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

[radaja]

I'll be bidding a fond farewell to the EP45 club as of today. I've now switched to my X58A-UD3R and 920 D0 which is already stable at 4.3GHz after a very short session of tweaking. I've enjoyed taking part in this thread and am grateful for all the help in this nice little sub-community on XS. I'll no doubt pop in at some points as I'll have a EP45-UD3P / USB3P and vmodded Extreme up for sale and it'd be good to see how others fare on them

you will enjoy the X58A-UD3R as much as the UD3P,but if your like me you will be backall i need is a decent 775 quad and i would be posting results in this thread again.have fun with your new toys

Hey guys ,
I've placed 3'rd on the GOOC2010 final in Roumania ... I thougth to share with you my results (here in this thread were it all started) and wanted to say thanks for your support ... you have been great with me ... so thanks once again

My SuperPI score:



and WPrime 1024M:



I know this aint x58 tread but is the place where I wroted all about my participation in gooc (also I qualified on an EP45-Extreme mobo) and it seemed fair to me to post the results here too .
The limiting factor was the mobo (UD3R rev 1.0), because the power delivery can't climb I7 980 CPU to verry high frequencies (one of the cpu's we used did 6300 on UD9). I must say I'm verry pleased with what I managed and hope u like it.


Cheers,
Kagula323

i knew you would do good.congratulation on placing third.
very nice results my friend

I decided to load BenchZoners XS load (thanks BZ ) on my REX yesterday and play with the X3360 on that too,
so i got the Gig UD3P's with some new team 1300's and now the REX with a bucnh of nice ddr3 so this should be interesting.

here is a shot of the load in action

looks like a fun time.i really need to get a table or a big desk to be able set my stuff up like that.

[jjjc_93]

I decided to load BenchZoners XS load (thanks BZ ) on my REX yesterday and play with the X3360 on that too,
so i got the Gig UD3P's with some new team 1300's and now the REX with a bucnh of nice ddr3 so this should be interesting.

here is a shot of the load in action

Looks awesome man.
I really want to get hold of a 2hp SS unit, looks like so much fun.
But, until then its just me and icy water.

Starting to produce some decent numbers, pretty good for h20, still can't hit 4.6ghz though

[jjjc_93]

Finally broke my 4.6ghz curse

[systemviper]

sweet runs, i look forward to more!@

[radaja]

Finally broke my 4.6ghz curse

very nice OC jjjc_93

[Hoss331]

Finally broke my 4.6ghz curse

Just a suggestion but you might want to start running 3.20B instead of 3.33D. Theres a known issue with 3:5(3.33D) not running at its rated speed, its really a 3.00 so your ram is actually only running at 1626 for that run. And incase im not being clear heres some benchs to illustrate my point.


3.33D "1500" cas 5


3.20B 1460 cas6

[Popopinsel]

Hi there,

coming from an E6600 and a P5W DH Deluxe motherboard I just bought a used Q9450 and an EP45-UD3P. But to be honest: I'm totally overextended with all these OC settings, especially when it comes to voltages! I just don't know where to start...

So I would ask you to help me out with this. What are all these voltages for? To where can I push them? As I guess you need more info on my setup:

Intel Q9450 2.66GHz (8x333) VID 1.25V cooled by a Noctua NH-U12P
Gigabyte EP45-UD3P Rev 1.0 BIOS F10
2x 2048MB G.Skill PC-8000 DDR2-1000 (xxx-4GBPQ)
GeForce GTX 260
Enermax 525W
Win 7 x64

Thanks in advance! =)

[Persnikitty]

Consolidated threads

h3x0r_1984 compiled a lot of threads about the UD3P in that link above, which should help you find the answer you seek. It's a good starting off place until someone a bit more knowledgeable chimes in. Good luck!

[Popopinsel]

Thx kitty,

I will give these threads a read. Is it still up to date that Bios F4 gives the best results?

[systemviper]

hi hoss, i remember some thing like this... buty what am i missing on your illustration...

Just a suggestion but you might want to start running 3.20B instead of 3.33D. Theres a known issue with 3:5(3.33D) not running at its rated speed, its really a 3.00 so your ram is actually only running at 1626 for that run. And incase im not being clear heres some benchs to illustrate my point.


3.33D "1500" cas 5


3.20B 1460 cas6

[Persnikitty]

@Popopinsel
As far as I know from reading (having read ALL the posts...what a chore that was in the name of Research!), F4 through F9 are pretty good for the 1.0 version. Had to do some slight digging at gigabyte's site, since their current UD3p is v1.6 (they have links for 1.0 and 1.1 on 1.6's page). From what I recall, some of the others using v1.0 had issues with F10, since usually 'memory compatibility' means 'relaxed values' which may very well make for more issues, especially if you're striving for tighter timings. Check sigs and templates for the past few pages and see if you can discern what most of the UD3P users are using. Odds are high there's a very good reason for their choice.

Be sure to check out tweaktown's forums, as they have a dedicated gigabyte section and a wealth of information, with several of their key members having contributed heavily to this thread.

[Hoss331]

hi hoss, i remember some thing like this... buty what am i missing on your illustration...

Compare the bandwidth numbers versus the speed/timings they were run at. Do you think if that top run was really running at 1500 cas5, which my ram cant do, it would still be doing 300mb less than 1440 cas6.

[systemviper]

got it, thanks for the effort!

it also explains something i was trying. appriciate the reminder/heads up

[jjjc_93]

Just a suggestion but you might want to start running 3.20B instead of 3.33D. Theres a known issue with 3:5(3.33D) not running at its rated speed, its really a 3.00 so your ram is actually only running at 1626 for that run. And incase im not being clear heres some benchs to illustrate my point.


3.33D "1500" cas 5
[IMG]http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p293/hoss281/333DPL7.png[*/IMG]

3.20B 1460 cas6
[IMG]http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p293/hoss281/320BPL7.png[*/IMG]

News to me, thanks for the heads up

[andressergio]

Just a suggestion but you might want to start running 3.20B instead of 3.33D. Theres a known issue with 3:5(3.33D) not running at its rated speed, its really a 3.00 so your ram is actually only running at 1626 for that run. And incase im not being clear heres some benchs to illustrate my point.

agree 3.33D is damn slow, im using 3.20B very nice...and for 2000 1T i use A. its very fast

cheers
Sergio

[andressergio]

I decided to load BenchZoners XS load (thanks BZ ) on my REX yesterday and play with the X3360 on that too,
so i got the Gig UD3P's with some new team 1300's and now the REX with a bucnh of nice ddr3 so this should be interesting.

here is a shot of the load in action

great setup viper

[jjjc_93]

I think I have maxed out my rig with my last run on current cooling, idling at 12c but voltages are way to high for my liking. Perhaps I still have learning to do with 775 overclocking. This is my first intel rig lol.
I wonder if running a slimmed down version of XP would help over a full fledged W7 x64 install?
Will probably experiment with different bios versions aswell, I currently have F7, I would have thought that to be the best to date but you never know I guess.

I will look back through the thread at some templates for the UD3P and see where I can improve.
I'm having too much fun to stop now

[andressergio]

Hey guys ,
I've placed 3'rd on the GOOC2010 final in Roumania ... I thougth to share with you my results (here in this thread were it all started) and wanted to say thanks for your support ... you have been great with me ... so thanks once again

I know this aint x58 tread but is the place where I wroted all about my participation in gooc (also I qualified on an EP45-Extreme mobo) and it seemed fair to me to post the results here too .
The limiting factor was the mobo (UD3R rev 1.0), because the power delivery can't climb I7 980 CPU to verry high frequencies (one of the cpu's we used did 6300 on UD9). I must say I'm verry pleased with what I managed and hope u like it.


Cheers,
Kagula323

just awesome mate congrats

[andressergio]

Congrats on the good clocks to all love this thread

I will be joining when i got the hypers and have time to put an HDD with XP32

Cheers to all
Sergio

[kagula323]

i knew you would do good.congratulation on placing third.
very nice results my friend

just awesome mate congrats

thanks radaja and andressergio

[OC Nub]

OK, just installed the UD3P rev1.0, a q9650 and some G.Skill PI's. I hope it will be fun again to try this platform. My goal is to get 4500mhz LinX stable, but that will be hard to do.

EDIT, maybe I have bitten off more than I can chew. The first few attemps have brought my new watercooling to its knees.

[andressergio]

OK, just installed the UD3P rev1.0, a q9650 and some G.Skill PI's. I hope it will be fun again to try this platform. My goal is to get 4500mhz LinX stable, but that will be hard to do.

EDIT, maybe I have bitten off more than I can chew. The first few attemps have brought my new watercooling to its knees.

nice to have you back in the thread

[OC Nub]

Thanks Sergio, glad to be back among the fine people in this thread. This is where I had the most fun overclocking, and learned the most.

Well, that was short lived, there is no way to control temps in linx at 4500. I am still on the UD3P though, trying my old e8400co to see if that can do 4500mhz. I cant remember the ref's for that but have been trying different things.

[andressergio]

Thanks Sergio, glad to be back among the fine people in this thread. This is where I had the most fun overclocking, and learned the most.

Well, that was short lived, there is no way to control temps in linx at 4500. I am still on the UD3P though, trying my old e8400co to see if that can do 4500mhz. I cant remember the ref's for that but have been trying different things.

not even with the AC ? damn vid makes a real difference...my 1,1875 was hell...

well hope you find the way maybe on a cooler day pumping AC to the rad

Cheers
Sergio

[radaja]

OC Nub,you should just send me the Q9650 because my WCing can handle itJ/K
what kind of temps are you seeing?