VCore = 1.30 (1.26 in CPU-Z)
CPU Term = 1.280
CPU PLL = 1.500
CPU Ref = 0.810

MCH Core = 1.40 (Just to get it stable with the 8 PL)
MCH Ref = 0.810
MCH/DRAM Reference = .0940
ICH I/0 = 1.500
ICH Core = 1.100

Dram Voltage = 1.8
Dram Term = AUTO
Channel A Ref = AUTO
Channel B Ref = AUTO


I turned off EIST and all that safety crap. Tell me if I missed anything here you want to see and thank you to whom ever helps me as it is appreciated.

[OC Nub]

truehighroller: everything looks good to me. To go much higher you will probably have to adjust your advanced clock control.

[truehighroller]

truehighroller: everything looks good to me. To go much higher you will probably have to adjust your advanced clock control.

I will try messing with those settings and see what haopens. Thank you, I traded my other Q9550 chip in for another one by the way. I think that it was kinda flaky. The good news is I have a VID of 1.175v now instaed of 1.225v .
I will report back on what happens, maybe that is why I am having issues booting past 475.

[OC Nub]

I will try messing with those settings and see what haopens. Thank you, I traded my other Q9550 chip in for another one by the way. I think that it was kinda flaky. The good news is I have a VID of 1.175v now instaed of 1.225v .
I will report back on what happens, maybe that is why I am having issues booting past 475.

Great vid.

[truehighroller]

Thanks Noob, I just got 480 to boot but, I had to set my shiat to 1:1. Will report back.

[zsamz_]

200D pl9 works best zsamz for 1:1 or 240B if your ram is good for it. I have to say with the bad luck you've had using giga boards this is a huge step giving them another shot. After a couple bad experiences with any company I very rarely go back and try them again.

stikin to 240b
tks i did boycott gigabut for 2 years i even paid more $$ not to buy gigabut but they had to make 1 good board in all their years
even though my boycott is over i stikin to gigabut name

[radaja]

good to see people sticking to their principles.
now all you have to do is add the gigabut UD3P
to your sig with a thumbs up
i know you havent had it that long yet
but you know its a great board

i have to agree with OCnub,and im glad you gave gigabyte
another chance.although im sure you were just tired of us
begging you to give this board a chance

[zsamz_]

good to see people sticking to their principles.
now all you have to do is add the gigabut UD3P
to your sig with a thumbs up
i know you havent had it that long yet
but you know its a great board

i have to agree with OCnub,and im glad you gave gigabyte
another chance.although im sure you were just tired of us
begging you to give this board a chance

i not puttin it in my sig
yes i got tired of you gigabut fans tellin me to get the board
you know i only got it for my q9650
i still love my REX its the best board ever made
ud3x good too

[radaja]

exactly right, if you have a Q9650 or any quad then its the best 775 board
hands down.any other cpu and its just about the same as other P45's

[truehighroller]

I'm at 500x8.5 NOW WOOT!!. is hot though. I might have to take this back if me tweaking the cooler tonight doesn't resolve the heat issues it is havng. I am at work and do not have it connected to the internet though so no validate until I get home later tonight.

This board is tricky to get used to. I don't know if any one here has this issue but, if I try to set my settings all at once when first tweaking my BIOS settings it won't boot. I have to set the basic settings first which are my CPU Voltage and my NB voltage and leave everything else at auto, then come back and tweak the rest of the settings in order to boot. Is this normal behavior with this board?


Edit: 510FSB!

I wish I had brought my TIM and that washer for my thermalright extreme with me. I left out the washer and when under load I am getting high temps now so, I don't know if it is because of the washer being left out or maybe I didn't do a good enough job cleaning off the old TIM.... I'm at 510FSB though and I am able to open CPU-Z.

[zsamz_]

i got a coolmaster 212 on mine i gotta say its kickin my trues ass

[LifeDrainer]

It's me or after some time voltage droop slightly increases ?

No one ? Ah, one more question. I had F9 BIOS, 10 minutes ago it recovered from backup (uber failed 4.6 GHz) but to F4. Should not the back up BIOS be F9 as well ?

Thanks.

[OC Nub]

No one ? Ah, one more question. I had F9 BIOS, 10 minutes ago it recovered from backup (uber failed 4.6 GHz) but to F4. Should not the back up BIOS be F9 as well ?

Thanks.

f4 is the original bios and backup, It will stay that. If you flash to f10e that will become the new backup bios from what I understand. I would not go any higher than f10b. You can flash the backup bios by using ALT+F12. But once you go to f10e you cannot go backwards on the backup bios.

[andressergio]

i will tell my story of hell with bios F10e

I was running F10b perfect OC'n hard never had an issue...i decided to try F10e and hell started...i could read on bios hitting F9 main bios F10e / backup F10e...

So i just tought go back to F0b but couldnt with Qflash, so have to do it on flashspi...but then EVERY time i failed hard on an OC F10e came back over and over...i did all to get rid of it and couldnt...so when bios F10f was posted i flashed and hit Alt + F12 on post and there was a question if i want to put my main bios as backup so i say yes...Bios F10f seems good but i prefeer F10b.

So now i have F10b as main and F10f as backup

If you want my opinion DONT put F10e go for F10b or F10f or you will have my same problem. Of course those crashes will never happen if you dont push hard, i was benching to 4815 and 4900

Cheers
Sergio

[Hoss331]

i never go with bios volts
pl9 i dont need 4+ gigs i'll stick with 2.40b

Well you can drop down to pl 8 on 2.00D if you use cas 4.

[andressergio]

Well you can drop down to pl 8 on 2.00D if you use cas 4.

correct Hoss




Cheers
Sergio

[zsamz_]

verry weird this board prefers d9gkx instead of d9gmh
i was 7 hour prime stable n i took out my 4 stix of gkx to take heatspreaders off n put in my best gmh and it failed in 2 min lol
put back in 4 sticks of gkx all good
does the board degrade with 4 stix?

[1Tanker]

I have two questions for the UD3x gurus.

Mine (UD3P) is a rev. 1.6 board, BIOS FB.

1. Using my Q9550 C1, it ups vCore nicely... in .0625v(or whatever) increments til 1.600v. Next jump is 1.620 then 1.640, etc. Using 1.600v with LLC on, shows 1.584v in CPU-Z( moderate vDrop...vDroop is good though). When i up it to 1.620v, it skyrockets to 1.664v in CPU-Z ; 1.640v BIOS gives 1.680v in CPU-Z. So..a .02v jump gives a .08v increase! Is this a well known issue? It does make stability much better, but at the cost of huge vCore increase(and frazzled nerves).

2. Figuring how excellent this board O/Cs my Q9550, i decided that i can't wait to see what it would do for my Pentium D915, which i got 5068MHz with on my P35-DS3L. The wall on the P35 came, because vCore in BIOS stops at 1.600v(~1.568v CPU-Z), then the next jump is 1.800v...too much for air. I assumed that the UD3P should give me some nice control in the 1.600v-1.700v range. Wrong! It only gives max 1.400v in BIOS/ET6.....BIG letdown. Anyone know about this/why?

-Q9550/E8400/E6600/PD-915(was hoping for personal bests on all these)
-EP45-UD3P(v1.6/FB)
-9800GTX+
-VX550
-XP Pro SP2/W-7 RC
-TRUE
Sorry if these have been brought up before,this thread is like trying to read the Bible...a year-long undertaking.

TIA
Tanker

[truehighroller]

BAM!




And one more, I can probably drop the voltage core on this one but whatever.



LOVE THIS BOARD!

[OC Nub]

BAM!




And one more, I can probably drop the voltage core on this one but whatever.



LOVE THIS BOARD!

Very nice vcore on 4250, you should be able to lower for 4335.

[truehighroller]

Thank you Thank you, bad thing is I might still have to swap chips again . I think it still might be running to hot. I took my heatsink and scrubbed it real good with alcohol and remounted it with the washer in place and while I evened the temps out across the chip the temps were still creaping to high last night for it, a little..

I think it was hitting 80s under full load. I think the chip has a flaw on the inside to where it isn't making good contact with the cores completely. Kinda sucks it is a good chip. I don't even think water would make that big of a difference to be honest. I am going to keep tinkering with it for a couple of nights and see if anything changes or not.