Gigabyte P67A-UD7 in the house

Nope pot luck - the batch numbers mean very little. You can have ten CPU's from the same batch and 2 will clock. And the rest will be average. So far I have one CPU that will do 5.4GHz bench-able. That is average in my book. :)
 
Nothing at all. I have been rather brutal to the first retail CPU I had. And in my efforts to get the most out of it I even took the voltages up to 1.7 volts. :D

But I was quite comfortable doing that knowing I have a good water cooling set up and that my temps never got out of hand. 24/7 would not do that of course.

I can still boot into OS and run any of my benchmarks stable at 5GHz with the same voltages that I did on day one. 1.440 on the core.
 
Well that is not really sub standard. But I get what you mean. With my first retail CPU I will keep that. As I keep the first one of each chip-set or socket change. I collect them. It benches at 5.4GHz so for me to keep one of these they have to be better than that.

Binning takes about 1 hour per CPU. If all are not what I want all get sold. 4 new CPU's bought and the process repeated. That is why I do not buy OEM any-more. 3 Year Intel guaranty is important when I sell on to others.

Hope that makes sense. Just imagine what it is like with 980X CPU's :D
 
Darn I should have mentioned that. I only use the profile 1 (XMP profile) it removes so much of the bother. Once you have your multi sorted then you start to fiddle with the ram timings. One thing at a time is the best way forward.
 
I have used 2 x 4 GB GSkill ram at 2133MHz.

For benching I use 2 x 2 GB mainly because I can really tighten the timings of the ram to Cas6 @ 1866 MHz

This is what I am currently benching.

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You should still be able to over-clock as high as before with the new official BIOS. The PLL over voltage enable is now simply automatic I understand.

What GIGA are going to be doing is as much a mystery to me as to you unfortunately.



This CPU is my precious as Gollum was won't to say.
 
Try these settings

BIOS F7e

CPU Options ----> PLL Overrider enabled

vCore 1.440
PLL 1.76
Vtt Auto

All other Auto

Set Multi to 50 leave BCLK default
F10 enter
Boot into OS done deal


PLEASE note that PLL overrider is not suitable for 24/7 use. Use BIOS F7 or F7h for 24/7 use.
 
That particular bios was written purely so we could try the x58 and x59 multi. It is not the most efficiently of BIOS and as a bencher I tend to use the bios that is the most efficient. F7e is the best currently.
 
Not in the sense that would make any difference to a 24/7 user no. You see the PLL overrider which is contained in that and other bios's is not meant to be used for 24/7 use. It is there only for those who wish to bench or overclock their system to the max.

I would suggest using the F7 bios for 24/7 use.
 
Which of the ports, if the two white ones are the SATA3 ports are you using for your RAID? The two to the right of the white ones?

Not sure how many people want more than 8 SATA ports to be quite honest, but since the X58A-UD3A does have 10 ports I guess people do. I wonder if it is because the board is aimed at the enthusiast or gamer who will over clock their system and not really use it as a storage device. But I agree with you it would be better to have a few more ports.
 
I suspect that your PSU is not up for the job at hand. And as a result of the two cards drawing power from both the board (2 x 175w) and the 4 in total PCi-e connectors are causing a irregularity on your 12Volt rail. That will result in insufficient voltage being supplied to your CPU. Or flutter on the 12v rail which results in the same thing.

To combat that I would suggest enabling LLC1 in the CPU options. Certainly will help, but dependant on your PSU type and rail type can not be 100% sure that it will fix. Upping the vCore manually is not a bad idea. For 4.4 I would suspect that 1.34 vcore would be fine but again that is dependant on the hardware. Each CPU is unique in its needs.

Re the Marvel raid thing. Give me a few hours to play around with my set up and let me see if I can duplicate your problem. I suspect that it might be a Marvel issue as you say.




Edit: You need to flash your BIOS to F7 - there was an fix for 3TB and larger hard drives.
 
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That is a dormant feature at this point. What it is meant to do is allow on the fly multi changes in OS. So when you have it enabled you can change multi in the OS using EasyTunes6. But as I say it has not been implemented as yet. You can change the BCLK with EasyTunes6. Bare in mind that what ever you select with ET6 will be set in your BIOS. Just keep that in mind.
 
Yeah - not sure that there is any board out there that offers 3 x16 PCi lanes. But the PCi x1 lane is blocked and pretty useless in its current location.

Good luck with the next board.
 
I will be getting a B3 revision board yes - I tend to collect them. Have pretty much each board and their revisions since I started benching. You never know which board will be the most efficient until you test it yourself. Personally I have never even used my SATA ports yet.

Not sure there will be any need to a major BIOS change but since it will be a rev2 board their will perforce be a separate product and therefore BIOS selection.
 
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