gigabyte recall

[Bocephus]

WARNNG.....

DANGER WILL ROBINSON...DANGER, DANGER

Was going to build a new rig with

Gigabyte g1 assassin 2 Mobo and up coming i7 3820 2011 CPU

then found this My link

This is what happens when you dont make it yourself and make it in the country where you live...Frigging Taiwainese crap quality cutting corners/pocketing profit saved on substandard components

going to do something else now...probably AMD 1090T and ASUS crosshair V formula Mobo

 

[ThatBattlefieldGuy]

LOL did you read the end of the article?

"Update (29/12): Gigabyte's German office wrote to us and explained that on their end they find the problem to be because of bad firmware, and not bad component quality; and that unlike Gigabyte Taiwan, they are not recalling products or soliciting replacements, but asking users to update their BIOS to the latest available. Gigabyte Germany set up a hotline for German customers, that's 040-253304-55."

Just update your BIOS, this is old news mate. I don't think your remarks about the Taiwanese are necessary.

 

[Bocephus]

LOL did you read the end of the article?

"Update (29/12): Gigabyte's German office wrote to us and explained that on their end they find the problem to be because of bad firmware, and not bad component quality; and that unlike Gigabyte Taiwan, they are not recalling products or soliciting replacements, but asking users to update their BIOS to the latest available. Gigabyte Germany set up a hotline for German customers, that's 040-253304-55."

Just update your BIOS, this is old news mate. I don't think your remarks about the Taiwanese are necessary.

Lulz dude...i think the firmware fix is to restrict your ability to overclock overvolt. In taiwan issue it is bad components...hence the recall and pulling off shelves. If it was a simple downloadable firmware update they wouldnt be pulling them. This screams bad components. Either way it has scared me away from those Mobos

It's not remarks about the Taiwanese people them selves...its about not being able to control the quality of work when your not doing it yourself. I would have said the same thing if it was screwed up here in america (where im from btw).

I'm really against shipping jobs overseas to less developed and less controlled third world countries to pay less for for manufacturing to make bigger profit = slave labor & substandard workmanship, quality control, thats all.

and I really wanted the Gi Assassin 2 Mobo

 

[ThatBattlefieldGuy]

It's got nothing to do with bad components, poor workmanship etc dude. ' they are not recalling products'.

That bloke was recording because he knew that sooner or later something was going to happen.

The new bios's do restrict the limit of overvolting AFAIK, but WHO'S COMPLAINING? If your stupid enough to put that kind of voltage through your board you deserve the consequences.

 

[alicarve]

WARNNG.....

DANGER WILL ROBINSON...DANGER, DANGER

Was going to build a new rig with

Gigabyte g1 assassin 2 Mobo and up coming i7 3820 2011 CPU

then found this My link

This is what happens when you dont make it yourself and make it in the country where you live...Frigging Taiwainese crap quality cutting corners/pocketing profit saved on substandard components

going to do something else now...probably AMD 1090T and ASUS crosshair V formula Mobo

as bfguy has said it has been fixed with a bios update and those who had the mobos when this happened have been offered a lifetime warranty so if you want the assasin i wouldn't let that put you off as it still is an amazing board and can overclock as much as you probably would want it to

 

[sleepylilazn]

Lulz dude...i think the firmware fix is to restrict your ability to overclock overvolt. In taiwan issue it is bad components...hence the recall and pulling off shelves. If it was a simple downloadable firmware update they wouldnt be pulling them. This screams bad components. Either way it has scared me away from those Mobos

It's not remarks about the Taiwanese people them selves...its about not being able to control the quality of work when your not doing it yourself. I would have said the same thing if it was screwed up here in america (where im from btw).

I'm really against shipping jobs overseas to less developed and less controlled third world countries to pay less for for manufacturing to make bigger profit = slave labor & substandard workmanship, quality control, thats all.

and I really wanted the Gi Assassin 2 Mobo

This is not relevant nor true, as ThatBattlefieldGuy has hinted at. You should, at the very least, read the source you are providing.

From what I understand, this whole situation is due to SUE and Gigabyte provided a firmware to prevent this stupidity.

As Alicarve has mentioned, there's apparently a life time warranty for this so I don't see what the problem is.

 

[hmmblah]

Old news and posted here already:

http://forum.overclock3d.net/index....abyte++x79++recall__fromsearch__1#entry473507