Gigabyte X79S-UP5 Review

POV-Ray and F@H

Published: 21st September 2012 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £240 | Author: Tom Logan

POV-Ray

The Persistence Of Vision raytracer is heavily CPU dependant, as all rendering engines are. Overall the UP5 puts up a good showing, but it's clear from the average PPS that clock speed is king. This does neatly highlight the 'many ways to skin a cat'. The Xeon goes for lots of slow cores, whereas the i7 goes for a few really quick ones. The difference in per CPU performance is marked, yet the overall score is nearly the same.

Folding @ Home

There is no way to beat around the bush here, the UP5 is shockingly bad in F@H. Even with the 4.6GHz i7-3960X at its heart it gives us the lowest result we've seen. Lower than the stock CPU on the reference Intel board. It's as if the moment you have a heavy loading on the CPU the power phase gives up and chokes (if you'll pardon the pun) the life out of the CPU.

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21-09-2012, 10:02:00

tinytomlogan

http://www.overclock3d.net/gfx/artic...140833140l.jpg

The long awaited upgrade to the problematic X79-UD5 is finally upon us. Has the long gestation fixed the issues?

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21-09-2012, 10:55:17

dugdiamond

very VERY nice mobo

at last: they fixed the niggles from its predecessor

if only i could get my hands on one of these, for next to nothing, i would be very happy

NOT!

21-09-2012, 10:56:14

tinytomlogan

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugdiamond

very VERY nice mobo

at last: they fixed the niggles from its predecessor

if only i could get my hands on one of these, for next to nothing, i would be very happy

I think you must be reading the wrong thing mate. Its GASH.

21-09-2012, 12:03:32

dugdiamond

it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek - lol

21-09-2012, 12:06:05

seumasbeathan

It does look lovely though

21-09-2012, 15:09:01

Greenback

when I saw the video for the first look I thought I want 1, I'm glad i'm not the impulsive buying type

I'm surprised gigabyte sent you 1 considering you already mentioned the bad v droop, they must of known you'd check that out

21-09-2012, 20:53:49

samwisekoi

I was so looking forward to this being a great board. Sigh.

Back to the X79 Pro I guess. How did IT do with a hex-core Xeon?

- Sam

23-09-2012, 06:01:18

Rastalovich

hmmm Love Gigabyte mobos, but as far as pushing hardware, the voltage settings have been annoying me since the solid 775 mobos. The newer 775 mATX have same problems, set the voltage and it disappears somewhere when you oc and put under load.

26-09-2012, 05:06:00

Dread

Something i don't grasp about this review...
I always understood that SAS has a backward compability with SATA, so i guess you can use Mainstream SATA hd's on those SAS connectors!!
Making this mb achieve the total of 14 usable ports just like the asrock extreme11, am i wrong or should some testing be made?

28-09-2012, 05:25:21

tinytomlogan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dread

We never said it wasnt backwards compatable....

Gigabyte X79S-UP5 Review

POV-Ray and F@H

Published: 21st September 2012 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £240 | Author: Tom Logan

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