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GIGA-Man · 15 Jun 2011 at 10:48

Evoss said:
Hi, Giga rep

I want my next build to have a Z68 board.

I am very intrested in the UD4, but has no VGA/DVI/HDMI port. Apparently a UD4XP model is due for release with a HDMI port on it. Is this true and when is its release date?

Thanks

There is indeed a new model, the Z68XP-UD4 will have all the features you wanted and will be on sale in the next few weeks.

GIGA-Man · 15 Jun 2011 at 10:48

gropingmantis said:
Do you know when/if we will see a Z68 ITX board from Gigabyte. I MUST know!!!

There are plans but dont expect to see one this year sorry....

GIGA-Man · 15 Jun 2011 at 10:52

When will we see USB3 become standard on Motherboards not just limited amount of sockets?

Thats a question for Intel and AMD who make the chipsets...

GIGA-Man · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:00

Nelly said:
I have a question:

When will we see the Gigabyte GA-Z68-Gaming in the UK?

This will be avalible in about a month or two max

kevbiss1 · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:32

Hello giga- man, i own a gama770t ud3p board,my northbridge temps go up to about 84*c,i since put a small fan on and temps are a constant 78*c, i also changed the thermal compound,are these temps normal?

GIGA-Man · 15 Jun 2011 at 14:16

kevpuk said:
What he said, really ^^

I like the idea of onboard GPU for every day use, and pretty impressive video transcoding, but still have plenty of need for a discrete gfx card for gaming and mining !
Gigabyte Z68 boards were crossed right off my list for this most recent upgrade, simply on the grounds they did not have video outputs (and therefore Virtu), leaving a toss-up between Asus and AsRock......no skin of my nose, but missed opportunity for Gigabyte, methinks, for other like-minded buyers ? Shame, as have liked previous Gigabyte board owned (K8NXP-SLI, way back when !)

Hi

Gigabyte is catering for all aspects of the market on Z68 lines as you can see we have many lines available to offer, we have many options on Z68 available for you to buy with or without the VGA option. Some people dont want to pay more for the VGA option when it wont be used. Very soon we will have the XP codes live that does come with the VGA option on the high end boards.

OCUK will be getting the stocks as soon as they land and we will make sure all of the forum members are updated.

Hope this clears your question up and have a great day…

Many thanks

Giga-man

Evoss · 15 Jun 2011 at 16:48

Thanks for the replies

DennisMenace · 15 Jun 2011 at 17:42

GIGA-Man said:
Currently we are working on a possible UEFI BIOS for our products but it will be some time before we are happy with the final result.

Will this be available to current Z68 customers (ie. me :rolleyes:

) as a BIOS update? Or just on later revision/model boards?

GIGA-Man said:
There is indeed a new model, the Z68XP-UD4 will have all the features you wanted and will be on sale in the next few weeks.

I (mistakenly) thought "P" referred to the mSATA port, and didn't realise Gigabyte were releasing higher-end mobos with VGA/HDMI etc. Hence I bought my UD3H as soon as it was available, otherwise I would have held on for a Z68XP-UD3P/UD4. Having said that, I'm 95% happy with the UD3H - the 5% is for the 7-phase VRM, which is a bit lame for OC'ing (or maybe my 2500K is a poor one??). Apart from the outdated BIOS, it's a great board for the money.

nightmare99 · 15 Jun 2011 at 18:01

Will this be available to current Z68 customers (ie. me ) as a BIOS update? Or just on later revision/model boards?

I would be surprised if existing boards get it as they would not be correctly licensed.

Curunen · 15 Jun 2011 at 19:55

GIGA-Man said:
gropingmantis said:

Do you know when/if we will see a Z68 ITX board from Gigabyte. I MUST know!!!

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There are plans but dont expect to see one this year sorry....

Not this year! :eek:

Oh well, thanks for the clarification.

alex24 · 15 Jun 2011 at 19:57

GIGA-Man said:
Currently we are working on a possible UEFI BIOS for our products but it will be some time before we are happy with the final result.

Thanks for the reply, good to hear you have something in the pipeline.

GIGA-Man · 16 Jun 2011 at 09:14

kevbiss1 said:
Hello giga- man, i own a gama770t ud3p board,my northbridge temps go up to about 84*c,i since put a small fan on and temps are a constant 78*c, i also changed the thermal compound,are these temps normal?

They are OK. Don't worry about northbridge temps, the chipsets are designed to withstand such level. BTW what software do you use for checking it?

chaotic_uk said:
alex24 said:

The response on Gigabyte's own forums is much better. Can't expect them to be everywhere now.

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most of the threads are by non gigabyte staff on that forum , very rare you will see anybody from gigabyte tbh . i also visit that forum and have asked for help in the past and was help by a normal user and not by gigabyte staff

It's because GIGABYTE Forum is the community of Gigabyte users who help each other and exchange opinions there. This is major purpose of this forum.
But you will meet my co-worker runn3R there too

Garyj881 · 16 Jun 2011 at 09:28

Just the man, have a look at my thread please OVER HERE

chaotic_uk · 16 Jun 2011 at 10:26

@ GIGA-Man

do you know or can find out if the below mobo will ever get a non beta bios (F8G) ? , it has been in beta for months now and any info on this subject would be most helpful

GA-MA790XT-UD4P (rev. 1.0)

rolypolyman · 16 Jun 2011 at 16:00

@ Giga-Man. Same as above only I have the MA790X-UD4. Bios F7D beta which according to your site means, 'not the final product'.

ProjectVRD · 16 Jun 2011 at 21:13

DennisMenace said:
Will this be available to current Z68 customers (ie. me ) as a BIOS update? Or just on later revision/model boards?

Lets expand that....

Can we expect to see this UEFI on any current motherboard, or is that something not possible due to chips already on them?

For instance, his Z68 and my X58?

GIGA-Man · 17 Jun 2011 at 08:31

Hi chaotic_uk & rolypolyman

Don't worry about these bioses. If there are available at our website then it means they should be rock stable (even marked as beta).

Hi ProjectVRD

Please don't mix UEFI with GUI driven UEFI. We already have UEFI on some of our MB's through Hybrid EFI Technology (providing 3TB+ HDD support) inside our BIOS. Regarding GUI driven UEFI we are working on it as I already mentioned.

If anyone wants GUI to change BIOS settings then we have Touch BIOS for him. It's available now for Z68 chipset based motherboards users.

nightmare99 · 17 Jun 2011 at 09:54

We already have UEFI on some of our MB's through Hybrid EFI Technology (providing 3TB+ HDD support) inside our BIOS.

Are you sure that is a proper native UEFI solution though conforming to the UEFI specs? I always assumed it was the classic award bios with some kind of EFI shell workaround to get 2.2TB+ hdd support.

alex24 · 17 Jun 2011 at 10:59

I thought it was a UEFI BIOS, just with the Award interface on top, and not a flashy GUI. Doesn't make much difference what it is anyway, the 2.2TB+ support works at least.

Awahwah · 17 Jun 2011 at 12:52

Giga-Man,

When you release the full GUI based UEFI, will this be across all x67 and x68 platforms, this means current (deployed) and new boards?