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.

 

[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 ^^

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[kinkaito]

Hi
Send me your Email ID number (I assume you used our GGTS system to submit the ticket) through trust then I will ask our FAE to answer you asap

Email ID: 1257960
Any help would be greatly appreciated. like I've said before. i love the motherboard. it's bios is simply fantastic, it does the job is is near perfect minus the GPU issue i'm having.

Could this be a power supply problem?

The sig in my spec was running fine on my Hiper Type M 530.

But swapping the motherboard to a D3H and the CPU to a i5 3570k, could that be causing too much strain on the PSU? Maybe that is why it froze earlier when I managed to get the 7950 to boot?

Do you mean "It turns on, then goes off, then comes back on" after you turn the computer on?
I've tested this on my 650w and 800w PSU, the motherboard does the same, fan lights ect go off, then flash back on moments later to post. if you get close enough inside your tower. you will notice the PSU is still at full power so it's not restarting. it seems to be a quirky way to turn on to me lol.

 

[kinkaito]

ive been having that too, started another thread, didnt realise about this one, sent an email last night, got a reply first thing this morning, sending the mobo off this afternoon, hoping to get it return before the weekend.

Must say i am rather impress with the service thus far

Who did you contact. OcUk or the gigabyte?

 

[kinkaito]

Just my luck I come across this thread when Im about to order my card, I have this motherboard. :-/

That's another reason i opted to post a thread, not just to get information on what GPU people have to find myself a compatible replacement, but to also inform people of the issue.
The only talks I've had about this to OcUk is via my Support tickets, i couldn't find information on if others had the same issue as myself, which is rather worrying.

OcUk wanted me to RMA my MSI card, i'm at a loss on what to do with this motherboard to be honest. Money isn't that easy to come by, me and my fiance are disabled so every bit of money counts so we try to buy computer parts which should last the longest so we don't upgrade every 8 months.
So after saving up all our money, finally upgraded my Computer and 4 weeks later found a GPU... boom this happens.

By the looks of it, it's motherboard related, but i don't know if i can still RMA this motherboard (I have the box, all the parts, cables ect) or if i should do what OcUk said to do.

"Buy a GPU if it doesnt work RMA it, and repeat untill we find one compatible" although another ticket reply said about RMAing the board but then heard nothing back..

 

[kinkaito]

I have the 8 pin power connector, the most annoying thing is I spent so long speccing my system, it's my first attempt and it got me worked up putting it together, I was proud of myself when it was complete, I had a few teething problems but all in all it's working smoothly with my 4770 from my olddd system. I just hope when I order my his 7950 it will be compatible, as again, I spent ages picking my card.

I really can't be doing with taking the mobo out and the processor, I was filling my pants enough putting it together!

First time i've put a custom cooler on any motherboard that didn't go directly into the 4 slots, must agree. building a new set up, really panics me too lol.

i brought my motherboard seperate time from my gfx card, admittedly, i feel i took so long picking my motherboard (3.5 weeks) that i might not be able to do this "RMA" thing.

Which is silly because the motherboard works fine. i don't think anyone is at fault that it doesn't work with new GFX cards though, not sure how im meant to predict what card to get after reading this thread..

It seems Nvidia cards are working which isn't the road i want to take.
Someone said the 7850 card works. but to me that's less performance then i actually wanted to buy.

went directly to gigabyte

:< lucky you. my ticket went into the system last month 27th, i finally got a reply yesterday.... which was to ask me "Did you contact MSI" which i clearly stated in my original post... looks like i've got to wait "Another" week or 2 for another reply...