Really regretting the Z77a-GD65

Guys i have 4 7950s running on all the 1X slots with risers (the risers are not powered)
and every so many hours the whole system just freezes - (no it does not do me the favor of restarting )
i'm running CGminer and it pushes the cards to pretty much full power . but they are not overheating average degree is 70 to 75 .
now listen to what expense i have gone to try to slove this issue with this board !
I have TWO maxrevo 1500W PSUs (about $500 a piece) , one is jumped to work and run ONLY the 4 cards.
the other runs ONLY the motherboard.
I then went and today and purchased $100 worth of 8GB of Ripjaw 2100 Ram.
becasue in my hardware experience and actual freze of a system can be RAM related.
did it all help ?
nope not really.
have gone to the latest bios , have tried heaps of diff drivers and AMD SDK .
changed the PCIe subsystem latency .
you know what , I could handle if this board just restarted, as i have regedited the Run to start everything and also bypassed the win error.
but no . it just freezes randomly .
it has to be a PCIe bus error or something ?
edit ** yeah i picked the wrong board - not MSI fault - any suggestion on a board with 6x full size PCIe (don't mind if i have to jump the 1x slot ) want to stick with MSI

Quote from: RemusM on 27-May-13, 04:27:17
The CPU controlls them all, but this is not important now.
We have to deal with a few thousand configs every year and all kind of customers.
But this guy is a "rara avis".
Please tell me who buys a Z77A-GD65 mainboard, a G620 processor, 2 x 1500W PSUs ( ) and 4 x HD7950 (PCI-E x16 used in x1 slots)?
Unbelievable!
what is unbelievable is how dimly you seem to understand the situation - ? the PSU's will be used on other setups , i only used two to eliminate the possibility that the freezing was caused from a voltage issue related to the drawing out of the PCie - (as I'm not using powered risers)
further more your misunderstand in has extended to missing the frequent amount of time i explained that both CPU and Bandwidth between the Pcie and Card is not utilized.
the other guys seemed to understand , but you don't ?

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SATA 7/8 not showing up with the Z77A-GD65

I've recently purchased a new system, and everything runs smoothly other than the fact that my computer is seemingly unable to recognise any devices plugged into the SATA 7/8 ports on the mainboard. I'm trying to install an SSD as a boot drive.
I've double checked the cables, power, resetting cmos as well as plugging it in to the other SATA ports and it shows up fine, but in the BIOS the 7/8 ports do not even display under the system information section.
I've been unable to use the LiveUpdate tool for the BIOS as it leads me to a blank screen and I end up just having to restart my computer as nothing happens after a half hour or so.
Would really appreciate some help with this.

Okay, I know how you all hate buttinskis but... I just logged on to post a very similiar conundrum with my Z77a-GD65 so I thought I'd save some virtual trees and append here.
The reason why I (and possibly Murrph) want to boot from ports 7 or 8 is because we want to run SATA3 RAID. The Asmedia ports don't appear to allow that so our only option is to RAID SATA3s from the Intel ports 1&2 which leaves only ports 7 or 8 for our SATA3 boot drive, a slightly slower boot is a small price to pay for a faster raid. Data disks are fine with the SATA2 3-6 but I'd prefer not having to add an additional SATA3 controller to set up my rig the way I'd like it to run.
Granted, Z77s and SATA3 are still in their infancy and Intel is humpin' to keep up but it would be nice if the BIOS and mobo makers could add a little more leeway with their secondary SATA3 chipsets (beyond the braggin' rights of having "4 SATA3 Ports"!)
[BTW- Thumbs Up on the Thumbs Down for "Live Updates", the technology just isn't there yet.]

Overclocking the z77a-gd65 board

Hello my new found friends (I hope).I am new to both these forums and overclocking but I'm willing to learn. I have a msi z77a-gd65 mobo, 32 gigs crucial memory with an i7 3770k cpu rated at 3.5 GHz. I also have a corsair H80i cpu liquid cpu cooler. Right now the cpu is running at 4.2 GHz but I would like to try to go higher manually if I can. If any body can help with easy to follow instructions on how to do this I will be extremely grateful.

I recommend searching the threads that specialize in the 'Turbo' OC method. Ivy CPU's are not super OC'ers on conventional cooling solutions, but excellent performance can be pulled out of them in the 44X-45X range and still keep all the power saving features intact as well. CPU V. left alone to work on Auto is recommended. Initially for testing, set VDRoop to 100%. Disable EuP 2013, Overspeed Protection, and Spread Spectrum.

Disabling the live/multi update in the z77a-gd65 bios

I see a lot of stuff saying to use the board's bios app to update the bios. BUT I see nothing about disabling the bios update in the bios utility of the mb's bios.
How to disable the auto-"update". It happened again today where turning the power on, the screen goes blank, reboots showing multi-bios updating & not to turn the power off. The problem this is the 2nd time & the bios "update" is from my 10.5 to 10.3B4; so is there a difference & is 10.3B4 really the "latest" bios version....From the reading I've seen so far, is that one needed to have the bios on a fat/fat32 drive which I don't have as a hard drive; I do have fat32 flash drives which weren't even plugged in when the bios got changed!
What happened? The bios update wasn't within windows as the boot process never got that far.

1: your computer could have downloaded last time it was on a BIOS update via live update if installed and flashe 1 chip but not the other and the board was trying to flash the 2nd with the same bios on the other chip!
2: could be you have had a corupted BIOS chip and the board was trying to flash the bios from the other chip to the defective one!
is your computer working fine now?
do you have live update on your computer? (if its working remove live update as its got a 50/50 chance of corrupting your bios if it messes it up)
ps: do a CMOS clear >>Clear CMOS Guide<<

MOVED: overclocking the z77a-gd65 board

This topic has been moved to Overclocking, Undervolting.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=166750.0

I recommend searching the threads that specialize in the 'Turbo' OC method. Ivy CPU's are not super OC'ers on conventional cooling solutions, but excellent performance can be pulled out of them in the 44X-45X range and still keep all the power saving features intact as well. CPU V. left alone to work on Auto is recommended. Initially for testing, set VDRoop to 100%. Disable EuP 2013, Overspeed Protection, and Spread Spectrum.

Z77a-GD65 - Thanks for the help before _ one last question

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you guys were very helpful re - Pcie lanes , and we are probably going to move in future to one of the suggested boards:
my problem is i have 4 cards in the GD65 all in 1X slots _ the encryption software runs them at a full type pace.
1X is fine as I'm not gaming , just solving "xxxCoin" blocks .
at the start everything ran for about 24 hours, but now within 8 hours i will notice that the Blue LED light system is full lit up and everything is frozen - i have been working on the program dialing down the intensity slowly to find the problem, but any suggestions?
I have to power off manually if this happens , but all the fans on the cards stay at the same RPM (i.e as high) but the blue LED is full lit and everything is frozen.
as opposed to now there are 2 leds lit in normal operation.
any pointers?

OK guys sorry about that.
I should know better sorry i was rushing , OK i believe have figured out the general problem.
the Blue Led represent HD activity normally when they get stuck solid the OS had frozen , I have narrowed that down to bad power..
oh sorry I'll add MAX REVO 1500W PSU to my signature -
I have a meter on the point, at full blast the 4 cards and the mobo etc are pulling around 1150 to 1200w oh the 1500w Max REVO.
We have notoriously bad quality power where i live , (the whole suburb) (they have and actual sign up in the main street announcing they are working on it )
SO here is my Question:
Does the the Z77A-GD65 have what might be called "Watch dog" where the Bios polls the OS for a response and if it does not get one then restarts the system, my Brother is a Sys engineer he said a lot of Servers have it ?
this would be very beneficial to me as its always when i go out that of course the power screws up and i come back to find a frozen or switched off computer , but if i had this feature i could just run a . BAT at the start-up and be back online working again after reboot.
thank you for any help !

Z77A-GD65 Multiple BIOS Issues - B4 Hang, Splash Screen Blinking

Back in November 2012, I built a home server with a Z77A-GD65. Lately, I've noticed some strange things happening that I've been trying to research but to no avail.
First off, I get the B4 code hang-up whenever I'm booting. This doesn't matter if it's a cold boot or a reboot, it hangs on B4 for about 10-15 seconds, flashes 92 really quick, and then goes to A2 which it stays for another 5 or so seconds. After that I get the MSI splash screen for about 1 second, then it blinks 5 times. After that it goes into Windows just fine.
The blinking is a new issue, the B4 hang is not. I've read from multiple posts that this is a USB issue. When I disable USB legacy support, the issue goes away, but of course then I can't have legacy support. I have yet to figure out what exact device is causing it. In the process of trying to figure this out, I updated BIOS to A.A0. After updating to this version of BIOS the splash screen blinks 5 times before going to the "Starting Windows" splash screen. This is a more difficult issue to figure out why it's doing this because if you search for "BIOS" and "flash" or "flashes" or "flashing", you typically get results for flashing your BIOS. Hence, why I'm using the term "blinking". But even then I can't really find a solution out there.
I also happened to see that the website for the Z77A-GD65 is showing a newer BIOS version, but I'm unable to flash this (at least using M-Flash). I threw it on a USB, re-enabled USB legacy and whenever I click on it to install, the BIOS screen hard locks. The screen just freezes exactly where it's at in the BIOS and the mouse is dead. However, I can CTRL+ALT+DEL on the keyboard and it will reboot the system so I don't need to power cycle the computer. Not sure why this is happening either. Perhaps I need to flash this a different way? Maybe I don't need to flash this at all?
I could really use some input here on why this is happening.
As for the specs on my system, they're as follows:
i7-3770K overclocked to 4.2 Ghz by using the Turbo Mode in BIOS
32GB Komputerbay DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz DIMM with Low Profile Blue Heatspreaders Quad Channel RAM | 9-9-9-24 XMP ready
AMD PowerColor 7870 Myst Edition GPU - currently not overclocked although overclocking this doesn't seem to affect any issues
2 - 128 GB Corsair SATA III SSD - one runs the OS, the other I use to load games from
2 - 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM Sata II HDD's mirrored via Windows 7
1 - 750 GB Seagate Barracude 7200 RPM Sata II HDD
1 - 1 TB Western Digital MyBook USB 2.0 external
2 - 3 TB Seagate USB 3.0 external
ASUS DVD Burner - not sure which one, it's a cheapy $20 from Newegg
1 - PCI USB 3.0 expansion card
Antec TruePower New TP-550 Modular 550W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.3 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC "compatible with Core i7/Core i5" Power Supply
NZXT Switch 810 gunmetal - currently have 4 fans running but plan on more, also the Switch 810 has the multi-card reader in the front with 1x SD Card, 2x USB 2.0, 2x USB 3.0
for peripherals
1 - Microsoft 360 Wireless controller adapter (legit one, not the knockoff although I had a knockoff prior to getting the real deal)
1 - Logitech Wireless USB Keyboard with Touchpad
I tried to be thorough. Thanks in advance for any help!

Quote from: PirateDog on 26-August-13, 12:45:18
Probably a USB device problem.
This is a candidate, as well as mouse and keyboard. Disconnect USB devices one at a time to find the culprit.
A lot of devices running. PSU a +12V single rail or is it multi rail? A rail going to the graphics or components may not be enough amps. My best guess is the card reader.
For UEFI/BIOS flashing, select your mainboard here and use the forum flash method;
I'll definitely try unplugging some of these USB devices to see if that helps with the B4 hang issue.
As for the PSU, according to the description for it on Newegg: "Four industry-leading independent +12v rails are provided for more stable and safer power output." It has two rails going to the GPU. The GPU is a new addition to the system and so I wasn't running it until recently. The issues were occurring beforehand, but you're right that this PSU is underpowered for the rig considering PowerColor recommends a minimum of 500w. I'm going to be buying a larger capacity one sometime in the very near future. Any recommendations on good modular PSU's? What's a good way to tell what wattage to get?
Thanks for letting me know about the forum flash method. I'll be back later when I have some results.

Z77A-GD65 + Windows 7 = Freezing?

Hello all!
I just got myself a brand new motherboard and processor and I have been having the worst time of my life getting these things to work properly. Long, long story short: I bought the Z77A-GD65 and Intel i5 3570K processor at Micro Center (over 45 minutes away). Got home it one of the two didn't work. Drove back to Micro Center and exchanged them. Came back and both worked... But Windows 7 would not install.
I finally got Windows 7 to install yesterday and have been dealing with freezing issues now. I have downloaded and installed all of the latest drivers off of MSI's website. I have ran Memtest (I have 12GB of RAM) all night and it passed 7 times with no errors. I have unplugged all SATA devices but the HDD I need. All Windows updates are installed. I checked my temps after a freeze and they are really low.
It seems to work just fine in Safe Mode (which is good... I guess...)
Components:
Intel i5-3570K
MSI Z77A-GD65
12 GB RAM (2x4GB Crucial, 2x2GB Vengeance)
Windows 7 x64 SP1
OCZ Power Supply @ 600W
I do not want to drive down to Micro Center again... It can't be the board, can it? Please help! I'm at my wits end. I just want to enjoy my new processor and motherboard!

Oh wow. So I did swap out the memory (so only the 2x4GB) and put it in DIMM2/4... But then I realized I had the Video Card plugged into the 2nd pci-e x16 slot, so I moved it up to the 1st one. So far it hasn't frozen... I was able to download Borderlands 2 (which wouldn't start downloading... Every time it would freeze).
I will report back by tomorrow if it works still. Seriously thank you xmad!

MSI Z77A-GD65 1st PCI-E x16 slot is unusable

Today I spent some time assembling my new system based on the Z77A-GD65. It's a bummer but I think I have to RMA the mainboard. My graphics card (MSI Twin Frozr II GTX 570) isn't recognized in the 1st PCI-E x16 slot (where it should be installed), but it does work in the second PCI-E x16 slot. I've moved it back and forth a few times, and testing results are consistent. When installed in the 1st x16 slot, the graphics card's two fans are running, but the card is "MIA". What a poopy upgrade experience.
I'm thinking I may just buy another GD65 (assuming most of them have working PCI-E slots & I was just unlucky), sell the 1st one on eBay after RMA is complete, and just take the (relatively minor) financial loss. I don't want extended downtime.
Any suggestions before I ship this board away on Monday?
Thanks.

I was aware of that possibility but was discounting it. I just spent some time pulling out the board to have a good look at the CPU socket (with a magnifying glass and everything). I did see one pin that was slightly off, and I very carefully tipped it back into place. An out-of-place pin sticks out pretty clearly which is helpful. After reassembly, unfortunately the first PCI-E x16 slot is still unusable. It was a good suggestion (probably my only hope to avoid RMA), but sadly I think I can't make this board work properly. RMA seems inevitable at this point :(
Thanks for your replies though.

MSI Z77A-GD65 No Post

When I first started my new system, I did get a display and entered the BIOS. I changed the boot order to put my optical drive first, put in a live CD, restarted, and got a black screen. I ejected the CD, restarted, and got a black screen again. I didn't get a display again until I disconnected all my drives whereupon I got a map error and was able to get back into the BIOS. A web search indicated this is a bug that occurs when no drives are connected so I reconnected the drives, restarted, and got a black screen again. I disconnected the drives again and restarted but I got a black screen again (no map error this time). I tried connecting my monitor to the graphics card instead of the motherboard and that didn't work. I tried removing the graphics card and video capture card and that didn't work. I tried clearing the CMOS by pushing the button and even removing the battery for several minutes and that didn't work.
Here's where things get weird. I tried testing the RAM by pulling out one stick and the system kept restarting itself: it would turn on then power off a few seconds later then, after a few seconds, start up again, etc. I had to wait till it powered off and quickly pull out the power supply's cord to get it to stop. I removed that stick and put the other one in instead and the same endless loop of restarting happened again. When I put both sticks back in it stopped restarting.
Since I couldn't get into BIOS A, I switched to BIOS B and got a display again. There was no option to restore BIOS A so I was forced to continue using BIOS B. Since my graphics card was removed at this point, I changed the BIOS to IGD instead of PEG for graphics and shut down. I reconnected my drives then restarted and got a display again and entered the BIOS. I changed the boot order to put my optical drive first, put in a live CD, restarted, and got a black screen. I ejected the CD, restarted and got a black screen. I disconnected the drives and restarted hoping I would get a map error and could get back into the BIOS but got a black screen again. I've tried switching back to BIOS A but still can't get a display.
I tested the RAM by putting it in my old desktop one stick at a time, and then both sticks at once, and it worked fine. I installed the optical drive and one of the hard drives into my old desktop and successfully installed and booted linux off of it with the no problems. The second hard drive does appear to be borked and my old desktop froze when I tried to boot with that drive installed. However I've tried starting my new system multiple times without that damaged drive connected and I still get a black screen so I don't see how it could be the problem.
The LED on the motherboard mostly alternates between 19 and 72. It will run through a bunch of codes too quickly to read then pause for a second on 19 (Early South Bridge Initialization) then run through a bunch of codes too quickly to read then pause for a second on 72 (Late South Bridge Initialization) then go back to 19, etc. I've sometimes also seen it pause for a second on 55 (Early Memory Initialization) and 4F (which doesn't appear in the manual).
I'm guessing it has to be the motherboard or CPU but I don't know which. I don't have another motherboard to test the CPU on and no other CPU to test on this motherboard (the old desktop is AMD).
Hardware:
MSI Z77A-GD65 motherboard
Intel Core i5-3570K CPU
G.Skill DDR3-1600 CL9 1.5v 4096MB (x2) RAM (tested in old desktop)
Seagate Barracuda 1TB hard drive (tested in old desktop)
Pioneer BDR-208DBK blu-ray drive (tested in old desktop)
Corsair Obsidian 550D case
Seasonic G Series 550W power supply
Samsung S23B550V monitor (tested with old desktop)
Currently disconnected hardware:
HIS Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition graphics card
Seagate Barracuda 3TB hard drive (believed to be broken)
Black Magic Design Intensity Pro capture card

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Here's where things get weird. I tried testing the RAM by pulling out one stick and the system kept restarting itself: it would turn on then power off a few seconds later then, after a few seconds, start up again, etc. I had to wait till it powered off and quickly pull out the power supply's cord to get it to stop. I removed that stick and put the other one in instead and the same endless loop of restarting happened again. When I put both sticks back in it stopped restarting.
Test each stick in Dimm 2 (2nd from the cpu) Make sure they are installed into DIMMS 2 & 4 (2nd from cpu and last)
Did you try a full cmos clear on Bios A?
If so, you can recover using this guide:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=160450.0
With the z77a-gd65, you will need to flash bios B to version 10.5. In that version in the security section is a multi bios update. Use that and it will recover bios A.
For bios flashing: >>Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<<

Z77a-gd65 no multi drop in idle with fixed vcore ?

Hi all, I am trying to oc my 2500k on the z77a-gd65 with a normal multi oc and fixed vcore, eist always enabled. interal pll overvoltage auto, intel turbo off, vdrop auto, digitial compensation auto, cpu core ocp expander auto, cpu core switching freq. auto. Ce1 enabled, intel c-state enabled, c state limit auto. Also I think they dont grip once fixed vcore.
Problem is: My multi doesn't drop in idle but hangs fixed at what ever multi I put in. Is a normal multi OC with a drop to 1.6 ghz in idle no longer possible in ivy bridge ? My SB did that just fine.

You obviously have a CPU with a good VID. Not everyone is that fortunate. It's your OC, do as you please. I OC most of my processors when under full load to sit at or just below the industry suggested maximums for them (CPU V. set on 'Auto') and experiment with the VDroop settings to ensure stability. With Sandy and Ivy, that is 1.400v's, or less when under load. On CPU V. 'Auto', worst Ivy CPU currently here will do 45X, another one does 46X, best Sandy here will do 51X. Heat, voltage requirements (VID), clock speed variations attainable between CPU specimens is rather large. Only a few rigs here have 'raw' OC's on them and run manual set CPU V. all the time.
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So, if you use your machine for mostly gaming (why oc otherwise) one can actually save more with manual vcore if this is lower at full load than the auto (especially for me as I get 4.4 GHz with a 2500k on 1.156 vcore, which I will never get down to on auto vcore.).
Rendering, Audio - Video creation, OC'ing the CPU is 'very' beneficial to performance.

MSI's Latest Dragoon Equipment Z77A-GD65 Gaming!!!

As PC Gaming is becoming more and more popular, MSI formed a gaming community named “Dragoon Army”. This division is composed of international gaming teams sponsored by MSI and is equipped with G-Series notebooks and as well as Gaming desktop hardware.
The latest gaming equipment that MSI has to offer is the “Z77A-GD65 Gaming “motherboard. Now in black and red color theme and with the new MSI Dragon look, it is a new masterpiece tailored for gaming perfection.
Below are the highlights of the board:
• Killer E2200 Game Network – Is built for maximum networking performance for online games and high-quality streaming media. Featuring Advanced Stream Detect, Killer E2200 automatically detects and accelerates game traffic ahead of other network traffic for smoother, stutter-free in-game performance and the competitive edge. With this exclusive, automatic traffic prioritization, games and real-time chat get priority over low-level system chatter, giving you the lowest latency for game data on the most controllable network hardware available.
•Gaming Device Port – Optimized for high polling rate (500 to 1000 Hz) which lower’s your mouse’s response time from 8 milliseconds to 1 millisecond. Additional gold plating on the ports enhances the durability drastically and ensures your PS/2 and USB ports are always working when you ship out to a LAN party.
•Sound Blaster Cinema – Get amazing surround sound with just stereo headphones. The most important gaming sound effects are reproduced crystal clear allowing to focus on your game even during extremely long gaming sessions.
•Military Class III Components – High quality components ensuring your PC’s stability and efficiency under extreme gaming conditions.
•Optimized for Multi-Graphic Cards – Provides enough space for optimal airflow when using multi-graphic configuration (SLI, Tri-SLI & Crossfire). No worries about PC overheating.
•OC Genie II – Automatically overclocks your CPU and Memory for a faster and smoother gaming experience.
•Supports DDR3 3000 Memory for faster response
Let’s open up the package
Black interior and the bundles are all placed underneath the motherboard.
Specifically there are new bundles for this gaming kit. First one is the Door Label with the message “I’m Sorry Busy Gaming / I’m Not Here” and the Dragoon Army badge which I think is cool hehehe.
• User’s Guide
•Quick Installation Guide
•Reviewer’s Guide - Gives a good understanding how you can fully maximize the Killer E2200 Game Network and the Sound Blaster Cinema Audio Features.
• DVD Software Utility Disc
• 2x SATA 6GB/s Cables
• M-Connectors
• V-Check Points
• I/O Back plate
Here is the board. New heatsink design for the VRM and the most noticeable of all is the Southbridge heatsink with the Dragon design ~~ Wicked!! .
12 CPU Power Phase design. Super Ferrite Choke and Hi-C Caps of Military Class III components around the CPU socket providing the best electric current capacity and at the same time power efficiency. Heatpipe design in VRM heatsinks for faster heat dissipation.
At the upper right area of the board are the Easy buttons which consists of OC Genie, Power and Reset. Then just below it is the V-Check points which provides exact and actual voltage readings of your Processor, Memory and Chipset and usually being use during overclocking.
8-Pin processor power connector which helps to gain higher overclocks instead of the usual 4pin. 4x DIMM slots with a max of 32GB and when paired up with a 22nm CPU it can handle speeds up to 3000MHz.
Clean layout for the bottom part of the board. 3x Gen3 PCIE VC Slots capable of running video cards at bandwidth speed of 16x/8x/4x.
Carved Dragon!!! Such masterpiece  . Below is the Debug LED indicator which helps isolating problems during system boot up and also serves as temperature indicator of the processor during system operation.
Left to Right: 2x SATA 6GB/s Asmedia Controller, 4x SATA 3GB/s Intel, 2x SATA 6GB/s Intel and Intel USB 3.0 header.
Just want to take photo of the labels hehehe 
Well I hope MSI included a Bluetooth and Wifi Connectivity for the board like what they did with the MSI Z77 MPower.
• 1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port
• 1 x Clear CMOS button
• 1 x Coaxial S/PDIF-out port
• x Optical S/PDIF-out port
• 4 x USB 2.0 ports
• 2 x USB 3.0 ports
• 1 x RJ45 LAN jack
• 1 x 6 in 1 audio jack
• 1 x HDMI®
• 1 x DVI-D
• 1 x VGA
Moving on, I will be showing you screenshots of Click Bios II, Control Center in Windows, Sound Blaster Cinema, Killer E2200 and the UEFI Bios.
These are the two windows you will be using to configure your Killer Network. You can assign network priorities with certain softwares. So if you are an online gamer. Ofcourse you will prioritize your games to lower the latency and smoothen out your gameplay.
Now we look into the control panel of the Sound Blaster Cinema. This is an improved version of the previous THX Audio software. You can adjust the bass from here, make audio surround, crystallize the audio to make the sound more clearer and many more…
Control Center configurations and tabs are all the same but the color is changed to black and red and ofcourse the addition of the Dragon logo. Same goes for the Click Bios II Gaming version.
The response of the BIOS is much faster. Tabs are all the same though.
Another set of UEFI screenshots.
That’s it for now and will be updating this with benchmarks stay tuned….

Now available in the U.S.A. market;
>> Z77A-GD65 Gaming <<

Z77a-gd65 supports hyper-threading?

I have seen in some sites in Internet that the z77a-gd65 supports hyper-threading, but there is no mention of it in the MSI official site nor any BIOS option to enable and disable hyper-threading is described in the manual
Do you guys know whether multi-threading is supported or not?
Thank you very much in advance for your reply!

Thanks Froggy Gremlin for your reply.
There is no shot of this subsection. In page 2-10 there is a shot of the "OC Section" and in page 2-15 a reference to a read only CPU specification sub-menu, but no reference to the HT-setting at all. Maybe I am reading an outdated manual, but it is the one from the official MSI site at //download2.msi.com/files/downloads/mnu_exe/E7751v2.2.zip
But if you have the mainboard and you know there is this option, I trust your word. I am probably buying it but wanted to know before if this option was available.

MSI Z77A-GD65 Intel 7 Series Motherboard Integrated Graphics

Hi i'm a newbie to computer parts and the computer world in general on what does what. I'm only 15 but i'm looking to upgrade my Mobo and CPU I have found a bundle (MSI Z77A-GD65 Intel 7 Series Z77 Motherboard and Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40 GHz Quad Core Unlocked Bundle) on tiger direct and it looks like a good deal. But before I buy it I WAS going to upgrade my GPU before I were to get a new Mobo and CPU. I've done some research on the MSI Z77A-GD65 and I saw it has integrated graphics, but I don't entirely know what that is. I was curious if that's a graphics card and if so what it compares to. I have a Nvidia GTX 9800 graphics card that's fairly old now and I was wondering if a Mobo with integrated graphics acted as a graphics card and if so what it would compare to. If you want to know anymore specs about my computer let me know and i'll be happy to give them out.

It's not the mainboard to have integrated graphics, it's the cpu. The Core i5-3570K has Intel HD Graphics 4000 integrated. The mainboard only offers the output connectors to use it. All current generation Intel cpus have integrated graphics which can be used or not. The HD Graphics 4000 is not meant for gaming of course and would perform worse than your GTX9800 in a 3d game. With a supported mainboard (like the Z77A-GD65) the integrated graphics can be used along the discrete vga for Lucid MVP to better performance and gaming experience (see for more details: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=160519.0).

New MSi Z77A - GD65 DIMM problem

I was wondering if anybody else has a similar experience with this.
My build:
i7 - 3770k 3.4 ghz
MSi z77A - GD65
MSi 760 Geforce GTX 4GB VRAM
Rosewill Xtreme RX750 - D - B
3 x 4 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM
So everything wrongs except for the DIMM. The two DIMMs closest to the CPU causes the system to not POST. The debug stays at 55 which indicates that there's no memory. When I installed two sticks into the slots furthest away from the CPU, it boots up just fine.
I tried booting up with one stick in the DIMM furthest away from the CPU for each ram stick. They all result in the system booting up just fine. I tried using 4 x 2 gb RIPJAW ram sticks and again the system errors at 55. The common denominator here is that the two DIMM slots closest to the CPU are not working and causing everything to freak out.
This is my theory on what's going on. I have no idea how to fix this other than returning the board for a new one. Hopefully I can get some suggestions or advice on what to do from here. Maybe my mobo isn't broken, and it's just me doing something wrong. I certainly hope so because I'm a pretty lazy dude. Bought this board because my other mobo didn't boot up. Now this board isn't reading my memory. What gives??? Any help is appreciated.

Enter bios and check if the intel ME firmware is properly installed. If not it will show N/A in the bios.
My PC with the regular Z77A-GD65 worked flawless for a year, then I had problems. My gcard died and I had massive bootproblems. I tried a lot to figure out the reasons. All I could come up with was a faulty board or incompatible memory, like you think you have. I switched from 4x4Gb to 2x8 Gb in slots 2 + 4, but it didn't help.
After I noticed Intel ME firmware wasn't installed, I tried that. I used the forum tool and most important: I used a bios version with Intel ME firmware included. Downloaded it from an attachment in these forums (so don't download bios versions from the official MSI website!). I flashed the bios and everything worked great again!
Try that first, before you start inspecting CPU pins or change to different memory. I installed BIOS version 10.8B3 (beta), but watch out, I think your gaming edition of the Z77A-GD65 has a different bios. Check the forums which (beta) version is the most reliable.

Really regretting the Z77a-GD65

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