Gigabyte UD4 B3 Rev

Hydrogoo · 29 Mar 2011 at 08:14

Does anyone have this motherboard:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-325-GI

And if so, how is the audio on it? I'm looking to trim any excess fat off the price I'm going to be paying for my computer. One place is sound. I'm stuck between on board sound or geting a cheaper asus Sonar.

Operation · 29 Mar 2011 at 11:54

I have the pre b3 revision version. I'm not an audiophile but it sounds fine to me.

Hydrogoo · 29 Mar 2011 at 12:57

Cool, just hope that using the onboard doesn't make my game sound suffer with the 5.1 headset I'm getting. Cheers for the info Operation

Operation · 29 Mar 2011 at 13:09

Sorry can't be more specific as I don't use a headset, only little minitor speakers.

The ud4 Spec says:
Audio
1. Realtek ALC892 codec
2. High Definition Audio
3. 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
4. Support for Dolby® Home Theater
5. Support for S/PDIF Out

Don't know if that helps.

justintime2001 · 29 Mar 2011 at 14:19

Its a great board and sounds good to me

NasherUK · 29 Mar 2011 at 14:38

It's not bad, but onboard sound is never as good as having a proper sound card (onboard also uses system resources instead of having it's own).

Hydrogoo · 29 Mar 2011 at 16:07

NasherUK said:
It's not bad, but onboard sound is never as good as having a proper sound card (onboard also uses system resources instead of having it's own).

Recommend any good budget 5.1 cards at all?

Hydrogoo · 30 Mar 2011 at 10:35

Ok, I have a question about certain info regarding the Gigabyte board I'm going to choose for my new PC, ie. the one detailed in this thread. Why did Gigabyte opt out of an EFI bios? (Yes, I know my terminology of bios in the respect of EFI is wrong, so please don't correct me

)

1Day · 30 Mar 2011 at 12:58

They did not opt out. The bios is a Hybrid EFI, what that means is EFI is the back end and the normal keyboard navigation is the front end - very simplistic but will do for now.

I guess they deemed that the way they released the boards would be more stable for a first release of a new Chip-Set. And judging by the number of threads about the boards not working I suspect they got it right about waiting.

The full EFI bios is just a bios flash away, as the bios chip is not the old 16Mbit size but the new 32Mbit. Which means future support for EFI.

Hydrogoo · 30 Mar 2011 at 13:13

Does that mean that the boot times are going to be wtfwindowsalready?

So would you ultimately pick the Gigabyte board, or the ASRock P67?

1Day · 30 Mar 2011 at 18:25

No disrespect to ASROCK but I go Gigabyte this time around.