Gigabyte X58A-UD3R/Extreme Discussion Thread

[In-Fluence]

The 8-phase 1.6 - quite a big difference for a board revision (i.e 8-phase to 12-phase). Hopefully it wont affect my oc too much, but this bandwidth thing is a little irritating! I'm sure it's just a certain setting I've set incorrectly - i7 is still a little new to me.

[Dahaka]

Ok, next week i will post some results with core i7 930 and revision 1.0.

[purkkafin]

heres my contribution. for some reason i cant get past 21x190 stable and even crashed 18/20 pass at 21x188. my i7-920 fbo/batch 3936B217 pack date 01/05/10 any suggestions maybe the memory controller hits the wall allready ?



i7-920
gigabyte X58A-UD3R ver 1.0
mushkin 3x2gb 998805 cl6 kit
noctua DH-14

[pa9797]

Hi Guys, can i check when you power on the board at OC settings , does it take longer than usual to startup? mine at 4.0Ghz , power on , then fan spin , then power off then power on again , then take a good 10 seconds before the bios screen comes on...

I was going through all the post and no one seems to talk about this issue.

[cesariuth]

someone knows the difference between the review in 1.0 and 2.0 of the Gigabyte X58A-UD3R motherboard?

[stasio]

Just page earlier.....
Btw,
Giga Taiwan has new web page:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/...px?pid=3450#ov
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/...px?pid=3449#ov

[pa9797]

someone knows the difference between the review in 1.0 and 2.0 of the Gigabyte X58A-UD3R motherboard?

12+2 phase and rev E LAN

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

working on a 24/7 setup

heres a good start. . .

[In-Fluence]

very, very nice, is that with rev 1 or 2? Either way, these boards really cut the mustard, looking forward to getting mine under water!

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

very, very nice, is that with rev 1 or 2? Either way, these boards really cut the mustard, looking forward to getting mine under water!

rev 1 and I am at 1.376 and on pass 13/20 as we speak and so far maximum temp is 74c

I have another rev 1 board and a UD7 coming this week. The UD7 is for my X5660 since that board has bios fix for the Xeon 6 core chips. I am going to kill it with that board and that chip

[shmadz]

First off, excellent thread. Thanks to all contributors. Very helpful for me to compare what voltages and speeds/timings others are getting with this board.

Hi Guys, can i check when you power on the board at OC settings , does it take longer than usual to startup? mine at 4.0Ghz , power on , then fan spin , then power off then power on again , then take a good 10 seconds before the bios screen comes on...

I was going through all the post and no one seems to talk about this issue.

The only time I have seen this behavior is when I try to boot with too much clocks or too little voltage (i.e. unstable) the machine tries to boot, fails, then boots with "safe" settings. If you really screw something up, it will just power off and on over and over until you press the glowing blue button at the back

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Now for my questions: Just trying to find max Bclk right now, seems to be 215. I'm sure it will go higher if I add voltage, but the voltages I set in bios and what I see in OS are very different... specificaly the Vref



just weird, I even changed the Vref volts to .77 in bios, but they still report like that. I'm guessing it has something to do with the very relaxed timings on the ram??
(*edit - found the problem, set Vref all to normal and this is now fixed *)

215 is probably higher than I'll need, but when I first started clocking this chip my first sign of instability came at very close to 4GHz and that was using only 1.225 V in bios... So I figured I'd take a step back and take it slow and careful, this might be the first chip I've ever had that is actually better than average.

Plus it's my first time clocking on intel, and first experience with gigabyte boards and I'm still struggling with figuring out what all these voltages actually do.

What suggestions do you have to reach higher Bclk, or just be happy with 215 and start on the ram and chip?

*Update* never mind about max Bclk, seems like my chip is pretty much average for late D0 920's - can reach 3.8 easy at less than intel ref voltage, 4.0 with HT on takes a bump to around 1.3, higher than that and my temps started getting into the 80's.

this chip just begs for water, but the board has been a champ, this system seems to be happy at 4.2 with HT off, which is fine with me, since 90% of what I do will not benefit from HT anyways...

here's my setup's happy place, on air at least.

[Dahaka]

First Try, didn't run linX yet but tonight i will do it.

[cesariuth]

oye tool chile que revision de la placa tienes 1.0 o 2.0?

hope you have good luck with multi 22X and hard OC

[stasio]

oye tool chile que revision de la placa tienes 1.0 o 2.0?

hope you have good luck with multi 22X and hard OC

Rev.1.0 has BIOS with numbers(F5),rev.2.0 with letters(FA).

[Dahaka]

Yep, revision 1.0, it's really good mb but this 930 is s h i t (y), doesn't clock good like my old 920

[stasio]

GA-X58A-UD5 - F6i
GA-X58A-UD3R - F6i

-Improved LLC (AUTO/STANDARD/LEVEL1/LEVEL2)
-New BIOS layout (as UD9)
-01.June 10

[Dahaka]

Not bad for first run, no tweaks, no optimization here :P.

Next week more SS and results, for the moment multi 22 is good for me .

[In-Fluence]

Cheers for that Stasio - will give that a whirl tomorrow, anyone else notice anything nice with the bios yet?

[Dahaka]

Playing around, no tweaks yet. Superpi 2m is the nacional benchmark on Chile :P.



Hardware used:

Core i7 930 Batch# :zippy
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R Rev 1.0
OCZ Platinum PC14400 8-8-8 3x2 GB
Pcpower&Cooling Silencer 750w

[chiggah]

Are any of you X58A-UD3R owners getting PSU coil whines ?

There are some reports on the hardforum thread here

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1493744&page=19

[radaja]

does anyone know if a i7-980x will run on the UD3R with bios F4?
i nothiced hiccookie was running a 980x but he was using some
internal testing bios's it looks like.

EDIT-NM i just looked at the gigabyte site and it seems F2
added support for intels 6 core cpu's,so from F2 and up will work.

[subaruwrc]

hi
can you please advice something for my rev 1,0 board dont see rams at any slot excluding the 1st white?
if i install all my 3 sticks into white slots at mem detect only 1gb is visible. but windows can see it, cpuz can see it but i can only utilize 1gb...

[In-Fluence]

Tried powering up with just 1 stick, then 2, then 3? Worked for me....

Just a little update - got 212bclk stable, now working on 215, but seems likely that QPI/vcore arent helping any more. I'm assuming skews are the next step - any hints anyone?

**image removed for update to 215 **

*edit - with the f6i bios btw.

*edit #2 - managed to get up to 215 bclk with the help of setting skews to 50/50 - I've saved the profile which should hopefully get me to 4.5GHz when this goes under water in a few months, although I imagine it won't be as simple as upping vcore and multi?! Trying 218 bclk now but it's definitely becoming more of a struggle, probably pushing the rams a bit too far considering they're only 1333, but seemed to have more bother with the 6x ram multi. I'll take on board any hints you experienced users have to offer, as I'm new to all this i7 lark!

[jasjeet]

Hi Guys, can i check when you power on the board at OC settings , does it take longer than usual to startup? mine at 4.0Ghz , power on , then fan spin , then power off then power on again , then take a good 10 seconds before the bios screen comes on...

I was going through all the post and no one seems to talk about this issue.

That happens to me after i change a setting. But then after that it boots normally.

[um2802]

Yesterday received my x58A ud3r - it is revision 2.0.
Which voltage is sensitive to this motherboard for bclk around 200 mhz with i7 920 c0?