Figured I'd bump this with an update... got the 720BE in today, as usual I experience a brand new tiny irritating hardware issue that I've never seen the likes of before.
I build a minimum of 15-20 systems a month at work, from value box to high end workstation, and rarely do I experience a setup/install that does not have at least one minor and annoying quirk.
The BIOS = Overall nice, with a dash of annoy
With default bios settings, computer enters bios properly with my Microsoft sidewinder X6 (semi-fugly but lovable) keyboard. I can enter BIOS option "MB Intelligent Tweaker", but have no control over any fields, and BIOS is unresponsive (completely locked, escape does not work), upon reset BIOS restarts succesfully but still experiences same issue. If "Support USB Keyboard" is enabled, then F10 and Save settings, BIOS will fail to restart. Stuck at blank cursor screen, completely unresponsive. BIOS is trashed. Must be CMOS'd. After clean BIOS restart with MS keyboard replaced by Legacy POS Dell keyboard, BIOS functions perfectly and I have access to all options. This keyboard worked with my Biostar 790GX, and MS makes solid peripherals IMO, so suspicion of blame falls heavily on Gigabyte ATM.
So in summary, if I want to OC I have to switch keyboards.
I am looking at it in a good way, at least the thing is up and running solid overall. A stable clean running system is worth putting up with some type of wonky BIOS bug.
Anyways, it's late so no real OC but initial impressions are good. Have my G.Skill running rated speed at DDR3-1600, and stable with stock volt OC to 3.2; I will do some further tweaking tomorrow night. It'll be interesting to see what this $155 chip will do.
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