Anyone else had this issue with their board? I must have the worst luck with this stuff. Board started locking the multiplier at 8x and cpu wouldn't go above 800mhz. Jacked around with bios and settings for hours. EVGA support of course wants me to have basically an extra computer to test parts on which I don't because it's either the board or the cpu. I finally found out about this BD PROCHOT which is the motherboard sensor thinking the cpu is overheated (which it isn't it never goes above 55c under full load) so the cpu shows thermal throttling if you look at it in the intel tuning utility. Once I found the "unthrottle" program and disabled this BD PROCHOT crap cpu goes back to normal (only when in windows, in bios it will still be throttled) so I now know for sure it's a board failure. Of course I shouldn't have to use software for the board to work properly so we are rma'ing it under my lifetime EAR but good god... I have spent more on purchasing warranties and ear's on this stuff because it fails on a yearly basis. This particular board is maybe a little over a year old so I have to burn my EAR to replace it over this nonsense (if they even have another Z97 FTW Board which I hope to god they do).
I guess I'm looking for answers. Do other people have these issues with failures? Why the heck doesn't the bios have the ability built in to turn off this PROCHOT crap like the other manufacturers?
EVGA Z97 FTW. i7-4790K, G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3-2400 x 16gb (2 x 8gb), EVGA GTX970 SC 4GB (EK Full Cover Blocks with parallel bridge) (SLI), EVGA Supernova 1200w, Feser X-Changer 120.3 radiator x 2, Swiftech MCP355 w/xspc res top x 2, Heatkiller 3.0 (CPU).