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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.   

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

« Last post by konrad on May 22, 2024, 04:54:41 pm »

Greetings,
Its best to open a ticket with e-Support.  If you don't, the issue may never be acknowledged or addressed. 

https://esupport.gigabyte.com/Login/Index?ReturnUrl=%2f

I have already done it. let's hope they fix it. I'm curious to know if I am the only one, but I guess I am not.

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

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

« Last post by shadowsports on May 22, 2024, 02:57:03 pm »

Greetings,
Its best to open a ticket with e-Support.  If you don't, the issue may never be acknowledged or addressed. 

https://esupport.gigabyte.com/Login/Index?ReturnUrl=%2f

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

« Last post by konrad on May 21, 2024, 08:23:05 pm »

I completed a build some days ago. I run mostly Linux on my sistems, and I was glad to see that the integrated wifi card (rtl 8852ce) is supported out of the box with modern linux distros. Anyway, my joy disappeared after the first reboot. I was able to trouble shoot this: the wifi card and the bluetooth devices (wich are the same device, as far as I know), tend to disappear after a shutdown or a reboot. I detected the same behaviour also with Windows 10. To make the realtek 8852 reappear, I must power drain (ie: I turn off the power supply, then power on to discharge everything). Then magically wifi works again. This has to be related to the way the board resets and poweroffs itself, ie the bios must be buggy. I read elsewhere that there are other issues related to poweroffs and reboots, so please, Gigabyte, if you love your customers please fix this once for all. BTW: I tried two different boards (I RMAed the first one) and the behaviour is consistent. PLEASE, PLEASE FIX IT!

Am I the only one?? I dont think so, please, let me know

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

« Last post by shadowsports on May 16, 2024, 02:28:13 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. 

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

« Last post by gijoe50000 on May 12, 2024, 04:21:25 pm »

All the battery does is hold the setting in the cmos. Once you replace the battery and it does it again I would contact support. Why would they do this in the first place. By putting a battery under a heat-sink???

I know right! It seems like an incredibly stupid decision, especially considering that they must have done something to the bios to make the battery drain this quickly, maybe connected the bios to the RGB on the board, or the way it connects to the desktop or something..