***Official***Z68X/P67A-UD7 Club/Discussion/Info**

[nijel]

It could be a driver conflict. Why not image your drive and try a fresh install and see how that works out. If it doesn't you can just image your old configuration back.

I'll do this. Actually my OS partition is auto imaging every night. It just takes so much time to customize the new install.

Seeing as you are using an old install from an old platform
wouldnt you think to try a fresh install before replacing the chip, and fighting stability for a couple weeks?


People will do this and then post things like "this board sucks and isnt stable" or "Giga needs to come out with a better bios"

Did I blame the board? Not even the RAM. My old 2600K didn't want to do 45@under 1,3V and that was the main reason for replacement. MC rocks, I knew what batch they have in stock and it was much better than mine. So I did it. Was hoping for this problem too... well... It didn't. But seems C3/C6 disabled does the trick so far. Playing with windows power options might help too.

[Daddyjaxx]

3dMark2001 is all CPU and one GPU. There was no such thing as SLI in 2001.

[dinos22]

he is running in SLI mate and 01 does actually work in SLI but GPUz does show disabled

01 is heavily CPU based though and only really nature and CH will show more GPU boost at those clocks on SB


jack just ran his straight but if he ran a specific test order he would get a better score and would be owning us with that CPU clock

ive done some tests at 5.2GHz and you can see how much of a hit i take compared to cowie running at 5.44

this is in SLI mode too

[jackbrennan2008]

jack just ran his straight but if he ran a specific test order he would get a better score and would be owning us with that CPU clock

Ah damn, everyone is just running the game tests!! I'll have to rerun my tests and see what i can get. I've been running the full suite lol!

I'm on HWbot and watching people get like 18 to 20k with the same setup with lower frequencies. I'm like WTF, i'm running 250 to 300 Mhz more on the CPU and about 40 to 50 Mhz more on both GPU core and GPU mem and i'm getting a lower score.

[NanoBullet]

Guys i'm about to buy a new motherboard (after recall of course) and i don't know what to pick, if the UD7 or the MIVE. I wanted to go with the UD7 but i don't know why, playing games which is going to be the main utility for this build, is where ud7 does worse against competition. I saw lots of reviews and i don't know why in some games the frames the disparity is so big. In CPU performance is unbeatable, and not just in UD7 but other gigabyte models as well, because some may want to point the finger to the NF200 lag.

[jackbrennan2008]

Guys i'm about to buy a new motherboard (after recall of course) and i don't know what to pick, if the UD7 or the MIVE. I wanted to go with the UD7 but i don't know why, playing games which is going to be the main utility for this build, is where ud7 does worse against competition. I saw lots of reviews and i don't know why in some games the frames the disparity is so big. In CPU performance is unbeatable, and not just in UD7 but other gigabyte models as well, because some may want to point the finger to the NF200 lag.

I don't want to sound like i'm defending the UD7, because i'm not, but what reviews are you talking about and do you have a link (I'm also interested in seeing the results).

The reason i ask is that if one motherboard is more efficient than the other it would usually mean an increase of performance by 1 or 2 frames ie. less than 2%.

I can understand the appeal of the Asus board as it's a fantastic looking board, but i couldn't imagine the performance increase to be that big that it would be worth your time, effort and money.

[NanoBullet]

I don't want to sound like i'm defending the UD7, because i'm not, but what reviews are you talking about and do you have a link (I'm also interested in seeing the results).

The reason i ask is that if one motherboard is more efficient than the other it would usually mean an increase of performance by 1 or 2 frames ie. less than 2%.

I can understand the appeal of the Asus board as it's a fantastic looking board, but i couldn't imagine the performance increase to be that big that it would be worth your time, effort and money.

This are the reviews i have been watching. Probably i think i over reacted in my words previously, because most of the time the difference is aproximatly less then 2%. I think this came over to my mind, because the UD7 usually isn't the winner in the reviews, and sometimes because i'm to nit picky with numbers (i wasn't calculating % of difference) which may helped what i thought previously.

http://www.techreaction.net/2011/01/...-the-titans/5/ MIVE

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/375...d/index10.html - This one i can't compare this
because its another platform, but the results are weird.

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1982&pageID=10050 ~3,5% less in Crysis

After reading this and see everything what i've seen, i'm going to buy both of them, and the one that performs better will stay @ house.

PS: THere is another review which i haven't posted at kingpinCooling. Go the and check it out.

All of them favor MIVE

[OC Nub]

I'll do this. Actually my OS partition is auto imaging every night. It just takes so much time to customize the new install.



Did I blame the board? Not even the RAM. My old 2600K didn't want to do 45@under 1,3V and that was the main reason for replacement. MC rocks, I knew what batch they have in stock and it was much better than mine. So I did it. Was hoping for this problem too... well... It didn't. But seems C3/C6 disabled does the trick so far. Playing with windows power options might help too.

I didnt say you, but have seen it haappen, was not meant to offend you.