Gigabyte P67A-UD7-B3 availability?

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Does anyone know (or have an educated guess) when the revised UD7 board will be available? At the moment it seems it isn't in stock anywhere in the UK.

My worry is that it will come through in low volumes and will go mostly to pre-orders, so that I would have to wait quite some time. I'm therefore sorely tempted to go with the non-revised version (I'm positive I'll never need more than the 4 SATA 6GB ports and I'm not worried about resale value or anything like that).

Any info would be appreciated (or maybe someone can talk sense into me?).

Thanks in advance
 
Atavist said:
Does anyone know (or have an educated guess) when the revised UD7 board will be available? At the moment it seems it isn't in stock anywhere in the UK.

My worry is that it will come through in low volumes and will go mostly to pre-orders, so that I would have to wait quite some time. I'm therefore sorely tempted to go with the non-revised version (I'm positive I'll never need more than the 4 SATA 6GB ports and I'm not worried about resale value or anything like that).

Any info would be appreciated (or maybe someone can talk sense into me?).

Thanks in advance
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got mine last tuesday from uk etailer
 
Thanks for the replies. Looks as if they're just being snapped up quickly. Hopefully, I can get my hands on one of next week's batch.

cheers
 
looking at this board myself. Can anyone that owns one tell me what sort of times it takes to get through the bios as I read somewhere that the efi type bios boots up much quicker than this old type bios that gigabyte still use, boot up times are quite importatnt for me I hate waiting. I don't know if I should just get the Asrock fatlality as I can use my old water block and it also has efi bios like the asus board or get this board and a new ek supreme hf water block.

I tried looking for vid with the ud7 booting up from start but cant find any.
 
mr griffin said:
looking at this board myself. Can anyone that owns one tell me what sort of times it takes to get through the bios as I read somewhere that the efi type bios boots up much quicker than this old type bios that gigabyte still use, boot up times are quite importatnt for me I hate waiting. I don't know if I should just get the Asrock fatlality as I can use my old water block and it also has efi bios like the asus board or get this board and a new ek supreme hf water block.

I tried looking for vid with the ud7 booting up from start but cant find any.
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You do know that GB use a EFI BIOS, but without the fancy GUI?
 
Is it? my bad!! to be honest I really don't know that much about the gigabyte board other than its a high end board with 2 x 16 lanes for dual gfx cards and should clock pretty well. What I would like to know is how long the bios takes to boot up as on my last board the bios took longer to run through than windows 7 booting
 
mr griffin said:
looking at this board myself. Can anyone that owns one tell me what sort of times it takes to get through the bios as I read somewhere that the efi type bios boots up much quicker than this old type bios that gigabyte still use, boot up times are quite importatnt for me I hate waiting. I don't know if I should just get the Asrock fatlality as I can use my old water block and it also has efi bios like the asus board or get this board and a new ek supreme hf water block.

I tried looking for vid with the ud7 booting up from start but cant find any.
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Mine takes 10 seconds or so, the efi types that other manufacturers use at present are faster, but that is only due to the way they work. After 5 reboots it saves the settings and skips the post until a change is made then will reset to 5 times before speeding up again (if that makes sense lol) However bare in mind that gigabyte do intend on changing to the efi type bios in the future. The bios size is 2 x 32mb (backup included) so there is room its just taking longer due to this b3 issue.
 
This Asus Sandybridge board of mine takes 40 seconds before anything at all is displayed on the screen, it's one of the reasons I'm going to replace it with a Gigabyte board.
 
The gigabyte UD7 B3 revision is a very desirable board and currently there are limited amounts trickling into various etailers in the UK(including ourselves).
 
NathWraith said:
The gigabyte UD7 B3 revision is a very desirable board and currently there are limited amounts trickling into various etailers in the UK(including ourselves).
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when ocks finally get this board in stock will i automatically get my replacement B3?. i have registered it with gigabyte, brought this board on 5th failed on the 7th , hope the replacement is soon, ocks did say they could replace it with same board but cannot see the point. on a good note, the 2 days i had it working all i can say is what a motherboard 11 sec boot to desktop 2x 16 lanes, clocked 2600k to 4.6 with one setting, black and gold color theme looks quality.Theirs more to it but didn't get that far.
 
so is this board much better than the ud5? at least that is in stock and at a reasonable price on some sites. ock seems to have pretty high prices on it mobo's atm. I like ordering my bits from them but I wont pay insane prices
 
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