Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 Owners - Any Tips?

[itakey]

I see Gigabyte has posted up a new bios for this specific board, F11. Yesterday and a few days back it was F11i as a beta. I'm going to update to this F11 tonight and see how it goes.

To report, this second board has ZERO problems. A ton of in and out of bios, changes, adjustments, etc. All working beautifully.

Bios F11 Download:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3973#bios

 

[Charlie98]

Glad your new board is working well. I really like my Gigabyte board...

 

[LucyJane]

Landlord Insurance motherboards are probably the best ones that i've had without a doubt!!

 

[chubbyfatazn]

Cue the paid shills in 3... 2...

Updating to the latest BIOS did nothing for my board. Back to the store it went.

 

[hyrule4927]

Hope I'm not hijacking this thread, but I had a quick question about this motherboard. When I closed my CPU socket there was an unusual amount of resistance and the clamp actually scraped the sides of my IHS. Everything works fine, just wondering if this is a common problem, as I hated to see any damage to my 2600K.

 

[Charlie98]

Cue the paid shills in 3... 2...

Beg pardon...?

I like my Giga board, I've not had problem one with it, I've not even updated the BIOS (no reason to, given the purposes.)

Now those ASRock moonies... you have to watch them!

 

[chubbyfatazn]

Beg pardon...?

I like my Giga board, I've not had problem one with it, I've not even updated the BIOS (no reason to, given the purposes.)

Now those ASRock moonies... you have to watch them!

He/she decided to bump a nearly two-month old thread just to say Gigabyte boards are great? And he/she's a new poster? Hmm...

Don't get me wrong, I used my AM2+ Gigabyte board for three years and it only got retired when I switched over to SB. Still has a lot of fight left in it.

 

[Charlie98]

He/she decided to bump a nearly two-month old thread just to say Gigabyte boards are great? And he/she's a new poster?.

No, I knew what where you were going with it, I just ignored the obvious... :whiste: Gotta have some fun...

 

[gpse]

F12 Bios is out, just flashed without any issues.

 

[Zxian]

I actually just swapped my Z68X-UD3H-B3 for an ASUS P8Z77 WS board. The Gigabyte board felt flimsy to handle (VRM heatsinks - I'm looking at you), and the lack of a proper UEFI BIOS was the deal breaker. I couldn't use the board with my 3ware 9650SE RAID controller, since there was a lack of BIOS address space for the additional 3ware BIOS ROM.

Every other half decent x67/x68 series motherboard has had full UEFI support - not just this 3TB "UEFI-like" functionality.

 

[hyrule4927]

Does anyone know how to make Dynamic Vcore/Offset Voltage accessible in BIOS?

 

[Charlie98]

Does anyone know how to make Dynamic Vcore/Offset Voltage accessible in BIOS?

My D2H board doesn't have voltage offset, I am only able to set core voltage directly, the UD3H board may be the same.

 

[gevorg]

The biggest weakness of this board and most other Gigabyte boards is the lack of case fan controls, so the case fans would be spinning at their max or whatever speed the board "automatically" sets. Even generic Intel boards have case fan controls/adjustments/etc. Otherwise, this Gigabyte is a very good board.

 

[gpse]

The biggest weakness of this board and most other Gigabyte boards is the lack of case fan controls, so the case fans would be spinning at their max or whatever speed the board "automatically" sets. Even generic Intel boards have case fan controls/adjustments/etc. Otherwise, this Gigabyte is a very good board.

I agree completely, I love my gigabyte board, but no fan control sucks! I would really love it if a Bios update allowed System Fan Control.

 

[Pneumothorax]

The biggest weakness of this board and most other Gigabyte boards is the lack of case fan controls, so the case fans would be spinning at their max or whatever speed the board "automatically" sets. Even generic Intel boards have case fan controls/adjustments/etc. Otherwise, this Gigabyte is a very good board.

+1000! This was finally corrected with the z77 boards but asus implementation from even p45 days is still more robust in options in fan slope.


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[juscelinofs]

Updating the BIOS to F11 version will probaably fix this issue. Gigabyte describes this version as for:

1. Support Intel 3rd generation 22nm E1 stepping CPU (Ivy bridge)
2. Improve power on issue
3. Update ME / CPU code

Hope it helps, folks.

 

[zaydq]

I own this board... so far so good!