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    GI.Sniper 2 1155. Will never fully support ivy bridge.

    A month on and any progress? A $350 motherboard that cant even run one core on a new I7 at the max turbo speed stated on the box.
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    GI.Sniper 2 1155. Will never fully support ivy bridge.

    I asked gigabyte when they plan to release a bios to fully support my 3770k processor. Gigabytes responce. Answer : Unfortunately it cannot be fixed due to the bios limitation as this board does not support UEFI compared to the Z77 chipset board. So if your like me and you bought a...
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    2600k Died and here is what intel said

    Actually the ram was running at 1.5v at 1600Mhz. :) and the voltage was 1.15 stock. I overclocked it to 4.2.
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    2600k Died and here is what intel said

    It had not passed. I am 2 weeks into ownership of the CPU. As for Service with others. I have built over 60 PC's in the last 3 years mainly for friends or friends of friends. I am a member of a online guild from wow and Clan from My medal of honor days. I am asked everyday what should I...
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    2600k Died and here is what intel said

    I bought the higher frequency ram for alot of reasons that I will share. 1) I had my last DDR3 ram for 2 years but it was 1.65v so I needed lower voltage ram 2) I like the red heatsink 3) I can get really tight timings from higher speed ram runing at Jdec spec. 4) Mushkin has been...
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    2600k Died and here is what intel said

    :o) Wouldn't it be really fun if he 2 New motherboards I got from newegg was indeed faulty. Or even all 10 peices of ram or the 2 power supplies. But alas I very much doubt that that is the case and that the real problem is a bad cpu. Yes I too have never had a CPU die on me. I have replaced...
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    2600k Died and here is what intel said

    I am in the process of an RMA. And yes it was overclocked not over voltaged. But overclocking. I do get upset with people who take the easy way out of everything. He jumped at the first thing he could. My issue to start was to find out if they removed the thermal switches in the processor...
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    2600k Died and here is what intel said

    Actually the memory runs at 1333 without issues as I said to him it has XMP profiles to overclock the memory but by default it runs at 1333. The memory is to spec. I got fed up because he like you was not reading what I wrote. Just like all the other I7's I have ran they do not make use of any...
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    2600k Died and here is what intel said

    Please wait for a site operator to respond. You are now chatting with 'Alvaro' lee.d.kay@gmail.com: hello Alvaro: Hello. Thank you for using the Intel Customer Chat Support service. We are glad to be of service. How may I help you? lee.d.kay@gmail.com: I bought a 2600K a little...
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    Anandtech. I need your help with my Asus RE3

    I notice gigabyte since they implemented the 9128 chips and had feedback have since added to all boards that use them * SATA3 RAID 0 4x and SATA3 2x performance are maximum theoretical values. Actual performance may vary by system configuration. * SATA3 SSDs are not recommended for use in...
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    Anandtech. I need your help with my Asus RE3

    I bought a RE3 a year ago. During that time I saved for 2 C300 drives for the onboard 6GB/s only to find it was not compatable with the Marvell chipset. So I returned them to newegg. 3 months on I buy 2 120GB 510 drives to go in to the system. Only to be let down. First the marvell...
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    How am I ment to work with Gigabyte when they dont return emails.

    I called gigabyte they said they can only and did open a ticket. Nothing else..
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    How am I ment to work with Gigabyte when they dont return emails.

    I did since I got it :) thanks but no responce. My new motherboard works so far..
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    How am I ment to work with Gigabyte when they dont return emails.

    Well my pc is stable or for 96hrs, recovered from S1 sleep. But I am not getting nothing in reply to my issues about S3, the C1,C2,C3 issue or emails about my memory timming issues. I am going to call newegg and tell them I want a asus screw the puch with this..
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    EX58-Extreme. 10 bioses later...

    Yes but my point is its getting worse with each hardware revision end users are having to do more and more debugging.
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    EX58-Extreme. 10 bioses later...

    Well on tweaktown they finaly come across the problem and multiple people are complaining about the time it takes to install vista. The issue with the powersaving effecting alot of people. Lucky I spent the time to find the issues for them..
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    EX58-Extreme. 10 bioses later...

    umm i bought it launch day. the only memory was 3gb kits so i called gigabyte. I asked and they said the patriot should not be an issue. And to be honest there is probaby 405 types of ddr3 chips.
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    EX58-Extreme. 10 bioses later...

    For the issues of energy saving, ram, sound card issues yes its at stock settings. I do test CPU ratio increase too and up the CPU Voltage as well. As for cooling you say it sucks. What are you using as a bench mark? The actual setup is 75% better cooling solution than stock cooling...
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    EX58-Extreme. 10 bioses later...

    If you read the article on the front page of anandtech you will realise that its not a one manufacturing problem its all of them. They take the rip. Spend your hard earned cash with us now and we promise to make your board work in 6 months time. But by then we will have used your money to...
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    EX58-Extreme. 10 bioses later...

    I am using one set of tam in this case mushkin 1.65v 7-8-7-20 6x2GB dimms sold for but not programmed for I7 boards. The patriot is 7-7-7-20 1.9v. IMO 1.9v will not kill your processor. Gigabyte have certified the board to run with 1.9v vdimm (check out the recommended memory guide on the...
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    EX58-Extreme. 10 bioses later...

    Boasting? I am trying to give an idea whats installed. Why would I boast about 5k pc thats got more problems than the US goverment.
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    EX58-Extreme. 10 bioses later...

    I7 965 Extreme, coolit freezone elite Gigabyte EX58 Extreme, 12GB Ram *6x2 Patriot PVS34G1600LLK, 6x2GB Mushkin PC12800 7-8-7-20* 2X 280GTX with Coolit dbl drivebay refrence coolers 2x 300GB Velociraptors, 2x 1TB Seagate X-Fi Fatality with Drive Bay PCI soundcard, LG HD,Bluray burner...
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    Gigabyte X58 Extreme.... Dimm Voltages.

    I was worried. I could not find any ram at the time of ordering that offered feeds over 1066mhz at 1.65v in 6GB packs so I took a chance and I ordered 3 packs of 2x2GB Extreme Performance Low Latancy Patriot ram. The 1600mhz 7-7-7-20 timings at 1.9V give me hope that it would run at 9-9-9-23 at...