Gigabyte UD3H

[AaronMa]

First off, sorry if this ends up in the wrong section.

I have a UD3H and the overclocking on it is absolutely terrible. I wonder if this is a rare occasion and mine needs to be RMA'd.

What happens is every time I try to overclock anything at all and the voltage is wrong or some other setting is messed up, next time it cycles and tries to boot, if it fails the next time I enter the BIOS it will lock up and freeze. So I restart. Same thing, I get into the BIOS and it freezes. The only way to solve the issue is to hit the 'CLR CMOS' button on the board and try again.

This becomes really frustrating when trying new clocks or fine tuning clocks.
This only REALLY happens when voltage(Vcore) is played with, but sometimes when RAM is as well.

The CPU is fine, tested with another board. Using bios revision f17e I believe, will double check and edit if needed.
Flashed to an earlier version of the bios to see if problem persisted and it does.

Thanks for any help,
AaronMa

 

[02ocastle]

Are you manually changing the voltage on anything? You shouldn't be, unless you're going for real high overclocks...  But make sure your cooling is adequate, if it freezes up, thats most likely because something is overheating.

[AaronMa]

Cooling is adequate.

I manually adjust voltage for EVERY clock. I don't know why I wouldn't.

I am using an Antec 620, which isn't the best, but it cools enough for what I need. I am not talking crazy clocks.

4.2 is undo-able if I didn't write down the working voltage.

[Phalonx]

Can you clarify some of the procedures you've been following?  Just having a bit of trouble trying to understand what's going on...

 

• When you say adjusting the clocks, are you talking about the actual clocks themselves (e.g. base clock, PCIE clock) or the individual clock multipliers?
• What particular voltage settings are you adjusting when you try to overclock?
• For the CPU, are you trying to do a turbo overclock (i.e., overclock only when under load to save power) or a full-on overclock (maximum power draw all the time)?
• Just for information, what processor are you using, what what is your target for overclocking?
• What is your experience at overclocking, and have you overclocked on Sandy/Ivy bridge before?

   

As mentioned earlier, from what I understand most people don't manually adjust voltages when overclocking unless they are super experienced or aiming for a very high OC...

[codytappen]

Can you clarify some of the procedures you've been following?  Just having a bit of trouble trying to understand what's going on...

 

• When you say adjusting the clocks, are you talking about the actual clocks themselves (e.g. base clock, PCIE clock) or the individual clock multipliers?
• What particular voltage settings are you adjusting when you try to overclock?
• For the CPU, are you trying to do a turbo overclock (i.e., overclock only when under load to save power) or a full-on overclock (maximum power draw all the time)?
• Just for information, what processor are you using, what what is your target for overclocking?
• What is your experience at overclocking, and have you overclocked on Sandy/Ivy bridge before?

   

As mentioned earlier, from what I understand most people don't manually adjust voltages when overclocking unless they are super experienced or aiming for a very high OC...

Not much to add; these are very important for us to know before helping you.

[AaronMa]

Yep, sorry for the objects I have left unmentioned.

 

In order as best I can..

Adjusting any kind of clock. If it doesnt boot, because the voltage is not enough, it overheats, etc., it freaks out and freezes. Specifically the core multiplier, and the manual Vcore.

I am adjusting the Vcore and the Vcore only. Read up that messing with LLC is one way to try and compensate and read into HUGE detail and tried that to no avail. Again, it isnt the clocks aren't working, it is the board freezing that I am worried about.

Mostly I do Turbo just to help cooling. I have tried both, but the problem persists.

Processor is an i5 3570k. It is a TERRIBLE overclocker, unless this board is just wanting SOO much voltage. I have tested the STABILITY AT STOCK in another board.. as for OC'ing in another.. No.

I am a fairly new OC'er. I know a bit as I have read up on a lot of stuff. But this happening while I try to do it has turned me off of it because it is such a hassle. I OC'd a Sandy before, but that was a while back and I was REALLY new, so I didnt know a lot about it.

 

I think I answered all of them. If you need more info, let me know. Thanks again for all the help :)

[Silentsoul]

To start off you should be changing nothing except the turbo multiplier until it becomes unstable. "Most" 3570k's will do 4Ghz without a bump in vcore at all. When it becomes unstable give it a slight bump in vcore and test again. What voltage is displayed in cpuz at stock frequency under load? That is important to know.

 

Make sure that your ram timing and voltage are set correctly as well.

[AaronMa]

Again, thanks for the help with the OCs, but that isnt what I want to know, I want to know if the freezing in the BIOS is normal for this board or not. If it is, I will want a new board, if it isnt, I will RMA.

[Silentsoul]

The bios locking up is not normal for any board unless it's highly unstable. As I stated earlier just bumping the turbo multiplier until instability and then slight vcore increased would yield windows being unable to load far before a bios lockup. Are you simply overclocking the cpu at this time? I highly recommend leaving ram at the default voltage and timing until the cpu is stable. As well at loading defaults and starting from there.

[AaronMa]

I am on the computer now. At stock, nothing bad happens. It is fine and it works every time I boot.

ANY TIME I CHANGE VOLTAGE AND IT FAILS TO BOOT INTO WINDOWS, IT WILL RESTART. FROM THERE I ENTER THE BIOS AND IT WILL FREEZE.

 

Stock everything is fine.. changing the core multiplier to 42 doesnt work because my chip requires more than stock. And when it fails to boot Windows, it will restart, then once I enter the BIOS to change anything, it freezes instantly and nothing works other than to clear the CMOS.

[AMD_Nemesis]

Well first this is not a premium board, I have it along with a 4ghz i5-3470 but this really really seems like your messing with the pci clock from like 100.1 to 102 will kill it, but again ocing on this board just isnt going to happen i suggest a MSI Z77A - G45 Gaming, Its around the 130 area and its VERY VERY good for ocing im going to get this one soon.

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[ekka]

I have the G77X-UD3H and I can overclock my 3570K no problem. (no voltage adjustments).

I have had problems with overclocking on different boards but that's irrelevant.

I would RMA the board, as long as you can achieve the same target overclock with the same CPU on a different board I would go for it.