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Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H replacement?

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I've finally decided to replace the motherboard of my desktop rig (z77x-ud3h), as it has suffered from random freezes pretty much from the day that I've had it. I won't describe them in detail, main thing is that I didn't find out about the problem until after buying the board, and any and all solutions that have been listed on the various threads about it (they exist for most Gigabyte z77-chipset motherboards, same symptoms) haven't worked permanently - the best that I got at one point was 2 months without a freeze... followed by another one 4 days later. Have also swapped videocards / removed the x-fi prelude / change the PSU (used to be an 850w FSP unit) / played with ram slots and sticks (+ relaxed timings, higher voltage, etc), nevermind that I didn't have any such issues on my previous build with mostly the same components (well, q9400 instead of 3770k due to sockets).

So bottom line is, I want to ditch it for something else that is comparable (z77, stable clocker... preferably having 1 PCI slot for the x-fi prelude), but I'm afraid that the same situation might happen again - seeing a board that is highly recommended, but with issues which you can hardly find mentioned anywhere unless you look specifically for them. I'd appreciate suggestions of both models and perhaps ways to spot such things next time (even though I guess it's research research research... which I thought I'd done but you have to draw a line somewhere I guess
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You might want to try swapping out the CPU before buying a new board.
 
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Originally Posted by Ragsters View Post

You might want to try swapping out the CPU before buying a new board.
That'll be next to impossible - these issues are still hard to reproduce, and I only know two people who have an LGA1155 CPU... and both of them won't be too willing
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Another problem is that I'm mostly abroad, so I don't get to use the PC too often... including now, so I'm pretty much trying to do as much offline research as possible about the issue. I think I'd read somewhere that swapping CPUs on boards exhibiting the issue didn't change anything, and also since this one doesn't really stay at 4.6GHz too often (maybe was so for 2 months of use when I needed max single threaded for M&B:Warband with stupid army sizes)... I don't really have much evidence against the CPU, and a whole lot against these boards. I'll go through the threads regarding these freezes again to confirm the CPU swap being ineffective case.
 
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I just thought it might be worth buying a $50 cpu and trying that out.
 
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I'm in the same boat. I have the same board and it has always given me trouble. Super finicky with hardware changes and just died a couple weeks ago.

I'm pretty sure my 3570k and ram are just fine, I've already built a replacement system (see my last post to see how fun that's been), but I don't want a perfectly good CPU and RAM to go to waste.

Anyways, I know this post has gone a few days without answer but I'll be researching the same and will post again if I find anything of note.
 
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