Gigabyte's New Z87 UEFI Features "Windows Mode" and "Classic Mode"

tonymacx86 · Jul 2, 2013

Just booted up the Z87MX-D3H and to my surprise, a massive new skin on the UEFI called "Windows Mode". The older Z77 style "Classic Mode" is also available. There are wallpapers, sliders, and other settings- you can even choose your own wallpaper. Here are a few screenshots:

Here's the familiar "Classic Mode", which you can switch to as well.

antjeroga · Jul 2, 2013

Like Asus

Edgecrusherr · Jul 2, 2013

Has anyone seen an ETA for a Haswell ATX board with Thunderbolt? I'm holding out upgrading my 1156 ASUS until then.

PS when I read "Windows" and "Classic" my gut reaction is to hate Windows and love Classic, then I remember we're talking about UEFI and not Microsoft and Apple lol.

repez · Jul 2, 2013

Are you testing for compatibility with 10.8.4 or is it your new buy? Are you using also the IOReg from MacBook Air?

ArkaPro · Jul 2, 2013

Cool - is there an option to change the boot screen picture? It will be cool that a hackintosh will upload with a modded APPLE bios boot screen.

BoomR · Jul 3, 2013

Edgecrusherr said:
Has anyone seen an ETA for a Haswell ATX board with Thunderbolt? I'm holding out upgrading my 1156 ASUS until then.

PS when I read "Windows" and "Classic" my gut reaction is to hate Windows and love Classic, then I remember we're talking about UEFI and not Microsoft and Apple lol.

Did you mean from Gigabyte? Or just Z87 + TB in general? I've already seen a couple ASUS and one ASRock Z87 w/TB...

ATB · Jul 3, 2013

Nice!

beelzebubba · Jul 3, 2013

Edgecrusherr said:
Has anyone seen an ETA for a Haswell ATX board with Thunderbolt? I'm holding out upgrading my 1156 ASUS until then.

Nothing was announced at Computex. It may be a while. For as low as TB adoption rates are in the Mac world it's far less prevalent on the Windows side and even sketchier on Linux. Reminds me of the serial to USB migration were it was USB only on Macs, a bit on Windows and Linux, Solaris and AIX saying USWhat?

BoomR · Jul 3, 2013

Here's a link to one of the ASUS Z87 boards with TB (2 ports).
Here's another link to an ASUS Z87 board with a single TB port.
And ASRock has a Z87 board with 2 TB ports.

Sorry I didn't link to these on Amazon or NewEgg - I was already shopping this morning for some other stuff at this particular vendor & was looking at prices on their site.

hanhae · Jul 3, 2013

I like the wallpaper itself...

Any chance to get a hold of that???

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