BIOS Features
EVGA included an AMI-based UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) style BIOS, heavily customized force use with the Z77 Stinger board. Unfortunately, the UEFI BIOS offers keyboard support only. The BIOS has a single view mode, from which all BIOS settings can be accessed via a series of tabs and submenus.
Other than the lack of mouse support, the EVGA BIOS implementation is straightforward and very sleek looking. They continued with the black and red theme used on the motherboard to great effect with all the normal utilities and options available for you tweaking pleasure.
Overview tab
Overview tab, continued
Advanced tab
Advanced tab, Onboard Device Configuration page
Advanced tab, SATA Configuration page
Advanced tab, Intel(R) Rapid Start Technology page
Advanced tab, USB Configuration page
Advanced tab, SMART Settings page
Advanced tab, PC Health Status page
Advanced tab, PC Health Status page, Temperature Monitor page
Advanced tab, PC Health Status page, Fan Speed Monitor page
Advanced tab, PC Health Status page, Voltage Monitor page
Advanced tab, Intel(R) Smart Connect Technology page
Chipset tab
Chipset tab, System Agent (SA) Configuration page
Chipset tab, System Agent (SA) Configuration page, Graphics Configuration page
Chipset tab, System Agent (SA) Configuration page, DMI Configuration page
Chipset tab, System Agent (SA) Configuration page, NB PCIe Configuration page
Chipset tab, ME Subsystem Configuration page
Overclocking tab in Auto configuration mode
Overclocking tab in Manual configuration mode
Overclocking tab, Memory Configuration page
Overclocking tab, Memory Configuration page continued
Overclocking tab, Memory Configuration page, Memory MISC Configuration page
Overclocking tab, CPU Configuration page
Overclocking tab, CPU Configuration page, CPU Information page
Overclocking tab, CPU Configuration page, CPU Power Management Configuration page
Overclocking tab, BCLK Setting page
Boot tab
Save/Exit tab
Save/Exit tab, BIOS Profile Setup
Will you ever do a Mini ITX
Will you ever do a Mini ITX round up sort of thing? By the looks of the recent ones that been featured on PCP’er i will strongly consider a Mini ITX Motherboard for my next upgrade.
This should have the
This should have the “mini-itx” tag.
indeed, added
indeed, added
NO MSata?
Having used
NO MSata?
Having used Mini-Itx boards in a couple of builds the crucial area that MB makers need to consider is cable management – in most mini-itx cases it is a real pain. There is not a lot that can be done with the Sata cables, in an ideal world I would want a MSata 3 socket on back of board, but there is something that can be done for the 24 pin ATX and 4/8 pin Aux power sockets: it is not enough to have them on the edge of the board they need to be at right angles to current norm.
Personally I would go with the ASRock z77 e-itx board over the EVGA
If anyone goes Asus over EVGA
If anyone goes Asus over EVGA you are either misinformed, have never dealt with Asus before, are filthy rich and do not care about throwing money away, are just an Asus fanboy, or possibly retarded.
I have built 100’s of PC’s this year alone. I bang them out like Rihanna gets hit. All the time. They have a higher than failure rate than EVGA, use inferior parts in most cases, and WORST of all you can not do an Asus RMA to save your freaking life.
ASUS = HEADACHES AND HASSLES
EVGA = GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE, SUPERIOR COMPONENTS, GREAT DESIGN, GREAT ENGINEERING
I sell more Asus stuff than EVGA, so don’t count me a “Fanboy” by any means. But for someone to PREFER an Asus MoBo to this little stinger is just dumb. No offense inteded here btw.
TheBoss
BossRigs.com
Strange, but I have had
Strange, but I have had almost the exact opposite experience. I have had problems of bad capacitors leaking in a few EVGA products, and few construction problems with ASUS. I have had a dead MOBO or two from ASUS, and getting an RMA was not difficult (I do live close enough to drive down to ASUS and pick up the replacements). I’m happy with the quality of both EVGA and ASUS, in fact just installed a couple of the new ASUS ac routers.
I believe he suggested an
I believe he suggested an ASrock board… not ASUS. Seems like you blew a gasket about nothing
I really love your site..
I really love your site.. Pleasant colors & theme.
Did you build this website yourself? Please reply back as I’m trying to create my very own blog and want to know where you got this from or just what the theme is named. Thanks!
Here is my website – his comment is here
This really should have been
This really should have been compared to the Asus P8Z77-I Deluxe (ITX) board. They are at the same price point and trying to accomplish the same level of performance.
But I understand you guys don’t have an endless supply of hardware to compare with 🙂
Either way its great to see another high performance ITX board.
There will likely be more
There will likely be more mini-ITX reviews in the future, along with the possibility of some type of comparison article as well. Stay tuned…
“It’s [sic] performance both
“It’s [sic] performance both at stock settings and while overclocked were nothing short of astounding”
Astounding? 4.36GHZ is downright anemic compared to the other mini-itx boards and the vdroop issues and memory OC failure don’t scream quality. Considering the price, I would give this board a 6/10.
While 4.36GHz may not seem
While 4.36GHz may not seem high comparatively speaking, but for the 3570K CPU we use in testing, it is on par with what we've seen with other boards. Also just in terms of base clock overclocking, aq 104MHz base clock is nice, since most won't go above 103MHz if you're lucky.
The memory o/c was a bit odd to me also, but it wasn't something to distract from an otherwise stellar board – on the Intel side, o/c'd memory does not buy you a huge performance gain for most things (read real-world gaming).
The VDroop issue can be controlled via careful BIOS tweaking, so that in my mind is a non-issue…
What about the power
What about the power consumption numbers without an add-on video card?
Good point, something we’ll
Good point, something we'll consider adding in future m-atx and m-itx reviews…
Avoid EVGA at all cost. This
Avoid EVGA at all cost. This board does not work correctly. The bios settings are all messed up, don’t save, don’t clear either optimized defaults or the clear CMOS button.
EVGA ignores all the problems related to this board on their forums. They don’t even answer support tickets.
Save yourself a huge headache and just buy another brand. It’s pretty clear they did no validation on this motherboard.
…no , it`s a pretty nice
…no , it`s a pretty nice MB, some peoples or programers just made wrong stuff on BIOS or bad flash bios, that`s all… any brand have some trouble , i remember downloaded a Bios from ASUS for a ROG.mATX board…
Very bad thing…the worst is that they changed the bios update some days after…with the same name and denomination 1.xx ,i had 2 downloaded files with the same name , frome the same place at ASUS…but with diferent bios inside…thank you ASUS you crushed my very expensive ROG MB ^^
I realize this thread is
I realize this thread is super old, But the EVGA Z77 Stinger is a piece of trash. 2 years later I still cannot operate my RAM at its rated speed in this board (1600MHZ). Its crippled further by its horrible support in terms of BIOS updates and EVGAS crap service. Never again will I purchase another EVGA motherboard.