Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[DavyBoy]

@ jalyst, dunno when these new mobos are going to be released man... there doesn't appear to be much info going around online about these boards..

@M31 and Johnny, do you guys think I should be entitled to return this replacement ship because they have given me a chip that isn't anywhere near as good as the one they have given me back?

I mean, tbh they shouldn't have sent me a replacement chip full stop when my last chip was tested and was found not faulty, although, tbh it was me that kept annoying them until the guy said he would send me another chip instead of my old one, but that isnot the point, the replacement chip should have been either brand new un-touched, which this one definitely wasn't, because unused CPU's don't have pin marks on their contact points like this one did.. it had definitely been used on a motherboard, or either a chip that had been tested and was either as good as or better than the one that I returned to them...

They have given me a chip that they knew full well was an absolute dog.. temperatures that are inacceptable, and can't be overclocked anywhere near the frequencies that the previous chip could do, I think you have seen the pics I posted in this thread Johnny where I managed to get it into Windows @ 4.4Ghz, infact, I just noticed, I even verified it on CPUZ and the verification is in my sig of it running @ 4.4GHz... but this chip I have now BSOD's straight after the Windows loading bar when I try 220 x 20 or 21 x 210.. If I got that last processor under water I am pretty certain that I could have got it stable @ 4.2GHz at the very least..

But there is no way in hell this new processor will get anywhere near that, it was hard work getting 3.8GHz stable..

Also, I could have my RAM timings @ 8-7-7-21-1T with the last processor, but when I tried it with this new one I got an instant BSOD..

I think I am just going to keep on complaining about this processor until something is done about it.. I honestly feel as though I have been robbed by OcUK.. something has to be done to sort this out...