******Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4 Discussion Thread******

[Falkentyne]

UD4 B3 is fine. Several people are very happy with it.
B2's of both UD4 and Ud5 were problematic (cold boot problems, LLC1 on UD5 B2 overshot, etc)

Some very happy people with that board (Andrea seems to like the F3B bios, and said LLC vdroop was improved).
I tested f3c in UD5 (not ud4) B3, and the bios is definitely a bit faster and seems to boot slightly faster than f1 (bclk is still 99.80 default though).

[simon747]

Do the b3 boards ship with pll overvoltage in bios defualt bios such as ud7 b3's. to avoid cold boot issues that plagued all of the beta bios with with ud4 b2's?
Do the b3 bios still just on or off for llc?

[FL00D]

UD4 B3 is fine. Several people are very happy with it.
B2's of both UD4 and Ud5 were problematic (cold boot problems, LLC1 on UD5 B2 overshot, etc)

Some very happy people with that board (Andrea seems to like the F3B bios, and said LLC vdroop was improved).
I tested f3c in UD5 (not ud4) B3, and the bios is definitely a bit faster and seems to boot slightly faster than f1 (bclk is still 99.80 default though).

Just fine?

You know, what's niggling me is that quite a few people have switched from GA to ASUS. I don't really know whether switching from GA to ASUS is reasonable since ASUS boards seem to have lots of issues as well.

Cheers for your reply m8.

[Falkentyne]

Basically, the grass isn't greener on the other side.
There are just as many people switching to Gigabyte as switching to Asus. The freeze at idle was driving asus users crazy, and I only saw one GB user who was freezing at idle at stock, and we were trying to troubleshoot it.

Another asus B3 user just had the first PCIE slot completely die, after a few days of use. Asus DID fix the cold boot problems MUCH sooner than GB, though. Although I'm happy with the progress GB has made; I flashed f3c on my B3 UD5, used the clear cmos button after power off, and the board didn't even double post at all. I was quite impressed. It does shut off after certain bios option changes, but I think all the boards do that.

I will say that the boot looping on the GB boards was the most annoying issue ever. That probably drove more people away than the asus idle BSOD's.

If someone gets a defective board, jumping ship may or may not help.

[FL00D]

Basically, the grass isn't greener on the other side.
There are just as many people switching to Gigabyte as switching to Asus. The freeze at idle was driving asus users crazy, and I only saw one GB user who was freezing at idle at stock, and we were trying to troubleshoot it.

Another asus B3 user just had the first PCIE slot completely die, after a few days of use. Asus DID fix the cold boot problems MUCH sooner than GB, though. Although I'm happy with the progress GB has made; I flashed f3c on my B3 UD5, used the clear cmos button after power off, and the board didn't even double post at all. I was quite impressed. It does shut off after certain bios option changes, but I think all the boards do that.

I will say that the boot looping on the GB boards was the most annoying issue ever. That probably drove more people away than the asus idle BSOD's.

If someone gets a defective board, jumping ship may or may not help.

Thank you very much indeed Falkentyne.

[irev210]

Basically, the grass isn't greener on the other side.
There are just as many people switching to Gigabyte as switching to Asus. The freeze at idle was driving asus users crazy, and I only saw one GB user who was freezing at idle at stock, and we were trying to troubleshoot it.

Another asus B3 user just had the first PCIE slot completely die, after a few days of use. Asus DID fix the cold boot problems MUCH sooner than GB, though. Although I'm happy with the progress GB has made; I flashed f3c on my B3 UD5, used the clear cmos button after power off, and the board didn't even double post at all. I was quite impressed. It does shut off after certain bios option changes, but I think all the boards do that.

I will say that the boot looping on the GB boards was the most annoying issue ever. That probably drove more people away than the asus idle BSOD's.

If someone gets a defective board, jumping ship may or may not help.

The freeze at idle (on B2 Asus P8P67 Pro and Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3) is driving me nuts.

Very basic system:

2500K
ga-p67-ud3
hd5770
1600MHz corsair vengeance @ 1333MHz (stock timings) @ 1.5V
Seasonic x-400 PSU

Windows 7 64

Stable under load, crash @ idle, passes all mem tests (tried different ram also)

completely random freezing, it's really frustrating...

[Falkentyne]

Extremely simple fix.
Disable EIST, C3, C6, C1 (forgot if that's there).
Use fixed Vcore.

Profit.

[irev210]

Extremely simple fix.
Disable EIST, C3, C6, C1 (forgot if that's there).
Use fixed Vcore.

Profit.

Disabling C3/C6 option does the trick on this board. Don't need to disable anything else.

Very annoying that ASUS/Gigabyte/Others? are having this problem.