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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: mac_angel on February 28, 2010, 12:21:57 am

Title: how to overclock the GA-X58A-UD3R
Post by: mac_angel on February 28, 2010, 12:21:57 am

title says it all.  Picked one up yesterday along with a core i7 930, Zalman 9900 cooler, 6GB OCZ platnum RAM.  My first core i7 build and first time with a Gigabyte board.  The settings are amazing on it for overclocking, but a little overwhelming.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Title: Re: how to overclock the GA-X58A-UD3R
Post by: boriscolombia on April 05, 2010, 06:54:29 am

wow, any responses please, I am also looking for some info about this.

Title: Re: how to overclock the GA-X58A-UD3R
Post by: UnFleshedOne on April 06, 2010, 04:56:43 pm

Google for "overclocking guide for i7" or something to that extent. There are tons of articles about that. They might talk about different motherboard, but usually it is easy enough to figure out which settings they are talking about.

Here is a good one, with some background info too:
http://www.overclockers.com/3-step-guide-overclock-core-i3-i5-i7/ (http://www.overclockers.com/3-step-guide-overclock-core-i3-i5-i7/)

Title: Re: how to overclock the GA-X58A-UD3R
Post by: scjet on April 07, 2010, 01:16:18 am

 I was in the same boat, so I used the latest "Easy Tune 6" OC'ing app from Giga's site.
 I easily clocked an i975 with it, and then with a couple more manual Memory/cpu fine-tuning in BIOS, I was hittin' an i980 in no time.
 The trick was knowing the "QPI" limits in conjunction with your CPU and memory limitations/abilities.
 But "Easy Tune 6" does a lot of that grunt-work for 'ya.

This board is pretty amazing for "safely" OC'ing compared to OC'ing years back ;)
 ...anyway, it's a start.