Gigabyte P67A-UD7 in the house

Wow 1Day you robbed a bank :) Do you know anything about the batch numbers these 4 are from or is it take pot luck !

@ qbazdz , i agree it a poor looking cooler , they might as well give us money off and reduce the cost.
 
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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. :)
 
1Day said:
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. :)
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Have you noticed any degrading of cpu results with extra volts and high clocks in your benchies?
 
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
 
I tried a different approach tonight as i was getting annoyed with the cycling starts, so i enabled profile 1 for the memory and then just altered the multi , no more cycling just booted fine , not massive clocks yet but everything seems happier including me :) , I noticed profile 1 sets command rate at 2T instead of default 1T so perhaps thats why people are experiencing this multi boot thing as i have also read on xtreme the same problem.
 
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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Hi guys just a quick question. How many DIMMs are you running? Andy, for your 8Gig is it 2 or 4?
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I am running 2 x 4gigs slots 1 &3, its GSkill 1866 (8.9.8.24.2T) @1.65v seems to be nice ram , just click profile1 and away it goes.

@ Day1 nice 1155 cpu you have there ! is is one from the new batch ?
I notice the F7 bios has removed PLL interface from the user do you think this is the way they are going at Gigabyte ?
 
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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.
 
I thought id post a pic, i added a different res this weekend so i could move the Gfx to slot 1, bit Lanboy im affraid :o


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I might just take another cpu and see how it compares and sell the weaker one
 
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Cheers Andy and 1Day. I was running 4 modules (4x2Gb) but I was having some stability issues so I've had to take 2 sticks out.

Also , anyone know when and official BIOS for this board will be out as F7a is only a Beta.
 
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