Looking at the BIOS, we can see that Gigabyte have given it a bit of an upgrade to say the least. It’s fresh, it’s new and the colour scheme even matches the colours of the board itself. A lot more features have been added, and full health status figures are scattered on the left and right of the main screen. In terms of overclocking, you’ll find the majority of the settings you need on the main screen that you are first greeted with.
For those of you who are used to the BIOS before this, don’t worry as Gigabyte still include it and brand it as “Classic mode”, which is where we will be for the next part; overclocking.
When I tested this board I was very impressed with it. So much so that I’ve decided to to use this one in my personal rig and the G1 Sniper 5 with my open bench test setup. It makes sense because all my overclocking & testing is done with the open bench setup & my personal gaming rig is boxed up, sitting next to me rocking stock speeds. I’m back to using my old Xonar DS soundcard because IMO it’s still far superior to the Realtek ALC898 and the UD3H incorporates a legacy PCI slot which the Xonar requires.
Yeah, the legacy PSI slot is very helpful for the users who owns older but great soundcards. One of my friends got a Xonar ST and users like him will need a legacy PCI slot in every motherboard they use.
Looks like it’s a fantastic board. And, very good review, Andy. :)
I should mention that the new interface of the BIOS is awesome. We should stop calling that BIOS, It’s not ‘basic’ anymore.