A big Thank you to Gigabyte and Dinos22

[Vinas]

That's awesome news! Now, if I may suggest:

boinccmd --set_run_mode always

[don_xvi]

Big kudos goes out to GIGABYTE, Dinos22 and Movieman!
Let's all keep this generous donation in mind when shopping for new equipment!
I also have an older X58-UD3R that I'm quite fond of, and started the build on the X58A-UD3R last night. This will be a brand new i7-930 build for the grid!
Here are some of the parts (the complete parts picture is trapped on my phone right now):

[pirogue]

From a offhand comment to Dinos22 and then him following up Gigabyte sent the WCG team 6-Gigabyte EX58A-UD3R boards to pass out to the team.

Nice. I wonder what an "onhand" comment could do?

[Plan.B]

Build in progress Capt'n!! Thank you Gigabyte and Dinos22!!

[MrMojoZ]

Pretty awesome of Gigabyte. Would love to see some other companies step up as well.

[Movieman]

Pretty awesome of Gigabyte. Would love to see some other companies step up as well.

I think that will happen in time.
The key isin getting them to understand that the donation they make is used to benefit us all.
Then the factor of what they donate is magnified many times.
Just in this case the six boards brought 6 systems into the team.
Those six systems will do a hell of a lot of work every day.
It's hard for me to say how much I appreciate what Gigabyte has done here.
Very nice of them!

[SoulsCollective]

WUT

WUT WUT WUT

Things like this actually happen? People give free stuff to help do good stuff?

[sRHunt3r]

This is an Excellent gesture by MovieMan, Dinos22 and especially Gigabyte ...... it make me very proud that 3 of my 4 Crunchers are Gigabyte boards with the only exception being my SR-2

[geo]

congrats to the winners! nice gestsure from Gigabyte too

[Biker]

This is an Excellent gesture by MovieMan, Dinos22 and especially Gigabyte ...... it make me very proud that 3 of my 4 Crunchers are Gigabyte boards with the only exception being my SR-2

Only 3?!?!?

Quit slacking!!!

I have SIX here

[Angmaar]

This is an Excellent gesture by MovieMan, Dinos22 and especially Gigabyte ...... it make me very proud that 3 of my 4 Crunchers are Gigabyte boards with the only exception being my SR-2

I've bought 3 Gigabyte motherboards. Looks like I will continue this.

to Gigabyte!

[Rob_B]

Thanks very much to Gigabyte and Dinos22.

And congrats to all the winners.

[Lu523]

Here is a shot of the rig up and running. It will be going on a tech station shortly. I just wanted to make sure everything was going to play nice. Currently have a 920 at 3150 with 1.2 Vcore set in bios. This the second Gigabyte mobo that I have had, so I have some learning to do.

[D_A]

My experience with Gigabye has been positive, if limited. Robust boards (the one I had was second hand, full of rain, hay and manure before I cleaned it up and it ran for another 2 years at 100% 24/7)

[Biker]

Here is a shot of the rig up and running. It will be going on a tech station shortly. I just wanted to make sure everything was going to play nice. Currently have a 920 at 3150 with 1.2 Vcore set in bios. This the second Gigabyte mobo that I have had, so I have some learning to do.

All my 920's (D0) will do 3.8 ghz @ 1.18 vcore but on the X58A-UD3R they need a bump to 1.2 vcore for that clock, probably due to immature bios....

Also for 3.8 I need 1.34v VTT and LLC on "mode 1" ...

[Lu523]

I will give it a try and see what I can do.

[radaja]

Just in this case the six boards brought 6 systems into the team.
Those six systems will do a hell of a lot of work every day.
It's hard for me to say how much I appreciate what Gigabyte has done here.
Very nice of them!

and to those who got one,if they hadnt tried i7 yet ,what a great motivator to go out and buy a new i7-930
and then fire them up and add 8 more threads to the fight multiplied by six of course
and then if they go and get a gulftown then its even better
again thanks for the great off hand comment that brought about this awesome donation dave

[dinos22]

All my 920's (D0) will do 3.8 ghz @ 1.18 vcore but on the X58A-UD3R they need a bump to 1.2 vcore for that clock, probably due to immature bios....

Also for 3.8 I need 1.34v VTT and LLC on "mode 1" ...

if you use a dmm you might find that they are all running about the same as different boards tend to have slightly different voltages from what is actually set in the bios

these boards are the new rev2.0 with slightly beefier VRM, On/Off charge feature too

[retro77]

Wow, that's awesome! Grats!

[mezcal]

Awesome work Dinos and MM!

Sincere thanks to Gigabyte for supporting the cause.
You have moved to the top of my perpetual shopping list.

[Utnorris]

I must have missed this contest too. Oh well, maybe next time. Anyway, congrats to the winners, we know they will be put to good use. Now if we can just grab 2nd place that would be sweet.

[Lu523]

if you use a dmm you might find that they are all running about the same as different boards tend to have slightly different voltages from what is actually set in the bios

these boards are the new rev2.0 with slightly beefier VRM, On/Off charge feature too

Can you point me to the read points?

[dinos22]

the chokes underneath the board have one ground and one vcore point...........its best to find a vcore point right under the CPU socket but this is close enough

[Biker]

if you use a dmm you might find that they are all running about the same as different boards tend to have slightly different voltages from what is actually set in the bios

I'm going by what cpuz reports for vcore and VTT stability testing with prime95. Crunching load temps are up slightly on my previous build with the only different hardware being the new board, but hey you are probably right....

All I know is 1.2 vcore and 1.34v vtt + LLC set to mode 1 = stable crunching on my X58A @ 3.8ghz

[Plan.B]

Got it running, OS installed. It's in the garage at the new house, won't have internet access for a couple weeks. Got a couple of new hard-drives, will get those running soon. This board is capable of up to 3 video cards (xfire or sli); I have a second gtx280, will get that watercooled and added into the loop. That will prevent me from using my SB pci x-fi card, but the onboard audio sounds great, I can't tell the difference. No noticeable difference in games for me...

I really like the bios. It's v2.0 board, don't know the bios rev offhand, but it has excellent system stat summary pages and many cpu & dram tweaking options. Just getting familiar with it; excellent bios & board so far. Really enjoying it. Looking forward to cranking out some WCG work-units 24/7.