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

[In-Fluence]

Nice work Andre', and nice gflops too - still waiting on my USB3P to turn up...NNNGGGGHHH!!

[andressergio]

muy bueno Sergio, now i got the itch to get a xeon like you. This board sure got the potential.

gracias !!!

Cheers mate

[andressergio]

Nice work Andre', and nice gflops too - still waiting on my USB3P to turn up...NNNGGGGHHH!!

Thanks mate seems you have to wait ages as me to get stuff but don't worry you will have fun and a lot...i think someone has to try the Corsairs GT hypers chips on this...

Cheers
Sergio

[NoGuru]

Fantastic work Serg! Very inspiring.

[andressergio]

Fantastic work Serg! Very inspiring.

thanks friend

i feel the Gskills kinda stiff for timmings (sorry i dunno the word) what i mean is this or that you wanna play hard you need to loose timmings...maybe if someone has some 2x2 hypers kit to sell i appreciatte a PM i wanna try some

Cheers
Sergio

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Thanks mate seems you have to wait ages as me to get stuff but don't worry you will have fun and a lot...i think someone has to try the Corsairs GT hypers chips on this...

Cheers
Sergio

thats what I was running on both my X58 and P45 setup and they could do 1600 6-6-6-18 on both, but I had run crazy MCH volts (1.48-1.5).

[andressergio]

thats what I was running on both my X58 and P45 setup and they could do 1600 6-6-6-18 on both, but I had run crazy MCH volts (1.48-1.5).

yes i choose the Gskills cauz they where 100 less to get it here...but the dif of 1600 6-9-6-24 to 1600 6-6-6-18 its min in P45---i also have to use 1,48 to 1,52 MCH wich is normal for giga boards

Cheers mate
Sergio

[andressergio]

After all those test passed gaming on BC2 or DIRT2 i get BSOD...so or its too much for P45 or need some more tweaking or maybe a better bios to support this fast mem

So i settled at 1600 6-9-6-24 for now

Cheers !
Sergio

[In-Fluence]

That's still pretty good going, I always suspect things like PCI-E related bios options like PCI-E frequency and SB volts if I get BSOD in games, then again 6-6-6 at those speeds is a lot to expect for a p45 to handle, but it is a marvellous northbridge which continues to impress!
The bios are also still quite early maybe we can hope they make some improvements. I wonder how bandwidth on this board compares to other EP45T boards running at the same speeds - might be worth comparing and even swapping bios memory tables for better performance / higher clocks...

Still no parcel yet

[andressergio]

That's still pretty good going, I always suspect things like PCI-E related bios options like PCI-E frequency and SB volts if I get BSOD in games, then again 6-6-6 at those speeds is a lot to expect for a p45 to handle, but it is a marvellous northbridge which continues to impress!
The bios are also still quite early maybe we can hope they make some improvements. I wonder how bandwidth on this board compares to other EP45T boards running at the same speeds - might be worth comparing and even swapping bios memory tables for better performance / higher clocks...

Still no parcel yet

damn sorry to hear mate

well for 1600 6-8-6-18 and tight timmings that is what i am i need 1,52 MCH for a solid OC, pases linx, game whatever

i also passed linx at 2000 1T on 1,52MCH but games will crash so...i will settle on this
i also saw other ppl on the EP45T UD3P that need 1.5+ and also on the EP45T USB3P



Cheers mate best of lucks to get the mobo
Sergio

[andressergio]

Guys

Each day im loving this mobo more and more, never thought that PL7 would be so easy...i decided to try today and look





Just runing it on my 24/7 very happy !

[Hoss331]

Im starting to think they toned that board down some vs the older T boards.

1600 C6 PL8 daily timings


1600 C6 PL7 same timings

[andressergio]

Im starting to think they toned that board down some vs the older T boards.

1600 C6 PL8 daily timings


1600 C6 PL7 same timings

Sorry hoss i dunno what you mean

[Hoss331]

Meaning like the way there setting up the bios for these newer boards, for one reason or other, having reduced bandwidth vs the older boards. The same as what they did with the bios for the ud3p, after f10b the reads were reduced and with higher latency.

[andressergio]

Meaning like the way there setting up the bios for these newer boards, for one reason or other, having reduced bandwidth vs the older boards. The same as what they did with the bios for the ud3p, after f10b the reads were reduced and with higher latency.

its true about f10b but really i dont think its that your mem can do better than my PIS yours are hypers and mine not, gskill is kinda tough on bining, and costed me 100 $ less

this is also a nice setting i have but i cant do 6-6-4-18 PL7






Cheers
Sergio

[Hoss331]

The difference between my timings and yours should be pretty minimal, guessing less than 100mb, so I really dont think its the memory itself causing the difference. Heres an older one done at looser timings and really not much difference. The trfc on the first run I posted was at 52.



These are the sub timings on the first runs posted.

[andressergio]

The difference between my timings and yours should be pretty minimal, guessing less than 100mb, so I really dont think its the memory itself causing the difference. Heres an older one done at looser timings and really not much difference. The trfc on the first run I posted was at 52.



These are the sub timings on the first runs posted.

yes Hoss can be what you say remember this mobo is on second beta bios F2D i asked stasio to keep updating

i dont agree as 6-6-6-18 and that timmings will give me kinda same speeds, but my mem cant do it

Either way very happy never tought that PL7 can be done

Thanks for your input Hoss

[mreld3r]

Hello guys; I used to hang around in this thread, but I've been away for a while.
Question is: I'm using F9a bios version. My computer is still running great, but I wanna know if im missing anything running this old bios. Ie... Did they ever get sleep to work correctly? I'm running 24/7 @4.0Ghz. Any super good bios upgrades? Something that I cant live without?
Thanks guys

[andressergio]

Hello guys; I used to hang around in this thread, but I've been away for a while.
Question is: I'm using F9a bios version. My computer is still running great, but I wanna know if im missing anything running this old bios. Ie... Did they ever get sleep to work correctly? I'm running 24/7 @4.0Ghz. Any super good bios upgrades? Something that I cant live without?
Thanks guys

sup mate F10b was the best for me anything over is very stable but put some brakes on mem speed...a bit nothing serious it was hoss was talking about

Cheers
Sergio

[The Viper]

Hello everyone, long time no talkie..

Something strange happened while running 4 instances of memtest in windows7 today. Ive been having what I think is stability issues (random restarts, no BSOD). Using MCHTemp 1,21
Beta, my MCH temp climbed to max of 92C!!!! Is it just me or is that way to friggin high? How accurate is that program?

The only thing I can think of is I got a new case and am running with my side window closed and I changed from a CPU Heatsink to the Corsair H50 (fan as intake). The weird thing is that
there should be plenty of turbulence in the case to keep MCH cool.

Anyone got any ideas or experience similar temps using MCHTemp?

[NoGuru]

Hello everyone, long time no talkie..

Something strange happened while running 4 instances of memtest in windows7 today. Ive been having what I think is stability issues (random restarts, no BSOD). Using MCHTemp 1,21
Beta, my MCH temp climbed to max of 92C!!!! Is it just me or is that way to friggin high? How accurate is that program?

The only thing I can think of is I got a new case and am running with my side window closed and I changed from a CPU Heatsink to the Corsair H50 (fan as intake). The weird thing is that
there should be plenty of turbulence in the case to keep MCH cool.

Anyone got any ideas or experience similar temps using MCHTemp?

My NB is on water now, but on air using MCHTemp I don't think mine went above 55c. I took the blue plates of the heatsinks for better air circulation around them. I would also get some kind of fan blowing at or close to it.

[andressergio]

Hello everyone, long time no talkie..

Something strange happened while running 4 instances of memtest in windows7 today. Ive been having what I think is stability issues (random restarts, no BSOD). Using MCHTemp 1,21
Beta, my MCH temp climbed to max of 92C!!!! Is it just me or is that way to friggin high? How accurate is that program?

The only thing I can think of is I got a new case and am running with my side window closed and I changed from a CPU Heatsink to the Corsair H50 (fan as intake). The weird thing is that
there should be plenty of turbulence in the case to keep MCH cool.

Anyone got any ideas or experience similar temps using MCHTemp?

cheers mate how are you ?

i put my multimer inside MCH and loaded reports 46C at 1,5 i have 2 fans nicely blowing air over it and mem

Sergio

[The Viper]

cheers mate how are you ?

i put my multimer inside MCH and loaded reports 46C at 1,5 i have 2 fans nicely blowing air over it and mem

Sergio

Heh Sergio, doing real good, thanks.

I think maybe the MCHtemp program is off, I mean 90C+, thats way off the spectrum. Im gonna take off the heatsink and put some better thermal compound and see if that helps, if not Ill add some fans.

[andressergio]

Heh Sergio, doing real good, thanks.

I think maybe the MCHtemp program is off, I mean 90C+, thats way off the spectrum. Im gonna take off the heatsink and put some better thermal compound and see if that helps, if not Ill add some fans.

i would use a digital multimeter mate i dont trust that program as there's no real sensor on the MCH

Even tough its reading what is been disipated but nice either way

Check with a DMM

[Dark-Energy]

Damn, turns out the overclock I thought was stable wasn't. It froze while playing games a few times so I fired up prime blend and it froze within 2 minutes (requiring me to restart and turn off the PSU switch or it goes into infinite boot loop), which is weird because I ran blend for 60+ minutes before and I assumed it was, for the most part, stable; but I guess it's just a random amount of time before something would give.

I lowered Vcore in the bios to 1.30625 with LLC, and CPU-z shows 1.280v (under load) and still got the freezing so I bumped clock skews up to 150/200 (CPU/MCH) and got it to stop freezing (I think) but it only gets to about 30 seconds of LinX before BSODing with error code 124. I recall this same BSOD before but it didn't happen nearly as often. Now I did some searching and found that it has something to do with the VTT being too high or low but that was with i7 systems. Does the same thing apply to C2Q/C2D processors? Other sources say it's a generic hardware error and could be anything. Changing VTT from 1.24 - 1.4 doesn't seem to have any effect on correcting the problem though. Perhaps I am missing something? The last thing I want to do is raise the Vcore, for I am absolutely certain, for the extremely low stock VID of the chip, that it has nothing to do with it, as I have not gotten a BSOD 101, which relates to Vcore.

Any of you out there with low VID chips on this board mind helping me out? Is it possible that maybe lower VID chips might need completely different settings versus what is normally used? I mean in terms of VTT, MCH, PLL, references, etc