Gigabyte Recalling X79 UD3, UD5, G1.Assassin 2 Motherboards

[peja81]

Last week, a Taiwanese overclocker putting his OC workbench through an relatively laxed OC stress test saw its Gigabyte X79 UD3 motherboard go bust. Its CPU VRM couldn't cope with the stress, and blew a MOSFET. At the time, people responding to his video condoled him for his bad luck. It appears now that his wasn't a one-off case of "bad-egg". Gigabyte, in its latest press release on its Chinese website, noted the issue. Apparently it received several such complaints from overclockers where even moderate voltage-assisted CPU OC fried its VRM. The issue was found to be widespread, among three of its main socket LGA2011 products, the GA-X79-UD3, GA-X79-UD5, and G1.Assassin 2.

Apparently, the issue is caused by a cocktail of bad firmware to complement the board's PWM circuitry, and bad quality PWM components. As an immediate remedy, Gigabyte issued a BIOS update for the affected products. This BIOS, however, will cripple the board's overclocking abilities. The new BIOS will throttle CPU when subjected to extreme stress, to save the VRM. The BIOS remedy is only for those who opt to keep their boards, or don't subject the board to extreme tuning. The other remedy, is to return the board to Gigabyte, for a free replacement when the "right" boards are available. Gigabyte also announced a general recall of the GA-X79-UD3, GA-X79-UD5, and G1.Assassin 2, from the market. A video of the "unlucky" (not anymore) overclocker's day going bad, can be watched here.

http://www.techpowerup.com/157543/Gigabyte-Recalling-X79-UD3-UD5-G1.Assassin-2-Motherboards.html

 

[FantomX]

 

[Lukija]

Another one bites the dust. Nista me ne iznenadjuje danas jer imam utisak da se danas sve pravi od gomana i da je bitno samo da se prozivod dobro izhajpuje i izreklamira.

 

[Villy]

Bolje što nisam uzeo tu ploču za mod afterall

 

[Chabex]

Another one bites the dust. Nista me ne iznenadjuje danas jer imam utisak da se danas sve pravi od gomana i da je bitno samo da se prozivod dobro izhajpuje i izreklamira.

E bas tako, skoro sve se tako pravi, da li je igra neka ili proizvod nebitno. A koliko bih ja popi*deo da dam 300 nesto evra za plocu i onda radi gore nego proizvod iz najnizeg segmenta .

 

[Lukija]

Bolje što nisam uzeo tu ploču za mod afterall

Manje vise to, morao bi da sacekas i C2 stepping procesora:

http://www.techpowerup.com/156625/Intel-Core-i7-3960X-and-i7-3930K-CPUs-Transitioning-to-C2-stepping-in-January.html

 

[neSSa]

Rekoh ja jednom kolegi sa foruma "Prvi se macici u vodu bacaju", a bas vezano za ovu platformu...

 

[Beagle]

Zbog? Gigabajtovog skrtarenja, ili Intelove greske u virtuelizaciji, koju desktop korisnici nece ni primetiti?

 

[Lukija]

Ispada da je problem u BIOS-u? Iskreno ovo mi se ne svidja. Jer sve se pravi po sistemu drz_da_nabijem pa cemo posle SW-om da peglamo. Isto njesra kao i PWM na GTX 570/580. Gomna bre.

http://www.gigabyte.us/press-center/news-page.aspx?nid=-869

 

[Lukija]

Test vise X79 ploca. Ukoliko se pretera, dolazi do throttlovanja kako bi se VRM sacuvali:

http://www.xfastest.com/thread-69873-1-1.html

 

[FantomX]

Lepa im ova snezna graficka karta.

 

[Steamroller]

Možeš birati između BDa koji ne radi ili Intela koji se zapali.

 

[Lukija]

A u medjuvremenu, padne i neki rekord:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Gigabyte-X79-UD3-Motherboard-F7-BIOS,14397.html