I've recently become fed up with my EVGA P55 FTW. I am going to pick up a different mobo today at Micro Center. This is more than a help me decide question; I need to know about the current BIOS features and if Giga intends to include features in the BIOS such as the ones I am about to mention.
I was searching and found this Asus board that has some unique Turbo Mode features for the i7-875K CPU's. The article makes mention that the latest BIOS's from Giga don't have anything like this, except for maybe one Micro ATX H57 mobo from Giga, the GA-H57M-USB3.
Intel's Core i7-875K and i5-655K processors - The Tech Report - Page 3
I prefer Gigabyte mobos over Asus. I would just like to know if any of you know what tweaking is available for the Turbo Mode multipliers on Gigabyte boards that have the latest BIOS firmware supporting the i7-875K CPU's.
Thanks for any help!
BTW. Got a GA-H55M-S2H back from RMA for a friend's build and she is wonderful! Got a revision 1.1 for myself w/ an i3-530. Took me yesterday afternoon to push that CPU to 4.0Ghz 1.3Vcore w/ 200 BCLK. So much more impressed with Gigabyte's mobo over my EVGA; an $89 mobo that is easier to overclock than a $250 mobo. How does that work?
I was searching and found this Asus board that has some unique Turbo Mode features for the i7-875K CPU's. The article makes mention that the latest BIOS's from Giga don't have anything like this, except for maybe one Micro ATX H57 mobo from Giga, the GA-H57M-USB3.
Intel's Core i7-875K and i5-655K processors - The Tech Report - Page 3
We chose the EVO board because Asus was able to provide us with a special BIOS that supports fine-grained tweaking on K-series processors. Have a look at the menu below for a sense of the control it offers.
Gigabyte's recent BIOSes do support the K-series chips' unlocked multipliers, but they don't give you control over individual Turbo multipliers.
Thanks for any help!
BTW. Got a GA-H55M-S2H back from RMA for a friend's build and she is wonderful! Got a revision 1.1 for myself w/ an i3-530. Took me yesterday afternoon to push that CPU to 4.0Ghz 1.3Vcore w/ 200 BCLK. So much more impressed with Gigabyte's mobo over my EVGA; an $89 mobo that is easier to overclock than a $250 mobo. How does that work?
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