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

[OC Nub]

Was your old board a B2 or something?

Yes, it was a B2. I had broken a pin and eventually killed the board.

[cole2109]

Is 1.45V too much for 24/7 on water?

[sin0822]

depends on your temps. id say its fine, just keep temps below 70C.

[Akrian]

Hmmmm. Well x49 seems stable ( two quick LinX runs + 2 h in portal 2 + DA2 + 2 more LinX runs). I'll do my 25-pass linx loop tday to see if it will hold, to be absolutely sure. ( 1.404 under load)
However x50 seems to be unstable. ( tried up to 1.428 under load).
Temps in linX : 75 max on cores at 4.9 ghz and 1.404vcore. 77 under linx on 5.0 ghz 1.428 but unstable.
So...if I increase the volts to 1.4x under load...and if it will work.... ( I'm planning to use xtra fans for this one, to keep the temps under 80 in LinX) will that be fine for 24/7 ? Provided that in games temps never hit 70 at all.

[Akrian]

5.0 ghz LinX 10 runs. no AVX

[Eldonko]

I contacted gb yesterday to ask what was up with my rma and they said it had been approved a few days prior. No one told me though lol. Anyway I shipped it out last night.

[Akrian]

LinX 20 runs. Full mem. no AVX. Had to play around with PLL, otherwise bsod on idle.

[Falkentyne]

What do you mean by play around with PLL?
PLL Overvoltage?

What did you do ? what did you change?

[Akrian]

internal PLL overvolte is ON. But when you go to vol. control you see PLL set at 1.8 - auto, well I switched it to 1.74 at fist, which eliminated my bsods at idle ( took 30 min - 1 hour to get x0124 bsod screen at x50). well I went back at changed PLL to 1.76....and VTT to 1.10 and gost stable in linX.I've seen someone on overclock.net posting that lowering PLL helps with stability at higher clocks with SB. and so far it seems to be true - no idle bsod, no load bsod. Just out of curiosity I will try to low PLL to 1.74 again, but keep VTT at the same settting and check what happenes.

[Falkentyne]

PLL overvoltage does not raise the pll voltage. This was measured with a digital MM. It does something else, but Intel won't disclose it.
It's more than likely a register in the MSR, since it won't reactivate after S3 sleep. And since it won't work on D1 stepping cpu's, it's clearly not an actual voltage setting coming from the motherboard.

[Akrian]

well IDK about raising pll voltage through PLL overvoltage, since as far as I'm concern it's a mean to break through x48-x50 limits. what I'm more interested is to why lower PLL settings help against bsods in idle. I mean technically x0124 errors imply that you don't have enough vcore or Vtt right? ( at least that's what I've read from "ultimate SB overclockers guide" lol). Then why lowering PLL helps to stabilize idiling of the cpu, and according to some people help them lower their vcore by a good .05v ?

Anyway now I'm drooling on a water-colling solution to lower my temps and run LinX with AVX to get 100+ gigaflops.=)

[Dumo]

UD7 B3 bios F4a...

When cpu reached limit of oc'd settings it will reboot to 4E post code and started those endless loops that always ended @ 00 or 4E
Cmos reset and battery pull won't reset bios. The only solution is to pull battery and turn on power supply (without turn mobo on) and reset cmos

[Lsdmeasap]

4E means you pushed too far, which I know you already know

That will often reset itself if you just wait a reboot or two, or are you saying it's broke again now on F4a like on previous BIOSes? I know it's OK for sure and will auto recover on F3h, haven't tested F4a enough yet.

GA-P67A-UD7-B3 F4a Mod
http://www.mediafire.com/?a3zw5vvawg71dib

GA-P67A-UD7-B3 F3h Mod
http://www.mediafire.com/?ql8uagn1ubvju7u

Update Intel RAID ROM - 10.5.0.916
Update Realtek - v2.39

Please flash at your own risk, BIOS has been tested and is working, enjoy!

And before anyone asks about the UD7 F4a RAID ROM loading on it's own screen, this is not due to the Mod's, I tested the original files and they now do this. So Gigabyte has changed something making the AHCI and RAID readouts load on separate pages for some reason.

[Dumo]

Thanks for the bios Will try

Yep, with B2 I can predict the reboot cycles but with B3 F4a those 4Es wont reset itself without battery pulled/psu on/cmos reset trick

Its not big deal, I liked the board though...wish my 2600K get those 4Es @ 59X

[Lsdmeasap]

Anytime!

Well with B2 board and F3 beta BIOSes, at least F3h and some previous B2 beta's, it would reset for me automatically on a few tries, but I haven't played with F4a long enough to see if it does or not.

I wish I had a CPU that could do x59, or at least wouldn't hit 4E before x54-55!! Best I can do is x53 or less multi with more Bclk, overall limit around 5.3 though

If you want I can mod F3h for you, that one auto resets on 1-2 tries at 4E for sure.

[Dumo]

That'll be awesome

It will save time when benching with cpu @ the edge of stability

Thanks Lsd

[Lsdmeasap]

Ok, will do and post in the morning as I'm getting offline right now (not feeling too good )

*Edit

Actually, went ahead and did tonight for ya
http://www.mediafire.com/?ql8uagn1ubvju7u

Add to previous page as well

[newhit]

Ok, will do and post in the morning as I'm getting offline right now (not feeling too good )

*Edit

Actually, went ahead and did tonight for ya
http://www.mediafire.com/?ql8uagn1ubvju7u

Add to previous page as well

Hope you are better Lsdmeasap.

Sorry but I have to ask what the modded bioses do? I've read above but it's still not clear.

I've just got my B3 replacement (nice and new....I think) and bioses, for me, are the order of the day.

Do these modded bioses stop me ending up in a 4E restart loop if I push too hard?

[the_real_7]

Hope you are better Lsdmeasap.

Sorry but I have to ask what the modded bioses do? I've read above but it's still not clear.

I've just got my B3 replacement (nice and new....I think) and bioses, for me, are the order of the day.

Do these modded bioses stop me ending up in a 4E restart loop if I push too hard?

Try to stick with the F3H its the most stable so far . . and can take hard hits without putting you into that reboot loop

[Lsdmeasap]

Hope you are better Lsdmeasap.

Sorry but I have to ask what the modded bioses do? I've read above but it's still not clear.

I've just got my B3 replacement (nice and new....I think) and bioses, for me, are the order of the day.

Do these modded bioses stop me ending up in a 4E restart loop if I push too hard?

All better this morning, thanks!

It just updates the RAID and LAN ROM's, that is all.

No, you will always hit 4E error if you push past what your CPU can do

[the_real_7]

No, you will always hit 4E error if you push past what your CPU can do

yes this is true but some bios with this board hit there end way faster . . . why who knows its the ud7 bios Rubik cube

[newhit]

"Lsdmeasap" and "the_real_7" thanx for the replies

F3h here we go

[the_real_7]

"Lsdmeasap" and "the_real_7" thanx for the replies

F3h here we go

hey no problem newhit by the way if thats your 24/7 speed at 5.0 nice chip

[andressergio]

"Lsdmeasap" and "the_real_7" thanx for the replies

F3h here we go

yes the best u can do is put F3h

[the_real_7]

yes the best u can do is put F3h

stable and fast for now Sergio , think Gigabyte hired ati coders to do they're bios lmao