****Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Review****

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I noticed that there are a few of these B-Grade for £41.99. I'm looking for a replacement board for a Z87I so I can upgrade to 16GB of memory, now that I've gone back to a tower case.

Was wondering what condition they're in?

EDIT: Just read a bit about the 4 DIMM BSOD issue. Sigh.
 
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I picked one up a few weeks ago and popped a friends 4690k in it, worked so my one atleast came with f6+ bios for the DC processors. But sadly not gonna be using the board as i picked up a 2500k for pennies so wrong socket. The condition of the board is almsot perfect, just missing a shield and the cables really. (did notice no plastic bit on the CPU fan pins though)
 
I've bought one of those and run a pentium g3258 in it, the board itself was in very good condition as if it was new. I've had zero problems with it at all.
 
I believe that I am now the owner of this review board (I bought it from Stuild off the MM) I've owned it for about a year now & it's my everyday use PC, Its had a Pentium, an i5 & there's now an i3 in it. It's running Linux mint 17.1 as I attempt to try to learn the wonders of said OS. :rolleyes: :p

It's not without its idiosyncrasies, sometimes it will turn on roughly half an hour after I've pushed the on button & it wont boot into the bios either when I push the delete button.

To sum up, its not the best board I've owned but not the worst. A typical Gigabyte board TBH.
 
Just an update folks. I think the board has died, its been playing up the last couple of days & now refuses to boot. A pity really, I quite liked this board when it worked, but its a bit overspecced for what I use it for.
 
Sorry to drag an old thread up, but hoping someone can help !

A recent power loss during boot, meant my bios thought it had failed to post, and was reset to defaults.
I have tried to get my ram back to 2400 (not worried about o/c the cpu or mem).
But when I enable the XMP the bios keeps failing to post and sending me back to the recovery bios screen.
It works fine left at default of 1333, but enabling XMP one and even manually setting the ram Voltage at 1.65 as per the XMP still has no joy.

Obviously something I have long since forgotten, because it used to run 2400.

Anyone able to enlighten me to what I need to do please ?
 
You might need to bump up the system agent voltage slightly (I think that's what Gigabyte call it). It's quite possible that your CPU needs more memory controller voltage to be stable with the RAM at 2400MHz.
 
Aha ... now I can't recall adjusting that before, but you also bumped my brain a bit, and there is a LLC setting that I used to have.
So with LLC set to extreme, and a 0.025 bump in the system agent, It looks like its there, thanks :)
Is the System agent +0.25 is a safe increase ?
 
+0.025V is definitely safe, but I can't remember what the limits are. I believe that I had my 4670K at +0.15V to get it stable. Bear in mind I had it running at 4.2GHz and had the RAM at 2133MHz.
 
Hmm maybe mobo is its on its way out .....
After being turned off for any amount of time it fails to post on power up, reverting to bios defaults for now (IE mem at 1333) to see if issue persists.
 
Nothing .. no screen, but pc is powered up. I have to manually turn it off and back on to get the bios recovery menu.
Oddly, I reset bios to defaults, and it is now running the memory at XMP1 settings and so far booting fine :confused:

Edit. I just checked Bios now has everything on auto except XMP enabled. No system agent boost, just extreme in the LLC droop, even the ram voltage on auto.
I can only hope it continues to behave again :) I will see when its left off overnight.
 
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