Gigabyte P67A-UD3 ?

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Is this the best of the p67 board to get an a very tight budget? I dont want to spend anymore, so are any of the cheaper boards better or equal to it ?
Thanks for any help :)
 
It is the UD3R - sorry there are three or four different UD3 boards. Was not sure which you meant or if you just meant the UD3 range. My apologies.

However

Same BIOS same PCB just different colour. Same power delivery, same components. Maybe a few features different. But I still stand by my statement, the best bang for buck P67 board out there.
 
I have the P67A-UD3 and its been fine for me.

Havn't done any over-clocking yet, but to be honest I have no need right now as a 3.3ghz i5 2500k is nippy enough.

But in terms of general bog standard use, I've had no issues so far unlike a lot of the asus boards seem to have, and everything is running smoothly. BIOS is a little primitive (probably the one before these new snazzy ones on more expensive boards), but it does the job.
 
Clarkson said:
I have the P67A-UD3 and its been fine for me.

Havn't done any over-clocking yet, but to be honest I have no need right now as a 3.3ghz i5 2500k is nippy enough.

But in terms of general bog standard use, I've had no issues so far unlike a lot of the asus boards seem to have, and everything is running smoothly. BIOS is a little primitive (probably the one before these new snazzy ones on more expensive boards), but it does the job.
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Gigabyte boards all have the option to run the new snazzy bios. But I think they are waiting till they have all the bugs sorted before putting the bios update out into the world.

Yip that is all it will take - one bios update.
 
Thanks guys, Going to order tomorrow :) and getting things delivered next friday for a weekend building session, Got 3 pc's to build :P
 
I would hold off, all the ultra low end P67 boards seem to be suffering from LLC not working very well and having bad vdroop.

I've been working on the P67A-UD3 and LLC is basically non functional all the way up to the latest F6c bios so far. So that means for 4.4Ghz stable you need to push it to 1.4V in bios which gives you 1.32V under load :( I'm just not happy with that 24/7 and even less happy at what I will have to push to get it to 4.6Ghz

Its taken me three nights of testing to get this far and I've watched many others with more capable mobos plug in, whack it up to 4.6 on auto and just go. Then they start tweaking to get pretty reliable clocks up to 4.8Ghz.

Yes 5.0+ needs silly volts but I'd probably have to put 1.7v through a UD3 to get there :(
 
Biffa the new BIOS F7e fixes that issue as far as I know. It was released last night.
 
It was fine for me up to 4.4 but needed serious volts because of 0.1V vdroop :( Any movement on upping the multi to 4.5 wouldn't even boot past the bios.

The MSI I replaced it with went straight in at 4.5 and I'm now testing 4.6 expecting to move on from there before starting to tweak my volts down and find a happy medium.

I spent days getting the GB setup so it was stable but the MSI was a couple of minutes at most.

YMMV of course. But I only changed the board not the cpu or ram and the MSI is sweet as a nut.
 
NathWraith said:
The P67A-UD3 is the best selling low end P67 motherboard.

Whilst not a looker in comparison to the other Gigabyte boards, it performs well.
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You guys really need to get the ASRock P67 Extreme4 into your stock. It has very good reviews, it's only a few quid more than the Gigabyte P67A-UD3 elsewhere yet has SLI support, proper 8x/8x/4x support on the PCI-E and its USB3 performance outclasses the best of the P67 boards. Oh, and LLC works perfectly (re:Biffa saying lower end boards = bad Vdroop). Using Level 2 (so not even the most agressive) LLC, my Vcore drops by 0.01v on load, if I set it to level 1 Vcore actually increases under load.
 
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