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

[gmeup]

That is very very odd. Is easytune working by any chance? Try uninstalling it, its worth a shot.

Can you list exactly what your settings are? Take a screenshot in the UEFI, and post em up for me?

Have you tried a different BIOS? F3? or F3K? Or F2? All the same?

Hi Sin0822,

I initally used F2 but i also tried F3 and the same issue. I tried all your tweaks and i tried a simple muliplier change and leaving the rest on auto, changing volts, everything i have done still have the same issue It seems any overclock over 4.4ghz and it will revert back to 3.3 ghz after a few mins of prime.

[Marvin82]

You must Set the Watt from 130w to 300w
anderen the Courent A from 125A to 300A the You have no drop
The board ist under 4.5ghz Top , but over 4.5ghz i have Problems with my cpu
At my sabertooth runs at 4.8ghz 1.32v at the ud7 no way under 1,4v at
Same cpu at my Rampage need 1.368v all boards have bios Problem....

[gmeup]

You must Set the Watt from 130w to 300w
anderen the Courent A from 125A to 300A the You have no drop
The board ist under 4.5ghz Top , but over 4.5ghz i have Problems with my cpu
At my sabertooth runs at 4.8ghz 1.32v at the ud7 no way under 1,4v at
Same cpu at my Rampage need 1.368v all boards have bios Problem....

Hi i have tried doing all this it makes no difference, this is a screen shot i took i had it clocked at 4.4 ghz and after 20 mins of prime it goes back to 3.3 ghz

[stasio]

New BIOS on TT forum:

G1.Assassin 2 - F6d
GA-X79-UD7 - F4c
GA-X79-UD5 - F5c
GA-X79-UD3 - F5c

[barfastic]

Hey guys.

Im thinking about buying this board with a 3930K CPU. (It racks up a total of 1000€ about) I really like the colour to it, and its features are pretty awesome too.
What i wanna ask is, would you recommend it, or would you recommend something else?

I also see all of you have the X cpu, has anyone tried the K one? i read that they overclock to round about the same speed. hence why im thinking of saving a couple hundred euros and going with the K.

[dinos22]

uninstall ET6 gmeup and put a fan on PWM heatsink

[Marvin82]

Right, and disabled Eist and C1E
Fan at the PWM

[gmeup]

uninstall ET6 gmeup and put a fan on PWM heatsink

ok!

[gmeup]

Right, and disabled Eist and C1E
Fan at the PWM

Yeh I tried disabling this and wheather its on or off it makes no difference to my issue but i leave it disabled.

[sin0822]

what about when you put a fan over the VRM heatsink like Dino suggested?

[burningrave101]

http://www.guru3d.com/article/gigabyte-x79-ud7-review/1

Solid review, they gave the UD7 high marks and were able to overclock to 5Ghz with it

[stasio]

New beta BIOS is out.

[sin0822]

new BIOS adds more LLC levels, like % which is what i was hoping for, it also helps BLCk OC a bit.

[Highendtoys]

So I finally got my X79-UD7 system put together... sadly it will not even POST. It stops on debug code 6A(IOH SMM initialization - WTF is this?). No beeps. Also one of the fans doesn't start spinning immediately. If I remove all the RAM it does beep. If I remove the video card it does not beep. I also tried my GTX 260, but no luck. I've tried running with the RAM in like every possible configuration. Any ideas?

PSU - Corsair AX1200
RAM - 16gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3-2000
GFX - GTX 560 Ti (til the new card shows up...)
SSD - OCZ Vertex 3 120gb

I have the same problem with my UD7. I've tried a different PSU, different RAM, different video card, no video card, no RAM and everything in between including the mobo on a box. Did you ever find anything that worked?

[Russian]

Running the F4C BIOS and it appears to have fixed the UEFI issue I had with my mouse not going side to side.

I've also been having a lot of fun trying to get DDR3-2400MHz kit from Kingston running on this board.

Nobody could actually tell me what the benefits of the F4C bios were, but considering that the last bios i had was F3K I was willing to take a chance and see if some of my problems were resolved.

I just spent the better part of 2 days trying to battle random lockups on this board and I basically ended up swapping everything out and I could not figure out the problem. I'm still cautious about it working now, but it really seemed like a southbridge issue.

[Russian]

Running the F4C BIOS and it appears to have fixed the UEFI issue I had with my mouse not going side to side.

I've also been having a lot of fun trying to get DDR3-2400MHz kit from Kingston running on this board.

Nobody could actually tell me what the benefits of the F4C bios were, but considering that the last bios i had was F3K I was willing to take a chance and see if some of my problems were resolved.

I just spent the better part of 2 days trying to battle random lockups on this board and I basically ended up swapping everything out and I could not figure out the problem. I'm still cautious about it working now, but it really seemed like a southbridge issue.

Also, if you wish to run a 3rd party RAID controller like my LSI 9265-8i you need to go into the bios and change the PCI setting from EFI to Legacy so the board doesn't throw a 96 post code whenever you try to boot with it installed.

[sin0822]

F4C was not so great, try F4D, it has a lot of OC improvements for the most part.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

F4C was not so great, try F4D, it has a lot of OC improvements for the most part.

is the coldboot issue resolved?

[sin0822]

I haven't checked. I haven't had a chance to even use the cold.
LLC levels have been added, instead of 0% then 60% then 80% and then 100% it now is in 15% incriments from 0-200.
What was fixed to a great extent was the BLCk divders and blck in general, here i posted these at HWbot, but ill post them here too.
BTW this is F4D quad: http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2141871

best my memory or i guess CPU can do. But i can push BLCk to 128 easily so at least its not limited by that like it was before with the 1.25 multiplier. I used some crap cheap crosair DDR3 2000 XMS kit, I can tighten up those timings a bit. But I just corrupted the OS lol, i am reinstalling windows now.

with 1.00 i can get 106blck: http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2141832 opposed to like 102 with previous BIOS, but with slight bump in voltage(vcore)
And 128 here too: http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2141909 i think ima try for higher tho with this divider.

Before i could only do like 101-103blck with 1.00 divider, and 1.25 with 100 was hit and miss, now its much much better.

BTW anyone know where they are in stock? they seem to be out of stock everywhere? I have a few people asking where to buy one, anyone just place and order?

[stasio]

F4 on tt forum

[Russian]

I would love to flash with F4, since there's a good chance my USB 3.0 COULD be caused by the F4C BIOS.

Why aren't there any release notes? i'd love to know what the differences are between all the BIOS

[stasio]

F4 will be soon on GB web page with release notes.

[sin0822]

after testing LLC between F4D and F4, i have to say whoever coded or tested LLC on F4, ( maybe hicookie?), that is bar none the best LLC i have ever seen. it is like its an AMD board without droop at all, i get 2-3mv change under load like so its 1.5v set and 4.5ghz i get 1.503 idle and 1.506 full load 12 threads. I am watching the current input change greatly, yet i see the voltage just act as if it was ready, that is sickest LLC ever.

LLC level 30%

[sin0822]

Ok so I was just so impressed, i got a bit carried away and i tested all the levels, here are my results:

[eva2000]

Sweet looking very good on UD7 for LLC - thanks for sharing