***Official*** X79-UD7 Owners Club/Discussion/Info

[sin0822]

Hey guys, so this board shoudl be availible today or early next week in the USA. So i decided it was time to make a club for the owners and future owners to discuss stuff in.

GIGABYTE product page




BIOSes:
BIOSes @ TweakTown

Reviews:
SinHardware
Ninja Lane(preview)
Motherboards.org
Massman @ HWBot Thread
Bartman's Review
Guru3D


Videos:
3D BIOS @ TweakTown
5.4ghz@OCWB
UD7 Unboxing
Sandy Bridge-E Video OC Guide by Dinos22


Some OC Tips/Tricks:

• LLC is strongest at 0%(0.0mohm) and weakest at 100%(1mohm), 60% of 0.6mohm is the best IMO, the 0% is a bit harsh. 80% or 0.8mohm is the Intel stock loadline slope. Think of the mohm as the slope of the vcore, with voltage on the y axis and load on the x-axis, so slope of 0 is a straight line, and the greater the slope the more drop in voltage compared to load.
• System Agent and QPI/VTT help with OCing memory
• CPU PWM frequency goes from 0khz-2500khz, the real range for actual application is 0khz-500khz
• The PWM options like extreme perf, or balance are referring to balance of temperature and load
• max VCC for SBe is 1.4v, but SVID goes to 1.52v, so try to keep voltage as low as you can, but CPUs will die above 1.7v
• System Agent and QPI/VTT are cleared upto 1.4v each in the new Intel spec, but keep them under 1.35v
• If you don't know what to do with the PWm settings, just leave them on auto, the board does a good job of self regulation of the settings
• Profiles are in the end of the BIOS on the save& Exit screen

[OC Nub]

Glad to see it will be available very soon, I wish it was available a couple days ago. I bought the R4E because it seemed like the best option at the moment. I look forward to seeing results with the UD7, I may still get one.

Edit: I really hope the UD7 turns out to be a good board. After a few hours playing with the r4e, I really dont like the asus board at all.

[sin0822]

4.9ghz: http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2106995

need to tweak a bit more, if you have this board, toss a fan over the VR area if you are going to raise the PWm freq.

[bartman1973]

Help!I have now a ud7 and a processr which i need to return in a couple of days.I tried setting up the system and i am getting post code 6A. I need to press the clear cmos for several time before it can boot. I was able to install windows and utilities but encountered issue on bios flashing, It will hang during erase so when i press the reset button it will recover. To be able to flash it to the latest beta bios, what i have done was boot using the backup bios then flash it which is sucessful. then when I tried booting again in the main bios and tried flashing to the latest beta, it hang, so when i press the reset the recovery kicks in and the main bios was updated to f3n. I initially thought that having the latest bios in main will fix the issue but still i am stuck with post code 6A. Sometimes it will stop posting while some time it will have endless reboots. I have tried replacing my power supply 2x and ram 3x but still the same. Any idea how to get away with this 6a issue?

[stasio]

GA-X79-UD7 - F3

[sin0822]

Help!I have now a ud7 and a processr which i need to return in a couple of days.I tried setting up the system and i am getting post code 6A. I need to press the clear cmos for several time before it can boot. I was able to install windows and utilities but encountered issue on bios flashing, It will hang during erase so when i press the reset button it will recover. To be able to flash it to the latest beta bios, what i have done was boot using the backup bios then flash it which is sucessful. then when I tried booting again in the main bios and tried flashing to the latest beta, it hang, so when i press the reset the recovery kicks in and the main bios was updated to f3n. I initially thought that having the latest bios in main will fix the issue but still i am stuck with post code 6A. Sometimes it will stop posting while some time it will have endless reboots. I have tried replacing my power supply 2x and ram 3x but still the same. Any idea how to get away with this 6a issue?

Same thing happened when i used @BIOS to flash F3N, it failed to write the BIOS and i used its backup. So lesson learned, don't use @BIOS, use the QFlash utility in BIOS. Format a USB drive in FAT32, and pop the BIOS rom on there, and flash it. Easy, and it doesn't fail.

Also try F3, F3N isn't the best, F3K is better. as a beta.

[bartman1973]

another thing i observe... I hope its just me i have tried running the usual bench like 3dm's, spi's and cinebench .. how come ud3 with f4o is faster in both stock and oc. weird also is ud3 can only do OC on thr same chip @ 4.5ghz while the ud7 is at 46 multi with 102 bclk which is around 4.69ghz. Repeated the test and still the ud3 gets better score.

on the 6A issue, still exisiting intermittently. Am hoping that this is a chip issue and not board issue.

[sin0822]

Try this, disable C1E, and boot into windows and just use the multiplier button to raise the multiplier, that way there is no issue with C1E and maybe less efficiency.

Did you update to F3?

[bartman1973]

yes am using the F3 for the ud7 and f4o for ud3. I will try your suggestion and hopefully the ud7 will get better score

[sin0822]

yea, if not then its just some tweaking and GB should fix it up. What is different is that F3 is the final BIOS just released, F4 for the UD3 and F5 for the G1 Assassin, might show how mature and tweaked each board is.

[bartman1973]

still getting better result in UD3. O well I will have to wait for better BIOS. I will just run my bench as i need to return the ES processor tomorrow I do hope that when the retail comes in the Philippines the UD7's BIOS is already better.

[louislkw]

Gigabyte X79-UD7, Ripjaw-Z 2400MHz run at CL9-11-10-28-1T

F2 BIOS still better for this pair of memory...

SuperPI 32M,


HyperPI 32M,


2424MHz, CL9-11-10-28-1T


2448MHz, CL9-11-10-28-1T

[sin0822]

nice results mate!

[bartman1973]

Too bad I dont have the processor anymore. I will be borrowing new processor next week. Heres the the spi 1M and 32M of the ud7. No tweak yet just run it after boot-up. Hopefully I can play with the next processor for more than 1 week as no retail processor available yet

[louislkw]

Hey, thanks.

Still F2 BIOS, DDR3-2472MHz CL9-11-11-30-1T

[M40TURBO]

What memory is best for this board?

[stasio]

New BIOS on TT forum:

G1.Assassin 2 - F6c
GA-X79-UD7 - F4b
GA-X79-UD5 - F5b
GA-X79-UD3 - F5b

[Perica_Barii]

I also got problem with A6 on post....I can boot on default, but when I change something I got stuck with A6 on post and reboots.....What might be the problem?

[burningrave101]

Some more Gigabyte X79 UD7 reviews and previews:

http://www.motherboards.org/review/g...erboard-review

http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=34014

Introducing Gigabyte X79-UD7 Motherboard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCuqwjFasAg

GIGABYTE 3D Dual UEFI BIOS hands-on with X79-UD7 motherboard @ TweakTown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VdNjac2ywk

OC to 5.4Ghz on LN2 @ OCWorkbench

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhgqCYAgGs4

[sin0822]

first post updated.

Thanks for beta stasio, any idea what is improved? Will test tonight.

i did this last night with my Antec 920: http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2115388

[OC Nub]

How does the board clock Sin? I am debating on getting this board and trying another 3930k (this one clocks good on low vcore but imc is crap) or getting the maximus 4 extreme and trying my luck with another SB chip, 2700k.

Is it full of bugs/issues like p67/z68 gigabyte boards were, or did they get it right? You can PM me if its bad news, I know you do Giga reviews lol.

Thanks

[sin0822]

Not the same as GB LGA1155, there aren't any random reboot loops or memory multi's not working. On the upside LLC works well, and the BIOS doesn't seem to corrupt like LGA1155 lol. Um but its not perfect, and GB seems to understand that, they release a new beta every few days.

As far as dividers, the BLCk dividers might need some fine tuning, but you can run them just fine like with 100x1.25 or 90x167 should work. The memory dividers work, everything basic that should work does work, but like C1E having to be enabled is an issue with OCing, or else your settings wont stick. But that is the beauty of the UD7, those buttons work in real time without any lag, you can press up 12 times and the multiplier will increase 12 times lol, even without C1E enabled, so that is how i get around that to bench.

What do you want the board for? OC bench? subzero OC? 24/7?

[OC Nub]

Thanks Sin. I want to use it to bench some, but also just to try it because I really like the looks lol. I was concerned after all the problems with 1155 to even try another Gigabyte board.

Gigabyte really needs to be on top of the support for these new boards, they lost a lot of long time loyal customers to Asus after p67 issues.

[burt123]

Where can i get some info on a X79 UD5 ????

[sin0822]

info or review or? GB has a website, i saw a few reviews. you are welcome to post in here if you have one and need help or somthing.