All results were obtained at 4600MHz on an un-optimized Windows7 64-bit. We’ll not be testing on Windows XP from here on in, so
there are no more 3DMark2001SE results. These are our figures, yours may vary so only use these as a guideline for a similarly
configured system.
Motherboard
Cinebench
11.5
GIGABYTE Z77X-UP5TH
(F13a)
3DMark11
Super Pi 8M
Aida 64 Copy
Aida 64 Latency
9,8
13782
1.25.563
28909
29,8
1.25.213
28916
29,9
Physics: 12308
GIGABYTE Z77X-UD4H
(F2i)
9,79
13942
Physics: 11969
using the keyboard. Spend
some time with it and you’ll
be right at home, tweaking
away at every possible setting
like an expert. There’s really
not much to say here that we
haven’t said before. It could do
with some improvements, but
it certainly isn’t lacking in any
department. Reaching those
high clock speeds regardless
of cooling will be down to
your individual hardware and
not any short coming on the
board. As stated earlier, this
is one of the first offerings
from GIGABYTE so it won’t
have some of the connectivity
options found on the UD4H
for, like the eight SATA ports
where the UP5TH has seven.
Memory overclocking is
one area that has often been
difficult for motherboards.
When the first batch of
GIGABYTE Z77 boards came,
the performance was there
along with the efficiency, but
DRAM clock speeds were
not as high as we expected.
This was slowly remedied
and today the UD4H will go
head to head with just about
any Z77 board there is from
any vendor, delivering DRAM
speeds north side of 2800MHz
with relative ease. With the
UP5TH, reaching this clock
speed will prove a little more
challenging but certainly not
impossible. It just means
you’ll need to spend a little
more time than you would on
the UD4H for example. With
that said, not every CPU out
there can reach this memory
speed, so more times than not
it may be an issue of the CPU
not having an IIMC capable
of such a frequency rather
than the motherboard. In our
case, testing with another CPU
sample with a fairly average
IMC, we found that limits for
memory overclocking to be
identical on both the UD4H
and the UP5TH, proving once
again that the IMC has a lot
more to do with the memory
overclocking than the board
and the memory sometimes.
Overall this is the kind
of quality and solid design
you would expect from a
GIGABYTE motherboard.
It’s amongst the more
impressive motherboards in
the line-up only bettered by
the G1 range, the UD4H and
the UP7. Given the pricing
of all those boards, save for
the UD4H one can’t help but
think this is the second best
board from GIGABYTE in the
entire range. At $245 it isn’t
cheap but it certainly has the
performance to match any
and all out on the market. At
this juncture, so close to the
Z87 chipset release - you may
want to wait for the upcoming
Z87 range from GIGABYTE,
but if you can’t wait and
must buy a board right now.
Give this one some serious
consideration.
[ TheOverclocker ]
Summary
The Z77X-UP5TH came
out before the UD4H
which we reviewed a
few issues back. For all
intents and purposes,
the UD4H is the better
board, lacking only a
few features that the
UP5TH has. With that
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