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Please Read: Faulty F5 BIOS Update For Ryzen Gigabyte Aorus AX370 Gaming K7 motherboard
Recently Gigabyte released F5 BIOS updates for their AMD Ryzen motherboards. Early reports came in last week already, but there more and more reports that there is a nasty issue with that BIOS, overheating the platform and processor specifically on the Aorus AX370 Gaming K7.
Basically the F5 BIOS applies a dynamic core voltage that is way too high towards the Ryzen processor. There have been instances reported that where 1.2 Volts was needed, that 1.7 volts got delivered. So likely they mis-directed the voltage offset of 0.05 at 0.5 mV. A user-case example of this resulted into a Ryzen 7 1800X proc dying.
Gigabyte detected and corrected the issue quickjly after they learned about it, a new series F6 BIOS is available. However, if you have installed the BIOS and are not awar of the issue, this might be a big thing. If you have the F5 BIOS installed, please do upgrade to the F6 version immediately. It seems that best sold board is the Gigabyte Aorus AX370 Gaming K7 and that is the one affected, please grab that new BIOS here.
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#5469344 Posted on: 09/05/2017 02:07 AM
Used to have Gigabyte X58 ds3 with 2600k cpu,
It was running like crap with an unknown issue for a year until switched to Asus made a hell lot of different in a better way, Never bought Gigabyte again eversince.
Used to have Gigabyte X58 ds3 with 2600k cpu,
It was running like crap with an unknown issue for a year until switched to Asus made a hell lot of different in a better way, Never bought Gigabyte again eversince.
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#5469445 Posted on: 09/05/2017 03:34 PM
sometime voltage spikes is because of Turbo Boost + Load Line Calibration setting, turbo boost clocks needs higher voltages and LLC adds a little more, this could result in 1.5v even if stock settings uses 1.325-1.375v
grettings
With stock settings my 1600x vcore goes over 1.5v as well, but fortunately it doesn't cause any instability or temperature issues. I was very surprised about the voltage spikes in the beginning and started browsing forums to seek for an answer. What I found out is that a lot of people were reporting same observations so maybe there is an actual issue with your hardware? 
sometime voltage spikes is because of Turbo Boost + Load Line Calibration setting, turbo boost clocks needs higher voltages and LLC adds a little more, this could result in 1.5v even if stock settings uses 1.325-1.375v
grettings
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#5469583 Posted on: 09/06/2017 12:58 AM
Do correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Gigabyte kind of famous, or infamous, for releasing newer revisions of boards after launch with actually cheaper components?
Ie. rev 1.0 is usually the best, later revisions might be worse. Never had a GB board myself, always used only Asus and, as of late, ASRock.
I had one GB graphics card for a while, bought second hand for a SLI setup, and it was fine while it lasted (resold).
Just about every manufacturer will have their good boards and their bad. Just about every person will have their 'favorite' brand that usually ends up being the first good board that they bought, until they eventually get burned on a board and switch to a new favorite. Personally, Asus used to be a favorite until they got popular, and then I started noticing they started cutting corners on their boards, to the point where I could have sworn my ROG Gene V board was built by another manufacturer. For awhile, I switched to Gigabyte until their software support went to shit. MSI was always known for their graphics cards. And Asrock, for awhile, was considered low-end--now people can't stop ranting and raving about their Taichi, which I swear is just good viral marketing.
Bottomline, when buying a motherboard, you have to shop smart--you can't always just fall back on a go-to brand.
Do correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Gigabyte kind of famous, or infamous, for releasing newer revisions of boards after launch with actually cheaper components?
Ie. rev 1.0 is usually the best, later revisions might be worse. Never had a GB board myself, always used only Asus and, as of late, ASRock.
I had one GB graphics card for a while, bought second hand for a SLI setup, and it was fine while it lasted (resold).
Just about every manufacturer will have their good boards and their bad. Just about every person will have their 'favorite' brand that usually ends up being the first good board that they bought, until they eventually get burned on a board and switch to a new favorite. Personally, Asus used to be a favorite until they got popular, and then I started noticing they started cutting corners on their boards, to the point where I could have sworn my ROG Gene V board was built by another manufacturer. For awhile, I switched to Gigabyte until their software support went to shit. MSI was always known for their graphics cards. And Asrock, for awhile, was considered low-end--now people can't stop ranting and raving about their Taichi, which I swear is just good viral marketing.
Bottomline, when buying a motherboard, you have to shop smart--you can't always just fall back on a go-to brand.
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#5469801 Posted on: 09/06/2017 08:19 PM
Used to have Gigabyte X58 ds3 with 2600k cpu,
It was running like crap with an unknown issue for a year until switched to Asus made a hell lot of different in a better way, Never bought Gigabyte again eversince.
Sorry to nitpick but X58 is LGA1366 and the 2600k is LGA1155. I know because I still use one for my main rig. Perhaps it was a different CPU?
Used to have Gigabyte X58 ds3 with 2600k cpu,
It was running like crap with an unknown issue for a year until switched to Asus made a hell lot of different in a better way, Never bought Gigabyte again eversince.
Sorry to nitpick but X58 is LGA1366 and the 2600k is LGA1155. I know because I still use one for my main rig. Perhaps it was a different CPU?
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They have only updated x370 K7 and 5 bios updates replaced with the one on the 1st September the rest are the same as released on 18 august. Can anyone confirm if the rest of the motherboard bios are safe to update.