Alright just bought a I7 3770K at microcenter. The board I am using is a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 running the F12 bios as for some reason I can not update to the newest bois. Gives error in q flash and @bios. Anyways the issue I am having is that when I try to overclock the processor it only lets me go to 39 for multiplier, it will not let me go higher no matter what I try or do. I had the I5 2500K and was running at 4.4ghz no issues and overclocking was working fine. In the bios it shows I am running the I7 3770K so I know that is correct. Could I get some more input on what I can do or try to get this higher then the multiplier of 39. Thanks very much for any help that can be give. If needed any further info let me know.
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I7 3770K Issues
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Alright just bought a I7 3770K at microcenter. The board I am using is a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 running the F12 bios as for some reason I can not update to the newest bois. Gives error in q flash and @bios. Anyways the issue I am having is that when I try to overclock the processor it only lets me go to 39 for multiplier, it will not let me go higher no matter what I try or do. I had the I5 2500K and was running at 4.4ghz no issues and overclocking was working fine. In the bios it shows I am running the I7 3770K so I know that is correct. Could I get some more input on what I can do or try to get this higher then the multiplier of 39. Thanks very much for any help that can be give. If needed any further info let me know.
Unfortunately, all Gigabyte Z68 motherboards with the legacy Award BIOS have the exact same problem: The multiplier on the K-series Ivy Bridge CPUs cannot be set any higher than 39x unless you update to an AMI UEFI BIOS. What's more, you cannot use @BIOS or Q-Flash at all to update an Award BIOS to an AMI UEFI BIOS since it will produce the exact same error during flashing. You must use only the DOS-based flash program provided with the UEFI BIOS update - and you will need a DOS-bootable CD-R or USB flash drive to do this.
I have a flash drive usb is there anyway you can help me with this or walk me through getting this setup please.
You will need to download and install the "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool" (Google for that program, and also Google for "Windows 98 DOS boot files" - you will need both). Once you have everything downloaded and installed, run the HP program, select the drive letter than your USB flash drive is assigned, then check the box labeled "Create a DOS startup disk", then in the box with the radio button "using DOS system files located at" selected, put down the folder that you have downloaded the Windows 98 boot files to (when you originally download those Windows 98 boot files, give it a folder name you can remember).
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Ok I do have both of those now.
I edited the above post to add the flash formatting procedure.
Ok do I need to add the bios files in there somewhere. I created the dos startup part
Copy all of the files that you got with the BIOS update onto the flash drive (the individual files, not the folder itself). You do not need to specify a folder on the flash drive to copy to.
When you restart the computer, you will need to enter the BIOS, note any custom settings you made to the BIOS, and change the boot order so that the USB-HDD (for USB flash drive) is first (by default, the system hard drive boots first). Then, when the computer is booted from the flash drive, run the flash program provided with the downloaded BIOS file.
Once the flash procedure is completed, you will need to shut down your computer, wait a minute or so, then power it back on. You may also need to reset the BIOS to the default settings, then manually re-enter any custom settings, then reboot.
FYI -- not sure why your legacy bios wouldn't go past 39, my gaz68xp-ud3 (r1.0) lets me go up to 59 (5.9 ghz) - as noted below im on bios f8 pre uefi
It's probably an issue with certain CPUs or certain microcode versions.
FYI -- not sure why your legacy bios wouldn't go past 39, my gaz68xp-ud3 (r1.0) lets me go up to 59 (5.9 ghz) - as noted below im on bios f8 pre uefi
Actually, the OP's BIOS did allow him to select a higher multiplier with the older Sandy Bridge CPUs such as the i5-2500K, i5-2550K, i7-2600K or i7-2700K. It will not let him select a multiplier higher than 39x with an i5-3570K or i7-3770K. In fact, you have a Sandy Bridge i7-2700K and not an Ivy Bridge CPU installed on that GA-Z68XP-UD3 v1.0 mobo.
Also, your Rev 1.0 of the GA-Z68XP-UD3 does not support PCI-e 3.0 at all because it has only Gen2 switches (and thus the PCI-e slots are stuck in PCI-e 2.0 mode). Hence, while it may not currently be a bottleneck right now, potentially that mobo cannot take full advantage of the newer CPUs and newer GPUs. Rev. 1.3 or higher is required for PCI-e 3.0 support.
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