**Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 OC-Tips-Bios-Discussion Thread**

[hicookie]

5.5GHZ is great.
Q4EG is a B1, right? and do you have a link to more info on that mod?

I've been wondering if this Mb could boot up with a X56xx B0, but haven't got any confirmation, yet.

microcode already put in since F3b bios.

[Intratech]

Can someone re upload F6x please?

edit: Nevermind, got it from TT.

[rezax58]

Hello everyone.

I recently bought this motherboard with i7 930 and 6gb gskill ram running on f5 bios.

Haven't yet tried to Overclock anything since I like to get the system running prefectly before playing with it.

Two things have caught my attention:

1st in bios it says my multiplier is at oem 21x which would mean 2.8ghz but once I exit out of the bios and press tab on the black screen it shows 2.93ghz x22 and on cpuz in windows it shows 2.93 x22 also?

2nd some lights are on, I checked the manual and they really did a crappy job explaining and defining what the lights mean, so I figured someone in here might be able to help me out. the nb phase/ddr load only comes on when I set my ram to run at factory 1600.



*****EDIT***** I fixed teh led for ddr/phase by manually setting the voltage to 1.5. But that temp for cpu and nb is still lit.

[Sam_oslo]

microcode already put in since F3b bios.

Thx for clearing up . So it will work fine without a mod, and the mod is just for high clock. Your 6.43GHz SuperPi32 is really great, too.

[Amurtigress]

X58A-UD7 & UD5 Modification for Gulftown pass high clock

A little side note on the mod shot, the brown "resistor" is no resistor. The brown SMD components are capacitors. The measured resistance there is the currents through the surrounding other SMD parts/chip.

Not meaning to be a smartass, but everybody seems to think they are resistors.


On a side node, if we are referring to Gulftowns here, do we speak of the 32 nm hexcores?

Are there any 32 nm quadcores out yet, like Xeons? Any planned release dates for 32 nm quadcore i7s yet in the rumor mill?

I just don't want to shell out like 900 Euros for a hexcore whose performance I can't even remotely take advantage of on an all days basis...

[OC Nub]

Saw this at MicroCenter, http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0331303 kind of hard to pass up. I may grab one next week.

[DiscoTech]

Hi,

Are there any users here that switched from Foxconn Bloodrage or Evga 760 Classified to this board?

I am trying to choose between these 3 motherboards for my build.

How important is the usb 3 and sata 6gb support in your opinion? I definitely do not have any devices to make use of it now.

I know this is a Gigabyte thread but I would appreciate everyone's honest opinion.

Thanks!

Yes, I went from Evga E60 to UD7, the E60 handled memory better, but UD7 is sorting itself in regards to mem with each bios. The UD7 I find slightly more stable maybe due to its better 24 phase power design, and a cooler board in regards to temps, theres not much in it though, you wont be dissapointed with either

I appreciate the response.

So you mean you get more cpu speed at the same voltages and settings out of the UD7? how do the max blck numbers of the motherboards compare?

Thanks

[angelreaper]

New bios F6 Final:
http://america.giga-byte.com/FileLis...58a-ud7_f6.exe

[lawtq]

Bloody heck! Gig are throwing those bioses out faster than a really fast thing being chased by a cheetah! Not that I'm complaining.

DiscoTech, there really wasnt much difference between the 2 mobo's, max blck and voltage are more cpu dependant I think, (no real gains in cpu OC) finding that golden cpu is more important. But the UD7's better phase power design suggests it delivers smoother constant power to the cpu, (the reason I bought it) I find it more stable under extreme OC, but is this all a placebo effect?

[Chrono Detector]

Is that F6 BIOS any good? I just updated to F5 and I must say I'm not impressed. POST takes a bit longer and I no longer hear any beeping at all, WTF....

[boldenc]

old F6a and F6x worked well for me but the newer F6a dated 8 March was unstable once I put it, I got a black screen after the welcome screen with just the cursor moving after I put my old stable settings on first boot, didn't happen with any bios before. I hope the official F6 is not same as the F6a dated 8 March. I will just stick with F6x for now.

[Oblique82]

Hi everyone,

I recently bought this motherboard with i7 920 and am aiming for 4.2 stable on air (TRUE)

it is stable, however if i completely power off/ shut down I get cold boot multi restart failures- however when its running warm its fine.

what do i need to tweak to stablise this?

curently:

vcore 1.35
qpt/vtt 1.335
cpu pll 1.88
ioh/ich 1.3
dram 1.64
bclk 200

bios f5/f4

thanks

[R3alsp33dy0ne]

Hi everyone,

I recently bought this motherboard with i7 920 and am aiming for 4.2 stable on air (TRUE)

it is stable, however if i completely power off/ shut down I get cold boot multi restart failures- however when its running warm its fine.

what do i need to tweak to stablise this?

curently:

vcore 1.35
qpt/vtt 1.335
cpu pll 1.88
ioh/ich 1.3
dram 1.64
bclk 200

bios f5/f4

thanks

If you mean it seems to "boot loop" 3 or 4 times before posting, thats normal. It's just the way this board boots when overclocked.

[Oblique82]

yes thats exactly what i mean

HOWEVER ,,,

then when I enter the bios it gives a red warning saying: overclock failed etc current values may be different from those represented...

and sure enough when it finally boots to windows (if i let it continue)my cpu speed is 2.8 ghz

clearly it indicates a failure to boot and its resetting to safe values......

edit it does it on 4.0 ghz too

please note my 4.2 ghz is linx and prime stable, memtest normal

edit after testing a lot seems like LLC is the culprit! (load line calibration) when set to standard it boots normally!

[tipes]

yes thats exactly what i mean

HOWEVER ,,,

then when I enter the bios it gives a red warning saying: overclock failed etc current values may be different from those represented...

and sure enough when it finally boots to windows (if i let it continue)my cpu speed is 2.8 ghz

clearly it indicates a failure to boot and its resetting to safe values......

edit it does it on 4.0 ghz too

please note my 4.2 ghz is linx and prime stable, memtest normal

edit after testing a lot seems like LLC is the culprit! (load line calibration) when set to standard it boots normally!

How strange, as mine does not do that with LLC enabled - have no probs with LLC.

[tipes]

Hi all,

My standard v core value showing in the bios has always been 1.23125, but yesterday I suddenly noticed it had changed to 1.15000, and now today it has changed again all by itself to 1.14375. Does anybody know why this is happening. Anybody else had the same thing? I use dynamic v core - a great feature, but has this somehow gone funny and responsible for the random change in v core standard value?

The only other changes i made prior to this happening was I changed pcie to 101 and disabled turbo mode on the chip itself as I wanted to do a straight overclock without turbo.

Any ideas whjats going on here? Currently using bios F4.

Mark

[boldenc]

Hi all,

My standard v core value showing in the bios has always been 1.23125, but yesterday I suddenly noticed it had changed to 1.15000, and now today it has changed again all by itself to 1.14375. Does anybody know why this is happening. Anybody else had the same thing? I use dynamic v core - a great feature, but has this somehow gone funny and responsible for the random change in v core standard value?

The only other changes i made prior to this happening was I changed pcie to 101 and disabled turbo mode on the chip itself as I wanted to do a straight overclock without turbo.

Any ideas whjats going on here? Currently using bios F4.

Mark

you will see a difference in your normal vcore with turbo enabled/disabled, turbo enabled = higher vcore, disabled = lower vcore.

[tipes]

you will see a difference in your normal vcore with turbo enabled/disabled, turbo enabled = higher vcore, disabled = lower vcore.

Thanks for the reply. How stupid of me - should have thought of that doh!!!!

Mark

Hang on a minute though. Surely just enabling or disabling turbo mode on the chip itself should not change static v core value - I can understand that
when turbo is active then more v core needed and vice versa when not. Perhaps I am missing something???

[FrenchPcdiga]

Hello, i did f6x bios today, everithing fine, 4.2 1.25v stable, but i can't get more then 211 bclk, the pc doesn't give any image, i've already try with another multi, but always give me the same, black screen! It is possible to fix this problem?

F6x is not the last bios?! F6a last one?! A before X, i'm not understanding.

My bios config is this one:

GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 - bios F6x

MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.)
Advanced CPU Features {Press Enter]
CPU Clock Ratio............................: 21
CPU Frequency .....(Ghz)...................:4.2
Intel(R) Turbo Boost Tech..................:[Disabled]
CPU Cores Enabled..........................:[All]
CPU Multi Threading........................:[Enabled]
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)....................:[Enabled]
C3/C6/C7 State Support.....................:[Disabled]
CPU Thermal Monitor........................:[Enabled]
CPU EIST Function..........................:[Enabled]
Bi-Directional PROCHOT.....................:[Enabled]
Virtualization Technology..................:[Enabled]

Uncore & QPI Features [Press Enter]
QPI Clock Ratio*...........................:36
QPI Link Speed* ......................(Ghz):7.20
Uncore Clock Ratio.........................:x17
Uncore Frequency......................(Mhz):3,400
Isochronous Support........................:[Enabled]

Advanced Clock Control [Press Enter]
>>>>>Standard Clock Control
Base Clock (BCLK) Control*.................:[Enabled]
BCLK Frequency (Mhz)*......................:200
PCI Exxpress Frequency (Mhz)...............:105
>>>>>Standard Clock Control
CPU Clock Drive (mV).......................:700
PCI Express Clock Drive (mV)..............:700
CPU Clock Skew (ps)........................:0
IOH Clock Skew (ps)........................:0

Advanced Dram Features [Press Enter}
Performance Enhance........................:[Turbo]
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.)............:[Disabled]
System Memory Multiplier (SPD).............:x8
Memory Frequency (Mhz).....................:1,600
DRAM Timing Selectable (sPD) ..............:[Quick]
Channel Interleaving.............................:6
Rank Interleaving.................................:4

Channel A Timing Settings Sub Menu [Press Enter]
>>>>>Channel A Standard Timing Control
Cas Latency Time.............................:7
tRCD.........................................:7
tRP..........................................:7
tRAS.........................................:19
>>>>>Channel A Advanced Timing Control
tRC..........................................:27
tRRD ........................................:4
tWTR ........................................:5
tWR..........................................: 8
tWTP.........................................:[Auto] 19
tWL..........................................:[Auto] 7
tRFC.........................................: 60
tRTP.........................................:4
tFAW.........................................: [Auto]
Command Rate (CMD) .....................:1
>>>>>Channel A Misc Timing Control
B2B CAS Delay................................:[Auto]
Round Trip Latency...........................:[Auto]

Channel A Turnaround Setting [Press Enter]
>>>>> Channel A Reads Followed By Reads
Different DIMMs..............................: [Auto]
Different Ranks..............................: [Auto]
On The Same Rank.............................: [Auto]
>>>>> Channel A Writes Followed By Writes
Different DIMMs..............................: [Auto]
Different Ranks..............................: [Auto]
On The Same Rank.............................:[Auto]

Channel B Timing Settings Sub Menu [Press Enter]
>>>>>Channel B Standard Timing Control
Cas Latency Time.............................:7
tRCD.........................................:7
tRP..........................................:7
tRAS.........................................:19
>>>>>Channel B Advanced Timing Control
tRC..........................................:27
tRRD ........................................:4
tWTR ........................................:5
tWR..........................................: 8
tWTP.........................................:[Auto] 19
tWL..........................................:[Auto]7
tRFC.........................................: 60
tRTP.........................................:4
tFAW.........................................: [Auto]
Command Rate (CMD) ..........................:1
>>>>>Channel B Misc Timing Control
B2B CAS Delay................................:[Auto]
Round Trip Latency...........................: [Auto]

Channel B Turnaround Setting [Press Enter]
>>>>> Channel B Reads Followed By Reads
Different DIMMs..............................: [Auto]
Different Ranks..............................: [Auto]
On The Same Rank.............................: [Auto]
>>>>> Channel B Writes Followed By Writes
Different DIMMs..............................: [Auto]
Different Ranks..............................: [Auto]
On The Same Rank.............................:[Auto]

Channel C Timing Settings Sub Menu [Press Enter]
>>>>>Channel C Standard Timing Control
Cas Latency Time.............................:7
tRCD.........................................:7
tRP..........................................:7
tRAS.........................................:19
>>>>>Channel C Advanced Timing Control
tRC..........................................:27
tRRD ........................................:4
tWTR ........................................:5
tWR..........................................: 8
tWTP.........................................:[Auto]
tWL..........................................:[Auto]
tRFC.........................................: 60
tRTP.........................................:4
tFAW.........................................: [Auto]
Command Rate (CMD) ..........................:1
>>>>>Channel C Misc Timing Control
B2B CAS Delay................................:[Auto]
Round Trip Latency...........................: [Auto]

Channel C Turnaround Setting [Press Enter]
>>>>> Channel C Reads Followed By Reads
Different DIMMs..............................: [Auto]
Different Ranks..............................: [Auto]
On The Same Rank.............................: [Auto]
>>>>> Channel C Writes Followed By Writes
Different DIMMs..............................: [Auto]
Different Ranks..............................: [Auto]
On The Same Rank.............................:[Auto]

Advanced Voltage Control [Press Enter]
>>>>CPU Voltages
LoadLine Calibration.........................:[Level 2]
CPU Vcore....................................:1.25000v
QPI/VTT Voltage..............................:1.375v
CPU PLL......................................: 1.840v
>>>>>MCH/ICH Voltrage
PCIE.........................................: 1.54v
QPI PLL......................................: 1.22v
IOH Core.....................................:1.18v
ICH I/O......................................: 1.50v
ICH Core.....................................:1.14v
>>>>>Dram
DRAM Voltage.................................:1.60v
DRAM Termination.............................: [Auto]
Ch-A Data Vref...............................:[Auto]
Ch-B Data Vref...............................:[Auto]
Ch-C Data VRef...............................:[Auto]
Ch-A Address Vref............................:[Auto]
Ch-B Address Vref............................:[Auto]
Ch-C Address VRef............................: [Auto]



My hardware:

GA-X58A-UD7 - F6x
I7 920@4.2 1.25v
Gskill F3-12800CL8T-6GBPI
XFX 850W Black Edition
Corsair H50
Gigabyte ATI 4870 1gb - gv-r487d5-1gd

Help please?!

[newhit]

yes thats exactly what i mean

HOWEVER ,,,

then when I enter the bios it gives a red warning saying: overclock failed etc current values may be different from those represented...

and sure enough when it finally boots to windows (if i let it continue)my cpu speed is 2.8 ghz

clearly it indicates a failure to boot and its resetting to safe values......

edit it does it on 4.0 ghz too

please note my 4.2 ghz is linx and prime stable, memtest normal

edit after testing a lot seems like LLC is the culprit! (load line calibration) when set to standard it boots normally!

If it was me (I know, you're not me) I would also remount the cpu and cooler just to make sure there's no issue there........but.........."If it works don't fix it", as they say

[PalmeAsus]

Help please?!

Well m8 all cpus wont do over 211 bclk. My maxes out 208 bclk rocksolid and only boots up to 215 no matter settnings. On both my rampextreme and this mobo. So you have probably hitted a wall.

Regards

[stasio]

FrenchPcdiga,
if your memory is G.Skill F3-12800CL8T-6GBPI-B ,adjust latency and VDimm.
Read this thread:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=212624

[jacek]

Well m8 all cpus wont do over 211 bclk. My maxes out 208 bclk rocksolid and only boots up to 215 no matter settnings. On both my rampextreme and this mobo. So you have probably hitted a wall.

Regards

I have the same situation. my maxes out 208 a boots up to 217.
I think we need a better bios.

[PalmeAsus]

I have the same situation. my maxes out 208 a boots up to 217.
I think we need a better bios.

na not for me atleast i have same walls at both my ramp and this board so it's undoubtly the cpu in my case. With my old 920 i could boot up to 225 on my ramp. Sadly right under 210 bclk many chips max out =(

[angelreaper]

Is that F6 BIOS any good? I just updated to F5 and I must say I'm not impressed. POST takes a bit longer and I no longer hear any beeping at all, WTF....

F6 BIOS works very well for me: