Gigabyte Adds Dual-UEFI BIOS to H61MA-D3V Entry-Level Motherboard

Gigabyte has just introduced in Japan its first entry-level motherboard to use the company’s Dual-UEFI technology, the GA-H61MA-D3V (rev. 2.0), which is expected to arrive in other parts of the world starting with May of this year.

Gigabyte’s Dual-UEFI technology was designed to replace the BIOS found in many pre-2010 motherboards with a more capable software interface between the operating system and platform firmware.

The Taiwanese motherboard maker was actually one of the last in the industry to adopt this technology, but it now seems like it plans to transition it to more board models.

Moving to the GA-H61MA-D3V rev 2.0 spotted by TechPowerUp, this LGA 1155 solution is built around the Intel H61 chipset which was paired together with a series of third party chipsets for adding USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps connectivity.

In addition, the board features five phase CPU power, two DIMM sockets that can support up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, and four SATA 3Gbps ports paired together with another two 6Gbps ports driven by a Marvell 88SE9172 controller.

Graphics wise, users can opt for the Sandy Bridge built-in graphics or can add a dedicated GPU thanks to the PCI Express x16 slot.

This is also accompanied by three PCI-E x1 slots, which is quite a decent number for a micro-ATX board.

Moving to the board's I/O panel, we get all the basic ports and connectors that one would expect from such a motherboard, including DVI and VGA video outputs, four USB 2.0 and two USB 3.0 ports, a Gigabit Ethernet port, a pair of PS/2 ports and 5.1-channel audio thanks to the high-grade Realtek ALC889 HD audio codec.

An HDMI output isn’t provided, so users interested in building an HTPC system need to look elsewhere if DVI isn’t enough for them. No information regarding pricing was provided by Gigabyte.