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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: X670E Aorus Master bios battery draining very quickly

« Last post by dmdilks on June 09, 2024, 10:35:37 pm »

I don't know if this could cause a problem like this. But are all the front panel plugs on right. Most all mother boards are basically the on the pin laid out. The lettering on all the plugs should point down. Plus make sure the Plus & Minus are right. 

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: X670E Aorus Master bios battery draining very quickly

« Last post by gijoe50000 on June 09, 2024, 03:35:02 pm »

Agree.  This is a bad design for a motherboard.  Hope it works out for you.

Yea, it doesn't seem to be though.. just turned on the PC today at 15:30 and the time was wrong, it was reading 01:30, and I knew straight away that the battery was drained!
Checked HWinfo and the bios battery is reading 0.888V.. 

Suppose it's time to open a support ticket..

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: X670E Aorus Master bios battery draining very quickly

« Last post by shadowsports on June 06, 2024, 05:55:59 am »

Agree.  This is a bad design for a motherboard.  Hope it works out for you. 

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Motherboards with Intel processors / Re: Understanding Gigabyte Motherboard Technical Specifications

« Last post by shadowsports on June 06, 2024, 05:53:40 am »

Greetings,
The native resolution of the monitor will determine the maximum resolution that can be displayed in this case.

The chipset can support up to 5120 x 2880 @ 60Hz.  Whatever the monitors native is will be what the 790 chipset will display. 

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Motherboards with Intel processors / Re: Understanding Gigabyte Motherboard Technical Specifications

« Last post by milleniumaire on June 04, 2024, 09:34:23 pm »

Hi, thanks for the link to the CPU, but I am aware of the details of that CPU and it is the motherboard restrictions I'm trying to understand, in the area of resolution.

So, the CPU provides the following graphics resolutions:

Max Resolution (HDMI)‡ 4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz
Max Resolution (DP)‡ 7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz
Max Resolution (eDP - Integrated Flat Panel)‡ 5120 x 3200 @ 120Hz

Why do even the latest Gigabyte motherboard specifications show figures that are much less than these and are even lower for some of the boards?

Is this just a feature of Gigabyte motherboards not being very good at supporting the latest HDMI, Displayport or Thunderbolt 4 specifications as I'm assuming it is these aspects of the motherboard that are throttling their graphics capabilities, since the CPU is MUCH more capable?

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: X670E Aorus Master bios battery draining very quickly

« Last post by gijoe50000 on June 04, 2024, 07:07:05 pm »

Greetings,
Will be curious to hear what you decided and if replacing the battery worked.  I've seen this type of design in other products as well.  Cameras specifically.  Some have a replaceable battery, others require a teardown that you as an end user don't want to do.  All for a .25 cent CR2025 battery.

Yea, I replaced the battery about 2 weeks ago, and it was a hell of a job! I spent pretty much the whole day draining and disassembling my watercooling loop, removing the motherboard, then the backplate and then the chipset heatsink.

The new battery initially read as 3.0v, but it dropped to 2.8v within a few days, and now it's down to 2.6v (according to HWinfo), so I can't see it lasting too much longer.

I don't think I'm ever going to do that job again... if the motherboard comes out then it won't be going back in unless I RMA it and know for sure that the problem is sorted. No way I'm doing a complete teardown once a month for the foreseeable future!

Really idiotic decision by Gigabyte to put the battery in such a difficult place, without being absolutely _positive_ that the battery will have a long life..

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Motherboards with Intel processors / Re: Understanding Gigabyte Motherboard Technical Specifications

« Last post by dmdilks on June 03, 2024, 01:58:20 pm »

In away it is both the board and the CPU. Here is the link to that CPU Specs:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/236773/intel-core-i9-processor-14900k-36m-cache-up-to-6-00-ghz/specifications.html

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Motherboards with Intel processors / Understanding Gigabyte Motherboard Technical Specifications

« Last post by milleniumaire on June 01, 2024, 07:42:41 am »

Can someone please explain the "maximum resolution" shown against Gigabyte motherboards.  For example:

Z790 AORUS MASTER X
- LGA1700 socket: Support for the 14th, 13th, and 12th Generation Intel® Core™
- Integrated Graphics Processor-Intel® HD Graphics support:
       1x DisplayPort, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096x2304@60 Hz
       * Support for DisplayPort 1.2 version and HDCP 2.3

Z790 AORUS XTREME X
- LGA1700 socket: Support for the 14th, 13th, and 12th Generation Intel® Core™
- 2 x Intel® Thunderbolt™ 4 connectors (USB Type-C® ports), supporting DisplayPort and Thunderbolt™ video outputs and a maximum resolution of 5120x2880@60 Hz with 24 bpp (via single display output)
* Support for DisplayPort 1.4 version and HDCP 2.3

Lets assume the same processor was used with both these boards:
--Intel Core i9 I4900K which has Intel® UHD Graphics 770

My question is: What is it that "restricts" the resolution of any monitor connected to the board?  Is it the version of DisplayPort (1.4 v 1.2) or is it the processor, which in this case has a UHD Graphics 770 capability?

I want to build a system that is capable of running one of the newer 49" UHD 5K monitors, which run at a minimum resolution of 5120 x 1440 @ 60Hz.  I do NOT want to have to use a GPU and only want onboard graphics, so the motherboard is key to doing this. 

So, according to the two motherboard specifications above, only the Z790 AORUS XTREME X would be capable of supporting this monitor without an additional GPU.

Is that correct?

Also, what does this mean on the specification:  "(Graphics specifications may vary depending on CPU support.)"  This seems a little vague!

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: GIGABYTE B650 EAGLE AX. nice board, ugly bios

« Last post by dmdilks on May 24, 2024, 04:28:16 pm »

PLEASE, PLEASE FIX IT!

This is a user to user forum, support really doesn't look at the forum. That is why shadowsports put up the support link.

I was thinking that I want to disable fast boot and see if this helps...

I never use fast boot. I really never seen really any difference between fast boot or regular boot. The only thing I do notice between the two. Is that on some boards having the fast boot enabled you can't some times get into the bios.

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: GIGABYTE B650 EAGLE AX. nice board, ugly bios

« Last post by shadowsports on May 23, 2024, 12:55:58 am »

With all the horsepower you have available, there is no reason to enable Fastboot.