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1. Jason Van Patten,

Dec 27, 2011 4:02 PM in reply to Harm Millaard

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Harm Millaard wrote:

Gigabyte has recalled their new X79 motherboards because of overheating problems when overclocking.

Interesting. I tried to build a new system based on their X79-UD5 motherboard, and for the life of me I couldn't get it to POST into its BIOS setup. No amount of keyboard pressing (or smashing) would get me past the opening screen. I tried even swapped the motherboard with a new one (along with the 3930k chip, if you believe that).

That was the first system I ventured away from my usual stand-by of Asus. I thought Gigabyte had a good name, but it left a fairly bad taste in my mouth.

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2. Trevor.Dennis,

Dec 27, 2011 7:28 PM in reply to Harm Millaard

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Thanks Harm. I have the same X79-UD5 which was still on F3 (the latest firmware is F7). The update lost my boot sequence btw.

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3. Trevor.Dennis,

Dec 28, 2011 5:45 AM in reply to Trevor.Dennis

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Toms Hardware now has an item about the issue complete with a picture of a toasted X79-UD3: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Gigabyte-MOSFET-G1.Assassin-2-GA-X79- UD3-GA-X79-UD5,14374.html

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4. FelixUnderwood,

Jan 2, 2012 6:27 PM in reply to Harm Millaard

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Harm,

Thanks for this. I was going to build a new rig with the Gigabyte X79-UD7, but decided to go with ADK instead. Now that I think about it, I better call Eric Bowen at ADK to explain what I meant when I asked him to build me a smokin' machine! I'd hate for him to misunderstand and use one of the affected moboards in order to grant my request!

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5. NS2HD,

Jan 3, 2012 11:06 PM in reply to Harm Millaard

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Thanks for the tip Harm! I've got a GA-X79-UD5 at the moment and it's been rock steady through all my stress testing so far (Only RAM OC'd). It's quite scary though - I chopped the heatpipe off the VRM sink to install a waterblock on the X79. I just hope heat was flowing from X79 to VRM sink, and not the other way round! Otherwise, perhaps I'm in for a nasty shock... No warranties now that my heatsink is cut in half

Looks like Gigabyte are only recalling the BIOS though, not admitting a hardware fault.

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