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

[Songok]

Have found some places selling the : GA Ep45 UD3LR here in uk wich seem to go quick,so my question is will they be a good overclockers as the GA Ep45 UD3 to go with my Q9550 ,thanks.

I think it will perform equally as well. Mine is an ep45T but i have a dual core in it. Never had any probs apart from needing to put a small fan aimed at northbridge as it was hotter than the sun at 1.3 Vmch. I saw them listed too on a few sites, they disapper v fast.

[Mech0z]

What bios should I use on my EP45-UD3P for best overclocking? Iam running the newest F9 but often it gets into a "reboot" mode where it never boots but just reboots before bios screen :S

[doodle]

they sure are going fast ,thanks for your reply Songok.

[vailr]

GA-EP45-UD3P Rev 1.0/1.1 beta bios F10k:
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/...-ep45-ud3p.htm

[radaja]

OMFG!!!!!!! I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got a new case...Antec1200...and now I got dual channel back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And 8gb to boot!!!!!!!

thats great news.but didnt you ever set it up outside of the case for troubleshooting during this whole single channel nightmare?
either way its great that you can finally run dual channel now

[Gameman]

here's proof that the EP45-UD3L - the cheapest of the Ultra Durable 3 series can hold it's own at 500fsb - don't get me wrong I wouldn't leave it at this vtt - but i figure it's pretty decent for a $100 motherboard...Even beats most of Asus's line up (with Quads) AND my $200 T2RSB Plus...

beautiful

they definitely got something here

I may just buy another one for a rainy day

[spinejam]

http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/giga...st-bios-28441/

anyone have feedback on the f10k bios?

[andressergio]

http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/giga...st-bios-28441/

anyone have feedback on the f10k bios?

some corrections to some network driver on fast boot that never was my problem and they say that has some bugs with showing CPU multi

http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/giga.../index260.html

[spinejam]

thanks sergio -- i guess i'll just hang w/ f10j for now since it's been running fine.

[clo007]

thats great news.but didnt you ever set it up outside of the case for troubleshooting during this whole single channel nightmare?
either way its great that you can finally run dual channel now

Yes I did and it still did it. It is just weird I tell you.

[radaja]

that is weird.still im glad you finally figured it out.now you can enjoy its full potential. have fun in dual channel and 8 gigs

[RAMMAN]

here's proof that the EP45-UD3L - the cheapest of the Ultra Durable 3 series can hold it's own at 500fsb - don't get me wrong I wouldn't leave it at this vtt - but i figure it's pretty decent for a $100 motherboard...Even beats most of Asus's line up (with Quads) AND my $200 T2RSB Plus...

beautiful

they definitely got something here

I may just buy another one for a rainy day

what cooling do you have on the northbridge? because im on stock cooling with case fans and im still getting lockups in the high 460s fsb wise. also what performance level are you at? i see your using 1:1 memory divider while im on 5:6 performance level 8 atm. im already on the 8 multiplier to push my cpu and thats with stock cpu cooling lol. i can see myself using the 10 or possibly even the 11 multi if i push for 5ghz if i ever get around to using dry ice. big question mark over whether this board with only 4 phases will handle a quad pushed that hard, probably not.

[Mech0z]

Anyone have some settings for a Q6600 @ 4Ghz and beyong? At 9 x 460 its stable for benchmarks but above it crashes almost instantly. And Iam in doubt what to increase to get more stability (If its not a FSB wall)

[gurusan]

Q6600 at 4.14GHz is already very impressive, I'd reckon you are seeing the limit of the chip.


Anyway it's taken me a long time to get used to this board coming from Asus (around 1 month), and at first I really hated it...but now I've got to say I really love it. I am running the below as my 24/7 clock, it's not prime stable but is stable enough that I can run it 24/7 with no crashes doing everything from gaming to encoding and CFD simulation.

[Songok]

Q6600 at 4.14GHz is already very impressive, I'd reckon you are seeing the limit of the chip.


Anyway it's taken me a long time to get used to this board coming from Asus (around 1 month), and at first I really hated it...but now I've got to say I really love it. I am running the below as my 24/7 clock, it's not prime stable but is stable enough that I can run it 24/7 with no crashes doing everything from gaming to encoding and CFD simulation.

Not prime stable for 24/7 use! How can you sleep at night!!
Hope those encodes arent for Hd****?!!

[gurusan]

if it doesn't crash or error during encoding or simulations then who cares

[In-Fluence]

I think what songok was getting at is the scope for encoding errors. If unstable by even the slightest amount, the resulting encode stands a good chance of glitchy pixels in frames etc, particularly as encoding doesn't really verify it's output. I guess if your not an audio/video-phile like me then you've got nowt to worry about, but I am!

Anyway, I've been busy with this board over the weekend - done a load of benching with my quad to get me several 2nd through to 5th places in the HWbot rankings. The only thing I've left out is PCmark, but for my first bunch of submissions I don't think I did too bad at all! If I had phase/nitrous/EP45T I bet I would do a load better!

Like I said a while ago - biting at your heels you top dogs!

[stasio]

GA-EP45T-UD3R - F7
GA-EP45T-UD3LR - F7
GA-EP45-UD3R - F12h
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/giga...st-bios-28441/

[truehighroller]

I have mine Prime95 stable and I'm running @ 4.2GHz and I love this freaking motherboard. Best I have owned by far. I came from Asus as well here.

[Songok]

if it doesn't crash or error during encoding or simulations then who cares

Jusk kidding dude. Reason i mention is, i am, as In-Fluence guessed, a video-phile and have had to redo x264 blu-ray encodes because of glitches from unstable oc. Small glitches but the people dl'ing it were quick to point them out! Nice job on 4.7 , i can only dream of that on my cooling.

[Gameman]

what cooling do you have on the northbridge? because im on stock cooling with case fans and im still getting lockups in the high 460s fsb wise. also what performance level are you at? i see your using 1:1 memory divider while im on 5:6 performance level 8 atm. im already on the 8 multiplier to push my cpu and thats with stock cpu cooling lol. i can see myself using the 10 or possibly even the 11 multi if i push for 5ghz if i ever get around to using dry ice. big question mark over whether this board with only 4 phases will handle a quad pushed that hard, probably not.

just a cheap green lit 2500rpm molex case fan and 1.30 volts

i don't let it run at 500 for fear of killing a 300$ chip with vtt, since i don't need to, but 471x8.5 is easy with this one...did it on the first try...whereas my bad ud3r took 2xdozen attempts and never booted succinctly..so to speak...I personally don't think 471 will kill it - (too soon anyway) ...

i know it's only 4 phase and no pwm /mof cooling, but then it only has to last 3 month's when i replace it with a UD3P - but i'm a little tapped out after X-mas so this will have to suffice - and it was only a quick trip across the street - either that or the UD3LR /EP45T-UD3P - just for the DDR3 fun - if i can find one..

i just wanted to say that it appears ALL the Ultra Durable 3 series can do it with Quads....that's all

Thanks

edit: i'm not into the performance stuff, i just set everything from Turbo to Standard..that's all I can tell ya

[Mech0z]

Hmm is there some way to get less than 2.0 divider? I cant find out if its my ram thats limiting me.

Running 9 x 460 FSB, 2.0D 4-4-4-12 is fine, 1 FSB is crash.
Running 9 x 3xx FSB, 2.6D (Gives 900Mhz on mem with sloppy timings) 5-5-5-18 cant boot
Running 9 x 380 FSB 2.5A 5-5-5-18 gives 950MHZ on mem which can boot.
Running 9 x 460 FSB, 2.0B 5-5-5-18 Runs fine which is the same as 2.0D and tighter timings, But 1 more FSB here also crashes the system, shouldnt that CAS5 give me some headroom if they are the limiting factor?

Do you think Ive hit a FSB wall?

[Mech0z]

Hmm is there some way to get less than 2.0 divider? I cant find out if its my ram thats limiting me.

Running 9 x 460 FSB, 2.0D 4-4-4-12 is fine, 1 FSB is crash.
Running 9 x 3xx FSB, 2.6D (Gives 900Mhz on mem with sloppy timings) 5-5-5-18 cant boot
Running 9 x 380 FSB 2.5A 5-5-5-18 gives 950MHZ on mem which can boot.
Running 9 x 460 FSB, 2.0B 5-5-5-18 Runs fine which is the same as 2.0D and tighter timings, But 1 more FSB here also crashes the system, shouldnt that CAS5 give me some headroom if they are the limiting factor?

Do you think Ive hit a FSB wall?

[gurusan]

Jusk kidding dude. Reason i mention is, i am, as In-Fluence guessed, a video-phile and have had to redo x264 blu-ray encodes because of glitches from unstable oc. Small glitches but the people dl'ing it were quick to point them out! Nice job on 4.7 , i can only dream of that on my cooling.

Fair point. I am not a videophile, I encode only a few movies per year. BTW I would think the software would have some sort of error checking? guess not

I am an audiophile though

[andressergio]

Hmm is there some way to get less than 2.0 divider? I cant find out if its my ram thats limiting me.

Running 9 x 460 FSB, 2.0D 4-4-4-12 is fine, 1 FSB is crash.
Running 9 x 3xx FSB, 2.6D (Gives 900Mhz on mem with sloppy timings) 5-5-5-18 cant boot
Running 9 x 380 FSB 2.5A 5-5-5-18 gives 950MHZ on mem which can boot.
Running 9 x 460 FSB, 2.0B 5-5-5-18 Runs fine which is the same as 2.0D and tighter timings, But 1 more FSB here also crashes the system, shouldnt that CAS5 give me some headroom if they are the limiting factor?

Do you think Ive hit a FSB wall?

Congrats Mech0z awesome speed for a Q6600

Cheers mate
Sergio