Quote Originally Posted by sin0822 View Post
as far as gigabyte pushing more current goes, dynamic current step is 100 amps from 45 to 1.45 just fro the cores, then you have 35 more amps for uncore, well that comes to a whopping 180 amps, after the dynamic current step the voltage droops, these numbers are from VRD 11.1 spec which define vdroop and well it explains how lower voltage and higher current is how these chips were designed. Of course gigabyte probably runs out of spec, right... I have never seen those marks on my cpus nor anyone else.
I'm still trying to get to the bottom of my issue & at the moment im leaning towards PSU rather than board. I just noticed yesterday that the 12v line is running 13v so maybe this is compounding the situation on the Giga.

Its just strange that I have run lots of chips on lots of boards with the same PSU & the only board that marks the chips is the UD3 Rev 2.

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