UEFI comes to Gigabyte motherboards

[Dark Mantis]

Gigabyte has just announced today that all new P67 and H67 motherboards on the production line are loaded with the EFI front end.

This is implimented as a EFI/BIOS merger and as such we have the best of both worlds by using the familiar BIOS interface but with all the added functionality that EFI brings with it.

The update will be available for recent higher end motherboards also such as X58 chipset series also.

More information is available here:

http://gigabytedaily.blogspot.com/2011/01/gigabyte-hybrid-efi-technology.html

[musicman53]

Good news but it also said that the bios would be available for other Gigabyte boards.
What about so called current AM3 boards?
Nothing I guess.........
My 890AXA-UD3 is stiil on sale so is that not a current board?

[Dark Mantis]

I expect it will be available but it wil take a time for them to rewrite for all the boards in production as well as the new versions coming out now. I heard about a month but to be honest I think that is a bit optomistic personally. I am waiting for the EFI for my GA-X58A-UD7 board as well but we must just be patient.

[absic]

Good news but it also said that the bios would be available for other Gigabyte boards.
What about so called current AM3 boards?
Nothing I guess.........
My 890AXA-UD3 is stiil on sale so is that not a current board?

Hi, the information I have is that it will be made available for all current Gigabyte motherboards both Intel and AMD.

As DM says we will just have to wait and I think, from reading between the lines that, the Intel boards will get it first sometime during this quarter with AMD boards to follow, possibly during Q2.

[runn3R]

Our GUI BIOS is coming soon:

[Badbonji]

Looking great!

Hopefully I will be able to get a job for over summer, I am planning on jumping to LGA2011 as it's released!

Also it looks like it is hinting at touch compatible?

[Dark Mantis]

And remote controllable!

[Badbonji]

 

Will this be available to android phones? Overclocking would be so easy whilst watching a movie downstairs whilst using the phone to do it with!

[Dark Mantis]

I don't know the finer details of it to be honest but I would imagine that it would be from most wireless devices like Cloud OC was.

[runn3R]

More pics: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.10150167176847120.300167.209090107119

[Dark Mantis]

Never mind anything else it looks like we don't even need an OS any more!

[Badbonji]

It looks much better than the old BIOS design, although I will miss it!

[Dark Mantis]

Me too but isn't that always the way with anything you are used to using that is being changed ?

[Lsdmeasap]

This isn't a BIOS, it's a windows application that saves directly to the BIOS, so you can overclock in windows and reboot with the overclock without having to actually enter the BIOS.

[Badbonji]

What you call entering the BIOS is still just using a user interface to change settings, as the BIOS is really just a program which initializes devices for the PC when starting up. There is no real difference, except the general BIOS UI can be accessed without the OS.
I just said what I said for simplicity.