Board Software

Gigabyte's software is reasonable with one of the best features being its RGB integration with Windows Dynamic Lighting, largely removing the need to install bloatware. The system alarms are somewhat useful and if you want a simple way to apply a Windows-based manual overclock you can do that in the performance section too (again no PBO settings). But the main reason you'd want to come here, apart from the RGB lighting, is for the fan control. This has nearly everything the EFI does plus the ability to shift fan curve points up and have those above or below follow suit. What would be useful here is to allow users to save Windows-tuned profiles direct to the EFI or at least be able to upload them. As it stands, and this goes for other manufacturers, the EFI fan settings and software settings are two different things, when actually being able to fine-tune fan speeds within Windows while using your actual day to day software is obviously important. As good as the EFI is, you can't do that there.