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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: solo2101 on May 15, 2011, 03:52:10 am

Title: UEFI for ga-790fxta-ud5
Post by: solo2101 on May 15, 2011, 03:52:10 am

hello

so... i bought a ga-790fxta-ud5 last year, and I am wondering... will it have support for UEFI?

Title: Re: UEFI for ga-790fxta-ud5
Post by: absic on May 15, 2011, 07:53:34 am

Hi there,

the simple answer is no because the BIOS chips aren't large enough to handle UEFI.

Title: Re: UEFI for ga-790fxta-ud5
Post by: solo2101 on May 15, 2011, 06:32:00 pm

well that's bad news...

is there a list somewhere of motherboards that will support it?

Title: Re: UEFI for ga-790fxta-ud5
Post by: absic on May 15, 2011, 06:34:55 pm

Hi there,

I'm not aware of a list but I know on the AMD platform the new rev 3.0 & Rev 3.1 boards support it. Earlier versions which have only 8 Mbit BIOS chips don't.

Title: Re: UEFI for ga-790fxta-ud5
Post by: Dark Mantis on May 15, 2011, 06:40:35 pm

I am with absic on this one. Most of the older boards won't be able to use UEFI because oof the size of the BIOS chips. There is no list that I know of  for which boards will support it but as mentioned you can at least see if it is physically possible by checking the BIOS chip size.

Title: Re: UEFI for ga-790fxta-ud5
Post by: solo2101 on May 15, 2011, 07:01:17 pm

what exactly am I looking for by "BIOS chip size"

Title: Re: UEFI for ga-790fxta-ud5
Post by: absic on May 15, 2011, 08:25:45 pm

The Gigabyte motherboards with a BIOS chip size of 16MB are the ones that will run EFI.

The best thing to do is look here:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/list.aspx?s=42&jid=10&p=2&v=26 This will give you details of the AMD motherboards that will run EFI
There are others but you will need to trawl through the motherboards with an AM3 socket here: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/list.aspx?s=42&jid=11&p=2&v=2 for the rev 3.0 boards that also have the larger BIOS chips

Title: Re: UEFI for ga-790fxta-ud5
Post by: Wonderwrench on May 15, 2011, 11:14:55 pm

Why does everyone want UEFI support. Sure added features are nice but. Do people actually want a boot drive larger than 2TB? Drives larger than 2TB will work fine on almost any PC as long as its not the boot drive. IMO having the OS on the same drive where large amounts of data are kept is a bad idea. In the long run system performance will suffer as it will be near impossible to defrag the drive and it would be near if not impossible to have a good image back up plan. I prefer small boot drives generally between 80 and 200 gigs as they are much easier to image and defrag.

Bill

Title: Re: UEFI for ga-790fxta-ud5
Post by: solo2101 on May 16, 2011, 05:36:01 am

its not that it will solve anything... actually everything works like a charm... but  is that it will allow for better improvements...

and who doesn't want better improvements...

Title: Re: UEFI for ga-790fxta-ud5
Post by: Dark Mantis on May 16, 2011, 12:27:16 pm

I am with Bill on this one and whilst everyone likes a new toy with all the bells and whistles I don't think it will actually make much differenct to most users.