I shall hold off on a possible 3570k till a bios update is here. 

I accidently bought my friend a z68 and an Ivy. Now shes stuck with a Ivy and a Mobo that can't use it. My mistake when I was building it. New Eggs description didn't say anything about it not working with Ivy. Said it worked with i-7 so I got her an i-7... It was a totally noob mistake on my part. We are working with newegg to see if we can fix that now.
 
Also I'm building myself a PC and I can't cough up that much money for the z77. Its just got a lot of fluff that I wouldn't use. Thinking I'm going with Asus Sabertooth. My first non EVGA board in 7 years!

That's a bummer to hear Storm, hope the egg can help you both with the issue.
 
After reading more on the 690, I won't really need a Ivy chip as it has a PLX chip built on the board already. 

Take a look in z77 thread .EVGA has all ready did a updated bios for z77.Its starting to look like we with z68 are SOL

Buy an EVGA board and get a bios support that is worse than ASRock. Premium VS. Budget.
 
My first and last EVGA board.

I'm done with evga. I bought the z68 sli for $215 and after a month the price goes down to $130 and then goes back up?? what gives?I wanted to get an ivy bridge cpu so that I can give my SB to my dad but that isn't going to happen and he cannot wait since he needs a computer. Last evga board. Going to sell this board soon and go with a different brand

cyanide7


I'm done with evga. I bought the z68 sli for $215 and after a month the price goes down to $130 and then goes back up?? what gives?I wanted to get an ivy bridge cpu so that I can give my SB to my dad but that isn't going to happen and he cannot wait since he needs a computer. Last evga board. Going to sell this board soon and go with a different brand

Prices change, don't be mad at EVGA. You had(have) the option if you are still within 30 days of purchase to get an extended warranty and step up to the z77 ftw or wait for the z75 sli when it comes out later this month.

Correct, prices do change and I expected that. What I didn't expect was the price difference to be that big. If I had known that it was going to change that much( which we never do, how irritating!) then I would have waited. Guess that is how the sales work :/

To quote David Byrne "I'm still waiting...I'm still waiting...I'm still waiting...
I'm still waiting...I'm still waiting...I'm still waiting...
I'm still waiting...I'm still waiting"

There is not step up for the z68 sli.

hate to beat a dead horse but am kinda wondering about the ivy bridge bios update again

its never gonna happen man. i gave up. im just buying another board with z77 chipset. 

I am going to guess that this is why I am getting a Post Code 55 with the Z68 board I just installed with an I7-3770.
 
Very disapointing!
 
EVGA should allow me to buy a Z77 and refund my money for this Z68.....seems only fair.

POST code 55 is memory controller lockup error. most likely it means that BIOS cannot communicate with Ivy Bridge memory controller, because it wasn't programmed to do so ... it doesn't know it ...
 
you can always buy an extended warranty for $15 and Step Up your Z68 to Z77 FTW.

I called tech support and was told that my only options are to either return the mother board and buy a Z77 or return the Ivy Bridge and buy a Sandy Bridge.
 
It looks like I will be out over $55 dollars because Newegg is charging me a restock fee and I have to pay for the shipping back.
 
I am going to contact EVGA and see if they will sell me a Z77 board with a $55 dollar discount because none of this is my fault, this EVGA's fault.
 
I bought this board as it was advertised that it is compatible with Intel 1155 Socket CPU's when in fact it is not fully compatible.
 
I think its fair at this point.
 
I will report back and let you everyone know what they say.

I am sorry, but this actually IS your fault. you haven't researched if the board actually supports the latest CPU yet. no one is going to give you a refund for your own mistake. sorry bro.
 
can't you use step up or don't wan to? cost wise it will run you cheaper than restocking fee in newegg (plus shipping charges extra). only problem with step up is down time and waiting for the board to reach EVGA and then back to you, they do not do cross-shipping on Step Up orders as they are considered a promotion.

I respectfully disagree.
 
I think the consumer has a reasonable duty to make sure the parts they are buying are compatable and making a consumer research BIOS versions when all they should be expected to do is make sure they have the right socket for the CPU they want.
 
As for your other comment, when I asked the Teck Support person what my options were, he said either return the board or the CPU, he did not say a thing about Stepping up.

^everyone has a right to express their opinion and to each its own.
I always research a product ahead of buying to avoid costly mistakes later, learned it the hard way, the bitter truth is.
if sockets fit the plug it doesn't mean that programming part is ready to handle the communication between them, simple as that. EVGA is falling behind the schedule on IB BIOS upgrade to Z68 (yes it was promised by product managers in past), but they are not the ones to blame that the parts in your possession don't work together.
 
anyways, I think Step Up could be a way out if you don't mind around 2 week down time without a board:
http://www.evga.com/support/stepup/
 
you could return the board to retailer, but restocking fee and shipping charges reach around $70-75 total. this way you can get new compatible board faster of course, decision up to you.

I did research the board, but in the 12 years I have been building and upgrading computers I have never had to go search thru a billion posts in the manufactures forums to make sure a mother board will work with a CPU that its suppose to work with.
 
EVGA does have some responsibility to at least put a notice up on the Z68 information page that the board will not work with Ivy Bridge. So when potential customers are perusing thier motherboards they can clearly see what they need to know.
 
I just dont see how you can put the blame on me, when I clicked on all the information EVGA put up on this website and I downloaded the Spec PDF and read thru it, EVGA should be more responsible than that.
 
 

hello,
welcome every EVGA Forum members.
 
I have this luxury product EVGA P67 SLI.
 
When can I expect a BIOS update so that the board will be compatible with Socket 1155 IB CPUs?

There is NO timeframe for a BIOS update, it will appear when they are done with it.

Common EVGA! Please get us this bios fix! 

At the point it doesn't look like we're getting a bios for Ivy Bridge. They even took down the old bios thread from the sticky section here in the P67/Z68 forum. Looks like our CPU upgrade path is EOL with these boards.

Been almost another month since the last post from EVGA can we please get another update to at least know you are still working on it?

so at this moment the 2700k is the biggest you can put into the z68

CraptacularOne
 

At the point it doesn't look like we're getting a bios for Ivy Bridge. They even took down the old bios thread from the sticky section here in the P67/Z68 forum. Looks like our CPU upgrade path is EOL with these boards. 

 
 

 

Jeremy.exe
 

so at this moment the 2700k is the biggest you can put into the z68

 
Yes it is.

If were not gonna get it. They should at least face us, tell us and let us move on.
 

as far as I know they are working on it, but P67/Z68 boards are no longer a priority, so it may take time ...

feniks


as far as I know they are working on it, but P67/Z68 boards are no longer a priority, so it may take time ...

Makes sense, if they haven't said anything yet, there probably gonna surprise us one of these days.

suprise?!
 
I need to know what to do with this board ASAP.
 
I have LG smartphone and there are schedule for important updates (A ICS) I guess that this is normal for certain companies.
 


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feniks


as far as I know they are working on it, but P67/Z68 boards are no longer a priority, so it may take time ...

Makes sense, if they haven't said anything yet, there probably gonna surprise us one of these days.