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