Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD5 Discussion Thread

[Falkentyne]

Neither. I use spiflash with a USB dos boot flash drive (I forget what the /Z switch does). Then after flash complete, I power off, turn off power supply, and press the clear cmos button.

[AMD_Freak]

Woke up this morning to my PC rebooting over and over Until resetting the CMOS everything has been running fine until today seems to be a cold boot Issue? any suggestions signature rig with the beta bios F3C JZ

[nijel]

Go back to F2.

[Falkentyne]

Woke up this morning to my PC rebooting over and over Until resetting the CMOS everything has been running fine until today seems to be a cold boot Issue? any suggestions signature rig with the beta bios F3C JZ

Do you have PLL overvoltage enabled?
Did it enter sleep mode?

The RESET button should stop the boot loops; whenever I press reset it always says overclocked failed (after two loops).

[C-N]

Chip needs more vcore would be my guess

[AMD_Freak]

Do you have PLL overvoltage enabled?
Did it enter sleep mode?
The RESET button should stop the boot loops; whenever I press reset it always says overclocked failed (after two loops).

yes all C-states are off no sleeping happened from cold boot/ PLL1 PLL setting I did how ever hit power /restart button as soon as it cycled threw the restart, Ya I know it will restart twice after "failed OC" but it was different then that recycle at 1st that was my thinking. Its just odd after 3 days same OC it started acting up this morning I played a epic gaming session of 7 hrs with no problems I did get it to boot after resetting CMOS
which made me to believe it was a bad OC Im going to try the same OC settings over again and see what happens just a little frustrating as I have been w/ AMD&Asus for so many years and its all new and I don't understand Intel like I would like to. Im 110% happy the jump I made to Intel and Gigabyte SB & the black Gigabyte )thank god no ugly blue boards MB made the jump a no brain er

Chip needs more vcore would be my guess

I also thought of that but why would it change after 3 days without problems
4.8ghz@1.38v@ 54c gaming / benching I may have to go back to the F2 bios has anyone had issues with the F3C JZ bios? i know its beta for a reason. just wondering if others had issues with it... Is f2 more stable?
Thanks guys for all your suggestions and help.

*edit* added some pics of the bios settings if you don't mind look threw them and see, anything im doing wrong
http://img155.imageshack.us/g/dscn0129b.jpg/

[Falkentyne]

Why do you have Turboboost technology enabled? (with per core options opened up?) No need for that. Go ahead and set the TDP/TDC (can't hurt anything anyway) to 200/200 for the power limits, then disable that turboboost option since you're using a fixed multiplier for all the cores. Not saying that caused your problem, but no need to have that enabled.

Or did it enable itself after a BIOS reset?
Not happy with your CPU though ....your default VID is pretty high...But if it's at 1.385v BIOS at 4.8 ghz, that's probably around 1.345v load, which isn't bad...maybe it can do 5 ghz at 1.450v BIOS -->1.410v load? What is the "load" vcore that the CPU reports at 4.8 ghz at full load? (you can use hwinfo32 to get that while running prime). Can it do 5 ghz?

[AMD_Freak]

Why do you have Turboboost technology enabled? (with per core options opened up?) No need for that. Go ahead and set the TDP/TDC (can't hurt anything anyway) to 200/200 for the power limits, then disable that turboboost option since you're using a fixed multiplier for all the cores. Not saying that caused your problem, but no need to have that enabled.

Or did it enable itself after a BIOS reset?
Not happy with your CPU though ....your default VID is pretty high...But if it's at 1.385v BIOS at 4.8 ghz, that's probably around 1.345v load, which isn't bad...maybe it can do 5 ghz at 1.450v BIOS -->1.410v load? What is the "load" vcore that the CPU reports at 4.8 ghz at full load? (you can use hwinfo32 to get that while running prime). Can it do 5 ghz?

yes it is 1.385 in bios with the LLC1 settings. Don't know bout 5.0ghz haven't tried it was trying to get the feel of it 1st but Im sure i will try it soon / 1.36v on CPUID HM pro while running prime 1024M

[AMD_Freak]

5294.89 MHz (101.82 * 52) http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1739610 1.45v LLC2 not rock solid yet maybe more tweaking still unsure of the bios a day or 2 hope it have it stable temps was getting higher then I would like for LinX

[Falkentyne]

Nice.
Try to use LLC1 instead of LLC2, because the board overvolts from the sensors, so that 1.45v might be as much as 0.03v higher than the sensor reading; you may need to use a DMM. It's unclear if the overshoot of LLC2+the overshoot of DMM vs sensor reading was contributing to my and C_N's original chips degrading or if that was irrelevent or not, but since I'm OCD, I'd rather not find out...

I just did a 45 minute prime test (I hate priming) at 4500 mhz and 1.236v load, 1.265v BIOS LLC1 (the same as I did two weeks ago) and the chip hasn't degraded yet, so that's a VERY good sign. Since my first chip degraded at BOTH 5 ghz and 4.5 ghz, though that was on the B2 board with the overshooting LLC1) I assume that if its the same stability at 4.5 ghz, then it should be the same at 5 ghz too. (1.236v load is fine at 4.5 ghz HT on. 1.224v BSOD's after awhile).
So then I went back in BIOS and set some profiles for 4 ghz HT on, 4 ghz HT off, 4.5 ghz HT on, off and 5 ghz HT on/off, which should be fully game stable.

[Splave]

I cant seem to get passed 2 seconds worth of 32m pi @ 2133 with hyper ram just cuts power out. Any thoughts?

[C-N]

I cant seem to get passed 2 seconds worth of 32m pi @ 2133 with hyper ram just cuts power out. Any thoughts?

I had the same thing until I lowered the vdimm, my sticks just wouldn’t take the voltage to run tight or properly & the vdimm/vtt needed to be spot on one click higher or lower resulted in a hang. I can get them to complete 32M super slack 2T but what’s the point in that.

[Splave]

gotcha so I need better hyper to be able to run it

[C-N]

gotcha so I need better hyper to be able to run it

Thats what i figured, i tested many spd's and the result was the same.... No go

[Splave]

wont waste my time then I guess they dont run that speed in MIVE or p8p67 deluxe either.
8 8 8 28 2t runs 01 at 2133 but thats it

BBSE till I can find some good hypers i guess

EDIT: Whats with all the reboots this thing does. 3-4 cold boot tries, then it will fail settings I was just benching at, re load them and it boots fine again and on and on lol very strange

[Falkentyne]

That boot looping is fixed in B3 with beta bios. Unless you press the reset button...

[OC Nub]

Got the B3 UD5 today. It doesnt seem to like the Redlines I have using f1 and f2 bios's. I am missing my B2 UD7, hope this gets better with updates.

Edit: either my chip got really good all the sudden or cpuz doesnt read voltages correct? http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1744563

[Falkentyne]

Did you check the many posts about that?
Use HWinfo32.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Got the B3 UD5 today. It doesnt seem to like the Redlines I have using f1 and f2 bios's. I am missing my B2 UD7, hope this gets better with updates.

Edit: either my chip got really good all the sudden or cpuz doesnt read voltages correct? http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1744563

it is reading vccio I believe the gigabyte boards have that problem again.

[OC Nub]

Did you check the many posts about that?
Use HWinfo32.

No I didnt check the many posts lol. I have been away from the forums a while. Thanks for the tip, Ill give that a try.

it is reading vccio I believe the gigabyte boards have that problem again.

Ugg, another problem yay

[OC Nub]

wont waste my time then I guess they dont run that speed in MIVE or p8p67 deluxe either.
8 8 8 28 2t runs 01 at 2133 but thats it

BBSE till I can find some good hypers i guess

EDIT: Whats with all the reboots this thing does. 3-4 cold boot tries, then it will fail settings I was just benching at, re load them and it boots fine again and on and on lol very strange

I get about half way through 32m before it freezes, 1.80vdimm with 2gb of the hyperx khx2000c8 k3 3x1gb kit from my x58. Looking at the times 2133 c7doesnt seem to help though.

Only place I notice a big difference is in 3dm05, which it has no problem running at those clocks, GT1 and GT2 scores awesome with 2133 c7 7 7. My Dominator gt 2000c8 kit wont even boot at 2133 on this ud5.

1st try using a benching station. Thank you Elano for the nice gift.

[Buckeye]

On the new B3 versions are the BIOS's blowing up a lot ?

[Falkentyne]

Not even.
Zero problems so far.
May have a problem if I try to enter sleep mode with PLL override enabled, but this board with the latest beta is stable (as long as you don't do that).

[Hondacity]

Not even.
Zero problems so far.
May have a problem if I try to enter sleep mode with PLL override enabled, but this board with the latest beta is stable (as long as you don't do that).

they're pushing it to the limits....

of course you're stable

[OC Maximus]

I is