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

[MadHacker]

Its a long shot but it worked for me once before on this very board (battery out).
Others have reported - taking the cpu out and letting it sit has fixed the no boot problem.
Seems like sucessful recoveries have been from subzero oc gone bad (that was the situation for me ).

well tried it and no change...
thanks anyways...
Plan to take MB & CPU to the shop tomorrow

[Sam_oslo]

You can either disable turbo and actually set 21, or leave turbo enabled and then you can only set 20

Interesting, but how does this x21-BIOS-set works in real life?

I had a chance to try it with my X5650 B1 ES (BIOS F7x). I could set it to x21 in BIOS but it ended up as x20 in w7 anyways. I didn't have much time to play with it, because I had to borrow RAM from may main-rig. I will hopefully get some RAM soon and will try to get my good old UD7 up and running again. So I'm really interested to find out how this works actually. You got a link or more explanation on this?.

[Johnny87au]

has their been a newer update yet from f7x?

[Deuzsta]

Yes F7 final is out seems good so far

[jbkappirossi]

hello there guy's

I'm new here and my first post. So I've got an UD7 rev1.0 to, with a 930.
And I have bin some sort of ginny pig, because my Saitek cyborg keyboard
has issiues whit the new F7 bios. and for me its just horrible whit overclocking.
It can't even do the same as F6 whit more vcore on 200x20 4ghz.
So why dit they f*ck up the bios, because the main think is OCing whit this board.

Because the problem whit my bios/keyboard i have tested several F7 bios.
F7w, x, y, final and a bunch of customs. And not one of them overclocks as well as the F6 bios.

[klataa]

hello there guy's

I'm new here and my first post. So I've got an UD7 rev1.0 to, with a 930.
And I have bin some sort of ginny pig, because my Saitek cyborg keyboard
has issiues whit the new F7 bios. and for me its just horrible whit overclocking.
It can't even do the same as F6 whit more vcore on 200x20 4ghz.
So why dit they f*ck up the bios, because the main think is OCing whit this board.

Because the problem whit my bios/keyboard i have tested several F7 bios.
F7w, x, y, final and a bunch of customs. And not one of them overclocks as well as the F6 bios.

so stay with F6. For me F6 is best bios. I've tried all F7 beta but i coudnt run stable 4200mhz on any f7!

If u have stable pc on f6 then dont change anything

[angelreaper]

F7 bios is no good for my mobo

[mat87]

Hi guys,

my triple channel memory kit runs without problems with 6-8-7-21-CR1 timings on F6 bios, but the same configuration refuses to boot if I use any of the new F7 beta bioses. Each of my memory sticks passes the memtest with 6-8-6-21-CR1 timings on the first two white slots while on the third white slot there is no way to boot with the same timings: the post sequence stops on CODE 26 and the system reboots with conservative settings. The third white slot works perfectly with F6 bios, so I think it is a bios issue. Has anyone got a similar problem?


My config:

CPU: i7 950 @ 4.0GHz
Motherboard: UD7 rev.1 with F7w bios
Memory: G.SKILL Trident F3-16000CL9T-6GBTD 1.6V (@ 1.64V)

Same issue with the final f7 bios.

[Fatalaty]

Very good this F7 BIOS!! Nice visual

[Lsdmeasap]

Interesting, but how does this x21-BIOS-set works in real life?

I had a chance to try it with my X5650 B1 ES (BIOS F7x). I could set it to x21 in BIOS but it ended up as x20 in w7 anyways. I didn't have much time to play with it, because I had to borrow RAM from may main-rig. I will hopefully get some RAM soon and will try to get my good old UD7 up and running again. So I'm really interested to find out how this works actually. You got a link or more explanation on this?.

Did you disable Turbo when you set x21? You have to do that, or enable Turbo and set 20

[Deuzsta]

I like the lastest f7 bios my system runs great all the f7 beta's i had problems with keyboard unstable overclocks and ram bugs but in my mind the new f7 is the best so far maybe im just having good luck with it

[Gorki]

F7 bios is no good for my mobo

How come? Whats the bad side?


Can anyone else share their experience with final F7 bios? OC, stability...etc?

[vrdublu]

Not really on topic here but..........I'm interested in the UD7 heatsink and was wondering if anyone is not using W/C maybe they would want to swap for a UD5 heatsink plus $$$. PM works good for anyone interested, thx.

[MadHacker]

well tried it and no change...
thanks anyways...
Plan to take MB & CPU to the shop tomorrow

got a call back from the shop...
mother board is dead, CPU is fine...
question now is do i buy anther board while waiting for this one to get RMA'd?

[zedane]

got a call back from the shop...
mother board is dead, CPU is fine...
question now is do i buy anther board while waiting for this one to get RMA'd?

Buy a new motherboard first, and sell off the RMAed mobo when it arrives

[MadHacker]

Buy a new motherboard first, and sell off the RMAed mobo when it arrives

is there a better board? bang for buck?
it is the only one that comes with watercooled x58 which i like.

[zedane]

is there a better board? bang for buck?
it is the only one that comes with watercooled x58 which i like.

Theres the MSI XPower, dunno if thats good enough for you but i consider it bang for bucks Or the Rampage III Extreme, though i won't really classify that as bang for bucks. EVGA classified good for OC, but lacks U3S6 and is expensive.

Otherwise, theres always the UD9 you can play with but definitely overpriced

[etoo]

Hey guys,
What's the best bios for gigabye x58a-ud7 ??

[MadHacker]

Theres the MSI XPower, dunno if thats good enough for you but i consider it bang for bucks Or the Rampage III Extreme, though i won't really classify that as bang for bucks. EVGA classified good for OC, but lacks U3S6 and is expensive.

Otherwise, theres always the UD9 you can play with but definitely overpriced

I went with another UD7, hope to have it monday...

[zedane]

I went with another UD7, hope to have it monday...

Grats

Do take note that some changes have been made to the rev2.0 board

[riokabuto]

After many many time...

...today i start to OC my ud7 & my i7920......

[newhit]

Grats

Do take note that some changes have been made to the rev2.0 board

I think Gigabyte changed the power delivery to the same as the UD9 (uprated?)..............maybe

Supposed to help with extreme ocking. So, if you've got the LN2 handy

[zedane]

I think Gigabyte changed the power delivery to the same as the UD9 (uprated?)..............maybe

Supposed to help with extreme ocking. So, if you've got the LN2 handy

Not too sure about that But they reduced the power phase from 24 to 16 on the current board

[dinos22]

the new PWM delivers MORE power with less (different) phases

[Mafio]

the new PWM delivers MORE power with less (different) phases

in order to run 980x at high frequency/voltage the vmod is still needed?

thanks