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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: mrix on December 29, 2012, 03:49:48 pm

Title: GA-Z68AP-D3 Updating Bios to UEFI BIOS
Post by: mrix on December 29, 2012, 03:49:48 pm

Hello all, I noticed there is an update to my motherboard bios to change it to UEFI.
Now my question is, I have basically installed a i5 2500 processor so is it still possible to update to UEFI ?????
Thanks all
mrix

Title: Re: GA-Z68AP-D3 Updating Bios to UEFI BIOS
Post by: absic on December 29, 2012, 04:43:07 pm

Yes, shouldn't be a problem but from personal experience I wouldn't bother switching to the UEFI BIOS unless you are planning to swap CPU's for an Ivybridge processor.

Title: Re: GA-Z68AP-D3 Updating Bios to UEFI BIOS
Post by: mrix on December 29, 2012, 05:11:59 pm

Hi absic and thanks for your reply  :)
My train of thought was that it would be  far easier to overclock using the UEFI.
Thanks
mrix

Title: Re: GA-Z68AP-D3 Updating Bios to UEFI BIOS
Post by: absic on December 29, 2012, 05:14:41 pm

It might be better with the Ivybridge CPU's but with Sandybridge I would stick with the Award BIOS.

 I got much better results on the GA-Z68X-UD3P-B3 and my 2500k processor with the Award BIOS than I did with the UEFI and in fact, I switched back to the Award BIOS as I found it more stable and reliable.

Title: Re: GA-Z68AP-D3 Updating Bios to UEFI BIOS
Post by: mrix on December 29, 2012, 05:17:46 pm

Ok thanks for the heads up  8)
Cheers
mrix

Title: Re: GA-Z68AP-D3 Updating Bios to UEFI BIOS
Post by: cjapeterborough on January 05, 2013, 11:08:50 pm

It is a much slicker interface but it seems that the load line calibration is no longer available when flashing to these early (or are they latest?)
UEFI bios revisions for the GA-Z68-AP-D3 -if you want to overclock dont update........
I tried out the UEFI for my rev1.0 board but quickly flashed back when I could no longer clock my CPU.