Gigabyte X79 'fire' risk

Probably won't cover the CPU/RAM/GPU etc.. that could get cooked, either by a component going haywire or the thing burning down your house :p
 
gigabyte have stated that they will be offering lifetime warranty on x79 motherboards if you dont rma for replacement,if you rma for a replacement board then its standard 3 year warranty,plus they have released new bios's to restrict oc limit to stop this happening again,
 
GIGABYTE Recommends BIOS Update on Certain X79 Models

Hi All

It has come to our attention that certain X79 Series Motherboards (GA-X79-UD3, GA-X79-UD5, GA-X79-UD7, and G1.Assassin 2) may malfunction due to excess heat when performing Extreme Overclocking beyond the board’s limit. To address this issue and to ensure our product is being used as intended, we recommend existing X79 users to visit GIGABYTE’s official website to download and update their X79 series BIOS. The X79 series motherboards not named above are outside the scope of this statement and not applicable.

The latest X79 Series Motherboards BIOS update can be found below:

GA-X79-UD3 – Please update to BIOS F7

GA-X79-UD5 – Please update to BIOS F7

GA-X79-UD7 – Please update to BIOS F7

G1.Assassin 2 – Please update to BIOS F7

The guides for updating BIOS in X79 motherboards can be found at our Official Blog and Forum

New BIOS'es do not limit overclocking capabilities of these motherboards. For example X79-UD3 won some world records at 5.6GHz (57x) with i7 3930K as the world’s first motherboard - have a look below for details:
Super Pi 1M - 6.64 seconds
PiFast – 13.02 seconds
CPU-Z – 5643.3MHz
 
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GIGA-Man said:
Hi All

It has come to our attention that certain X79 Series Motherboards (GA-X79-UD3, GA-X79-UD5, GA-X79-UD7, and G1.Assassin 2) may malfunction due to excess heat when performing Extreme Overclocking beyond the board’s limit. To address this issue and to ensure our product is being used as intended, we recommend existing X79 users to visit GIGABYTE’s official website to download and update their X79 series BIOS. The X79 series motherboards not named above are outside the scope of this statement and not applicable.

The latest X79 Series Motherboards BIOS update can be found below:

GA-X79-UD3 – Please update to BIOS F7

GA-X79-UD5 – Please update to BIOS F7

GA-X79-UD7 – Please update to BIOS F7

G1.Assassin 2 – Please update to BIOS F7

The guides for updating BIOS in X79 motherboards can be found at our Official Blog and Forum

New BIOS'es do not limit overclocking capabilities of these motherboards. For example X79-UD3 won some world records at 5.6GHz (57x) with i7 3930K as the world’s first motherboard - have a look below for details:
Super Pi 1M - 6.64 seconds
PiFast – 13.02 seconds
CPU-Z – 5643.3MHz
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Nonsense the new bios's certainly do limit overclocking.
The 'world record' was done using either a single core or a reduced core count so the current limiter did not come into play.

Folks trying for high clocks with all cores enabled will experience exactly the behaviour demonstrated in the you tube vid linked to in this thread.
 
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Metal Mickey's you tube vid?

The guy that posted it admits in the video that he cocked up his settings to cause the issues seen in the vid.
 
That vids older than VictimRAIDs, and VictimRAID admits in the second video that he got it wrong and that the BIOS isnt the limiting factor in his overclock.
 
Is there still problems with the UD7 ? As in still catching fire?

I can pick one up for a good price but i'm not sure if it's worth the risk. I've been told it's limited edition which has set alarm bells ringing :eek:
 
i thought theyd fixed this with new revisions of mb? and bios limiting the oc as a temp measure? you can also rma for free replacement to a newer fixed version of the mb free of charge
 
I think i'm going to take a chance on it unless i hear something drastic before tuesday.

I'm not worried about the board or my other components, i'm worried about burning the house down.
 
Sorry to bump this again but is there anybody still using this board that could give me some feedback ? I'm looking at only a moderate overclock on a 3820.

I've checked around the web and on the few forums i post on but the silence is deafening :(
 
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