JEMC said:
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The Gigabyte problem has been a literal Gigabyte motherboard quirk for many many years now on the AMD platform... I had the Gigabyte 990FX-UD7 that exhibited the same behaviour... And I spent months doing back and forth with their support teams to try and iron the issue out.
Not only was the vdroop crap, but it wasn't reporting the correct voltages which I determined with the multimeter.
It's what eventually turned me away from that manufacturer permanently and got me onboard with the Asus Sabertooth X79, just couldn't trust their boards.
| Captain_Yuri said: AMDs current fix is to limit various sets of voltages to make sure this doesn't happen and not just SoC/Expo. This should lessen the degradation or fully eliminate it but GN believes that there could be more issues because the platform is such a mess as they dug into it deeper. As of right now, if the CPU does fail, AMD will warranty it even under Expo but no one is sure if Mobo will agree to it. |
Keep in mind that warranty also varies between products and even region.
It would be illegal to be declined a warranty in Oceania for example.
I would imagine these higher/unnatural voltages are also accelerating electromigration in the chips even if a user doesn't exhibit an outright catastrophic failure.
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