Hey guys,
So I purchased a brand new GA-EX58-UD3R recently to run it with my i7 920 that I have been stashing for a while.
Connected everything, and booted just fine into Vista. First thing I did is take my 920 to 4.1Ghz, at a conservative 1.34 voltage...everything else was set to auto in the bios, beside my RAM that I set explicitly to 1.6v.
Started RealTemp, and then prime95, using 4 cores (8 threads). A few minutes later, the CPU reached around 80C which seems to be fine, but the heatsinks on the pwm on the mobo were getting really, really, really hot. And all of a sudden, the PC shutsdown..the smell of a burning component filled the air.
So I touched the heatsinks again and they were still hot like crazy. I waited until they cooled down and turned the system ON again, and this is where I was greeted by smoke coming out of the motherboard!! It seems to be originating from the capacitors near the heatsink that sais "Ultra Durable".. or near that area at least.
Now the system will not boot anymore, and I don't know wether the Mobo burned my CPU or my video card in the same token because I dont have another mobo to test with
So what do I do now guys? I am about to RMA it...but I am afraid they might just give me the same card and give me no choice to chose another brand.
I am now traumatized as this is my first time ever trying the Gigabyte brand and so far, not so good. I always chose Asus over everything else, and never had an issue. Was my board just bad, or is that a common failure on these motherboards?
So I purchased a brand new GA-EX58-UD3R recently to run it with my i7 920 that I have been stashing for a while.
Connected everything, and booted just fine into Vista. First thing I did is take my 920 to 4.1Ghz, at a conservative 1.34 voltage...everything else was set to auto in the bios, beside my RAM that I set explicitly to 1.6v.
Started RealTemp, and then prime95, using 4 cores (8 threads). A few minutes later, the CPU reached around 80C which seems to be fine, but the heatsinks on the pwm on the mobo were getting really, really, really hot. And all of a sudden, the PC shutsdown..the smell of a burning component filled the air.
So I touched the heatsinks again and they were still hot like crazy. I waited until they cooled down and turned the system ON again, and this is where I was greeted by smoke coming out of the motherboard!! It seems to be originating from the capacitors near the heatsink that sais "Ultra Durable".. or near that area at least.
Now the system will not boot anymore, and I don't know wether the Mobo burned my CPU or my video card in the same token because I dont have another mobo to test with
So what do I do now guys? I am about to RMA it...but I am afraid they might just give me the same card and give me no choice to chose another brand.
I am now traumatized as this is my first time ever trying the Gigabyte brand and so far, not so good. I always chose Asus over everything else, and never had an issue. Was my board just bad, or is that a common failure on these motherboards?
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