Gigabyte X79S-UP5 Review
wPrime95 and PC Mark 7
Published: 21st September 2012 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £240 |
wPrime95
Our third CPU dependant benchmark in a row and our third different result. Whereas POV-Ray showed a good turn of pace on the X79S-UP5, F@H was woeful, now with wPrime95 things return to their good state of affairs. Inconsistency seems to be the watchword.
PC Mark 7
Finally PC Mark 7. We'll discount the Xeon result because although PC Mark is excellent at taking advantage of multiple cores, it also is skewed towards certain results where brute-force CPU speed will always trump a clever design. Looking at the Core i7 CPUs we see the 3930K is 100 points behind the 3960X, which is quite a drop but okay for the price. So when the i7-3960X on the UP5 is a further 100 points behind that you get some idea of how average the performance is on the Gigabyte effort.
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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
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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.
I'm surprised gigabyte sent you 1 considering you already mentioned the bad v droop, they must of known you'd check that out
Back to the X79 Pro I guess. How did IT do with a hex-core Xeon?
- Sam
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?
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Originally Posted by 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? |
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The long awaited upgrade to the problematic X79-UD5 is finally upon us. Has the long gestation fixed the issues?
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