Gigabyte X79 'fire' risk

Nightglow · 28 Dec 2011 at 11:25

Gigabyte has issue a bios update for certain X79 boards, .(UD3, UD5, G1.Assassin 2) due to a faulty MOSFET going up in smoke.

It's serious enough for gigabyte to issue a major bios update statement.

http://www.techspot.com/news/46818-gigabyte-issues-bios-update-for-fire-prone-motherboards.html

Not sure if this applies to UK boards as well, or whether this has been already covered.

JeffyB · 28 Dec 2011 at 12:01

Just read about this, hope people see this before anything bad happens.

chippy08 · 28 Dec 2011 at 12:05

Already posted here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18356315 but overclockers are still selling them.

panyan · 28 Dec 2011 at 12:39

i used to be a great admirer of gigabyte stuff but lately they have made/had some unfortunate discussions and incidents

pyropetepete · 28 Dec 2011 at 21:46

It's world wide and well documented here!

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...obo-X79-UD3-happens-self-ignition-and-burning!

1337z0r · 28 Dec 2011 at 22:02

So many hardware issues recently with boards such as the SATA fiasco, I think this shows how quality is plummeting most likely due to cost cutting.

pyropetepete · 28 Dec 2011 at 22:08

1337z0r said:
So many hardware issues recently with boards such as the SATA fiasco, I think this shows how quality is plummeting most likely due to cost cutting.

SATA fiaso??

chippy08 · 28 Dec 2011 at 22:08

But why havent they been withdrawn from sale if there a fire risk.

pyropetepete · 28 Dec 2011 at 22:16

chippy08 said:
But why havent they been withdrawn from sale if there a fire risk.

I got a feeling the BIOS puts a full limit to the volts, amps, phase, freq, switching blah blah to that section which limits the max.

1337z0r · 28 Dec 2011 at 22:17

pyropetepete said:
SATA fiaso??

P67 SATA issues

pyropetepete · 28 Dec 2011 at 22:17

1337z0r said:
P67 SATA issues

Didn;t know of any but P67 is old hat

Justintime · 28 Dec 2011 at 22:50

pyropetepete said:
Didn;t know of any but P67 is old hat

Well if you're going by age, your Z68 is only 5 months newer than the P67

inSilica · 28 Dec 2011 at 23:05

panyan said:
i used to be a great admirer of gigabyte stuff but lately they have made/had some unfortunate discussions and incidents

yea ... I second that ... I'm migrating to ASUS... fingers crossed

Craterloads · 29 Dec 2011 at 00:23

Sure there was an issue not long ago with GB OCed GTX 480's not running at specified volts too.

But no need to run away, Gigabyte have always been a awesome company and at least they are dealing with the issue. Hope this doesnt damage there rep too much.

Justintime · 29 Dec 2011 at 00:52

I think a lot of companies are rushing out their products to keep up or keep ahead i guess, and not testing it properly enough. OCZ comes to mind with their latest SSDs

Speed · 29 Dec 2011 at 03:04

pyropetepete said:
Didn;t know of any but P67 is old hat

What?! Wasn't at the time you muppet. :rolleyes:

It was a flaw in the design of a modern chipset, which is why 1337z0r mentioned it.

JasonKnights · 29 Dec 2011 at 23:23

P67s old hat?? Theses boards was released in 2011 and you couldn't get your rev b board till feb/march

JasonKnights · 29 Dec 2011 at 23:24

Not to mention exploding gtx 590s on release too

Neil79 · 29 Dec 2011 at 23:43

Gigabyte..

And the cold boot issues with socket 1155 boards, me thinks i wont be going Gigabyte again

Threepwood · 30 Dec 2011 at 00:55

At least they have offered an unconditional return policy and a lifetime warrenty for the boards I guess.