Expired by the likes of things

FYI this random behaviour could be related to a BIOS bug which is more widespread than first thought.

i actually had it running semi stable at 4.7ghz for well over 3 months. even managed to do a 12hour burn in test without it dying on me. when it was just doing general things though, it crashed/restarted itself perhaps once a week, I figured that i'd rather have it run without randomly doing that halfway through a movie or whatever. it seldom does anything too demanding but now it's pretty much solid.

my voltage is actually set at 1.217. i bought 3x8GB kingston hyper x fury 2400 ram which is rated as being too fast for this board but clearly it works just fine anyway. i have been considering just upgrading to the i7 4690k though. the fastest the board can take. :smiley:

£64.67 now

It's not the boards it's the cpu socket pins they are very easily bent compared to previous pins over many generations ive had, just tightening a heatsink and bend pins

​Not all CPUs are identical when it comes to over clocking potential

Have had this board for some time now. No issues, just running fine. Bios update was easy too.

discount code is for SAM formula baby milk?

Keep an eye out for bios updates that might fix the fault if you have the fault

Had mine about 18 months with no problems at all. Seems to score reasonable highly in reviews, so must be only the odd rogue board

never had any problem with this Motherboard. good price

It sounds like you simply lost the silicon lottery, unfortunately. On this 'board my 4690k @ 4.5Ghz is absolutely stable at 1.2v and will run at 4.7Ghz without exceeding 1.3v and without sacrificing stability.

However, I am using an H110i GT to keep is cool, which is probably about as good as CPU cooling gets without faffing around with custom water cooling loops.

thats great i will look it

After I had this issue...

http://www.overclock.net/t/1034724/gigabyte-p67-z68-boot-cycling-problem

I'd never buy a gigabyte board again.

i have this board, i use it for my plex server, so it gets a fair bit of use. it didn't like my ssd so i had to use a different drive with it, once i had got around that issue everything worked fine. overclocks my pentium g3258 very easily to 4.3ghz without any stability issues. the only thing i don't like about the board is the placing of the slots, if i use a large (fairly standard double spaced) graphics card i can't access both of the pcie slots, one is fully blocked by the graphics card's fan/casing.

A lot of the rev1 of these were giving infinite bootup problems, and making it pretty difficult to update the BIOS to bypass the problems with some of the chipsets. Aim for rev2 or trial and error. Amazon is the best at returns though so no worries there.

I've had mine since Christmas - its very good - but I have trouble with the PC restarting after shutting down! It does'nt always do it but when it does I have to shut down again from the Log-on screen! It does shut down then. Its has latest Firmware!:confused:

I've had problems with this - getting stuck at the BIOS screen forever which needed a CMOS clear, then not shutting down completely (basically shuts down on demand but restarts itself 10 seconds later). I only bought it a week ago - how do I identify what rev I have?