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Gigabyte X79-UD3 and Core i7-3930K Set Records with New F7 BIOS
Like UnlikeFiled in: CPUMotherboardsGIGABYTEIntelCore i7-3930kGA-X79-UD3 (rev. 1.0)
It's been a tough week or so for Gigabyte marketing. It had to admit that quite a few people had burned their motherboards, to which it offered free replacements, and isolated the problem to faulty firmware. There has been talk that this firmware cripples overclocking by throttling CPU clock speed under extreme stress. Gigabyte set out to do some myth-busting. Renowned overclocker and Gigabyte PR guy HiCookie set up a test-bench using Core i7-3930K, an "infamous" X79-UD3 motherboard running the latest version F7 BIOS, and a typical extreme-cooling bench.
HiCookie achieved 5643.2 MHz clock speed, using a base clock of 99 MHz, 57.0x multiplier, and CPU voltage of 1.584V. The rest of the test-...
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Gigabyte Rolls Out Crucial BIOS Update For Overclockers With X79 Mobos
Like UnlikeFiled in: MotherboardsGIGABYTEGA-X79-UD5 (rev. 1.0)GA-X79-UD7 (rev. 1.0)G1.Assassin2 (rev. 1.0)GA-X79-UD3 (rev. 1.0)
Pushing your PC to its limits has obvious inherent dangers; overclocking your CPU can definitely bust your rig if you push it too far. That being said, reasonable overclocking doesn’t actually carry too much risk – normally. Right before Christmas, one overclocker’s Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 mobo crashed, then burned (literally) in the midst of a lightweight stress test. After he posted the video on YouTube (the fun stuff happens in the last 20 seconds), Gigabyte looked into the problem, and apparently, it wasn’t a case of crap luck. Yesterday, Gigabyte’s Chinese branch announced the faulty CPU VRM is a widespread issue and recalled the GA-X79-UD3, GA-X79-UD5, GA-X79-UD7 and G1.Assassin 2 mobos. U...
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