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Gigabyte have completely revamped their UEFI bios for their latest products and it is extremely impressive. There is an immense amount of information on the home screen including details on the processor along the left, with fan speeds and voltages. Underneath this is the memory status – defaulted in this case to 1333mhz. The system status is available from the panel down the right hand side of the screen. The drive boot sequence is seen in the middle panel, bottom right.
Gigabyte let the user adjust the layout and readout of the BIOS screens to suit their own tastes. This is very indepth and is a very commendable idea sure to appeal to an audience who feel that the default settings are never completely right for them.
The panel information will only update after you press the mouse button or hit the return key. The System panel gives a quick overview of passwords, startup pages and display policies.
The BIOS Features panel gives an overview of many of the BIOS settings, such as showing the detailed system information, or a Gigabyte boot screen. There are Fast boot options here, alongside virtualisation settings.
The peripherals panel gives an overview of various device configuration settings and SATA configurations.
The Power Management panel lets the user configure wake up times and days as well as power on by keyboard and mouse settings.
The main performance panel has various little subsections in the panel underneath, which is actually easily missed if you aren't paying attention. In here we can adjust the frequency of the processor, memory and adjust voltage settings, while checking the health status of each.
The first course of action is to correct the memory speeds by selecting the XMP profile. This is handled in the memory subsection of the main ‘memory' panel, as shown above. The motherboard correctly set the voltage without intervention.
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Gigabyte have this round sown up, that new bios also looks amazing.
Lovely looking motherboard – I am not moving however, waiting on the next generation.
about time they ditched the blue PCB boards- what a step forward ! love it !
this is the board to get, the price looks spot on and its not losing any features.
Only thing is the 6 SATA ports, id like 8 like the asus board, as I have a lot of hard drives.
THE GIGABYTE BOARDS are killer looking. best boards they have ever products.
4770k is a flop. Intel are clearly focused on the mobile platform now and power reduction rather than moving forward in the high end and giving people a huge step up. anyone with a 3770k wont need to move,unless for some reason they need onboard graphics !
disappointing CPU launch, but great motherboards from the guys. I like how they have ditched the old SATA standard now instead of 3 or 4 useless ports for SSD.
4770k isn’t that bad, but I agree, its not a huge step forward. it may help those peoplee who buy a lower end processor and cant afford a graphics card, but who the F*CK will want a 4770k for onboard graphics performance? its irrelevant really.
Ive seen a lot of reviews today and there seems to be a huge variance on the overclocks, which would suggest the new manufacturing process isn’t quite at the level it should be. ill stay with my 3570k for a while longer as its working well with the 7950 I have.
Noob question:
I see you used the 1.65volt corsairs, but the board specifications are for 1.5.volt. Wouldn’t
that impact the lifespan of the board in the long run?
Does the Z87X-OC natively supports the i7-4770k? Or do i need to update the Bios to a newer version? Actually i have a problem since i have just built my new pc but when i try to turn it on the fens start to work but everything shuts down after 1-2 seconds.. I’d like to know if there is an hardware problem or if it’s just because of the bios.
I have no real experience with Bios and stuff like that ç__ç