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there zeal for gigabyte is blinding them, i think gareth170 they havent actually read the thread at all, it is obvious from this, and a quick google that we are very much not alone in this issue....

i have no brand loyalty as such although i did plenty reading about opinions on gigabyte as i appreciate that it is taking a plunge when getting a newly released board, but at the end of the day, teh 990 chipst is the 890 chipset with a new name, how can it be so bad? so am somewhat dissapointed about his, but so far havent heard anything good about the ud5 and have heard nothing bad about the asus boards so am very tempted to take that option now its available, i am worried about leaving it to late and ending up stuck with a board that has a design flaw.
 
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Zuban said:
there zeal for gigabyte is blinding them, i think gareth170 they havent actually read the thread at all, it is obvious from this, and a quick google that we are very much not alone in this issue....

i have no brand loyalty as such although i did plenty reading about opinions on gigabyte as i appreciate that it is taking a plunge when getting a newly released board, but at the end of the day, teh 990 chipst is the 890 chipset with a new name, how can it be so bad? so am somewhat dissapointed about his, but so far havent heard anything good about the ud5 and have heard nothing bad about the asus boards so am very tempted to take that option now its available, i am worried about leaving it to late and ending up stuck with a board that has a design flaw.
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send yer gigabyte mobo back and get either asus sabertooth or cfv which are good buy plus change in bios which asus already using uefi bios as gbt still using old type bios so get sabertooth if u interesting... i bought cfv and much happy as no problems at all... very cool..
 
the problem is it's a big hassle changing motherboards, has it takes over 3 hours to install a motherboard due to a woman doing it for me...

grrrrr i don't know what to do.
 
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send yer gigabyte mobo back and get either asus sabertooth or cfv which are good buy plus change in bios which asus already using uefi bios as gbt still using old type bios so get sabertooth if u interesting... i bought cfv and much happy as no problems at all... very cool..
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i'll be honest i could care less about the bios, as long as it does what it needs, it isnt a selling point for me, dont get me wrong it might be nice to have, stable voltage is what i'm concerned about right now, how have you found the asus in this respect? i am quite tempted to pay the extra for the crosshair v board.
 
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Gigabyte claim that F5b Beta BIOS for the GA-990FXA-UD5 fixes the VCore issue, lol it doesn't...

and guess how gigabyte tests it....... with Super PI........ so crazy

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,5939.msg47211.html#msg47211
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no it doestn seem to have changed anything, well i havent had a response from gigabyte even though i logged a ticket with them on friday, i've messaged ocuk again about how to go about sending it back and getting something else, will be a pain but really not wanting to muck about anymore.
 
anyone got a Asus Crosshair V Formula? i want to know does the vcore drop under load, if yes by how much? also which slots are the two pci-e 16x @ 16x slots? manuel says 2 different things...

im thinking about sending my GA-990FXA-UD5 back
 
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anyone got a Asus Crosshair V Formula? i want to know does the vcore drop under load, if yes by how much? also which slots are the two pci-e 16x @ 16x slots? manuel says 2 different things...

im thinking about sending my GA-990FXA-UD5 back
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I finally got my UD5 sent off yesterday, the RMA ticket's open for 28 days so no worries there.

The Crosshair V has a similar voltage regulation (8+2 Digi VRM) as my Sabertooth, and my board drops around .015-.020 under load I think. Haven't done extensive testing yet though, may do that this weekend. Anyway, I think you should expect similar performance from the CHV.
 
well right now on stock settings for a 1090t, the board sets the vcore at idle to 1.52v, which then drops to 1.39v under load. at this point i think its set the cpu to 1.475 in the bios ( well it says it is 1.475, its actually 1.52v), its all on auto. I think if it wasnt set to such a high voltage in the bios it would crash under load as it would drop to low for my cpu.

hoping when ocuk get this board and test it they recognise its faulty as i just want my money back so i can get another board, personally i feel that the fact it sets the voltage to something completely different to what you've set in the bios is enough regardless of the droop, even though the droop is huge. going to send it back in the next few days.
 
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well right now on stock settings for a 1090t, the board sets the vcore at idle to 1.52v, which then drops to 1.39v under load. at this point i think its set the cpu to 1.475 in the bios ( well it says it is 1.475, its actually 1.52v), its all on auto. I think if it wasnt set to such a high voltage in the bios it would crash under load as it would drop to low for my cpu.
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the problem is it'll be different results with different cpus.

so the cpu that ocuk use may be a very different result.
 
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the problem is it'll be different results with different cpus.

so the cpu that ocuk use may be a very different result.
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hopefully they will still see that the voltage it puts through the cpu is higher than is set in the bios with any cpu they use, and that the drop is huge. Also in a way hope other boards are being sent back to them with the same problem but who knows, otherwise i will be even more out of pocket over this board :(.

Seen so many threads on other forums now of other people having this same problem, and being really confused by the voltage problems, gigabyte obviously now recognise there is a problem in some sense from the info on the gigabyte forum, but i've still not had a response to my support ticket, its difficult to know what to do.
 
well on stock mine sets the vcore to 1.30v but adds 0.044 and drops to 1.296v under load with f5b..

bot if i up the vcore the drop gets much worse...

it seems asus 990fxa boards also adds some voltage.
 
yeah my 1090t being a 1.4v one i'm maybe seeing more extreme results, i guess i have nothing to lose by waiting a little longer, just getting frustrated with this board and not really sure what to do!
 
i've ordered a Asus Crosshair V Formula which i'll receive next week on wednesday or thursday.

and i'm sending my GA-990FXA-UD5 back tomorrow, i've had enough with it

the Asus Crosshair V Formula has nice features such as being able to control the bios using the mouse which will be very helpful for me,, another plus is it has a X-Fi 2 onboard sound.
 
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