**[Official]** GIGABYTE Z77X Owners/Discussion/Information/Support Thread and Club (UD5H, UD3H,... - Page 283

It been a while since I visited this thread, can't believe 283 pages wow =)

I just wanted to say my build has been going great thanks Sin and everyone else for any info and help earlier on when I had some questions, it has been 3 months, and not one issue at all (knock on wood my luck LOL ), still on F6 Bios, have not upgraded figured why mess with something that is working.

This system has been rock solid stable, not one bluescreen,and have been playing every single game I throw at it with max spec. I am definitely happy I went with Gigabyte =)


Also forgot to mention about a month ago I picked up the Corsair 1300 Analog Headset and I was afraid that the UD5H onboard sound would not be good enough, well I am happy to say the onboard sound is amazing along with the creatve software directional sound is amazing with most of my games.
Edited by Rondik - 7/23/12 at 6:15pm

interesting if GIGABYTE will make BIOS update some day with CPU temperature on POST code screen? Sin?

As I mentioned the only PCI card I have is my video card which is PCI-E 2. I use the VIA on board sound and there are no other PCI cards plugged in.

The BSOD happens if I plug the G19 keyboard or any external hard drive into any of the VIA USB 3.0 ports.

If I plug my G19 into the top VIA ports (under the PS2 hybrid port) then I get BSODs.
If I put it into the VIA ports beside the LAN, I get BSODs.
If I plug any of my external hard drives into these ports, same thing, BSODs.
Always, always a 0xF4 crash.

If I put it into the Intel port (under the LAN), it works.
If I put it on USB 2.0 (front of my case, attached to internal header), it works fine.
Likewise, my USB 3.0 GoFlex Desk drives are also currently working only on the Intel USB 3.0 ports.

This essentially leaves me with only 2 usable USB 3.0 ports.

As a last ditch effort maybe I'll write GB Tech support and see if they have a fresh BIOS I can try out. I see F12H on TT but I'm reading where folks are saying that it is a nightmare.

So I'm the only one (of about 5, you say) in this forum with the UD3H having this problem? Other folks are using their VIA ports ok? If yes, could you guys post what BIOS you're using and how your USB is set up please? (Smart Auto/Auto/Enable). I'm curious. Just a quick example of what devices you have on them will do. Here are a few pages you asked for with people having similar issues. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 1-4 are the actual ud3h and 5-6 are the variants but with the same or similar problem.
Edited by neoprimal - 7/23/12 at 8:51pm

Did you read the first part of my post? Where I say the thread is unfolding and most issue are hopefully being ironed out and I pointed out that the issues seemed to be PCI incompatibility and USB driver immaturity?
I was under the impression that a website reachable from google was part the 'the media'.

And then...
Seriously? ASUS has gotten into my brain?
I never said I wanted to buy an Asus board. I never owned an Asus mobo, and never used any Asus mobo (or GPU, or DVD, or notebook, or netbook, or tablet) in any PC I've built for relatives or friends. Only Gigabyte and MSI (the latter one because I was tight on budget). Also, in my previous post I also wrote the I found Asus overhyped their alleged 'power saving features' since the power consumption of their Z77P8 was way higher than Gigabyte's UD5H, according to all comparative reviews I had read. And I'll tell you more: I believe their mobos are overpriced and they charge their customers just for the sake of their brand.

Now, should I slain some Asus representative, possibly torturing him and making him suffer for a very long time to prove you I couldn't care less about Asus, their mobos, their marketing and their tricks?
Seriously man, I am sorry you took it this way. Perhaps my English is not even half as good as I had thought and I have expressed myself in an ambiguous way. I really appreciate the time you spent in answering my (and all the other people's) questions. The point I was trying to make is this though: I have a scientific mindset that prevents me from accepting statements on the sole basis of faith. In the same way I do not accept by faith the FUD about the missing capacitors, I do not accept by faith explanations based on the principle of authority. I thought I had expressed that concept clearly but evidently it is not so.
Fanboys accepts explanations based on the faith they bestow on their beloved brand. People who try to think critically (sorry for my English) need rational explanations based on facts. It appears that such explanations are not possible because the schematics are top secret and all one can say is "trust the almighty Gigabyte (or Asus, or Asrock, or MSI or Foxconn, or...) engineers. They cannot possibly be wrong, ever!"
Not so long ago, there are open projects out there, you know? And you don't need to show the routing of your traces to show a simplified schematic of a power stage. But I was only asking there. A simple no would have sufficed.
What I was trying to say is that you actually didn't. Since the schematics are top secret and you cannot tell for sure based on a scientific argument.
The reason I am posting once a week is that I don't have that much time for the Internet. Once I was a very avid newsgroup follower, with some 300-400 messages a month (talking about Usenet, here). I had to give up that. In the NGs I followed we had our share of trolls and I know it is easy to suspect a newcomer of being one, if he does not bow down and kiss the top posters ****. But I am not a troll, nor I am trolling casually. I simply spotted a faith based argument and pointed out the circular reasoning that usually come from fanboys. I was under the impression you were not one of them. Sorry. I too feel I've just wasted 10 minutes of my life.

I'll tell you why I am so concerned with this board: I live in the Old World, and things are not going well here economically (I wouldn't be surprise if all the money I have in the bank would be frozen from one day to the other and turned into toilet paper) . The one I am about to buy is going to be the last PC I buy for a very long time and as I plan to use it for work, I cannot afford a mobo who has stability issues. If possible I want to prolong its life by reducing its power consumption. I went for Gigabyte (not ASUS!) because of their outstanding motherboard quality, I really want to buy that board and it is very likely that I eventually will. That's why I am asking all kinds of questions about it; what is best of an overclockers owners club? Overclockers push the mobo to the limit, if there is something strange it is more likely it will come out here, not in the silent pc club.

But I would also like answers based on facts and not on faith.
I did not think that being critical would have made a troll out of me.

*** Yawn***

Ok, it really seems a language problem. It has to be my bad, then. Perhaps the way I write makes me appear aggressive and I gave you the impression I was demanding an explanation from you. All I wanted to point out was that BOTH the marketing FUD AND the previous explanations I had read (yes including yours so far, but that's immaterial) did not prove anything.

Now, verifying the voltages, that is a scientific approach that could settle the question regardless of the secret routes the power is brought to the cpu. Please, please note that I am not asking you, nor anybody else to verify the voltages, I am only saying that this is the right approach: now we're talking science and not faith. As a matter of fact, it was the possibility that a design error (they happen, mostly in ASUS, ok , but they could even happen to Gigabyte) could prevent me from underclocking the 3570k, that made me curious about that.

And, for God's sake!, stop mentioning Asus to me.
I never read anything else about the matter apart form that site's webpage I've linked before (kitguru, or whatever).

Peace?

EDIT: either... and... LOL. I'll have to ask a refund for that English course.
Edited by Sredni Vashtar - 7/23/12 at 10:17pm

Excellent

The guys from Vr-Zone have made their first look as well:

http://vr-zone.com/articles/first-look-gigabyte-z77x-up5-th--a-real-bargain--us-249-comes-with-dual-thunderbolt/16769.html

Nice board, if there really is about to cost 249.00 USD (205.583 EUR) I've made my choice too (finally)
Gotta wait some more, is still unavailable at the moment and in Germany is priced starting at €281,93

http://www.computerbase.de/preisvergleich/807766