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claptonfreak

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Hey all,

So I recently invested in the components to build myself a relatively powerful hackintosh system, main components being a 3570k processor, and a z77x-UP4-TH motherboard. I purchased the board because it was listed as a recommended ivy bridge buy, but after receiving it and using it with my system, I am extremely dissatisfied. Aside from the USB3 ports not working, i'm unable to get my processor to overclock in the bios, after waking from sleep I often require a restart, my geek bench scores are only around 10000, and it seems as if this board just does not like to work properly with a mac configuration. This isn't my first build, but I've never been this dissatisfied

So, I've decided to send it back and replace it with something else more functional. My question is, do you have any recommendations? Is the UP5 a better option that will work much better, should I simply go with a z77x-UD5H? are there any other great recommendations, or am I just doing something totally wrong with the UP4 that can be remedied?
 
I can't help you with a Gigabyte board recommendation, but if you decide to look at other brands then look here: ASUS P8Z77-M Pro

Fast, stable, easy to setup, and DSDT free with modded bios...
 
claptonfreak said:
Hey all,

So I recently invested in the components to build myself a relatively powerful hackintosh system, main components being a 3570k processor, and a z77x-UP4-TH motherboard. I purchased the board because it was listed as a recommended ivy bridge buy, but after receiving it and using it with my system, I am extremely dissatisfied. Aside from the USB3 ports not working, i'm unable to get my processor to overclock in the bios, after waking from sleep I often require a restart, my geek bench scores are only around 10000, and it seems as if this board just does not like to work properly with a mac configuration. This isn't my first build, but I've never been this dissatisfied

So, I've decided to send it back and replace it with something else more functional. My question is, do you have any recommendations? Is the UP5 a better option that will work much better, should I simply go with a z77x-UD5H? are there any other great recommendations, or am I just doing something totally wrong with the UP4 that can be remedied?
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One question, did you upgrade to the latest UEFI release? The shipping UEFI on Gigabyte's 7-series boards are less than ideal in terms of stability and the later revisions have improved things, even on the Z77X-UP5 TH which is a better board thanks to it not having the VLI VL800 USB 3.0 controllers.
The UEFI would also affect overclocking, but how are you trying to overclock?
I'm not saying that the Z77X-UP4 TH is the ideal hack board, but you seem to be having too many issues for it to be normal.
Also, what other hardware are you using with the board?
 
Build 1
GA-Z77X-UD5H |  i7 3770K |  GeForce GTX 660 Ti
I haven't upgraded the UEFI yet, going to give that a try today. Overall though I'm still not very pleased with the board, the USB3 issue is something I didn't find out about until the board had already arrived, I'm pretty disappointed that it's listed as part of a recommended build. I'm already planning on sending the board back for a refund and buying a z77x-UD5H instead, unless this thing can show me some serious improvements in the next few days.

I'm not running any other significant hardware with it, onboard graphics, patriot 16GB RAM @ 1600MHZ, WD 1.5 TB HDD.
 
Yeah, I can understand that, I'll make sure the buyers guide gets updated with a notice about this issue.
That said, you can get a four port bracket that adds four USB 2.0 ports for about $6-7 and connects to the pin-headers on the motherboard.

We're working on a comprehensive product database to avoid these kind of issues in the future, but it's taking a lot of time to get it up and running in a fashion where it's actually useful.
 
Build 1
GA-Z77X-UD5H |  i7 3770K |  GeForce GTX 660 Ti
I'm in the same boat, do I bit the bullet and replace my Z77X-UP4 TH or ride it out and see if a UEFI update fixes the problems (I'm on F3). I've made several posts with similar issues and I even tried a basic overclock (Changed the CPU multiplier to 34) last night and OSX restarts during boot.

I made my purchase based on the buyers guide (the day after it went live) and was one of the first to get my hand on it. From the outset I've had problems and can't recommend it based on first hand experience.


My perfectly good P55 system with a i7 860 geekbench's higher, so I could just stick with that, or do I spend again and get a Z77Z-UP5 TH?
 
I ordered mine from Newegg, so I'm sending it back, taking a $20 hit on the restocking fee, plus about $10 for shipping it back (I'm not using their built in UPS service). I can get a UD5H locally for about $150 from MemoryExpress with a price match, so that should compensate cost wise. People seem to be generally happy with the UD5H from what I can read, not as many issues as the UP4 by far, and I can do without the thunderbolt really, I just figured that since it was on the recommended buy list, It was a good idea to stay somewhat future-proof, in retrospect I should've got for older and more supported vs. new and unfamiliar.

Edit: I've also upgraded to the F3 UEFI, no improvements.
 
salty dog said:
I'm in the same boat, do I bit the bullet and replace my Z77X-UP4 TH or ride it out and see if a UEFI update fixes the problems (I'm on F3). I've made several posts with similar issues and I even tried a basic overclock (Changed the CPU multiplier to 34) last night and OSX restarts during boot.

I made my purchase based on the buyers guide (the day after it went live) and was one of the first to get my hand on it. From the outset I've had problems and can't recommend it based on first hand experience.


My perfectly good P55 system with a i7 860 geekbench's higher, so I could just stick with that, or do I spend again and get a Z77Z-UP5 TH?
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You're mixing a SB CPU with a 7-series boards which we never recommended. It should work in theory, but it appears OS X isn't nearly as forgiving in this case as Windows is. You need to use an SSDT and in the case of overclocking, you need to use a different SSDT, or even roll your own. This is clearly a slightly different issue from what the OP is having.
 
Build 1
GA-Z77X-UD5H |  i7 3770K |  GeForce GTX 660 Ti
claptonfreak said:
I ordered mine from Newegg, so I'm sending it back, taking a $20 hit on the restocking fee, plus about $10 for shipping it back (I'm not using their built in UPS service). I can get a UD5H locally for about $150 from MemoryExpress with a price match, so that should compensate cost wise. People seem to be generally happy with the UD5H from what I can read, not as many issues as the UP4 by far, and I can do without the thunderbolt really, I just figured that since it was on the recommended buy list, It was a good idea to stay somewhat future-proof, in retrospect I should've got for older and more supported vs. new and unfamiliar.

Edit: I've also upgraded to the F3 UEFI, no improvements.
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I know Tonymacx86 and MacMan each has a board, but I don't know how much testing they've had time to do, as they've been working really hard on the new site, 10.8, the new Chimera, the new Unibeast and the new Multibeast, but hopefully they'll have time to do some more testing now and we'll see how it goes. I'm sorry if you feel like we've given bad advice, but I can't understand why this board is behaving so differently from the UP5 TH, not counting the lack of USB ports. We only just noticed that the Intel USB 3.0 ports are USB 3.0 only and we're trying to find a solution for that too beyond plugging in a USB 3.0 hub which appears to enable USB 2.0 devices to be attached.
I'm not trying to make excuses here, but it's impossible for us to be on top of everything at once, as we're a small team and we're doing our best to make sound hardware recommendations here.
 
Build 1
GA-Z77X-UD5H |  i7 3770K |  GeForce GTX 660 Ti
thelostswede said:
I know Tonymacx86 and MacMan each has a board, but I don't know how much testing they've had time to do, as they've been working really hard on the new site, 10.8, the new Chimera, the new Unibeast and the new Multibeast, but hopefully they'll have time to do some more testing now and we'll see how it goes. I'm sorry if you feel like we've given bad advice, but I can't understand why this board is behaving so differently from the UP5 TH, not counting the lack of USB ports. We only just noticed that the Intel USB 3.0 ports are USB 3.0 only and we're trying to find a solution for that too beyond plugging in a USB 3.0 hub which appears to enable USB 2.0 devices to be attached.
I'm not trying to make excuses here, but it's impossible for us to be on top of everything at once, as we're a small team and we're doing our best to make sound hardware recommendations here.
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i told gigabyte tech support why the usb3 on Ga H77 DS3H work with usb 2/3 devices on osx 10.8 ,, and the Ga z77x up4 th the 2intel usb3 (rj-45) work just only with usb3 , oddly with the same bios settings on 2boards ...
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-lion-desktop-support/65552-intel-usb3-issue-ga-z77x-up4-th.html
the website on tech support say its support other OS so let's hope ;)
http://ggts.gigabyte.com/tech.asp?ClassID=2&Country=U.S.A.&SourceWeb=B2C
 
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