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

Very Disappointed:
Had my P67A UD4 B3 and i5 2500k for 1 week now and already had loads of BSOD happening at totally random times and under idle and load conditions.
Most of the time i have been running at 4.4ghz (temps 30-32c idle 50c-58c full load depending on OC) but i have tried higher clocks, lower clocks and different bios settings and even beta bios's to try to root out the cause of the problem with no luck.
I am now running with completely stock optimized defaults in bios plus my 1600mhz ram at 1333mhz and IF it still BSOD on me all the time i will contact amazon and try to return all the upgrade parts i bought to build this my 1st intel system.
This was supposed to be a kick ass gaming rig upgrade not a kick in the ass lol.
 
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Run the @BIOS program that you should have installed from the motherboard driver disk, make sure you are running the F3 Bios. I was having the same problem till I did this. Just make sure that you run up your PC with one stick of ram when you do so, its more stable that way. Once bios has been updated then you can put both back in.

Also make sure that you installed ALL drivers for your mainboard. BSOD can be a direct result of not installing your drivers.
 
thanks for the info people.
At completely stock optimised default settings using version F3 bios it BSOD within a few mins.
All cd drivers are installed and all bios revisions have been done with the latest @BIOS from the gigabyte website.
I am now back to running QPU/VTT at 1.1 (as it wont boot up for long without this setting)
I will report back on how it goes, i would be happy with 4.4ghz stable.
seen BSOD code 0x014 and 0x019 so i guess it could be my mobo not liking my ram but i can't afford to swap it out just to see the BSOD's continue, have tested my ram and its fine.
8gb G-skill 1600mhz ram code: F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL 9-9-9-24 1.5v running it in bios with the profile1 option which correctly detects its settings etc i then changed its turbo mode to normal mode to see if that helps.
 
Just a quick note guys. Using offset voltage on the F3 bios massively reduced my vdroop. Instead of 1.43 I now only need 1.4 for Prime Blend stability - probably allot less for Lynx, Small FFTS or IBT.
 
Update: had to set my ram to 1333mhz non turbo mode even though its on the vendor supported list as 1600mhz for the P67A Ud4 B3 in order to not BSOD. changed OC to 4.4ghz via main ratio option and not in turbo by each core option and updated to bios F3D as i got a boot loop cold start problem. Now it seems to be stable and no BSOD although it's early days yet !!
 
I have had this board for just over a month and have it stable at 4.6Ghz
1.34V (have not tried to push it beyond 1.34V). Good board and eay to use BIOS.
Have experienced the 'cyclic boot' problem, but only after a failed OC, and problem was resolved shorting the CMOS pins.
Only problem i am having is the S3 sleep not working correctly. If the speedstep has the cpu throttled to 1.6ghz when i sleep, it will not budge from 1.6Ghz when i resume. Or if i sleep with all powersaving disabled, by Vcore drops from 1.34 to 1.28, making my system unstable and a core will fail instantly in Prime95, or BSOD. Have tried everything including disabling PLL OV
Hope this will be fixed in a bios update as i miss the sleep function.
Gigabyte tech support say they are not having a similar problem much to my frustration.
 
I need some help overclocking with this motherboard.

I have an i5 2500k, any help on how to overclock would be really appreciated. I have tried googling for some guides but I cant find any that really show a step by step process of the best settings to use.

My ram is Corsair Vengeance 8Gb 15000C9
 
icehot said:
I need some help overclocking with this motherboard.

I have an i5 2500k, any help on how to overclock would be really appreciated. I have tried googling for some guides but I cant find any that really show a step by step process of the best settings to use.

My ram is Corsair Vengeance 8Gb 15000C9
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Please respect that i am trying to help and these settings work for me which means they may not work for you but at least you can see what i have done to finally get 4.4ghz stable under bios F3D.
if you follow my exact settings You do so at your own risk.

1st. I would recommend leaving your ram at default bios settings (1333mhz)
while you sort out a stable OC but its up to you.
My ram is listed as a usable ram for the ud4 b3 board at 1600mhz but it blue screens the pc so i had to run it at 1333mhz and in normal mode (non turbo)!!

First go into bios and enter Advanced Frequency Settings
put for example 44 into cpu clock ratio
Enter advanced cpu features and change CPU PLL to enable
now save and exit bios and see if its stable.
For me i still had to slightly alter my voltages as described below.
I went into advanced voltage settings and put cpu vcore to normal and dynamic vcore dvid to +0.005 as some games were shutting down unexpectedly and these settings so far seem to have fixed it.
I saved and exited bios and so far it's been stable and no blue screens

hope this gives you some idea of how to proceed.
 
icehot said:
I need some help overclocking with this motherboard.

I have an i5 2500k, any help on how to overclock would be really appreciated. I have tried googling for some guides but I cant find any that really show a step by step process of the best settings to use.

My ram is Corsair Vengeance 8Gb 15000C9
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Use this instead: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/01/07/how-to-overclock-the-intel-core-i5-2500k/4

Make sure you test stability with 8 hours Prime Blend and not the approach above.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Installed a UD4-B3 on Saturday and seems to be working fine so far.

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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All you have to do is synchronise the main and backup bios by switching the machine on and holding ALT+F12 down until it tells you it is doing the synchronising, after that your troubles will be history;)

Also ignore any advice regarding bios revisions from the 'B2' version of the board, the latest bios for the B3 revision is F3.
 
Thanks for the help guys. Overclocked to 4.5Ghz with no problems so far and the Corsair H70 is keeping it at 22' under no load.

Will run prime today and make sure its stable.
 
I will be getting this board as part of an OC overclock bundle.

I take it becuase it will already be overclocked and everything I should just leave it as it is and install it all and not worry about the BIOS or anything as updating it will whipe the overclock?
 
Slade2 said:
I will be getting this board as part of an OC overclock bundle.

I take it becuase it will already be overclocked and everything I should just leave it as it is and install it all and not worry about the BIOS or anything as updating it will whipe the overclock?
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yes just leave it as it is. If you update the bios you will lose all OC settings.
If it comes pre over clocked leave it like it and let the company deal with it all should you have any problems
 
beh* said:
I think they have been replaced by the Z68 variants. There is a thread about this on XS.
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Thats a pitta was thinking of getting that board and using Mushkin Copperhead Ram with it would have looked good with the gold on the board.
 
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