Gigabyte Z77-D3H Owners, Which Graphic cards you have?

[kinkaito]

As the title says,
If any of you own a Gigabyte Z77-D3H Motherboard, which type of graphics card do you own? also which manufacture made the card?

For Example:
My previous card was
MSI 7950

What was/is yours or if you know someone.

This isn't a spam thread, i'm honestly interested as my MSI 7950 didn't work with the motherboard and OcUk said it might be some compatibility, and to RMA it and buy another card, but i wish to do some research into what owners have to increase my chances to find a compatible one.

Thank you for your Assistance.

 

[siliconjim]

Gtx 680 reference. Haven't had any problems so far.

 

[pgi947]

You need to update the BIOS, known issue with the Z77 D3H. It ships stock with F8 (I think) which has some known issues (possibly only with AMD cards?) causing GPU's not to post.

Remove the GPU, connect your monitor via the onboard/iGPU update bios to the latest (F14 possibly), boot into windows make sure everything is fine, shut down, re-install GPU and enjoy.

Edit: I've seen this issue with cards going as far back as the 5750 so its not a gen3 issue, just a buggy bios.

 

[Baron C]

I had a F18 bios off official gigabyte site.

I tjrew my board away and grabbed a Asus max gene.

 

[Baron C]

I had a F18 bios off official gigabyte site.

 

[pgi947]

I had a F18 bios off official gigabyte site.

Latest official is F15 according to GB Which was released just over a week ago.

 

[RJC]

The American site has it:

http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4140#bios

 

[kinkaito]

You need to update the BIOS, known issue with the Z77 D3H. It ships stock with F8 (I think) which has some known issues (possibly only with AMD cards?) causing GPU's not to post.

Remove the GPU, connect your monitor via the onboard/iGPU update bios to the latest (F14 possibly), boot into windows make sure everything is fine, shut down, re-install GPU and enjoy.

Edit: I've seen this issue with cards going as far back as the 5750 so its not a gen3 issue, just a buggy bios.

For the record. it has nothing to do with the bios, I've already got the F18 released less then 1 week ago, it's the motherboard, but seeing as i only brought it 4 weeks ago from OcUk i don't really want to buy another motherboard just because this one is crap and won't run new graphics cards.

Note. my 7950 worked fine, in X4 slot, it wouldn't post in X16 slot, and i foresee no point in spending £279 for a GPU that won't be running at 100%

i've had a talk with OcUk about it and it was them who ended up saying "Seems like a incompatibility issue send it back"

thanks for the advice though, i know you was only trying to help, so i'm thankful

Latest official is F15 according to GB Which was released just over a week ago.

@BIOS isn't as up to date as the main website, sadly i thought i had the latest until i went directly to the website ^^

 

[DanUre]

I have a 7850 working fine on bios F14

 

[Baron C]

I have a 7850 working fine on bios F14

my 7950 didn't work either on same board. I ended up buying a maximus gene.
Card still didn't work! oh the joy of pc building

 

[wazza300]

you can check here also for latest beta bios's,they appear here months before going final and appearing on gigabytes website

just scroll down the list and makesure you pick the right bios for your mb ect

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-beta-bios.html

latest gigabyte utilities and drivers can also be found here courtesy of Stasio

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyt...system-info-benchmarking-stability-tools.html

 

[pgi947]

What an utterly strange issue this is then, seems worse than I first thought.

Just so you know its not 7950 based a friend on f14 upgraded his 5750 to an msi tf3 7950 and it's still working fine in the x16 slot.

Return it get the gene and question why on earth ocuk are using these boards In their oc bundles if they have these issues, a board with a bios that rejects the latest gpu's, is this dell now?

 

[Stanners]

GTX 680, no bother at all

 

[kinkaito]

What an utterly strange issue this is then, seems worse than I first thought.

Just so you know its not 7950 based a friend on f14 upgraded his 5750 to an msi tf3 7950 and it's still working fine in the x16 slot.

Return it get the gene and question why on earth ocuk are using these boards In their oc bundles if they have these issues, a board with a bios that rejects the latest gpu's, is this dell now?

Sadly i don't think i can RMA the board anymore, i brought it last month from OcUk, i did get an email from them telling me if my 2nd card doesn't work,

Dear Paul Davis,

You are best checking with the motherboard manufacturer to check compatibility, if it is incompatible then you can send it back under the RMA.

Regards,

[insert OcUk name]

I've Emailed gigabyte I've still had no reply. but i'm not sure if he meant to RMA it back to OcUk or directly to gigabyte who've ignored me thus far.

Note: i didn't buy this motherboard because it was cheap, i looked around and went for a boared that didn't do SLI or Crossfire, as i have no intent to use them so i saved money on a board that i would use.

GTX 680, no bother at all

Gtx 680 reference. Haven't had any problems so far.

Thanks
So far i've got 2 people saying 680 works, and 1 saying a 7850 works.

 

[nitram100]

I am having serious issues with my D3H that I just got today. Installed everything fine but my MSI 7950 won't boot. The integrated graphics are what I am using now and I have updated BIOS but I can't get my 7950 to boot, fans spin up fine etc

Any ideas ? :/

 

[wazza300]

i think it can also be a problem of the bios auto detecting the graphic card and disabling onboard graphics,you might wanna try removing/plugging the graphic card in and out a few times,aswell as clearing the cmos once the card is installed

that might help with it being detected and working

 

[kinkaito]

I am having serious issues with my D3H that I just got today. Installed everything fine but my MSI 7950 won't boot. The integrated graphics are what I am using now and I have updated BIOS but I can't get my 7950 to boot, fans spin up fine etc

Any ideas ? :/

Step 1: plug your Graphics card into the Bottom PCI slot (Next to the text saying all Japanese capacitors. (the slow slot)

Step 2: plug your monitor into the graphics card.

the MSI 7950 wont run in the X16 (Top slot) of the motherboard.

 

[nitram100]

Is that the only option with this board then? To run in 4x mode?

 

[wazza300]

it should run in 16x slot,

 

[nitram100]

It has actually booted up once in 16x slot earlier but froze about 20 minutes in, this was on F14 bios.