New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

[barkeater]

Just ordered this board for my new build. should get friday. guess what I'll be doing this weekend?

[Chike]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

Just ordered this board for my new build. should get friday. guess what I'll be doing this weekend?

Troubleshooting

[wazza300]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

Just ordered this board for my new build. should get friday. guess what I'll be doing this weekend?

throwing it at the wall in frustration?

[boondocks]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

barkeater don't pay any attention to these guys. They are just jealous. It's a very good board.

[barkeater]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

ha ha. no worries. This board is just what I wanted and I'm not one to take every critic too seriously.

I might as well give the whole setup now as I can't seem to get the System Specs thing to work.

OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K
Graphics: XFX Double D FX-785A-CDFC Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16
Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600
Power: OCZ ZX Series 850W
SSD (System Drive): OCZ Vertex 3 SATA 3 120GB
Hard Drive (Storage): Western Digital Caviar Blue SATA3 1TB
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80
Monitor: Acer V243HAJbd 24" 2ms (GTG) Widescreen LCD
Case: Cooler Master HAF 912
Mouse: Logitech G5
Keyboard: Logitech G15

[Acebmxer]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

Chike and Wazza are very helpful people and can offer alot of assistance. Keep us posted about how your build is coming along or if you need any help getting it up and working.

[barkeater]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

well, I'm off and running. Several hours yesterday/last night putting everything together. so far so good. fired up this a.m. and installed OS as well as some drivers and such. Looking forward to sharing my experiences with other members and may be looking for some help (from time to time).

[boondocks]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

Glad to hear your system is up.
I previously had mine up with a 2600K cpu, and a 3770K cpu since yesterday. So far so good.
Please take time to fill in your system specs or signature so everyone can see what you have.

[Acebmxer]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

PC System specs are fix or they were supposed to be fix now see here http://forums.tweaktown.com/publicat...tml#post426616

[barkeater]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

glad to hear others on the same (similar) boat. system specs added to my signature. would have liked to use the system specs in settings but not working for me.

[colcbp]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

I am also extremely new to this mb, although I have spent some time trying to find out which brands and models of SSD are compatible with the UD5H socket. It appears too narrow to support most I have seen on line.

Would appreciate any information at all.

Thanks

Chuck

[Acebmxer]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

I am also extremely new to this mb, although I have spent some time trying to find out which brands and models of SSD are compatible with the UD5H socket. It appears too narrow to support most I have seen on line.

Would appreciate any information at all.

Thanks

Chuck

What SSD's are not compatible with this board?

[barkeater]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

I think he is talking about the mSATA thingy.

[colcbp]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

I think he is talking about the mSATA thingy.

Exactly, Thanks. Sorry for confusion.

Apparently SSD has to be open board type 1.8" mSATA and I have to worry about width because of board layout, but I was just wondering if I had free choice from there. I have heard different opinions (and you know opinions... everyone has one) re: whether to follow Intel guidance and buy ssd that's about 2x size of max mem for board (8x4x2=64gb) or get one larger and partition to install Win 7 on remaining space.

I just am looking for some thoughts and experience from somebody who's done more with the board than just look at it while archiving their old desktop.

[boondocks]

Re: New to Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

I was looking at a post today elsewhere where he is running another SSD for OS and the mSata SSD to cache his HDD. I'll see if he posted what SSD he used for mSata.

30GB Adata SSD is all I could see. He posts here sometimes maybe he'll leave details. Says it works great.