Gigabyte Teases Customisable, High-Resolution UEFI BIOS for its Z87 Motherboards
Gigabyte has teased a high-resolution (at least 1920 x 1080) and customizable UEFI BIOS for its upcoming "Haswell" motherboards.
Perhaps one of the most baffling aspects about PC technology is that the GUI for motherboard BIOS hasn’t even remotely kept up with the pace of improvements in the industry and perhaps hasn’t improved at all over the past decade. Based on a teaser image uploaded to its Facebook Page, Gigabyte seems to be bucking this trend by offering a highly customizable and gloriously high-resolution UEFI BIOS for the company’s upcoming Z87 “Haswell” motherboards.
Though all the details have been masked, it is readily apparent that the vast majority of real-time system data is available on the UEFI’s main screen, thus alleviating the need to navigate through a multitude of submenus to access this information. The firmware also appears to be highly customizable, offering users the ability to create custom tabs such as the one labelled “performance” in the teaser image.
In addition to simply living up to its hype and expectations, we further hope that Gigabyte's revelation will serve as a wakeup call for other motherboard manufacturers to replace their often antiquated BIOS GUIs and offer similarly functional and customizable interfaces for users.
Time to upgrade when you start to to believe that it will broke down. If you run a rendering server, it may be good time to upgrade.
The Toms article: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ivy-bridge-wolfdale-yorkfield-comparison,3487.html
Shows out that quite old CPU can be fast enough. The new Haswell will be faster, but it may be better to wait and see if the Intel use soldering or that rubbish paste that they used allso in Ivy... If it uses good ole soldering from Sandy times, it may actually be time to upgrade if you really need that 20% more speed... In games the difference is abysmal small. Better buy even that overpriced Titan than upgrade CPU this time...
Back to article. Nice to see that UEFI is finally coming a real alternative to older Bios. A lot depends on how well this will actually work. The UI offer much more posibilities though!
Please do not upgrade your 2500k. It has plenty of power and your gonna waste money upgrading to Ivy, even with price drops. Haswell is probably not for you either, im still on an E8400 and it is time for me to buy a new rig, but 2500k no wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!