Quite often the answer to these questions depends on the BIOS been shipped on the board. Safe bet; relay your question to ebuyer directly.
Spikecast
24 Dec 15#7
I had no end of problems with my Gigabyte board a few months back and vowed to never touch them again. Brother in law had loads of issues with his GB board as well. Good price but their reliability is a big question mark for me. Real shame as their graphics cards are excellent.
royals to Spikecast
24 Dec 15#14
agreed my z97 soc force lasted a few weeks. Replaced board via Amazon. Son had same board and seemed to fail too. After checks, changed cmos battery and been fine since. I guess gigabyte are shipping them with near dead cmos batteries. Pathetic and shame on gigabyte. Their warranty is pathetic too. If board fails you have to pay shipping to Holland I think. What a joke. These boards are not cheap. Other board manufacturers are worse though.
krisward7955
24 Dec 15#8
I work for a Big online retailer and this is one the most returned board we have.. Return are for a number of reasons, most are fail to post. Some are Ethernet failure. Some are PCIE failure
neoboy
24 Dec 151#9
Probably i5 4460, remember having this problem before when I was building a budget PC for my sister and board didn't support the G3258 out the box so had to buy another board with a newer chipset. Only other option would have been to buy an "older" Haswell to update BIOS.
thekanester
24 Dec 15#10
Good to know, thanks. Merry Christmas too.
GAVINLEWISHUKD
24 Dec 151#12
Well if you look at 2013 and 2014 board stats it should be very reliable! :smiley:
neoboy
24 Dec 15#13
Yeah they normally support most CPUs, just a case of not knowing which BIOS the board will ship with.
cbharrib
24 Dec 15#15
Can anyone recommend a suitable processor for a budget steam build circa £40-£60.
Thanks in advance.
Gze to cbharrib
24 Dec 15#16
Get the Pentium G3258, overclockable too.
stonebear to cbharrib
24 Dec 151#17
I would go for an i3 from Ebay, some modern games will benefit from the 4 threads, for example I had Dragon Age Inquisition and it wouldn't even play with a dual core, so I would avoid Pentiums.
I have been watching i3's on Ebay for a while and you should be able to get a 4130, 4150, or even a 4160 for under £60. I have never known a CPU breakdown so it's the one thing I would buy second-hand for a PC build.
PinkyPonk Driver
24 Dec 15#18
Yeh my Z97 soc force died aswell for exactly the same reason, changed cmos battery and super sweet since. I thought it was a bit odd. Not had any cmos battery problems for years and years up until then. Thought it must've been a one off, but obviously not.
JimJamJamie
25 Dec 15#19
£44 and OOS now :/
zoomee
25 Dec 15#20
Be careful chaps - this is cheap for a reason.
I have this board - revision 1.1 of it. There are apparantly three different revisions of this board - just check out the gigabyte website to evidence this.
Looking at the pictures on ebuyer - It's VGA and DVI only so its probably revision 1.0 - theres a reason why gigabyte made so many revisions of this board! Some major hardware website has pulled gigabyte up on this as they didn;t mention the different revisions to retailors so some consumers played up about it - minor differences but obviously required for some unkown reason - hmmmm....
just an fyi - mine seems to be working fine with a 4440 cpu and a 7950 gpu - its in my daughters rig and plays minecraft perfectly.
USB 3 ports are a bit slow - don't get full speed and the NIC isn't the greatest either - but I suppose for the price we can't complain :smiley:
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http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=4668
Quite often the answer to these questions depends on the BIOS been shipped on the board. Safe bet; relay your question to ebuyer directly.
Thanks in advance.
I have been watching i3's on Ebay for a while and you should be able to get a 4130, 4150, or even a 4160 for under £60. I have never known a CPU breakdown so it's the one thing I would buy second-hand for a PC build.
I have this board - revision 1.1 of it. There are apparantly three different revisions of this board - just check out the gigabyte website to evidence this.
Looking at the pictures on ebuyer - It's VGA and DVI only so its probably revision 1.0 - theres a reason why gigabyte made so many revisions of this board! Some major hardware website has pulled gigabyte up on this as they didn;t mention the different revisions to retailors so some consumers played up about it - minor differences but obviously required for some unkown reason - hmmmm....
just an fyi - mine seems to be working fine with a 4440 cpu and a 7950 gpu - its in my daughters rig and plays minecraft perfectly.
USB 3 ports are a bit slow - don't get full speed and the NIC isn't the greatest either - but I suppose for the price we can't complain :smiley: