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  1. davnel

    GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H Owners Thread

    I quite agree on the board/cpu combo. It's great! Too bad they had to mess it up with that disastrous BIOS! I guess I can try overclocking the i7-920 to gain some horsepower. It's supposed to be eminently overclockable, up to way over 4GHz on the GA-X58A-UD5 board. Should be interesting. I have...
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    GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H Owners Thread

    Hey! If we show enough interest, maybe they'll cover the other two also. On second thought, between the battery and the mSTAT socket, probably not on the UD3H, at least. .
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    GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H Owners Thread

    I do have one further question. Is there a method I can use to place a bootable MBR on both data drives? The object would be to accommodate this board's propensity for booting off the wrong disk. Maybe a Microsoft or GRUB bootloader that just sits there with a message like - "Hey, Dummy, the...
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    GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H Owners Thread

    They look the same to me, mechanically. The UD3 has smaller heatsinks, and they are not connected by a heatpipe. I don't really know. You'll have to ask XSPC. UD3H: http://www.gigabyte.us/fileupload/product/2/4441/7255_big.jpg UD5H...
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    GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H Owners Thread

    You will find this water block at: http://www.frozencpu.com/products/17860/ex-blc-1386/XSPC_Gigabyte_GA-Z77X-UP7_Full_Coverage_Motherboard_Block.html?tl=c89s147b49 for $112.99 US.
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    GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H Owners Thread

    I had tried to use a Logitech "unifying" keyboard/mouse set on this board. It just didn't work, before the OS loaded. I finally got mad and tested every USB port on the board, internal and rear-panel. What I found was that some of them were active during POST, and some weren't. Of course, the...
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    GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H Owners Thread

    Sasqui: First off, since no one answered you, Xpress Recovery 2 is apparently a backup scheme for your boot disk. It ONLY supports storing he image ON THE BOOT DRIVE. Since I'm using a 240GB SSD to dual-boot W7 and W8.1, there ain't much spare room for such silliness. Therefore, I didn't install...
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