Problems with GA-X79S-UP5 board - please help!

[massman]

Heh ... "reviews", right /

I have tested other mainboards, namely RIVE. Blameless over on OCN also tested RIVE and P9X79 and none of those boards have issues running the same chip. I have tried multiple chips, multiple GA-X79S-UP5 boards, and multiple DRAM kits with different speeds and nothing makes a difference. This is definitely a problem with this mainboard, moreover I am convinced that it is firmware related. I also have direct confirmations of issues from all other users of this board. They all have the same exact problem.

Gigabyte really dropped the ball on this one. The thing is though that in my communication with them it's now been over 1.5 months with this issue and they are still refusing to admit to me that there is a widespread problem (which there clearly is since it affects all users). They are constantly trying to blame in on my "chip quality" and no matter how much proof I provide to them they just keep going back to the same thing over and over again. I even recorded a video for them for the love of god!

"It's only in some cases" they say, "it's only over 4.4GHz" they say, male bovine excrement I say.

Do you have any updates from them?

No updates, but they are most certainly aware of the problem. As far as I know, there is a long internal email trail to figure out the issue.

Normally, this kind of throttling would either be triggered by the VRM or CPU internal OCP but both having VRM under LN2 (temp) and disabling cores doesn't resolve the problem. But as I mentioned in my previous post: with higher voltage and changing to 1.25x BCLK, I don't get the throttling at 4.3G, even though the power consumption should be higher. So, I reckon it's something else ... but I don't know what. I'm really interested in the answer, though .

It's not in "some cases" and not "only over 4.4G".

Try BIOS f4r for the UP5 it should fix it for your C0 as it fixes it for my C0. BIOS engineers told me that the BIOS would fix for only 1 type of CPUs either ES or retail, when i tested it it fixed for C0 ES, so not retail.

Well, just tested that BIOS and it doesn't so you shouldn't tell them it's fixed . F4r, F4s and F4t all exhibit the same issue.

//edit: well, seems like a solution is in-bound ... well, an interesting solution that is. More info today, I think.