New B3 mobo...

[dudeofdur]

Just finished installing new B3 mobo... I just plugged and prayed. Seems like windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit is not asking me to reactivate it. Everything feels the same though... Guess I was hoping for glamor and flashy lights :/

 

[dac7nco]

??

 

[Hogan773]

Just finished installing new B3 mobo... I just plugged and prayed. Seems like windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit is not asking me to reactivate it. Everything feels the same though... Guess I was hoping for glamor and flashy lights :/

Yep, glamour and motherboards often go hand in hand

 

[dudeofdur]

Yep, glamour and motherboards often go hand in hand

I wasn't asking for much... just a flashy sticker saying B3 revision and laser beams

 

[Bartman39]

Hummm...? Mine said "hey GI free sample 5 dollar"...:biggrin:

 

[Drsignguy]

The box my new Gigabyte board came in is flashy? And the Asrock Extreem6 box is very sweet!

 

[dudeofdur]

The box my new Gigabyte board came in is flashy? And the Asrock Extreem6 box is very sweet!

Lucky! I got the asrock extreme4 and its rather bland. My gripe is with the handle...

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

Choir of Angels appears and sing glory, glory hallelujah as you power up your new board... Ok maybe a little over the top but congrats on getting the new board up and running.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

 

[MTDEW]

So none of the new motherboards actually have anything on the board itself to indicate it is a B3 only the boxes?

Does CPU-Z at least identify it as a B3?

If not, that makes buying a used one later in the future a bit scary , since people can just throw a bad board in the newer box or if you buy a bare board, you'd never know what it was.

 

[dlamb2471]

My Gigabyte motherboard has B3 as part of the model number. I didn't look to see if it was printed on the motherboard, but you can see it in the BIOS version info as I recall. And yes, it didn't do anything interesting for me either after I installed it, except Win7 activation did get triggered.

 

[jojiboy]

My Asrock Extreme6 has a B3 sticker on the motherboard, shows B3 during boot (although, presumably, if someone were to flash with the latest bios, it too would B3 during boot) and printed on the retail box. Nothing interesting here either, didn't even trigger Win7 activation. Other than physically swapping the boards, it seems like I never swapped them.

 

[lenjack]

Yes, your bios will show it.

 

[Drsignguy]

My Asrock Extreme6 has a B3 sticker on the motherboard, shows B3 during boot (although, presumably, if someone were to flash with the latest bios, it too would B3 during boot) and printed on the retail box. Nothing interesting here either, didn't even trigger Win7 activation. Other than physically swapping the boards, it seems like I never swapped them.

Same here with the exception that I had to reactivate windows. It activated without problems. I did a complete install on a SSD with my Asrock board. Now that was Flashy!

 

[dudeofdur]

So none of the new motherboards actually have anything on the board itself to indicate it is a B3 only the boxes?

Does CPU-Z at least identify it as a B3?

If not, that makes buying a used one later in the future a bit scary , since people can just throw a bad board in the newer box or if you buy a bare board, you'd never know what it was.

*EDIT* Oops found it