[Kal-EL]

Originally Posted by Splave

I dont know what to think anymore, I go off of my brothers experiences now. I dont trust really any review site and or guys with company ties.

Steponz doesnt like the Xpower so I wont get one
E762 was proven so I bought one
We used RIIIE at the asus event and I loved it

Any one here ever use the ud7 or ud9? I with hold judgement until someone I trust plays with it. Maybe it is worth the money.

What of the rumblings that this board won't clock unless you have the "Special" bios connections that the big boys do?

[Witchdoctor]

Would not surprise me after the SOC incedent ....

Not in Giga's fan club since that BS ....

[Splave]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

What of the rumblings that this board won't clock unless you have the "Special" bios connections that the big boys do?

Nothing new I guess lol time to start hw trolling again

[Deux]

Thought I'd briefly sum up my UD9 thoughts here if case anyone is interested.

First off, yeah it's significantly overpriced. If it were $30-$50 more than the classified 4 way it would be worth it but not at $624 or whatever it is now.

Full disclosure, my board isn't retail and has a few minor differences, mostly power connectors.

As to the secret bios issues, personally I don't believe in them. I have the E22 bios that Pro and Hicookie show off with, there isn't anything hugely special about it, in fact it's terrible for memory clocking, anything over ~1020 is unstable regardless of timings.
Yes, it is slightly more efficient for Super Pi and arguably PiFast, 95% of the difference seems to be the CPU microcode ignore thing which is available on the R3E now.

After about a few weeks on E22 I switched to retail bioses, F2-F4 and have been much happier since. It's a solid board all around, Bclk isn't at the same level as my E760 and there is a bit of latency from the NF200s but other than that, no real issues. Other thing worth mentioning is that it's a PITA to insulate, even with eraser.

It's replaced the E760 as my go to board when I want to test a chip if that says anything. Still there is no way I'd pay $624 for one, the difference just isn't there in my opinion.

[Chuchnit]

Originally Posted by Deux

Thought I'd briefly sum up my UD9 thoughts here if case anyone is interested.

First off, yeah it's significantly overpriced. If it were $30-$50 more than the classified 4 way it would be worth it but not at $624 or whatever it is now.

Full disclosure, my board isn't retail and has a few minor differences, mostly power connectors.

As to the secret bios issues, personally I don't believe in them. I have the E22 bios that Pro and Hicookie show off with, there isn't anything hugely special about it, in fact it's terrible for memory clocking, anything over ~1020 is unstable regardless of timings.
Yes, it is slightly more efficient for Super Pi and arguably PiFast, 95% of the difference seems to be the CPU microcode ignore thing which is available on the R3E now.

After about a few weeks on E22 I switched to retail bioses, F2-F4 and have been much happier since. It's a solid board all around, Bclk isn't at the same level as my E760 and there is a bit of latency from the NF200s but other than that, no real issues. Other thing worth mentioning is that it's a PITA to insulate, even with eraser.

It's replaced the E760 as my go to board when I want to test a chip if that says anything. Still there is no way I'd pay $624 for one, the difference just isn't there in my opinion.

Honest enough. Care to elaborate on what you like better about UD9 over the 760? Are you seeing higher mhz accross the board?

[Splave]

thanks for the input deux are the retail boards moddable for the extra power connectors or it just straight up lacks them

[Deux]

Originally Posted by Splave

thanks for the input deux are the retail boards moddable for the extra power connectors or it just straight up lacks them

The difference is actually just the direction they are mounted, they are present on both. On retails they are 90 degree molex which allows them to be used with 4 cards... which is when you need them on my board using the power connector prevents anything other than a single slot card from going into the last slot

[Hondacity]

so after 10 months....only 33 boards were sold from newegg...LOL

and now its out of stock....

[Neuromancer]

Holy crap you post a lot.

[Hondacity]

look at the topic...