I've deduced that it's probably #Gigabyte's fault. I got the right CPU fan header and it's seated properly, but the fans just refuse to spin no matter what. I then reseated the fan connector, despite it visibly showing that it's already seated properly, and that got it to work - until sometime later it just doesn't anymore. This happens regardless of whether I had set the fans to spin according to my temp/fan speed curve, or making it spin at full blast all the time. As it is, it's impossible to #game since the fans won't spin at all and it'd quickly reach my PBO temp limit of 85c and throttle hard. This isn't the only issue I've encountered with this B550I #AORUS Pro AX mobo - prolly should've went with an ROG board like my primary PC.
Found a comment saying that #Noctua fans don’t play well with #Gigabyte boards. I have a spare CPU cooler I bought long ago that’s supposedly better thermally and comparable aurally with the current Noctua cooler I have installed. If I’m not feeling lazy, I might just try replacing the cooler - I can only hope that I could do so while the board’s already in the super tiny case of mine, cos getting it out and in again would be a massive pain.
TLDR; Please Avoid Buying Gigabyte/#AORUS motherboards. #MSI and #ASUS boards most of the time are preferable, maybe even #ASROCK.
Holy shit did we dodge a bullet. When I upgraded our mastodon server last December I originally ordered a Gigabyte motherboard as part of the upgrade, ended up sending it back as defective.
Turns out it was much, much more defective than I knew.
Millions of Gigabyte motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor to invisibly and insecurely downloads program updates
Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that tells a PC how to load its operating system, has become an insidious trick in the toolkit of stealthy hackers. But when a motherboard manufacturer installs its own hidden backd ...continues
Bei #Tesla hat es einem Zeitungsbericht zufolge ein größeres Datenleck gegeben. Das „Handelsblatt“ berichtete, ihm seien 100 #Gigabyte an vertraulichen Daten zugespielt worden, darunter sensible Informationen zu Kunden, Mitarbeitern und Geschäftspartnern.
Tesla teilte der Zeitung mit, man verdächtige einen Ex-Mitarbeiter.
Ein Sprecher der Landesdatenschutzbeauftragten in Brandenburg: "ernstzunehmende Hinweise auf mögliche Datenschutzverletzungen“