motherboard and a poor CPU
sample, especially if you’re
into memory overclocking
or trying to increase your
efficiency for Super Pi,
3DMark11, Vantage and the
likes. You’ll appreciate just
how flexible this motherboard
is when it comes to memory
tuning.
At the time of writing, there
wasn’t a memory tuning tool
that we could find, however
you could use the GIGABYTE
Memory tweaker to view all
your settings and tune them
in the BIOS. A painstakingly
long process, but one that is
worth it when you see just
how efficient this motherboard
can be when you spend even a
little bit of time with it.
Once again we are
mentioning the updated
GIGABYTE UEFI, which
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continues to impress us,
not only because of how far
removed it is from the old
tear inducing 3D BIOS, but
by its own merits as it makes for
a pleasant interface to tune
within. We are however, still
bound to the legacy interface
if only because once you’re
used to it, it’s incredibly quick
to navigate so we suspect,
many of you in your own LN2
cooled sessions will revert to
the “Classic” interface.
Memory profiles have
always been something
we’ve found appealing on
other motherboards and
certainly on the GIGABYTE
boards as well, however as
mentioned earlier, you’re less
likely to rely on these on this
motherboard because it just
clocks so well.
We tested with Samsung
IC memory and PSC. Given
that PSC apparently doesn’t
work so well with this
motherboard, we were able
to get some pretty good
performance out of it; in fact
we were able to get incredible
performance out of it, tuning
it right down to where it
would run circles around our
Samsung memory at 2,666
and most certainly 2400MHz.
Mind you, you can tune
any set of IC’s to the same
remarkable efficacy as
well, but the PSC tuning stood
out for us because it is
not a strong point
for this motherboard and
others in the family.
If you’re looking for some
overclocking advice on this
motherboard be sure to check
out Sin’s overclocking guide
over here. It is as detailed as