Picked up a cheap ex-display Gigabyte mobo in mint condition. By all accounts it is a good board, but man do Gigabyte love “value added” crapware. Some examples:
Auto Green – Sleep or power down your PC from a Bluetooth device. Since Bluetooth has a range of about 25mm it seems like it would be easier to just walk over to the PC and turn it off, rather than enabling Bluetooth, trying to get in range, pairing, loading the app…
Cloud OC – Tweak and overclock your PC from any internet connected device. What… The… Fuck… So I can remotely crash my PC?
Smart DualBIOS – The dual BIOS idea is a good one, but this utility adds a pointless feature where you can now store very small amounts of data in it. Things like passwords and contact details, in case your hard drive dies. Just in case you are tempted to actually use it there is no way to import/export this data from/to other apps, so you have to copy/paste it all manually.
Q-Share – Duplicates Windows file sharing functionality, only with a less usable interface and less compatibility. Thanks Gigabyte.
No ATA password support in the BIOS though. Sigh…