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

[Shiranui Gen-An]

I'm just going for some benches, this isn't for 24/7. I know components vary but every review of the Viper II kit has them doing 2100 9-9-9 on stock volts, so somthing else must be up.

[Fritz_the_germ]

Yo guys,
I am planing to raise the PCIe frequency up to 11o MHz.
Is there any voltage I have to raise up as well?

[kullymontana]

Hi just got me new ud7 board today i have a 980x cpu and Corsair Dominator GT 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C8 2000MHz if anyone has a simular hardware to mines.If so can u post youe settings my memory was only showing 1333 when it should be 2000mhz for some reason.I was also looking at the posts on this thread saying new bios out f7 i had a look on gigabyte site and there latest bios was showing f6 for this board is f7 beta?.

[Shiranui Gen-An]

The sticks are only going to run 1333 on stock settings, you'll have to either enable XMP or manually adjust the settings to get them at DDR3-2000.

[kullymontana]

I did enable xmp but it did not post so cleared CMOS then it started back again I'm very new to this bios had a striker extreme 2 before which was quite easy bios this one looks complicated. I will do some reseach on it .

[stasio]

Hi just got me new ud7 board today i have a 980x cpu and Corsair Dominator GT 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C8 2000MHz if anyone has a simular hardware to mines.If so can u post youe settings my memory was only showing 1333 when it should be 2000mhz for some reason.I was also looking at the posts on this thread saying new bios out f7 i had a look on gigabyte site and there latest bios was showing f6 for this board is f7 beta?.

On which BIOS you are now?
Flash to latest beta and here you have a few 24/7 setting for GIGABYTE X58 & 980X from hicookie.

[warmage]

whats a good ram for the UD7 ,
G SKILL Perfect Storm F3-16000CL8T-6GBPS 8-8-8-21
Or
Dominator GT CMG6GX3M3A2000C8 PC3-16000 6GB Kit 8-8-8-24

if there is better as similar timing please recommend

[Shiranui Gen-An]

whats a good ram for the UD7 ,
G SKILL Perfect Storm F3-16000CL8T-6GBPS 8-8-8-21
Or
Dominator GT CMG6GX3M3A2000C8 PC3-16000 6GB Kit 8-8-8-24

if there is better as similar timing please recommend

Either of those should be good, or any other kit using Elpida Hyper chips (the fixed ones) rated DDR3-2000 8-8-8 or even 7-7-7 if you can find some.

[warmage]

how would i know if it is "Elpida Hyper chips (the fixed ones)" !

what do you mean by fixed ones

[stasio]

Elpida MNH-E
Elpida MGH-E(fixed)

[antiacid]

After some tedious "in'Around", here's my situation:

I click "sleep" (windows 7, x64), the computer shuts down, reboots by itself after a 3-4sec delay.

If I close the power switch on the PSU and re-open it right away, it reboots. If I let the LEDs die on the board THEN re-open the switch, the board powers-up but the computer doesn't reboot. After either one of those scenarios, I get back into win7 with a "resuming windows" screen, as expected from either hibernate or sleep.

Why the reboot when power is left on?

[kullymontana]

Is it normal for this board to take a good 15 seconds to boot up into bios info

[antiacid]

Is it normal for this board to take a good 15 seconds to boot up into bios info

The board goes thru full post and controller init THEN takes you to BIOS. It's kind of backwards compared to going straight to BIOS after DEL is pressed in initial booting screen... You can speed this up by disabling E-Sata ctrl, port 8-9 ctrl, port 6-7 ctrl and using the "quick post" option. That'll shave about 5sec overall.

[Amurtigress]

Hi folks,

I just went downtown to get me a harddrive and got me a 920 D0 CPU instead, just because I still had a C0, and the store sold them for a rather cheap 200 Euros here. My first attempts at overclocking are not just promising, but absolutely fantastic. I was going straight to 3.8 GHz.

I am hitting 3.8 at 1.20625 (default!) VCore and 1.255V QPI. 20 passes of Linx,stable! CPU temp. is app. 58C. My C0 took 1.30V core and 1.43V VTT at 3600...

Let's see what this baby can pull off...

Here's the batch number if you're curious: #3944A827, pack date: 12/04/2009


Edit:

I just noticed the batch number on CPU and package don't match. The one on the chip is #3942A459

[stasio]

Anybody on F7n BIOS?
Edit:
Already is F7p !

[kullymontana]

Hi guys i updated my bios to f7j and used hicookie 4.2ghz bios settings recomended by stasio. As he has the same cpu as me and is memory@2000 to.
BIOS setting

>Advanced CPU Feature------------------------------[Press Enter]
CPU Clock Ratio --------------------------------------21X
Intel(R) Turbo Boost Tech.---------------------------- [Disabled]
CPU Cores Enabled------------------------------------- [All]
CPU Multi-Threading---------------------------------- [Disabled]
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)-----------------------------[Disabled]
C3/C6/C7 State Support------------------------------ [Disabled]
CPU Thermal Monitor--------------------------------- [Disabled]
CPU EIST Function--------------------------------------[Disabled]
Bi-Directional PROCHOT------------------------------ [Disabled]
Virtualization Technology----------------------------- [Disabled]
>Uncore & QPI Feature---------------------------------[Press Enter]
QPI Clock Ratio -------------------------------------------[X36]
Uncore Clock Ratio--------------------------------------[X16]
Base Clock(BCLK) Control-----------------------------[Enabled]
BCLK Frequency(MHz)---------------------------------[200]
>Advanced Clock Control-----------------------------[Press Enter]
Base Clock(BCLK) Control-----------------------------[Enabled]
BCLK Frequency(MHz)---------------------------------[200]
PCI Express Frequency(MHz)-------------------------[100]
CPU Clock Drive-----------------------------------------[700mV]
PCI Express Clock Drive----------------------------[700mV]
CPU Clock Skew-----------------------------------------[0ps]
IOH Clock Skew------------------------------------------[0ps]
Performance Enhance---------------------------------[Turbo]
Extreme Memory Profile(X.M.P)--------------------[Profile1]
System Memory Multiplier(SPD)--------------------[10.0]
>Advanced DRAM Features-------------------------[Press Enter]
Peformance Enhance---------------------------------[Turbo]
Extreme Memory Profile(X.M.P)------------------[Profile1]
System Memory Multiplier(SPD)------------------[10.0]
DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD)---------------------[Auto]
Channel Interleaving-----------------------------------[Auto]
Rank Interleaving----------------------------------------[Auto]
>Advanced Voltage Control
Load-Line Calibration------------------------------------[Level 2]
CPU Vcore -------------------------------------------------[1.33750v]
QPI/VTT Voltage------------------------------------------[1.255v]
CPU PLL-----------------------------------------------------[1.800v]
PCIE----------------------------------------------------------[1.500v]
QPI PLL-------------------------------------------------------[1.100v]
IOH Core-----------------------------------------------------[1.100v]
ICH I/O-------------------------------------------------------[1.500v]
ICH Core-----------------------------------------------------[1.100v]
DRAM Voltage----------------------------------------------[1.660v]
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]

I hit the save and exit and nothing it would not start up just fans all running and no post.So did a clr cmos and fired up again settings went back to default so thought lets give it another go.Well this time round it did start and boot up in to windows which was cool.I ran prime95 for stabilty test it ran for like 7mins then core to failed.Temps where getting very high at one point under the stress test like 70 when not stressed there at around 35 39 as im watercooled how high can this chip take the heat?.Well anyway done a restsrt to see if it would start back up and same think black screen all powers running no post.So hit the power switch turned it off and powered back up posted but i got a msg saying system failed due to overclocking press any key to continue mind u the settings where changed for me again grrrrrrrrrrrr.Is this bios f7j the latest one i can beleave how long this m/b takes to post beep before the ud7 wallpaper comes up then it hangs again before it does its tests before u see the windows logo come.

[klataa]

Anybody on F7n BIOS?
Edit:
Already is F7p !

From where can we get F7p bios? and what changes it have?

[Rambo87]

From where can we get F7p bios? and what changes it have?

Idem. Same question here.

@ stasio: Please can you give us a link to download it?

[stasio]

From where can we get F7p bios? and what changes it have?

From your neigbhor country Germany(JZelectronic).
I'll try to get from GBT but they are busy with Computex.

[klataa]

From your neigbhor country Germany(JZelectronic).
I'll try to get from GBT but they are busy with Computex.

I know that Gigabyte in germany are making f7 beta bios Lets wait for update

[kullymontana]

Just a update my windows 7 ain't shuting down gets to the point and just hangs there.Have to just it switch it off manually and I presume this is why it don't boot up just hangs there to . Have to start it shut it down if no post then restart again then go to bios ans save and exit.

[Mastakilla]

and still no one who can explain me what these jzelectronic bios from Germany are??
are they hacked bios? what's different?

[stasio]

I know that Gigabyte in germany are making f7 beta bios Lets wait for update

They didn't make,they are just inform Taiwan what they should change and send back to them to check.Then they give access to new BIOS to their customers first.
Once I posted on TT forum(from my source),they release to public.
The funny thing is that many of them think that JZelectronic make the BIOS.

Give me 30 min!

Edit:

BIOS X58A-UD7-F7p

-Improved LLC (AUTO/STANDARD/LEVEL1/LEVEL2)
-01.June 10

[um2802]

In that archive the bin file it is ud3rsli.bin.

[stasio]

In that archive the bin file it is ud3rsli.bin.

Yeah,you are right.
Let me check with Taiwan.
Are you flash?
Edit:
No problem,you can flash.