Owners of Gigabyte X79 boards...

Just been reading that giga released a statement saying that the x79 range is aimed at ease of overclocking rather then overclockability. What's the point? I didn't move to an enthusiast socket to be conservative.

RIVE later this year me thinks, especially if I can't get this board to clock using straps as is proving difficult atm.
 
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I was on F11L but it was constantly failing my overclocks and giving me a CMOS Checksum Error, so I rolled back to F9, where at the moment at least it seems fine. Will give F11N a try tonight. A shame they don't attach change logs to these beta files as the UD7 F11 bios has had 4 or 5 beta bios's inside the last month.

I'm at a point where I can probably live with the board until IB-E is released, but at that point I will be swapping it out for some flavour of ROG.
 
Ive had a UD3 and UD5 x79 motherboards and both of them are reading the 12v drooping massivly.

ud3 11.32 was the lowest I saw but crashed a lot so could have been lower.

I thought the board was faulty so bought a UD5 and this is still drooping to 11.74v !!

This really is un exceptable this are my 1st gigabyte boards and i think my last :(
 
UD7 is set to be replaced by an msi big bang xpower II this weekend, a lovely board but the droop let's it down massively. Seemingly the new UP x79 boards also have the same issue.

I fully understand Intel set a droop of around 0.06v by design, but when you have 5 levels of llc and not one of them improves things it's quite drastic. I find it ironic that the highest llc setting actually makes things worse!

Unfortunate as apart from this issue I really like the board but having to set an input of 1.56v to get 1.48v with dual eps connectors is pathetic imo.
 
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