“Just the features alone
make this a compelling
purchase. That $239 buys
you this much overclocking
proficiency is staggering.”
All results were obtained at 4.8GHz on a normal install of Windows 7 64-bit and WinXP.
These are our results, yours may vary so only use these as a guideline for a similarly configured system.
Motherboard
3DMark2001se
3DMark03
3DMark11
Super Pi 8M
Aida 64 Copy
Aida 64 Latency
ASRock Z77 OC-Formula
109,127
123,756
10,501
1.24.297
30377
29.1
GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7
108,758
123,685
10,466
1.24.578
29474
29.6
or stellar theme, but it’s nitpicking when considering just
what’s on offer here.
Memory overclocking in
particular is mind numbing as
this board equals what ASUS
offers in the Maximus V series
and in some ways its better,
simply because virtually all
multipliers work and the profiles
are little tighter by default. We
can only imagine how much
time went into tweaking these
profiles and ensuring maximum
compatibility with enthusiast
grade memory. Even when we
used a CPU with a weak IMC,
we were able to extract more
in memory frequency from this
board than we could any other at
the time of testing. Despite the
ridiculous settings we entered,
this board kept posting and the
crash guard feature actually
worked well every time and all
the time. Flawless execution
was our experience here and at
the risk of sounding bias, this
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