Z77X-UD5H Performance Review
Z77X-UD5H Physical Review
Now after testing the Z77X-UD5H with both 2nd and 3rd gen CPU, I can say the new boards are solid. Here are the main differences:
So to begin:
- BIOS Gallery
- Overclocking Results
- Benchmarks using 2600K
- MVP Testing and Results
- I/O Testing
- GIGABYTE Auto-Tune New* OC Program
- GIGABYTE Utilities
Sandy Bridge On Z77 Overclocking Results:
Here are the LLC readings for the UD5H BIOS F6G.
The GIGABYTE Z77 boards are a HUGE increase over the Z68 boards, while the Z68 boards had a lot of issues, these boards are the exact opposite. Their OC potential is there as well, even in the lower phase count models. It is amazing how much work has gone into making the BIOS and the hardware great enough to OC to the max your CPU and memory can OC. There have been extra BIOS options added for memory OC, so the user can tune at their hearts desire, and then you can find tweaks others did not on other boards and the same board. That is what Z77 GIGABYTE offers, they are using their great ability to turn out a quality product, and that quality is what makes their boards OC great.
Let me say this, the problems that Z68 and X79 GIGABYTE boards have/had are all gone for Z77 :)
I will talk more about OCing and the BIOS when the 3rd generation core processor is released.. :)
BLCK does very well on this board with Sandy we are doing pretty good for air cooling.
Benchmarks:
So I had to go and basically redo all my older 3D benchmarks because for this review I updated all drivers, BIOSes, and benchmark versions to the most current. I only do this at a big launch because I like to keep everything consistent down to the 3DMark Vantage version and the GPU driver version when I bench 3DMark for instance. Variations can cause a lot of change; some of these scores are hundreds of points higher than my previous scores only due to GPU driver and benchmark version changes(it shows you how long it has been since I updated my drivers and benchmarks).
All Benchmarks run all at 4.5ghz to make sure clock for clock.
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