I5 2500k - Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Overclocking

MOOGLEYS · 4 Jan 2012 at 22:45

Well I spoke to soon. Whilst in standby it decided to start cold booting again.
2 hours later I now have a dead SSD. Enough is enough with this god awful board it's going back as not fit for purpose and I will get something else. I will also claim from Gigabyte for my now dead SSD.

I'm on the 7B bios.

Jay794 · 4 Jan 2012 at 22:55

I have this board with an i7 and it's been working ok for me so far, just high temps with a stock cooler, waiting for my H100 so I can get up to 5Ghz

Neil79 · 4 Jan 2012 at 23:00

MOOGLEYS said:
Well I spoke to soon. Whilst in standby it decided to start cold booting again.
2 hours later I now have a dead SSD. Enough is enough with this god awful board it's going back as not fit for purpose and I will get something else. I will also claim from Gigabyte for my now dead SSD.

I'm on the 7B bios.

MOOGLEYS can you please report this issue and everything that has gone with your board on to GIGABYTE?

http://ggts.gigabyte.com/tech.asp?ClassID=2&Country=U.K.&SourceWeb=B2C

MOOGLEYS · 4 Jan 2012 at 23:08

Neil79 said:
MOOGLEYS can you please report this issue and everything that has gone with your board on to GIGABYTE?

http://ggts.gigabyte.com/tech.asp?ClassID=2&Country=U.K.&SourceWeb=B2C

Yes mate will do.

Neil79 · 4 Jan 2012 at 23:16

Please do thanks, I've been updating them for the last week and a half, they've been releasing bios after bios probably trying to fix it

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MOOGLEYS · 4 Jan 2012 at 23:25

Neil79 said:
Please do thanks, I've been updating them for the last week and a half, they've been releasing bios after bios probably trying to fix it .

I have just forced the board into a cold boot by changing the settings until it has a fit and it has now just recovered the bios to F3 I believe.
With this bios I cannot get it to go into the cold boot issues no matter what I do. It just comes up with the overclocking message has failed and boots to the bios ?

My SSD is working again it must have just shut down for a bit...

Neil79 · 4 Jan 2012 at 23:29

Best way to deal with the cold boot issue is when it shuts off, take the psu cable out the back for about 5-10secs plug it back in, it should start up again and be fine.

MOOGLEYS · 4 Jan 2012 at 23:31

Neil79 said:
Best way to deal with the cold boot issue is when it shuts off, take the psu cable out the back for about 5-10secs plug it back in, it should start up again and be fine.

Yeah I just pull the plug. I'm going to have a go with the F3 bios as so far it will not go into a cold boot. All seems to be running fine clocked to 4.6ghz at 1.35V as well. Will see how it goes, any idea what they have added in the later updates past F3 ?

Neil79 · 4 Jan 2012 at 23:38

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http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3912&dl=1#bios

Give it a week and see if it cold boots , Mine didn't cold boot for 3 days on the F7B bios but was awful with F7C

MOOGLEYS · 5 Jan 2012 at 00:03

What's the top safe temp of the i5 2500k ? I'm getting a max of 77.c under burn test max according to core temp. My cores are all over the place in temps sometimes nearly 15.c difference is this normal ?

So far no issues with the F3 bios and changing settings but will give it a few days..

MOOGLEYS · 5 Jan 2012 at 00:04

Double post..

Neil79 · 5 Jan 2012 at 00:21

MOOGLEYS said:
What's the top safe temp of the i5 2500k ? I'm getting a max of 77.c under burn test max according to core temp. My cores are all over the place in temps sometimes nearly 15.c difference is this normal ? .

Yep

MOOGLEYS · 5 Jan 2012 at 02:09

I have just tried the 7B bios again but this time with all settings to auto apart from ram which is set to 1600mhz on a standard profile. I have overclocked to 4.6ghz using turbo boost setting the cores all to 46. Everything else is either auto or default inc cpu voltage.
So far I cannot get it to cold boot it just does as the F3 bios and comes up with the "There was a problem with your overclock message".

Will keep testing away and see if anything happens.

MOOGLEYS · 5 Jan 2012 at 09:34

Same cold booting issue this morning with either BIOS and stock settings.

Board is going back today and will order a replacement later. Last time I use a gigabyte board.

Edit - just rang the retailer for an rma and was told that they have had a lot of these boards returned for this issue?

matt100 · 5 Jan 2012 at 09:52

So are you guys having this even at stock?

As I said earlier I had exactly the same thing with a Gigabyte X58 board but pulling the plug didn't work but then I was faffing with some extremes on the board when it fell into the boot loop problem and wouldn't come back.

With this board I've set it to 4ghz which is nowhere near the outer limits and it's been rock solid on F6.

MOOGLEYS · 5 Jan 2012 at 09:57

matt100 said:
So are you guys having this even at stock?

As I said earlier I had exactly the same thing with a Gigabyte X58 board but pulling the plug didn't work but then I was faffing with some extremes on the board when it fell into the boot loop problem and wouldn't come back.

With this board I've set it to 4ghz which is nowhere near the outer limits and it's been rock solid on F6.

I get the problem at stock. It seems to make no difference if overclocked or not. It has once again stopped my ssd working and each time I have to put it in an old system to get it going again....
Board is out now and in its box which tbh is the safest place for it....

Neil79 · 5 Jan 2012 at 11:24

MOOGLEYS said:
Same cold booting issue this morning with either BIOS and stock settings.

Board is going back today and will order a replacement later. Last time I use a gigabyte board.

Edit - just rang the retailer for an rma and was told that they have had a lot of these boards returned for this issue?

Yet this morning, no cold boot issue whatsoever... This Z68XP board issue is finicky!

Neil79 · 5 Jan 2012 at 11:26

Also just read this

Mine seems to be resolved after using DVID instead of LLC for overclocking. System booted up on first try.

Had a reply from Gigabyte support

Hi,

Yes F7A is older. Please update and feedback the result. We have test both F7C and F7a and it solve the cold boot issue.

They are not listening at all, I've got people on other forums saying that the F7C doesn't solve the cold boot issue, sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. I could boot later and be stuck on the cold boot issue. So far they've released F7A, F7B and F7C each time support says " it solves the cold boot issue ". I found F7C to be a terrible bios release, F7B lasted 3 days before it cold booted. A number of users found that the F7A and F7B cold boot issues started straight away.

Also being told constantly how to update the bios correctly by some is annoying, just because the bios was cleared, voltage cleared out and bios backed up doesn't fix the main cause.

Think i'll give up, if the cold boot issue happens I'll just pull the PSU plug, put it back in and have it boot as normal, Then use the system as when it's up and running it's perfect.

Neil79 · 6 Jan 2012 at 15:38

MOOGLEYS said:
I get the problem at stock. It seems to make no difference if overclocked or not. It has once again stopped my ssd working and each time I have to put it in an old system to get it going again....
Board is out now and in its box which tbh is the safest place for it....

Another reply from Gigabyte support!

Answer - 1173826
Answer : Hi,
If the problem still persist we suggest please return the board to the dealer for further check.

Attached is the latest F7b BIOS.
Attachment :
Attach file z8xpud3p.f7b ( 1620 KB ) :

http://ggts.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/1173826/z8xpud3pf7b.rar

Another Cold Boot issue Bios released...

Jay794 · 6 Jan 2012 at 23:13

Seems like Gigabyte are releasing BIOS updates every day lol