GIGABYTE 9xx AM3+ thread

[dinos22]

I hear ya mate, would be interesting to have a temp probe on that HS and compare the temps between the boards actually with 3way and 4way setup blasting 3dmark11 hehehe

[duron]

awesome chew*! many thanks mate for taking the time.
i wonder how crysis would perform with 4x 4890's + an 8 core BD + UD7 - wootx2!!!

yeah the Noctua NHD-14 is one of the popular AIR cooling @ the moment.

[Tomasis]

my 990fxa ud3 is arrived, gonna test my silver arrow which is about large as nd14

[duron]

^ cool! post some results & peechurs

[cab]

Yah it looks good, I'd like to see gigabyte drop the heatpipe to the SB though, I could be wrong but I don't think it's necessary.

I've always wondered about that.

Heat pipes work by transferring heat from the hot end and shedding it at the other (cool) end.

By putting a heat pipe that way, the 2 hot parts are basically sharing heat but not shedding much... yeah?

[dinos22]

I've always wondered about that.

Heat pipes work by transferring heat from the hot end and shedding it at the other (cool) end.

By putting a heat pipe that way, the 2 hot parts are basically sharing heat but not shedding much... yeah?

and it also shares the cooling when there is airflow around on either of the heatsinks, particularly the CPU side

[chew*]

and it also shares the cooling when there is airflow around on either of the heatsinks, particularly the CPU side

Agreed, if the PWM is running hot the SB can take some of the heat and help disperese it if you will.

Think of it as a load balancer.

I will give it a shot and test temps if I can find the time just for curiosities sake with some multi card configs.

[dinos22]

had a play with large capacity ram

16GB RAM running at 892MHz 9-9-9-27-1T
CPU at 4571MHz, NB 3122MHz
Mismatched Corsair Vengeance RAM
8GB 1600C8 + 8GB 1866C9 kits

32M SuperPi

[VIP3R]

Cant wait for the ud3 to turn up in aus, fits what i need perfectly.

[Oliverda]

Can we have that wallpaper?

[dinos22]

Can we have that wallpaper?

hey man

you can download it here

http://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/m...downloads.html

[Lightman]

Just ordered UD7 for me
It's because of you dinos

Mid week board should be with me. I think it's time to torture my good old 1090T before Zambezi arrives. Till now I couldn't push it too much due to faulty board intermittently crashing my system. But now it's almost dead and only operating after kicking it every time I want to start computer up, so new mobo can't come sooner!

[charged3800z24]

Love the back ground Dinos, "Bulldoze your way to performance"

Lightman, let me know how you like the board. Newegg still doesn't have it in stock so I ordered Sabertooth.

[p2501]

My UD7 hangs on post code 96 after I installed the OS... pull the hdd and it passes so I get no OS found. I recycled an old HDD, might that be the problem?

Edit: or could this problem be entirely unrelated to the hard disk? What's that code anyway?!

Edit2: Excuses, maybe a some system information would be useful. Athlon x2 245e, 990fxa-ud7, cheapo 1333 ram, 2 hd6990 directly side by side, powered by an ax1200.

[dinos22]

post codes should be at the back of manual.....but yeah 96 points to HDD related issues

[p2501]

post codes should be at the back of manual.....but yeah 96 points to HDD related issues

Thanks for the edit! :-)

I checked the manual, it says building MSPCIE, MP tables, etc. Tried changing PCIe slot and memory = no go. Take the disk out and the box boots instantly on a LiveCD. Seems like the the trusty old Seagate wants to rest.

[Tomasis]

ok im gonna post pictures of ud3. it looks pretty it came with very simple package, cf connector and two sata cables, thats all. Good value I hope it looks that NB and mosfet HS have good contacts. now NB heatsink feels a bit loose when I applied mx3 back, now I need strong screws :p .. without fan, temp rises up to 45C at stock, duh! To OC this further, I have time for next wknd (after graduation) I think it is hard to push 955 more than on 790fx, since I dont have thuban. we'll see

some comments about pwm, good enough? chew?

[chew*]

Looks good, the Phases are familiar, looks like they beefed up the phase to the NB.

[dinos22]

nice

[dinos22]

2200MHz on RAM

i dont have the patience to mess around with ram at high clocks on AMD as it isnt really that important for performance, tight timings with Cas6 is the way to go but yeah the board is capable. I'm sure chew will have some crazy going on when he gets cranking

[Lightman]

Love the back ground Dinos, "Bulldoze your way to performance"

Lightman, let me know how you like the board. Newegg still doesn't have it in stock so I ordered Sabertooth.

Sure thing!

My board drives me nuts now! Just to post this message I've wasted 20 minutes trying to get it to the windows for long enough to type it!
I suspect cracked trace on PCB.
Tuesday it wont matter anymore

Sabertooth looks sweet, I concidered it, but UD7 I can get at the same price + it was in stock (1 board at reseller here in UK!).

[Tomasis]

chew and dino, thanks for the comments

dino, how does look bios development for Ud3, 5, 7? Improvements of Ud7 get carried to Ud3? like for cpu, nb and especially mem? or it is impossible due different volt regulations?

1000th post woohoo :p

[dinos22]

hey man yeah most bigger changes, fixes etc tend to be implemented across the board but in terms of OC capability its not a straight forward thing that a bios team normally works on unless there are some obvious deficiencies.

[dinos22]

I did a quick 4WAY SLI test with GTX580SOC cards

it's CPU bottlenecked at this point, nothing that LN2 cant fix (soon enough)

[PatRaceTin]

wow 4 ways