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  1. Using F11a BIOS in combination with i7-3820 and of course the UD7. The weird behaviour is the following: After CMOS reset I enter the UEFI setup. Load optimized defaults, reboot, then enter the UEFI setup again. The system is running idle while staying in the setup. Everything is at its default value. NOW pressing any of the the power button (the mounted one at the corner, or the other one of the front panel header) the system hangs totally holding the last screen state on the display. Reset is okay then.

     

    Any newer BIOS?

     

    Thanks, George.

  2. Okay, F11a still has a bug, that was also present in the F10. When PCH 1.1V and PCH 1.5V voltages are set to "Normal" in the Chipset Voltage Control Section then the CPU does not receive its voltage set by the user.

     

    Eg. if the above mentioned voltages are set to "Normal" and CPU Vcore is set to 1.4V, then the CPU receives only 1.15V. If these are set to anothet value, then everything is okay.

     

    HGyu

  3. my 4.7GHz air chip did 5.3GHz subzero during some magazine photo shoot, it was the first time i took it subzero actually..... so expect a big clock boost when you go cold for sure

     

    I will try it for sure soon, and I will be reporting the results. Do you have some einformation about a new deta BIOS that does the very awaited miracle? :D

     

    Thanks, George

  4. Did you try flashing back from F10 to F8d from DOS? Former boards with SPIFlash allowed flashback via /y or /z parameter (force flash), that Q-Flash from BIOS or @flash at win did not allowed. Perhaps it will work also here. You suggest that I should try the F8d in contrary to F10?

     

    Confirmed, that parameters working with spiflash.exe do not work with efiflash.exe. :( I tried it 5 minutes ago. :(

     

    O.C. button does not do anything for me using BIOS version F10: Loaded UEFI Defaults, then save, then poweroff. Pressed O.C. button, booted to windows, and all the clock were the same (wprime1024M)...

  5. Not really. It's just a matter of having BIOS support for your memory kit. This kit did well on F8d, but completely fails on F10 (couldn't get anything to run aside from 'auto' frequency). Swapping out to GTX8 kit pretty much solved most of the memory related issues (DDR3-2400 within a couple of minutes)

     

    It has been the case since the absolute beginning. This 'bug' is present on a lot of boards; had it on the GD65 with 100bclk strap, saw it on the Evga boards, seen it on the GBT line-up, also present on the Biostar boards and so on.

     

    Zolkorn didn't have the bug on the GD65 when using 1.25x BCLK strap, so that might be worth a try on the giga too. Then again, it was possible to workaround this bug on GD65 too with the PLL override method, but that didn't work on giga.

     

    Ah, see. This F10 BIOS seems to do really weird things. If I set 1,5V for the VCore its just fine, using the Extreme LLC the measured voltage matches exactly the set one in BIOS, under light, heavy loads and also Idle, there is just 0,02...0,03V difference. I think that is far above from satisfactory results. :D

    But, when I set ALL settings form "Auto" to "normal" in the VRM and voltage control section, then VCore drops to 1,33V, and remains that until I revert changes to "Auto". Really weird.

     

    My memory seem to be okay using both F2 and F10 BIOS, some sticks of MGH-E Hypers.

     

    Also the lack of the naming of the OC profiles is a big drawback.

     

    Then there is the LLC. The BIOS ver. F2 set them by mohm, the F8d sets it via percentage levels, but this F10 version uses preset names for that (but the default indication still named 60%, LoL). I pretend to think that BIOS improvements(??) are a bit unconsideredly and hastily released. :(

  6. Been testing the F10 bios for the last couple of hours. It's ehrm, ..., not good. Let's just say I'm happy Ivy Bridge will replace X79 in most benchmarks ...

     

    Also, can't flash back to the F8d bios now because the BIOS image is outdated. F8d worked sort of okay ... not sure what to do now.

     

    //edit: I'm sure Dinos22 will not be happy about this, but I really can't understand this UD7 anymore. Between BIOS releases, there's such a large difference in overclocking capabilities. The board's behavior (debug) is so different as well. Sigh. Well, back to the bios ...

     

    Did you try flashing back from F10 to F8d from DOS? Former boards with SPIFlash allowed flashback via /y or /z parameter (force flash), that Q-Flash from BIOS or @flash at win did not allowed. Perhaps it will work also here. You suggest that I should try the F8d in contrary to F10?

     

    HGyu

  7. See that this thread was quite dead for 2 months. Since Gigabyte released F9 and F10 official BIOS-es, all previously released was removed from the main site. It's interesting. Were they so poor at OCing or bad desing? Still question. I ran through the posts, aned made some quick benching with my C2 3930K and brand new UD7 with the F2 BIOS as it arrived. Results are really bad, the previously written 4,8GHz clock wall occurs that many forum members wrote before. No matter what voltage, no matter what strap. I was just curious, now flashing the F10 official BIOS, and will write soon the results achieved by that.

     

    Bad thinking starts to overwhelm my brain that this board was a bad choice... :(

     

    HGyu

  8. The stage 1 limitations says that "Use 1 videocard core(s) in total" - Manufacturer should be MSI, or it could be from any vendor?

     

    The stage 1 limitations says that "Use 1 videocard core(s) in total" but the competition details says "This “MSI Sandy Bridge Evolution” contest is opened to overclockers worldwide, and requires MSI 6 series mainboards, N580GTX graphics cards and Intel 2500K or higher processors."

     

    The stage 1 limitations says that "Only use processors using socket LGA1155".

    Thus HD6970 or low-cost LGA1155 CPUs (such as Celeron G530, 540, etc.) are allowed or not?

     

    Thanks in advance, HGyu

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