Has anyone actually seen a C2 stepping mobo from Gigabyte?

[Maximilian]

I know the C2 chips have been shipping since july etc etc but I cant seem to find anyone who has gotten a C2 Gigabyte motherboard.

I havent googled extensively but what I have found are posts from mid november with people still getting C1's and stating they've never seen a C2 Gigabyte. What gives??

 

[mv2devnull]

You mean the Series 8 (Lynx Point, for Haswell) chipset.

Early Fall someone was convinced that Gigabyte would include C2 stepping when/if they release rev. 2 boards.

 

[Maximilian]

You mean the Series 8 (Lynx Point, for Haswell) chipset.

Early Fall someone was convinced that Gigabyte would include C2 stepping when/if they release rev. 2 boards.

Yeah Z87 H87 etc, I have seen zero reports of any C2 steppings from Gigabyte in the wild.

 

[The Day Dreamer]

Nope, me too searching but no luck :/ . Tried contacting Gigabyte employ who is my friend but even he don't have any idea, LOL.

 

[vailr]

Purchased a Z87X-UD5H board last week from Neweggbusiness.com, and it was still the C1 stepping chipset. There's a possibility that the mainboard version will change to 1.1, in order to signify that the C2 version chipset is present.
See: http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=35409810&postcount=36
Newegg's price on the Z87X-UD5H has now increased +$40 since my purchase last week: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128593
So, maybe they were cleaning out their old stock and may now finally be offering the C2 stepping boards?

 

[Ketchup]

I really don't get why they are not signifying the change somehow, unless they have tons of stock on the "old" ones and are afraid they'll be stuck with them.

 

[Maximilian]

I wanted the GA-H87-D3H but went ahead and got an Asus since they label the boards C2. But its still surprising to see absolutely noone having a Gigabyte C2 board at this point, Asrock are shipping them, people with MSI (i think) have gotten C2 boards. Gigabyte don't label them but I would have expected someone to have a C2 from them by now. Possibly the reason they don't label them :\

 

[Charlie98]

The ASRock H81 board I just got has C2 stepping. I like Gigabyte a lot, I hope they get with the program...

 

[Hulk]

What's so good about the c2 stepping?

 

[Maximilian]

What's so good about the c2 stepping?

Fixes the USB sleep bug.

 

[JechtShot]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128671

Does the new models from Gigabyte have the C2 stepping? If you zoom in on the pictures of the new models, it says Revision 1.1. The UDH series still says Revision 1.0.

 

[JechtShot]

Just wanted to say that i bought the G1 Sniper Z87 that just came out which is Rev 1.1 and it does have the C2 stepping according to CPU-Z.

 

[Maximilian]

Just wanted to say that i bought the G1 Sniper Z87 that just came out which is Rev 1.1 and it does have the C2 stepping according to CPU-Z.

Its about time :thumbsup:

 

[sauria]

Yes, verified on my GA-Z87X-UD7 TH (rev. 2.0)

 

[coolpurplefan]

ugh really? I use a lot of USB 3.0 devices. This is annoying.

Really? I did a quick search and saw that only Windows 8 has USB 3.0 support but the things I read implied it was buggy. Does Windows 7 have any USB 3.0 support?

 

[Ketchup]

Really? I did a quick search and saw that only Windows 8 has USB 3.0 support but the things I read implied it was buggy. Does Windows 7 have any USB 3.0 support?

Not natively. What you encounter Windows 7 on a computer with USB 3, you will always find a separate set of drivers for those ports.