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- Dec 12, 2010
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- Gigabyte Z390 DESIGNARE
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Hi guys,
I'm still working on this project: http://www.tonymacx86.com/powermac-g4/107093-glados-mac-g4-science-fun.html
and I've ran into a snag. I bought the components on Black Friday and Cyber Monday to get the best deals possible, and now after more than a week of troubleshooting I'm finding my build is still an unstable pile of sadness
I've read some reviews on newegg and other sites and it seems like Gigabyte's GA-Z87MX-D3H is pretty hit and miss, lot of folks are having the same kinds of random BSOD/Crashes as I am. This problem exists in both Mavericks and Windows 7 64-Bit, so I'm pretty well convinced that it really is a hardware problem. The question is: I bought this board on Amazon, and I can either get a refund or a replacement. Now, maybe I was just unlucky and got a bad board, and replacing it with a good one would seem to make sense. Then again, If there are bad "batches" of these boards, I might just get other problems with a new one. My current build is a Haswell 4770K, 32GB of RAM, and an nVidia GTX780 graphics card. Would I really be missing out if I downgraded to an Ivy-Bridge system? I'm forced to stay with mATX boards, and noticed that now Z77 boards were offered in that form factor.
Any advice is welcome.
I'm still working on this project: http://www.tonymacx86.com/powermac-g4/107093-glados-mac-g4-science-fun.html
and I've ran into a snag. I bought the components on Black Friday and Cyber Monday to get the best deals possible, and now after more than a week of troubleshooting I'm finding my build is still an unstable pile of sadness
I've read some reviews on newegg and other sites and it seems like Gigabyte's GA-Z87MX-D3H is pretty hit and miss, lot of folks are having the same kinds of random BSOD/Crashes as I am. This problem exists in both Mavericks and Windows 7 64-Bit, so I'm pretty well convinced that it really is a hardware problem. The question is: I bought this board on Amazon, and I can either get a refund or a replacement. Now, maybe I was just unlucky and got a bad board, and replacing it with a good one would seem to make sense. Then again, If there are bad "batches" of these boards, I might just get other problems with a new one. My current build is a Haswell 4770K, 32GB of RAM, and an nVidia GTX780 graphics card. Would I really be missing out if I downgraded to an Ivy-Bridge system? I'm forced to stay with mATX boards, and noticed that now Z77 boards were offered in that form factor.
Any advice is welcome.