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

[Johnny87au]

Bump up both multi and Blck, as it yields best benchmarks , super PI scores etc, Keep pushing just dont bump your vcore to high.. Remember the 980x dont need to be 2x your memory, roughly about 1.5x faster only..

[Leeghoofd]

An option would be a a Phase change unit or Dry ice... If you can chill your water that would also make a difference (some guys place a portable airco blowing onto the rad...

[__REAPER__]

Has anyone here tried for 4.8ghz on water or higher? I am going to try the aircon thing on my rads lol.

[SteveRo]

Does anyone have settings for 5.0ghz with a 980X and do you think this can be achieved on water?

right now I have my 980x on 2 rads (360.2/240.2) plus 2 res. I had to take my gpus off blocks having some issues with my 5970. my idle at 4.4ghz are really good right now. I was thinking of just trying 5.0ghz to see if I could get a boot up and run a few benchmarks. What do you think would be my best option would be to achieve these goals.

980 at 5 on water would be pretty tough to do.
I've had 980 linx stable at 4.8 ht off on chilled water but the cpuv needed was very high and climbing fast with each clock increase.
How cold can you get your room?
If you can get ambient temps way down (<10C) it might be worth a try.
Settings I would go for - something like - 25x200, ht off, mem at 8x (6x mem has problems for me for some reason), uncore at 13x maybe even 12x.
Start with cpuv at 1.6v or just a bit higher assuming you have a good chip.
Keep a close eye on your temps and don't run at xtreme cpuv for extended periods, replacing 980s is annoying and a bit pricey.

[themadhatterxxx]

I ordered this board from Newegg on Monday, is it guaranteed that I will be getting a Rev. 2 board instead of a Rev. 1?

Anyone running this with an i7 930..I'd like to get an idea of a good base map to start oc'ing from...

[stasio]

[CENTER][B]Bios : 20.07.10

Andrea,thanks for update from TT forum!
Can you upload BIOS F7v ?

[newhit]

Has anyone here tried for 4.8ghz on water or higher? I am going to try the aircon thing on my rads lol.

I have a similar rad setup to you and maxxed out at just over 4.7 with water. Waiting for an SS setup to be made for me to see what more there is. My Vcore rose dramatically to above 1.56 after I went past 4.6. It is still running fine though at 4.5 24/7

[Gorki]

I have a similar rad setup to you and maxxed out at just over 4.7 with water. Waiting for an SS setup to be made for me to see what more there is. My Vcore rose dramatically to above 1.56 after I went past 4.6. It is still running fine though at 4.5 24/7

how many rads do you use in your loop to cool CPU only? I'm thinking of going xspc360 or maybe 480 not sure? It's too hot in here... Just curious, I have to ask...

[fritzman]

Hoping someone can assist with a cold-boot - restart-loop issue.

I am running bios F7p as under

Advanced CPU Features:
CPU Clock Ratio ................................ [20]
Intel(R) Turbo Boost Tech ...................... [disabled]
CPU Cores Enabled .............................. [All]
CPU Multi Threading .............................[enabled]
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) ........................ [enabled]
C3/C6/C7 State Support ......................... [disabled]
CPU Thermal Monitor ............................ [enabled]
CPU EIST Function .............................. [enabled]
Virtualization Technology ...................... [enabled]
Bi-Directional PROCHOT ......................... [enabled]

Uncore & QPI Features:
QPI Link Speed ..............................[7.2Ghz]
Uncore Frequency ............................[3200]
Isonchronous Frequency ......................[Couldn’t find this]

Standard Clock Control:
Base Clock (BCLK) Control .......................... [enabled]
BCLK Frequency (MHz) ................................[200]
PCI Express Frequency (MHz) ........................ [105]
C.I.A.2........................................... .. [Couldn’t find this]

Advanced Clock Control:
CPU Clock Drive ..............................[700mV]
PCI Express Clock Drive ................... [700mV]
CPU Clock Skew ............................. [0ps]
IOH Clock Skew ............................. [0ps]

Advanced DRAM Features:
Performance Enhance ...................... [Extreme]
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P) ........... [disabled]
System Memory Multiplier (SPD) ........... [8]
DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD) ............. [Quick]

Channel A + B + C

Channel A Timing Settings:
##Channel A Standard Timing Control##
CAS Latency Time ......................[8]
tRCD ..................................[8]
tRP ...................................[8]
tRAS ..................................[24]
CR.....................................[1]
B2B.....................................[Auto]


Advanced Voltage Control:
CPU Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping
Load Line Calibration ................. [Level2]
CPU Vcore ..............................[1.31875]
QPI/VTT Voltage 1.150v .................[1.315]
CPU PLL 1.800v .........................[1.8]
PCIE 1.500v ...........................[1.54]
QPI PLL 1.100v ........................[1.14]
IOH Core 1.100v .......................[1.14]
ICH I/O 1.500v ........................[1.5]
ICH Core 1.1v .........................[1.14]

DRAM
DRAM Voltage 1.500v .............. [1.64]
DRAM Termination 0.750v.......... [Normal]
Ch-A Data VRef. 0.750v ...........[Normal]
Ch-B Data VRef. 0.750v ...........[Normal]
Ch-C Data VRef. 0.750v ...........[Normal]
Ch-A Address VRef. 0.750v ........[Normal]
Ch-B Address VRef. 0.750v ........[Normal]
Ch-C Address VRef. 0.750v ........[Normal]

In short... 1st boot each morning, the PC starts up for around 3 seconds then restarts, and loops this forever. It is on a UPS, but I don't think that should matter, and according to OCCT and BIOS, all the voltages from the PSU appear to be normal i.e. ever so slightly above the 12/5/3.3v

This is the 2nd 930 I've run in the same hardware setup, and both chips will prime happily overnight at as low as 1.248vcore. I've bumped it up to see if it makes a difference, but it hasn't (other than hotting up the proc.

TIA.

[__REAPER__]

@newhit

Can you post your bois settings for 4.7 and 4.8 I will shoot for that this weekend. Thanks again for your help

[Fritz_the_germ]

Andrea,thanks for update from TT forum!
Can you upload BIOS F7v ?

I am looking for the F7v too.
Couldn´t find a site so far

[SteveRo]

@fritzman - your problem could be so many things.
strip down to barebones see if you still have the problem, single stick of mem, single drive, no optical drive, ...
swap out cables
swap out memory and HD
swap out power supply
...

[Fritz_the_germ]

I heard about these issues using a weak psu.

[newhit]

@newhit

Can you post your bois settings for 4.7 and 4.8 I will shoot for that this weekend. Thanks again for your help

Sorry for late reply, did not get to 4.8.

Not at my comp at the moment. Get the 4.7 bios at the weekend.

Both my rads ONLY cool the cpu. I kept the graphics on the standard coolers. The NB had the facility to use water (GIGA-UD7) but I just took that off and put a Finned cooler on together with the supplied air cooler (tight fit!). Not sure about that bit but............

[fritzman]

@fritzman - your problem could be so many things.
strip down to barebones see if you still have the problem, single stick of mem, single drive, no optical drive, ...
swap out cables
swap out memory and HD
swap out power supply
...

I heard about these issues using a weak psu.

Thanks guys.

It does everything fine at stock, so I was assuming it to be a setting/voltage issue.

Have some different (2000Mhz) ram coming soon, so will wait to see if that sorts it out before going too far.

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[themadhatterxxx]

I just got home from work guys and unpacked my delivery boxes, Newegg sent me a Rev 1.0 board, is this good or bad? Also which Bios version should I be using?

[Johnny87au]

You use the Revision 1 Bios's for your board, Really no difference!

[newhit]

@newhit

Can you post your bois settings for 4.7 and 4.8 I will shoot for that this weekend. Thanks again for your help

Sorry everything down to run at 4.5 24/7 but you should get most of what you want from this............



Vtt was about 1.4v, LLC at 2 and dram volts at 1.6, nowt much else touched

[xxh1tm4nxx]

hey guys i recently purchased this board for my new build. now whereas the whole build has a long way to go before its completed, i tried to switch this board on today just to see if it would post or not. installed the cpu (i7 940 with stock heatsink), 1 memory module in the second slot (first white) and a gpu (xfx 5450). I get one short post beep and the post code display reads FF but i get no display. could this be a gpu issue or am i missing something. Ive connected a spare xigmatek 500w psu that i had lying around. please help

[Lsdmeasap]

hey guys i recently purchased this board for my new build. now whereas the whole build has a long way to go before its completed, i tried to switch this board on today just to see if it would post or not. installed the cpu (i7 940 with stock heatsink), 1 memory module in the second slot (first white) and a gpu (xfx 5450). I get one short post beep and the post code display reads FF but i get no display. could this be a gpu issue or am i missing something. Ive connected a spare xigmatek 500w psu that i had lying around. please help

Posted a reply for you here, I believe this was you anyway
http://www.overclock.net/intel-mothe...l#post10130275

[Johnny87au]

Sorry everything down to run at 4.5 24/7 but you should get most of what you want from this............



Vtt was about 1.4v, LLC at 2 and dram volts at 1.6, nowt much else touched

Nice mate, Im sure you can run 1T also hehe

[boldenc]

Anyone use bios F7u?
Did it remove the "Dual Bios" logo which appear on first boot [the page where you press DEL to enter bios]

I flashed to this bios and this logo disappeared, can someone check?

[Johnny87au]

As far as im aware no bios update removes the logo? not for me anyway hehe

[boldenc]

As far as im aware no bios update removes the logo? not for me anyway hehe

Did you you try the bios F7u yourself?

I tried now F7t, logo is shown, flash again to F7u logo is gone.

So sure it is the bios.

[PatRaceTin]

Anyone here got rev 2.0 board???

any different overclocking (8+8phase)