Hi I am just about to order up the rest of the parts for my new system,but I just wanted to make sure that the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 motherboard I am buying will be able to kick up the new i7 930 cpu with the bios the board ships with,it;s just that I won't have an older 920 to flash it if it needs a bios update to make the 930 work with the board.
I know is says you need bios F6 in the cpu support list,but do you think it would work enough just to let me flash the bios if I end up getting an older bios with my board,isn't the only difference between the 930 and 920 an extra multiplier.
Has anyone had any problems with running the 930 with a new Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7
Thanks.
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I can only speak for my GA-X58A-UD3R, but amongst other things your UD7 should have "better" passive cooling for the onboard chipsets.
Actually, I only had the original "F1" Bios when I bought this MB and it saw my i7-930 just fine. (Obviously set BIOS to Optimized defaults at first). U should be ok.
On that note, I've been able to easily OC my i7-930 to 4.0 GHz stable.
That xtra multipier helped me tweak everything a bit easier,
I had updated my BIOS to the latest ("F5")of course by then.
So I'm happy.
