Latest Gigabyte X370 K7 Motherboard BIOS Broken Dynamic vCore, up to 1.7v

[Tatty_Two]

Link currently doesn't work

Does for me. F6 is there.

 

[psyko12]

Chinese server has it F6 for k7
http://download.gigabyte.cn/FileList/BIOS/mb_bios_ga-ax370-gaming-k7_f6.zip

 

[Dave65]

I wonder how much damage my 1700 took in the three days that I didn't notice the high voltage.. Really pisses me off!

 

[psyko12]

Hey All,

With Matt out on leave I thought i'd share with you guys first hand we had some updated BIOSes for the following boards:

AX370-Gaming K7 - F6

AX370-Gaming 5 - F8

AB350N-Gaming WiFi - F5

If you guys were having some issues with P2-States hanging or an unstable dynamic vCore definitely update your boards with the respective BIOS here.

Hope these help give you guys better OC's.

-- Gigabyte--Leon

Well a gigabyte team member posted only this and nothing about what happened with the problematic bios

 

[ypsylon]

Its problem across ALL Gigabyte motherboards. ALL not only this one or that one. Look no further than problems with X299 reported by multiple OC. No, not that pointless VRM argument which is relevant to 0.0001% of users. All Gigabyte BIOSes have this fault, where voltage can jump instantly to ridiculous value. Also reporting voltage on all Gigabyte boards is iffy because you get Vc in not V core which can be nothing short of catastrophic when pushing the OC envelope.

Despite multiple reports Gigabyte just ignores the stuff and keeps the relevant info hidden/top secret. One of the reasons why I didn't went with G board.

In the end you're left with very expensive paper weight if not careful.

 

[xorbe]

a crispy 1.55v

Man, clearly zero q/a testing on Gigabytes behalf.

 

[Asuredawn]

Its problem across ALL Gigabyte motherboards. ALL not only this one or that one. Look no further than problems with X299 reported by multiple OC. No, not that pointless VRM argument which is relevant to 0.0001% of users. All Gigabyte BIOSes have this fault, where voltage can jump instantly to ridiculous value. Also reporting voltage on all Gigabyte boards is iffy because you get Vc in not V core which can be nothing short of catastrophic when pushing the OC envelope.

Despite multiple reports Gigabyte just ignores the stuff and keeps the relevant info hidden/top secret. One of the reasons why I didn't went with G board.

In the end you're left with very expensive paper weight if not careful.

No, the problem with this bios is it stays at 1.55 or more when it's set to normal +offset. It never drops to normal values. Thankfully it's been fixed fairly quickly.

 

[Karnov]

There is another problem with the new 'fixed' bios for Gaming 5 and probably others:

If you have SOC Voltage set to Auto and memory above 2666 then you might get a VERY high SOC voltage. My memory kit is stable at 3200 but when set to Auto with the F8 bios it goes to 1.225V!

SOC should never go above a max. of 1.2V. Higher SOC voltages can degrade your CPUs mem. controller.

If you are using one of the new bioses released in the last few days I'd check your SOC voltage. Changing from Auto to normal with offset Normal (0.000V) fixed it for me. SOC is now at 1.087V.

 

[Hoaca388]

There is another problem with the new 'fixed' bios for Gaming 5 and probably others:

If you have SOC Voltage set to Auto and memory above 2666 then you might get a VERY high SOC voltage. My memory kit is stable at 3200 but when set to Auto with the F8 bios it goes to 1.225V!

SOC should never go above a max. of 1.2V. Higher SOC voltages can degrade your CPUs mem. controller.

If you are using one of the new bioses released in the last few days I'd check your SOC voltage. Changing from Auto to normal with offset Normal (0.000V) fixed it for me. SOC is now at 1.087V.

My vcore soc is 1,092 vol , f6 bios, k7 gamming. I've been sticked it at volume 1.1 vol.

 

[Karnov]

Ideally safe values range from 1.1 - 1.2 and no more than 1.25v as per AMD.

EDIT:

I did notice it set it to 1.25 for vsoc when I turned on my XMP before. But I don't use XMP, I tweak manually. (This is on a gaming k7 platform).

I would not use Auto either, I just noticed this right after updating the bios. Auto is the default and it now sets a dangerously high voltage. The previous F6 bios for Gaming 5 did not set it above 1.1V even on Auto.

I agree manually tweaking is better, just wanted to let people know not to leave SOC voltage on Auto. Gigabyte really need to be more careful with their defaults.

 

[psyko12]

There is another problem with the new 'fixed' bios for Gaming 5 and probably others:

If you have SOC Voltage set to Auto and memory above 2666 then you might get a VERY high SOC voltage. My memory kit is stable at 3200 but when set to Auto with the F8 bios it goes to 1.225V!

SOC should never go above a max. of 1.2V. Higher SOC voltages can degrade your CPUs mem. controller.

If you are using one of the new bioses released in the last few days I'd check your SOC voltage. Changing from Auto to normal with offset Normal (0.000V) fixed it for me. SOC is now at 1.087V.

Ideally safe values range from 1.1 - 1.2 and no more than 1.25v as per AMD.

EDIT:

I did notice it set it to 1.25 for vsoc when I turned on my XMP before. But I don't use XMP, I tweak manually. (This is on a gaming k7 platform).