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So, i bought a brand new system a couple of days ago. 4690K with sniper m5. I checked the CPU and Memory list if both things where supported and yes they where. Straight away i noticed some strange things. It didn't want to recognize one of my two samsung f3 HDD's, realy strange, becasue they'd ran fine in raid0 on my previous build. In the end i decided to just take the one out that wasn't working in my new system, even tho' it worked on a different motherboard from my brother aswell, so it wasn't broken.
Then. Since i bought a K model cpu i thought; lets see what this puppy can do, so downloaded CPU-Z, Realtemp, LinX. Then even before i did any overclocking i noticed something strange in CPU-Z. My V-Core aswell as the Multiplier where hanging continuously at the same 1.088 volt at 40X Multiplier?!?!?!? I thought, this could only mean one thing (even tho it was weird, because initially i loaded bios default) that EIST and C-states where disabled, but to my surprice the V-Core and Multi where still hanging at 1088V and 40X after Enabling EIST and C-states. Then i checked if i wasn't using any locked Voltage settings or a locked multiplier, but that wasn't the case ider. I've had numerous gigabyte motherboards x58-ud7, p67-ud7, sniper-3 and now sniper-5, so i know exactly how this works.
But yesterday my biggest fear came true. I started digging a bit on the forums and it seems that multiple people with a Haswell refresh are having these problems on sniper 5 motherboards, locked Multipliers and V-Cores. http://www.overclock.net/t/1397554/o...#post_22837374 I mean, i checked and it definately sais that a 4690K is supported by this motherboard on bios f10? GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Socket 1150 - Intel Z87 - G1.Sniper M5 (rev. 1.x) But after reading a bit more i have a feeling gigabyte already abandoned this motherboard. I mean, only 2 bioses? The first one, F9 came out on 25-04-2014 and the latest one, F10 on 25-08-2014. I mean, wtf? So, i'm left with a motherboard that doesn't even properly support my CPU and at the rate Gigabyte update's bioses i feel this problem is never going to be fixed?
Then. Since i bought a K model cpu i thought; lets see what this puppy can do, so downloaded CPU-Z, Realtemp, LinX. Then even before i did any overclocking i noticed something strange in CPU-Z. My V-Core aswell as the Multiplier where hanging continuously at the same 1.088 volt at 40X Multiplier?!?!?!? I thought, this could only mean one thing (even tho it was weird, because initially i loaded bios default) that EIST and C-states where disabled, but to my surprice the V-Core and Multi where still hanging at 1088V and 40X after Enabling EIST and C-states. Then i checked if i wasn't using any locked Voltage settings or a locked multiplier, but that wasn't the case ider. I've had numerous gigabyte motherboards x58-ud7, p67-ud7, sniper-3 and now sniper-5, so i know exactly how this works.
But yesterday my biggest fear came true. I started digging a bit on the forums and it seems that multiple people with a Haswell refresh are having these problems on sniper 5 motherboards, locked Multipliers and V-Cores. http://www.overclock.net/t/1397554/o...#post_22837374 I mean, i checked and it definately sais that a 4690K is supported by this motherboard on bios f10? GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Socket 1150 - Intel Z87 - G1.Sniper M5 (rev. 1.x) But after reading a bit more i have a feeling gigabyte already abandoned this motherboard. I mean, only 2 bioses? The first one, F9 came out on 25-04-2014 and the latest one, F10 on 25-08-2014. I mean, wtf? So, i'm left with a motherboard that doesn't even properly support my CPU and at the rate Gigabyte update's bioses i feel this problem is never going to be fixed?
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