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I've had my Sabertooth for four days and I love it to bits.
Looks good, feels very solid and you get a lot of case candy. UEFI's brilliant as well and I've never seen more stable voltages in my life.I've had my Sabertooth for four days and I love it to bits.
Good hopefully the lower prices ones follow suit saber just over my budget
I thought the same at first, was looking at the M5A99X instead (which I think should be a quite nice board as well) but then I got my tax returns from Sweden and went for it.Good hopefully the lower prices ones follow suit saber just over my budget
I've sent a pretty blunt message to gigabyte and hope i get a response, i was to slow for returning this under drs which i'm kicking myself over now as i've been trying to figure out what was going on with it and left it longer than 7 days now, do i have any other options?, its the weekend now so i wont get anything from gigabyte until next week but if i dont hear something next week i really want to get a refund or something this board is quite frankly faulty goods, the voltage is never close to what its set to in the bios and fluctuates badly when the cpu is under load. really wish i had gone for a sabertooth in the first place , whatever you do folks do not buy one of these boards until this issue is resolved.
, whatever you do folks do not buy one of these boards until this issue is resolved.I've sent a pretty blunt message to gigabyte and hope i get a response, i was to slow for returning this under drs which i'm kicking myself over now as i've been trying to figure out what was going on with it and left it longer than 7 days now, do i have any other options?, its the weekend now so i wont get anything from gigabyte until next week but if i dont hear something next week i really want to get a refund or something this board is quite frankly faulty goods, the voltage is never close to what its set to in the bios and fluctuates badly when the cpu is under load. really wish i had gone for a sabertooth in the first place
Technically the product is faulty so OCUK should accept a return within 30 days for full refund. You will have to RMA and see what they say tho.
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your right, its just over a week since i received the board so i have messaged ocuk about returning it and getting something else.
quite frankly the attitude of some of the people on the gigabyte forum has left me a bit annoyed, it may be easy to take lightly when it isnt your 160 quid thats at stake, but for gigabyte to have released a board with such a fundamental issue as a cpu voltage that is simply all over the place is rather poor, the fact that its always about .044 higher than what you set in the bios looks like an attempt to compensate for the huge drop when the cpu is under load, which in turn just looks like they spotted the problem and rather than sort it properly, have done a bodge, albeit a rather dangerous one as you end up with very high voltages at idle as a result.
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not if u say u wanted to give gigabyte a chance to fix the issue, then it'll let the e-retailer feel you're tryed everything
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well i mentioned that i've asked gigabyte for some clarity on this issue in my message to ocuk, but i agree its probably wise to contact ocuk about it rather than wait till the last minute. if this was a small bug then i'd feel a lot happier to wait but really this is fundamental and the more i think about it the more shocked i am they let these boards go on sale with a problem like this.
Been reading the thread on Gigabyte forums tbh they seem like idiots with sarcastic replies. That's enough to put me of Gigabyte. Just makes me glad I have decided to wait another month to see how things pan out and get more reviews on the Asus boards.
its just one of them tbh, one of them has been quite helpfull really, they arent gigabyte employees though. I started to get suspicious about all of this though with this thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18285360&page=3 and the fact he has replied to other threads but ignored my questions lol, makes me a bit nervous about whats going on here.
whats the voltage at idle with coolnquiet and c1e off? with 1.475 set in the bios on the ud5 is idles as 1.52v and when running prime fluctuates around 1.46 sometimes dropping to 1.44 and very rarely it manages 1.47.
ocuk have said they will refund me for the board so i am thinking i'll probably send it back, seekified have you found any issues at all with the sabertooth? as thats what i'll go for as an alternative.
ocuk have said they will refund me for the board so i am thinking i'll probably send it back, seekified have you found any issues at all with the sabertooth? as thats what i'll go for as an alternative.
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the people on gigabyte forum have no idea. they seem to blame everything else but the board or they can't see how bad this problem really is.
now one guy saying
but even at default/stock settings they would have seen the voltage is way off and drops badly.
i had a system crash when the system was under load due to the bad vcore drop under load, and this was at stock settings .
i don't mind the 0.044v that it adds on , but the bad vcore drop under load i do mind.... a 0.060/0.100v drop isn't right..... i accept if it's 0.001/0.003 drop.
also theres no LLC options to help stop the vcore drop.
now one guy saying
but even at default/stock settings they would have seen the voltage is way off and drops badly.
i had a system crash when the system was under load due to the bad vcore drop under load, and this was at stock settings .
i don't mind the 0.044v that it adds on , but the bad vcore drop under load i do mind.... a 0.060/0.100v drop isn't right..... i accept if it's 0.001/0.003 drop.
also theres no LLC options to help stop the vcore drop.