Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4 Intel P67 revision 3 ANY GOOD?

rjkoneill said:
i have swapped to a ud4 last night and using the F3B
can find a link later if anyone wants it.

superb bios, brilliant board for the money.
the b3 revision has pll overvoltage as standard [something the b2 lacked]
wish i had just got that in the first place.
cant fault gigabyte recently. their motherboards are solid, they have even made them look better now too!
sure they may not have the features of the asus pricepoint equivalents but i would take a stable system over bluetooth connectivity any day of the week :D
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Thanks thats the kinda of feedback i wanted to hear. Just need to see how much cash i get for my birthday tommo!!!
 
nothing really

allowed me to push my chip higher.

had much bigger clocks on my asus pro but it suffered from random bsods

8 hours prime stable at 5GHz then restart and bsod within an hour. even at lower clocks it was happening. possibly just had a dodgy example
 
rjkoneill said:
nothing really

allowed me to push my chip higher.

had much bigger clocks on my asus pro but it suffered from random bsods

8 hours prime stable at 5GHz then restart and bsod within an hour. even at lower clocks it was happening. possibly just had a dodgy example
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So what clocks are you running on the UD4? I'm thinking about getting that one instead when I do the B3 replacement
 
Vertigo1 said:
One weird thing I have noticed is that, when I reboot the machine, sometimes it seems to have two or three "goes" at it before coming back up, powering off in between, whereas most times it's fine.
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I'm having the exact same issue with my B3 that I installed on Saturday. One instance occured when I used the Quick Boost utility in Smart 6 that comes on the gigabyte driver disk and once when I tried to manually OC the mulitplier to 40 in the bios. Rebooted and then got stuck in some kind of cycle where it would start up, not lokad into bios then a couple of seconds later restart and go through the same cycle. Only way I could break the cycle was by powering off the PSU, leaving for a minute then powering back on again. When I got it back on I went back into the bios and the mulitplier had rest to 33.
Will be interest to know if anybody else had this and if they have fixed it.
 
rjkoneill said:
8 hours prime stable at 5GHz then restart and bsod within an hour. even at lower clocks it was happening. possibly just had a dodgy example
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I post in another thread about this but I too have switched from the Asus P8P67 Pro. Recieved lots of blue screens at idle even thought it was rime stable at 4.8Ghz.
 
justintime2001 said:
I ordered the new B3 UD4 from OC this morning and it should be here Wednesday :) I cannot find the F3B BIOS though, only the F2, can you point me in the right direction please?
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SeeknDestroy said:
So what clocks are you running on the UD4? I'm thinking about getting that one instead when I do the B3 replacement
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so far, i am at 4.7 using 1.325v i have pushed higher and can get prime stability at 5ghz but it is a little unrefined. i want a more developed bios from giga tbh. i cant see why my chip pushes beyond 5ghz on an asus board but hits limits much earlier on the gigabyte. the boards are not supposed to have too much impact on clocking, but it seems that either im doing something wrong or that it was a bad move putting 1.45v through the cpu :eek:
 
jazzhands said:
I'm having the exact same issue with my B3 that I installed on Saturday. One instance occured when I used the Quick Boost utility in Smart 6 that comes on the gigabyte driver disk and once when I tried to manually OC the mulitplier to 40 in the bios. Rebooted and then got stuck in some kind of cycle where it would start up, not lokad into bios then a couple of seconds later restart and go through the same cycle. Only way I could break the cycle was by powering off the PSU, leaving for a minute then powering back on again. When I got it back on I went back into the bios and the mulitplier had rest to 33.
Will be interest to know if anybody else had this and if they have fixed it.
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Well, FWIW, I'm not overclocking anything at all at present but, when the issue occurs, if I check the BIOS then I get a warning about a failed overclock and having to reset things as a result.
 
Ok, so I switched to a UD4 last night and in the 10 mins or so I was able to fully use it I was impressed. It's actually the first time I was able to boot into the OS at 4.9 - My old P8P67 Pro wouldn't budge no matter how much vcore I used.
 
I have now installed my new B3 UD4 and it is running very well with the original F1 BIOS which it arrived with. I have turned my ram up to 1600Mhz with no ill effects but I dont overclock the cpu.

I did have the B2 revision of the UD4 and experienced the same problems with getting stuck in a cycle that some are having with the B3 revision, but no such problems with the B3?
 
Vertigo1 said:
Well, FWIW, I'm not overclocking anything at all at present but, when the issue occurs, if I check the BIOS then I get a warning about a failed overclock and having to reset things as a result.
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I get the same thing at the moment. I'm hoping that I can get to the bottom of it tonight.
 
pull out the cmos battery for 30 secs then put back .then restart pc. it was the only way i could stop the pc from doing restart cycle now all fine even with my overclock :)
 
should recieve my B3 UD4 board and i5 2000k on monday. Will be watercooling it as well!! for those who have manged to overclock the i5 over 4ghz could you post screen shots of your bios, so i can apply the same settings.

Would be much appriciated.

Tony
 
ive been busy overclocking my 2600k on the B3 UD4 trying to get a nice stable low temperature clock. here is my best so far:

all versions of diagnostic programes are up to date as far as i know!

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this is running prime blend. its not been running for long in the screen shot (about 20 mins) but ive had it running overnight last night with no errors! :)

any suggestions welcome. im using a watercooling loop for my cpu with a single 140 double thick rad and prolimatech red vortex fans on it. its a tidy setup i should get around to posting some pics of it when i get my camera back off the missus!
 
I have the same stop start boot issue with a UD3-B3.

What is strange is that you can easily set an overclock up and it works.

Reboot, works
Cold shutdown, works
BSOD in prime, reboot, works
Whatever

But one in every X starts it will do this fail to start and then you lose the overclock settings. There is no consistency with it.

I presume a bios update will fix this. As of now there is no beta bios available for the UD3 - only the first release is available.
 
Frank_Rizzo said:
I have the same stop start boot issue with a UD3-B3.

What is strange is that you can easily set an overclock up and it works.

Reboot, works
Cold shutdown, works
BSOD in prime, reboot, works
Whatever

But one in every X starts it will do this fail to start and then you lose the overclock settings. There is no consistency with it.

I presume a bios update will fix this. As of now there is no beta bios available for the UD3 - only the first release is available.
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Removing the battery worked for me. Only cold boots when I change bios now...

I needed 1.43 to get 4.8Ghz blend stable.

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Note the vdroop.
 
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