Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD5 Discussion Thread

[bartman1973]

I'll gladly take that CPU off your hands.
What vcore does it need for 5 ghz?

Using Ud5 and ud7
@ 1.4 vcore
- Boot windows
- spi 1m, 32m
- wprime 32m

@ 1.420
- Boot windows
- spi 1m, 32m
- wprime 32m, 1024M
- 3dm06, vantage
- cinebench

[Falkentyne]

Sounds like a decent chip. You should definitely not be unhappy with 5 ghz on AIR. It wasn't that long ago that people needed sub zero to prime at 5 ghz, and here we are running 4.5 ghz on auto voltages.

Is that BIOS voltage setting or load setting in cpu-z?

Unless you're trying to use sub-zero, I wouldn't risk getting another chip only to find out it is worse than before, unless it's pretested somehow.

[Sniper]

I would guess this fix could help some, from Asus bios thread.

2. If you are receiving random BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) under Windows 7 OS without any warning at stock or what appears to be stable OC settings, please download the following patch from Microsoft to have the problem fixed (98% fix rate): This hotfix will be in SP1.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979444

[C-N]

@ Sniper

Great bit of info this would explain 2 small issues I had & thought the OS was borked so re loaded with SP1 & one went away... The other I will test out later more of a niggle than an issue.

[TurboDiv]

Out of curiosity, those that have no problems booting up after a shut down. Do you have your eSATA, USB 3.0 options disabled ? Also, where did you stick your OS drive, i got my SSD on the SATA 3.0 (6gb/s) port - white SATA port. Cause i got everything enabled, lol.

[C-N]

@ lsdmeasap

I just done a funny thing trying to get my 2500K past 5.4GHz I borked the bios & the recovery bios F5x got me going again back onto F6d. Afterward I thought I'd update the backup to F6d & not paying enough attention somehow managed to swap main for backup can you tell me how I can switch back.

Cool feature either way but I just dont remember what I did.

[C-N]

Out of curiosity, those that have no problems booting up after a shut down. Do you have your eSATA, USB 3.0 options disabled ? Also, where did you stick your OS drive, i got my SSD on the SATA 3.0 (6gb/s) port - white SATA port. Cause i got everything enabled, lol.

I have everything enabled but not using my SSD yet might build my UD5 into a case this weekend & fit my Vertex so will let you know if I have any problems.

[C-N]

where did you stick your OS drive, i got my SSD on the SATA 3.0 (6gb/s) port - white SATA port

I fitted my OCZ Vertex SSD today & all is well, I notice the Intel SATA ports make the PC boot into windows faster than the Marvel one.... its quick anyway but the Intel one is faster.

[flesheatinvirus]

I noticed that as well, SSD drives simply rock.

[C-N]

I noticed that as well, SSD drives simply rock.

Yup they do like 20 second boot.

BTW for anyone interested I am now using EIST, it works great just get stable leave vid on normal & adjust vcore using the special add or whatever its called to get stable. 5GHz 1.375 vid + 0.01 for me gives 1.044 in CPU-Z at rest & the chip runs about 5~6oC above ambient..... fantastic

Edit I take that back.... voltage overshoot is huge testing with LinX, was ok with prime!...... Dont use it

[flesheatinvirus]

If you get a chance try a raid setup with 7 Ult its simply awesome. I had one here a while back with two Corsair force F60 drives that was retarded fast. Biggest improvement to a comps performance I have seen in a while.

[C-N]

If you get a chance try a raid setup with 7 Ult its simply awesome. I had one here a while back with two Corsair force F60 drives that was retarded fast. Biggest improvement to a comps performance I have seen in a while.

I'm in limbo with SSD's atm, I love raid have always used it sliced & R0 for my OS & mirror for my good stuff but with new faster SSD's coming out all the time I'm just going to wait till they drop in price & keep adding drives untill the tech levels out a bit & the price is less than a new car lol. Some sick drives out there atm

[Falkentyne]

Did anyone try the new F6 bios?
Is CPU PLL removed from it like on the UD7 F7 bios?

[Hoss331]

yea i just did there is no internal pll option in F6

[Falkentyne]

If you're still on it,
Can you manually put CPU PLL to 1.9v instead of 1.8, and see if that does the same thing in letting higher multi's work?

http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/12...p67aud5.f6.zip

But I have no idea why they would remve this option!

[Hoss331]

give me a sec

[Falkentyne]

Someone just tested and said it didn't help with higher multis....
But does PLL Overvoltage reappear in the BIOS if you change the Sleep mode setting ?

(edit)
while you guys are at it, can you see if the cold boot double post/loop, after a hard power off (like, unplugging the Power supply/mains) has been resolved at least?

[OC Maximus]

Chip #2 on the way

[Hoss331]

If your talking about changing from S3 to S1, then no the pll overvoltage doesnt reappear afterward.

[flesheatinvirus]

Chip #2 on the way

Nice. Any idea of batch.

[C-N]

Guys I was messing about the other day & not paying attention when trying to update the backup bios. I ended up swaping bios's!!! Anyway I figured it out ALT + F12 once = update backup ALT + F12 3 times = swap Bios. I now have F6 on one & F6d on the other & can just switch back & forth

Level 1 voltage in F6 looks like it has been eased back a bit but cant 100% tell as I can only run 4.9 without int pll so maybe the chip isnt loading as much Level 2 now works but spikes voltage bigtime dont use it.

[flesheatinvirus]

Oh Yeah, twice the profiles.

[C-N]

Oh Yeah, twice the profiles.

LOL, You thing just like me

[OC Maximus]

Nice. Any idea of batch.

Ordered from Newegg so no.

Guys I was messing about the other day & not paying attention when trying to update the backup bios. I ended up swaping bios's!!! Anyway I figured it out ALT + F12 once = update backup ALT + F12 3 times = swap Bios. I now have F6 on one & F6d on the other & can just switch back & forth

Interesting, thanks

[TurboDiv]

(edit)
while you guys are at it, can you see if the cold boot double post/loop, after a hard power off (like, unplugging the Power supply/mains) has been resolved at least?

This is the worst problem I have ever had with a mobo and coincidentally with my first Gigabyte mobo. If they don't fix it soon i think im going to exchange for ASUS. Its just ridiculous to work stable after the reboot when you re-enter the bios settings all day long but fails to boot with the settings. In my book this is not acceptable.