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

[Demo]

I just got my replacement harddrive back from samsung which is a 1TB F3 drive ( had my 2yr old 1TB F1 replaced ) and Im thinking of going RAID0 on this board, can anyone give me some tips on how this XHD works from Gigabyte, also I was looking at the drivers page and I saw drivers for Marvel and Intel raid, I suppose the one on the UD4 is Intel based?

Would using the auto configure from XHD automatically create the raid0 stripe for me or do I have to reinstall everything from scratch ? Also the installation on my windows was done NOT in AHCI mode if this matters.

And hows the performance of the RAID0 on this board, total good for an onboard solution ?

and whats the best block size?

[bluestang]

Just buy SATA6 SSD already and then use your 1TB for storage

[Demo]

Too expensive as of now, maybe mid 2012.

[Demo]

-NVM- found answer.

[Mafio]

today i had a 3 hours bench session with this mobo, a 2600k and the crappiest GTX280 ever.
anyhow managed to get some quite good results.

hardware used:

i7-2600K # L044B675
Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 - bios F3
KHX 2k cas8 MGH-E-Hyper
PCP&C 1200 Watt
GTX 280 + VGPU + CAPs mod
DMAX 200 GB sata
XP SP3

Single Stage Rotary 1.2 Hp - CPU
Guglio's GPU pot rev 1.0 - VGA

3dmark 01 :: 120633



Aquamark3 :: 411392



here are some pics:





i must say thanks to Guglio for the VGA and this awesome GPU pot.

[Hondacity]

whats the gold string for lol?

eeeek no heatsink of mosfets...

strong am3!

nice to see rams at least work in 3d...

[Calathea]

Nice score anyhow! If you have problem with cold slow there's a simple fix you might know of, disable the chip that manages temp. Here's how a friend of mine did it, we benched his card at 1150MHz @ -145C nature http://www.techsweden.org/forum/view...?f=15&t=225644 (in swedish)

Also OCP mod for VT1165 is now available.

[Mafio]

whats the gold string for lol?

eeeek no heatsink of mosfets...

strong am3!

nice to see rams at least work in 3d...

thanks honda

the gold string was used to keep the POT on the GPU
i've no mounting stuff to fit this POT on this VGA, so had to do it in the ghetto way.

[Hondacity]

Nice score anyhow! If you have problem with cold slow there's a simple fix you might know of, disable the chip that manages temp. Here's how a friend of mine did it, we benched his card at 1150MHz @ -145C nature http://www.techsweden.org/forum/view...?f=15&t=225644 (in swedish)

Also OCP mod for VT1165 is now available.

calathea!!! ILOVEYOU

wait where is ocp mod for vtt1165?

[Calathea]

Pin 31 on VT1165M is R_SEL 4. You set your desired current (and slave setting) based on a resistor to gnd. This doesn't entirely diable ocp but you can easily raise the limit 10A/phase.

This is confirmed working on 9800gx2 using 1165 slaves. I set R_sel4 to 5.11kOhm and have no problem with ocp anymore



Volterra docs can be found here, thanks to TiNs überleet search skills http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=264080

[Hondacity]

thank u so much!

my 280#1 died days ago...but 280#2 will be tortured

[Calathea]

GT200 gets another chance to shine with SB

[Demo]

I've been getting the error code 124 (BSOD) with NORMAL voltage and NEGATIVE 0.025 , this is about 9hrs into Prime95 BLEND.
So I decided to try something else...


I tried to manually volt it at 1.360 w/o any offsets this time

Ran 30 loops of LinX ( I dont really like this as ppl say it degrades the processor so fast )

Right now at stock 1.050VTT
Memory at 1333Mhz 9-9-9 1.5v
HT-OFF, all power savings off

All other voltages in AUTO, PLL over voltage OFF



Error code 124 reffers to VTT/QPI do I really need to increase it away from stock considering this is just 4.5Ghz or I just lack the raw Vcore?

A day ago I've been trying to start with 4.8Ghz at 1.404v loaded VTT at 1.2, PLL overvoltage and Im also getting the same error code.. I must be missing something or doing something very wrong..

Bios is F3B

[Mask]

yesturday updated UD3 to UD4 and i say big fail.
unreal overclock on UD4 (bios f3) on five s attept getting 4,5GHz and more oc like 5+GHz onreal to get its alltime RESTES RESETS RESETS, even big volts not helping. cpu can do 55x. on last UD3 MB was no problen getting even x56 with this cpu (only lowered bclk)
maby to tray F4 beta biose?

E: flashed to f2 back ...all seme,i f¤¤¤ing hate this mb
sometimes even with all def. settings cant restart computer, it will not boot up..its trys something reset again.
Next week will buy msi.

[Falkentyne]

Use BIOS version F3D and use alt f12 at beginning of POST to copy the main BIOS to the backup BIOS. Your problem is F4 is not stable (people have had various problems with it, including unable to overclock past 4.4 ghz without 1.2 VTT (confirmed bug), and you need to copy main bios to backup BIOS but flash F3d first. (after flash, and after setting your settings once first and successful boot, hold alt f12 before you see CPUID strong appear at beginning of post).

[Mafio]

Nice score anyhow! If you have problem with cold slow there's a simple fix you might know of, disable the chip that manages temp. Here's how a friend of mine did it, we benched his card at 1150MHz @ -145C nature http://www.techsweden.org/forum/view...?f=15&t=225644 (in swedish)

Also OCP mod for VT1165 is now available.

thanks but i already have the DS of VT1165.
here seems that there is no coldslow or OCP problem, anyway i will do OCP and mess with that temperature related chip, maybe i can get something more out of the card.
i can bench at -100 or -180 but no gain in frequency, probably the problem here is that this card just sucks.
ah, did your card scale with voltage?
mine here not very well, from 1.4 to 1.65 volt there is really a small gain in frequency.

[Mask]

GA-P67A-UD4-B3 - F3d
this? its beta?

[Mafio]

where can i get F3D bios?

bookmark these 2 links:
1- http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte...beta-bios.html
2- http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte...tml#post270423

F3D - http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/12...67aud43.3d.zip

[Calathea]

thanks but i already have the DS of VT1165.
here seems that there is no coldslow or OCP problem, anyway i will do OCP and mess with that temperature related chip, maybe i can get something more out of the card.
i can bench at -100 or -180 but no gain in frequency, probably the problem here is that this card just sucks.
ah, did your card scale with voltage?
mine here not very well, from 1.4 to 1.65 volt there is really a small gain in frequency.

We used around 1.4 vgpu IIRC. 920 core is weak. Maybe your problem is pot mounting

On topic: Gigabyte failed hard with bios on this board. I'm surprised cause my last Gb mobo, h55m-ud2h was a pleasure to use even with extreme oc.

[Demo]

Use BIOS version F3D and use alt f12 at beginning of POST to copy the main BIOS to the backup BIOS. Your problem is F4 is not stable (people have had various problems with it, including unable to overclock past 4.4 ghz without 1.2 VTT (confirmed bug), and you need to copy main bios to backup BIOS but flash F3d first. (after flash, and after setting your settings once first and successful boot, hold alt f12 before you see CPUID strong appear at beginning of post).

When I got my board I started with the F4 right away and both 2600K's I had could not do 4.5Ghz w/o the 1.2VTT.. I was like going crazy then decided to try F3b, whats the diff from F3b to F3d?

Also how low can the PLL voltage go w/o really messing up anything, 1.720 ?

[kuziu]

can anyone identify either litter picture, where the measured voltage at the ud4?

I tried most of the legs of the capacitors and coils at all times display the 1.092v on my multimeter, the tubes showed me around 3v and 4v, what to do, where to measure?

[Hondacity]

vcore? did u try this?

[Hondacity]

try this http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...30&postcount=2

[kuziu]

Big thanks, I checked and it works, the bios, 0.01v tile work on more, it's not bad, I use the f4 works fine bios'es

offset +0.110V / LLC: Enabled

Linx: CPU-Z 1.464V ~ 1.476V / DMM 1.48V

Prime95: CPU-Z 1.452V / DMM 1.46V

[Lsdmeasap]

GA-P67A-UD4-B3 F4 MOD
P67A-UD4-B3 F4 Mod.zip

Change log included, BIOS updated with Intel RAID ROM 10.5.0.1034 and Realtek LAN 2.39