I was wondering if anyone had tried flashing their GA-EX58-UD3R MoBo with the GA-EX58-UD3R SLI firmware. I read a few reviews that mentioned it "should" work. It's supposed to be the only difference between the 2 motherboards, the Nvidia licensing. I know I should have researched it a bit more but h~~~, I don't even know if that MoBo was around when I purchased the non-sli model. Anyway, just curious to know, not a show stopper. I'm very happy with my UD3R and it's working great.
Another question, since the Gigabyte bds have the dual bios, if there was a problem flashing the BIOS, would the secondary BIOS overwrite the primary?
The dual BIOS function has saved me once already and I'm loving that!
It is always risky business flashing a bios with a bios not designed specifically for that mobo, but Gigabytes dual bios is supposed to save your butt if a flash goes bad. I have never had a bios flash on either of my gigabyte boards go bad, so I can't verify that it actually would save your mobo if a flash went wrong. Look in your mobo's owners manual, it should give you info on what to do if a flash goes bad, if not I know for a fact I read somewhere on gigabytes site faq's on how to recover from a bad flash with the dual bios.
Thanks. I was hoping that someone would confirm that it could be recovered. Like I said, it's not THAT big a deal but it would be nice to know if the GTX 260 Black Edition drops in price, I'd love to SLI a pair of them!
Thanks. I was hoping that someone would confirm that it could be recovered. Like I said, it's not THAT big a deal but it would be nice to know if the GTX 260 Black Edition drops in price, I'd love to SLI a pair of them!
UD4 can via flash BIOS from UD4P's BIOS forcely support SLI. UD3R is different
Layout and that wouldn't get SLI license from GIGABYTE officially.
Here is his original post of the links here as we tried to hunt down the tools on various forums. Give the fella some Rep, I see he still only has 1 Rep here after creating a webpage to host the tools, I guess since it is in the news section instead of motherboards it got buried >> http://www.overclock.net/hardware-ne...ml#post5856401
Thanks! That's exactly what I need to get the job done. I thought it could be done but was too nervous to try it before a little more research. Well, that and getting another XFX GTX260 Black Edition graphics card!
+Rep for the great info! I'll pass along my experiences when the time comes. I suppose that it was no coincidence that "the egg" sold 20 times more -UD3R mobo's than the -UD3R-SLI
Originally Posted by lsdmeasap
Yes, this works just fine for the UD3 and UD4 Models. Here is the tools you need thanks to Gorby >> http://g0rbi.000space.com/index.php?id=11
UD5 to Extreme also has been done.
Here is his original post of the links here as we tried to hunt down the tools on various forums. Give the fella some Rep, I see he still only has 1 Rep here after creating a webpage to host the tools, I guess since it is in the news section instead of motherboards it got buried >> http://www.overclock.net/hardware-ne...ml#post5856401
In all fairness, the tools are available right on Gigabyte's site, and flashing UD3R to UD3R-SLI predates that forum thread, and the engaget article by a good deal (I mentioned it at least once in early-mid feb, and I sure wasn't the first).
Still, I supposes it's good to have the instructions and links together.
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Originally Posted by hollywood406
I suppose that it was no coincidence that "the egg" sold 20 times more -UD3R mobo's than the -UD3R-SLI
The UD3R has been out much longer, and thats the source of the differences.
Official BIOS for UD3R,
Yes, after confrimed the BIOS with nvidia and Gigabyte,
GA-EX58-UD3R offically supports SLI technology.
and you just need to upgrade BIOS from website.
LOL im so calling gigabyte up and demanding the $10 extra i paid for the SLI version.... bastards! the non sli version also had a $15 rebate that i didnt get, so i actually got scammed out of $25.....
Did the first GTX280 card run warm? They looked like they were pretty well packed close together. Great presentation though! How in the world did you get a hold of that F5 BIOS?? When I navigate to their site, I only see F5 as a Beta and NO mention of SLI
Those Vantage scores are to die for though! I'm getting a little over 13,000 with my rig and my GTX 260 Black Edition. Keep up the good work!
Did the first GTX280 card run warm? They looked like they were pretty well packed close together. Great presentation though! How in the world did you get a hold of that F5 BIOS?? When I navigate to their site, I only see F5 as a Beta and NO mention of SLI
Those Vantage scores are to die for though! I'm getting a little over 13,000 with my rig and my GTX 260 Black Edition. Keep up the good work!
+ Rep for you!
Hello! this is a list of things i just got
Gigabyte Ga-EX58-UD3R
intel I7 920 ( SLBEJ ) D0 stepping
Patriot viper 6Gig
Asus Gforce 250
Titan TTC-NK85TZ Fenrir Cpu cooler
Seagate barracuda 1TB
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W PSU
Sony dvdRW X24speed
All help would be gratefull To help me Overclock this to 4.0Mgz? thanks
Can anyone help me? I can't understand anything in the website. I've already downloaded "piflash", but i can't download "sli bios" because the site is not in english.
sorry.. my bad.. now its in english.. lol
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