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What is "Realtek 914 clock gen" - New "FF" BIOS for X58A-UD3R r2

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What is "Realtek 914 clock gen" - New "FF" BIOS for X58A-UD3R r2
« on: February 23, 2011, 11:19:12 pm »
Just a quick question to ask what "Realtek 914 clock gen" is? I've just seen a new BIOS release for my motherboard but got no idea what it is supposed to fix or support ? ! I'm going to apply it anyway - I'm just being inquisitive !

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GA-X58A-UD3R (Rev 2 - FF) / Core i7 930 @ 3.8Ghz / 6GB CORSAIR Dominator DDR3-1600MHZ (TR3X6G1600C8D) / EBAYED VERY FAULTY RAM OCZ DDR3-2000MHZ (OCZ3G2000LV6GK) / Batmobile Gigabyte ATI HD 5770-UD 1GB) / OSX 10.6.6 (64 bit) (Retail+iBoot+Multibeast) / Win 7 (64 bit) / Ubuntu (64 bit)

Re: What is "Realtek 914 clock gen" - New "FF" BIOS for X58A-UD3R r2
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2011, 06:00:43 am »
I noticed some issues with FF.  AHCI mode on the Intel SATA caused a no-boot situation, along with a few other settings I never had an issue with in FE.  Rolled back to FE, everything is fine.

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Re: What is "Realtek 914 clock gen" - New "FF" BIOS for X58A-UD3R r2
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2011, 09:34:28 am »
I boot AHCI from the Intel SATA ports into both OSX and into Windows 7 and haven't had any issues with FF

Sorry to hear you've switched back
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Re: What is "Realtek 914 clock gen" - New "FF" BIOS for X58A-UD3R r2
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2011, 01:12:40 pm »
The Realtek clock generator is exactly that it generates the frequencies that the motherboard requires. Exactly what they BIOS update has altered in it is anyone's guess as they don't exactly go overboard in their descriptions of the fixes. ::)
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