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- Nov 28, 2001
My Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R just seems to refuse to be stable with the cpu close to or over 4GHz.
I originally had a i7-930 in this board and was never able to get it over 4GHz stable, but was easily able to overclock to anything lower then 4GHz and even undervolt at overclocked speeds just fine. The board is a champ up to 200Mhz (I didn't want to go beyond), so I figured it was just the CPU not liking the high overclock and just lived with it.
Here I have a i7-980x, which (according to the seller/bencher here) was benched on DI over 5GHz, ran daily around 4.4-4.5, and yet I still have the same exact problem as with the 930. I cannot get stable at anywhere near or over 4GHz. With the unlocked multiplier, I can just set it at a 29x multi with everything on auto (bios set volts @ 1.28125), and the system will be rock solid. I'm sure I could even undervolt the cpu (I haven't bothered to try) just like with the 930 and it would still be just fine. But get to a 29x multi and I start have random issues. 30x and above, I just seem to never be able to get stable.
I just tried again yesterday to go over 4GHz with the 980x. I tried for a 32x multi (4.2GHz) and could not even boot into Windows without upping the voltage to 1.36xxx. Eventually I got it to stop bluescreening at bootup with 1.38xxx, but it would still eventually blue screen. And even at 1.41xxx, it would still blue screen during test. I even dropped the multi to 31x (4.1GHz) and it still blue screened.
I'm going to try again over the weekend, so any suggestions would be most appreciated. One thing I do plan to do is install Windows with updates and required drivers on another drive and see it acts the same. I have alot of stuff installed on this current system, but even way back when everything was new (with the 930), it still had the same issue.
I originally had a i7-930 in this board and was never able to get it over 4GHz stable, but was easily able to overclock to anything lower then 4GHz and even undervolt at overclocked speeds just fine. The board is a champ up to 200Mhz (I didn't want to go beyond), so I figured it was just the CPU not liking the high overclock and just lived with it.
Here I have a i7-980x, which (according to the seller/bencher here) was benched on DI over 5GHz, ran daily around 4.4-4.5, and yet I still have the same exact problem as with the 930. I cannot get stable at anywhere near or over 4GHz. With the unlocked multiplier, I can just set it at a 29x multi with everything on auto (bios set volts @ 1.28125), and the system will be rock solid. I'm sure I could even undervolt the cpu (I haven't bothered to try) just like with the 930 and it would still be just fine. But get to a 29x multi and I start have random issues. 30x and above, I just seem to never be able to get stable.
I just tried again yesterday to go over 4GHz with the 980x. I tried for a 32x multi (4.2GHz) and could not even boot into Windows without upping the voltage to 1.36xxx. Eventually I got it to stop bluescreening at bootup with 1.38xxx, but it would still eventually blue screen. And even at 1.41xxx, it would still blue screen during test. I even dropped the multi to 31x (4.1GHz) and it still blue screened.
I'm going to try again over the weekend, so any suggestions would be most appreciated. One thing I do plan to do is install Windows with updates and required drivers on another drive and see it acts the same. I have alot of stuff installed on this current system, but even way back when everything was new (with the 930), it still had the same issue.