installed my ud5 last night, setup the raid 1 on my f3's, its the first time i've setup raid on my home pc so not sure if this is normal but if i let the raid setup use the disks maximum size the windows installation couldnt see the drive regardless of what drivers i used, if i set the maximum size slightly smaller 980gb vs 999.something it seemed to work absolutly fine without having to load any drivers. not had a chance yet to start any testing or overclocking but all good so far
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maybe theres a 1TB limit...
yup probably but i'm not sure how i exceeded that as they are both 1TB disks so in raid 1 arent more than 1TB lol.
update - now realise in an epic display of buffoonery that i'd reset the bios and ended up setting the sata controller back to ide, i still only saw one disc rather than two, but you'd think i'd have noticed that the raid controller wasnt initialising anymore, quick rebuild today and sorted, my problems was the sequence of swapping driver/os disc, win 7 just gives a random error code rather than asking for the disc to be put back in lol.
update - now realise in an epic display of buffoonery that i'd reset the bios and ended up setting the sata controller back to ide, i still only saw one disc rather than two, but you'd think i'd have noticed that the raid controller wasnt initialising anymore, quick rebuild today and sorted, my problems was the sequence of swapping driver/os disc, win 7 just gives a random error code rather than asking for the disc to be put back in lol.
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Ive got Asus CFV and already installed and then it so easy to set up plus cool with UEFI BIOS - no problems at all and I wait for BD CPU in few months as Im still using X6 1100t into new mobo -- prefect running.
the ud5 compared to my previous 880gm udh2 the cpu is a few degrees cooler, and i am getting the same numbers in the cinebench 11.5 test at 3.9ghz as i did on the previous board at 4ghz, memory/nb/ht all the same as my previous overclock. I'm finding overclocking slightly harder on this board which i'm putting down to there being a lot more settings i can change lol dont understand half of them yet.
currently at 3.9 ghz on my 1090t and still have cool'n'quiet and c1e enabled so the machine is nice and quiet for the most part.
currently at 3.9 ghz on my 1090t and still have cool'n'quiet and c1e enabled so the machine is nice and quiet for the most part.
Returning my UD5 next week. Just don't get along with Gigabyte boards at all, it would seem... clunky BIOS, imprecise VCore settings, a PCI-E x1 slot that can't be used... ugh. Getting a Sabertooth instead.
yeah i've noticed the vcore :S hope that gets sorted with a bios update, the pci-e x1 thing i knew about before getting the board but its still seems a bit of an odd design flaw. It is a bit dissapointing these flaws given gigabyte's reputation and i had a good experience with my previous board considering it was a low end board, overall i'm still happy but think there are some things that need addressed.
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Returning my UD5 next week. Just don't get along with Gigabyte boards at all, it would seem... clunky BIOS, imprecise VCore settings, a PCI-E x1 slot that can't be used... ugh. Getting a Sabertooth instead.
Yes Asus Sabertooth look nice and good feature - I already using CFV that good one - both are good to buy, I used Gigabyte since 2001 until 2009 then changed to Asus cos Asus has good feature as Gigabyte still wee poor in design included using older type of BIOS. Im happy with my ASUS CFV that run so fast when download my own Big Fish Games software.
whats wrong with the vcore?
You can only set it in 0.025V steps, making it either 1.425 (way too low for me), 1.450 (not quite enough) or 1.475 (too hot with stock cooler). I'm used to 0.003125V increments on Asus boards.
Also, it doesn't actually set it to what you want - at the standard VID setting (1.425 supposedly) it actually feeds my X2 555 (locked or unlocked doesn't matter) roughly 1.52, which obviously is -way- too high.So yes, getting rid of that and going back to Asus.
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You can only set it in 0.025V steps, making it either 1.425 (way too low for me), 1.450 (not quite enough) or 1.475 (too hot with stock cooler). I'm used to 0.003125V increments on Asus boards.
So yes, getting rid of that and going back to Asus.
yeah it sets mine to 1.52v initially, but as soon as you load up the cores, say with prime it go's to whatever it was you set in the bios, 1.475v in my case, fortunatly with c1e and coolnquiet on mine drops to 1.34v when its at idle, not sure if its just misreporting it or whats going on seems very odd.
i'm uses to the 0.025v steps ,You can only set it in 0.025V steps, making it either 1.425 (way too low for me), 1.450 (not quite enough) or 1.475 (too hot with stock cooler). I'm used to 0.003125V increments on Asus boards.
So yes, getting rid of that and going back to Asus.
but when i get this board tomorrow i hope at stock the vcore goes to 1.30v when turbo is disabled. has my gigabyte 890fxa-ud5 does.
I am currently torn between
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-462-AS&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2046
and
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-350-GI&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2046
and
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-347-GI&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2046
What would you say is the best bang for buck MB. Out of them 3 the chances of me ever going SLI are a billion 2 one. But I do want a MB that is going to last about 3 years. (intend to get a BD next year.) But my current MB is crap and needs upgrade.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-462-AS&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2046
and
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-350-GI&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2046
and
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-347-GI&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2046
What would you say is the best bang for buck MB. Out of them 3 the chances of me ever going SLI are a billion 2 one. But I do want a MB that is going to last about 3 years. (intend to get a BD next year.) But my current MB is crap and needs upgrade.
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Get the M5A99X then, I'd say. I've got a UD5 that I'm anything but pleased with so I'm getting a Sabertooth instead. Was initially looking at the M5A99X though, if you're not planning on going SLI/CF then I'd get that. Asus is good stuff, I've still got a working A8N32-SLI Deluxe from 2005. Works like a dream and it's probably one of the best boards I've ever had.
yeah there is something odd about the ud5, this thread covers pretty much the same problem i'm having with it.
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=964688
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=964688
from what i've found the vcore setting in the bios never matches what is reported by hwmonitor or easytune. have you managed to do any overclocking yet? i'm having trouble getting anything stable past 3.9ghz whereas on my previous board i could reach 4.1ghz with my 1090t.
well my vcore in the bios (in pc heath) matches what is reported by hwmonitor and cpu-z....
i had a quick try at the oc at 4ghz with 1.375v (1.421v in pc heath) prime for about 10min and it didn't crash. will run it again for 8hours
your right it does seem to show the correct voltage in pchealth. what settings did you alter to get to 4ghz? i cant even get mine to boot into windows at the voltages your talking about. If i set the bios to auto for the stock cpu settings it sets the vcore to 1.52v when i look at it in pchealth.