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A 3 year warranty does not guarantee reliability.

Also SATA 6Gbps on all six Intel ports for Z87.

Also most of the other manufacturers cheap out on components and end up using parts that draw too much power for example for most third party boards to achieve EuP/ErP compliance you have to enable it in the BIOS which actually means you loose WOL which is really not acceptable.

This really sucks, Intel boards tend to be rock solid and have the best warranty support in the UK, the following is true Smaller systems integrator;- For gold Intel partners you have an advanced replacement swap out warranty In a warranty case you will get exactly the same model as a...

Windows 7 from Home Premium and up include an MPEG-2 licence in the cost.

Actually the GB boards are not the same they are actually not UEFI at all they are crusty old awrad bios with a dirty EFI boot hack in. Although they are starting to transit over to a proper AMI UEFI solution and have moved some 6 series boards over already (mainly some new H61 models) as...

I'm pretty sure it is UEFI.

8 Dimms will stress the memory controller more and limit overclocking so that is why you see the high end (read: targeted at overclcokers) boards only having 4 Dimms.

32BG? noob give me 64GB those 8GB Dimms are showing up now :)

As others have said I really don't care for a skin or what it looks like all I care about is the fact they are finally using UEFI.

8 dimms will limit overclocking so most of the top end boards will be 4 dimm.

GB are making the switch to UEFI starting with the X79 boards :D, no more crusty AWARD legacy BIOS now they will be using AMI APTIO.

Most of the top end X79 boards have only four slots, I guess they are doing this to make them clock better (less stress on the IMC?)

Pegatron is ASRock's parent company not ASUS.

What good is a PCI-E 3 mainboard & gpu if you don't have a PCI-E 3 cpu?

Have they said that they will launch new Z68 boards with AMI bios or is that just speculation? I know X79 will be aptio. I just get sick & tired of people thinking that a gui is all uefi brings to the table.

lol we know more about sb-e than we do bd!

To me the summing up on the BIOS and UEFI needs some clarification, also the same on touch BIOS. The review seems to suggest touch bios is Gigabyte's uefi bios gui which it is not, it is simply a windows application that allows adjustment of the bios settings which can be done by touch using...

They would be around the same price as exisiting X58 boards I would expect.

I'm not saying this in ASUS defence but the channel has changed over the years, How things used to be in the old days; Manufacturer support > Distributor Support > Dealer Support > End user result is the manufacturer has much smaller support overheads How things are now; Manufacturers...

Gigabyte finally goes UEFI, thank **** for that, I wonder how they will cope with the switch from AWARD to AMI?

8GB Dimms should not be far off that will give you 32GB on four slots.

Well that is really down to Intel's chipset only having two, mainboard manufacturers can always add third party chips to give extra SATA III ports but I think most poeple would prefer Intel chipset integrated over third party any day of the week.

Ahhhh that old chestnut :) We fixed in new revision!

Which BIOS version are you running? Do you have the lucid software installed?

I would say that is a RAID driver issue. Have you tried using an older version of the driver? How are you doing the restore by booting fromthe windows disc?

and those only seem to have four slots anyway.

It really is quite normal for several boards to share the same base code, this has been the case for some time. I do agree it should not be hard for them to set the default setting for COM1 to Disabled and hide the option.

Anybody notice how on the inbox basic graphics driver aero is enabled on the leaked build?

Yes it is not as quick as using an SSD on its own but it will be decent boost.

Yeah I know costs me about 67p per year what a shitter I could have saved that and purchased half a litre of petrol.

As far as I can see it is a bodge to allow the legacy award bios to boot to 3TB hdd (perhaps an EFI shell like some server boards have?), you will notice all the makers partnered with AMI have UEFI BIOS (not all of them use a graphical interface so it is not easy to tell but they are UEFI...

Not really Pegatron own ASRock now, although you can see they have similar origins.

Nothing really bad to say about them, bit of a shame if you only get one year warranty over the pond. 2 years warranty in europe with 3 years on some of the high end models, think they are doing an extra year on the B3 steppings as well.

Mis-leading thread title is mis-leading :p

Hmm I guess we have to wait and see if AMD/Promise fix this.

I agree it must be this

That sounds right to me, they probably had PCBs and dropped the new B3 PCH on at the factory. They are not going to bin PCBs and order new ones when the only difference is the printing for the model number.

Yes the front USB 3.0 spec was set a good few months ago, Asrock were the first to put it on thier boards but case manufacturers are still a little slow to catch up.

Of course ;) otherwise it would decimate thier tiny margins.