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Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 Owners - Any Tips?

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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 said:
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! 😉
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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... :colbert:

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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.
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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.
 
gevorg said:
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.
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+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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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.
 
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