Hi guys,
It's not very often that I ask for direct help, but I have an issue that has now been ongoing for a month and I am spinning my wheels. Gigabyte is making me do the run around, and I am getting nowhere and they are not resolving anything.
Anyway, if you would like to see the full issue you can go read the entire thread here http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte...ifi-board.html
For those that go by the adage of TL; DR, here is the summary version.
The GA-X79S-UP5 board is not capable to overclock any of the C2 chips. It throttles every C2 chip when overclocked and loaded with AVX instruction set. At what clock the board starts to throttle is dependent on the chip. Some people have reported throttling with an OC as low as 4GHz, in my case it is 4.2GHz and up, but the idea is the same. All VRM temperatures are fully under control, the CPU temps are absolutely under control, everything checks out fine. The board just throttles the CPU no matter what the settings. The Turbo Power Limit (Watts) and Core Current Limit (Amps) settings in the UEFI BIOS have no effect what so ever for increasing the power/current envelopes of any of the chips. They are however capable of capping the power/current envelopes to lower values than factory settings of the chip. The problem plagues every single GA-X79S-UP5 in combination with a C2 chip.
Now, what do I need you may ask? I would really appreciate anyone sharing a contact over at Gigabyte that can actually assist with this. If you have one, please PM me the details. If you are not willing to share the contact, can you please get your contact to look at this issue and let me know what they say in terms of when they expect to have this resolved. Sin0822 over on Overclock.net has already reached out to them in regards to this issue but I have not heard back from him either in a while now and there seems to be no progress happening at all. Gigabyte has vaguely acknowledged the existence of a problem, but never directly to me. The best information that I have has come only through Sin0822 though it has been extremely vague.
I have had an issue open with them for over a month, produced numerous tests, tried different boards, different randomly chosen chips, spent over $1000 of my own money in spare parts and test equipment trying to resolve this to no avail. To top it off, Gigabyte has basically stopped responding to any queries and is not providing any sort of resolution to the problem.
I would greatly appreciate any help that can be provided. This experience with this board is proving to be an absolute nightmare.
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