BIOS Walkthrough

I found that the B75M-D3H is equipped with the very same style of UEFI BIOS we find on all the rest of Gigabyte's current products, although it seems to be lacking the "3D BIOS" part. The more traditional layout offered here does aid ease-of-use, and I personally really like this BIOS style from Gigabyte. The first page launches into a menu with several subheadings that lead to specific areas of user customization. The first listing merely opens into an informational page, but the second opens straight into the nitty-gritty, with several clock customization options available.


In the Advanced CPU Core Features menu, we find a few power saving options available as well as power limits, but Turbo Boost multipliers are not user-adjustable. The memory page, on the other hand, does have the full features you'd find on higher-end products, including X.M.P. support. I found the exact same timing options available, which should go a long way to ensuring that the board provides a stable platform no matter what memory is installed.


As you can see, the list of available timings is pretty extensive, but it makes the following page all the more disappointing. The voltage section only carries options for DRAM voltage and nothing else, so support for upper memory divider is going to be very CPU-dependent, unless Gigabyte has some magic going on behind the scenes. The monitoring section is pretty standard for all Gigabyte products, and as I mentioned earlier, I found settings here for each fan header, allowing custom profiles for each connected fan.


I did find settings to set the PCIe link's state to either PCIe 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0, good to help with compatibility issues that may arise. Moving onto the next tab, labeled "System", we find basic informational items as well as time, date, and language settings. The subheading here for "ATA Information" doesn't only provide information, but also allows each port to be enabled or disabled, as well as contains options for hot-swap functions.


The following pages contain the majority of board-level features, including settings for onboard devices and such, very similar to what I found with the B75M-D3H's more expensive counterparts. I cannot say enough times how much I like this new BIOS from Gigabyte, which is definitely a big change from the old-style Phoenix BIOSes it used to use.


Broken all down, I found more options than I could have ever asked for from an entry-level product, including the option to save a couple of BIOS profiles and the ability to capture screenshots of the BIOS, which I used to generate these images.

I was completely blown away to find such a functional BIOS in such an affordable product. I really have to commend Gigabyte here for using the same BIOS design throughout all products, not only making my own job easier, but also making things easier for both home users and system admins alike. Gigabyte has made a ton of changes recently to the way it produces and designs its products, and the BIOS change it has made first and foremost stands out as one of the largest improvements to date, also with one of the biggest pay-offs, in my opinion. Well done, Gigabyte!