Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Review
Touch Bios
Published: 22nd July 2011 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £131.99 @ Aria |
Touch BIOS
Rather than include a UEFI BIOS Gigabyte are persisting with their Touch BIOS utility. This is just like UEFIs that we've seen but all the tweaking is done via Windows and you can then save the settings from there and reboot. This is a bit of a double-edged sword as the "TOUCH BIOS!!!!" is so large on the box that it's always a disappointment to see that it's just a utility, but on the other hand it's at least very smooth to navigate, something that can't be claimed about all the in-built ones.
Now if they could combine the looks and functionality of this with 'live' changes they'd definitely be onto something.
The @BIOS updater is one of the best around, being easy to see what you've currently got installed and equally it's easy to find an updated one if one exists. All in all the Gigabyte suite of applications and utilities is actually worthy of installing and that's a bold statement indeed.
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Good review, sums the board up nicely.
i still miss gb blue 
great read that bry :thumb:
my question is mate, if it was your hard earned cash you was handing over would you be getting this or the tz68?
great read that bry :thumb:
my question is mate, if it was your hard earned cash you was handing over would you be getting this or the tz68?
If it was my hard-earned I'd get this over the Biostar. No matter how much of a bargain the Biostar is it's just so fugly.
any plans on a review of the GA-Z68 UD4 seriously considering the UD4 for my 2600K which I should have next week (shipping from Canada ) so still looking at boards
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If it was my hard-earned I'd get this over the Biostar. No matter how much of a bargain the Biostar is it's just so fugly. |
No window it wouldn't matter at all. Although I'd still personally prefer the Giga.
As for the UD4, we've reviewed the D2H, the UD3P and the UD5. So it's probably wise to read this review and our UD5 one and decide if you could manage with slightly less than the UD5, or need slightly more than the UD3. There is very little between them.
As for the UD4, we've reviewed the D2H, the UD3P and the UD5. So it's probably wise to read this review and our UD5 one and decide if you could manage with slightly less than the UD5, or need slightly more than the UD3. There is very little between them.
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As for the UD4, we've reviewed the D2H, the UD3P and the UD5. So it's probably wise to read this review and our UD5 one and decide if you could manage with slightly less than the UD5, or need slightly more than the UD3. There is very little between them. |
the UD5 has 2 esata/usb combo ports to the UD4's 1 but the UD4 has a sata6 esata port lol if you ask me the UD4 has more to give for less money But the UD5 does have one more pci-e slot but only at 4x so nothing really there for me plus it shares bandwidth with the pci-e x1 (which there is 2) slots so if anything is in them then its only 1x lmao why bother hahahahwell....on a site geared towards the overclocking community,,, i dont see a 4.6Ghz showing going over all to well....even amongst gigabite fans!!!
Hey guys, saw the review on this board, I have it in my new system along with a 2600k Intel Proc. Was wondering what the bios settings are for the O/C, because anytime I try to overclock even to 3.5ghz, software doesn't run well at all in windows. It's like it's unstable, even if I go up to 1.39v to the CPU.
I have Corsair H100 on it, running super cool, @ stock 30c idle, 38c load. So temps are not a problem. It's at auto CPU voltage and @ stock speed now, running decently stable. I have a Corsair HX850 watt PSU running the system. I have the Gskill 17000 ram running at stock speeds 11-11-11-30 @ 2133mhz, so I'm trying to figure out what my O/C issue is.
At stock speeds the system is great, but any type of overclock warrants issues in windows 7.
I'm running a EVGA 580gtx as the Gpu as well...
I have Corsair H100 on it, running super cool, @ stock 30c idle, 38c load. So temps are not a problem. It's at auto CPU voltage and @ stock speed now, running decently stable. I have a Corsair HX850 watt PSU running the system. I have the Gskill 17000 ram running at stock speeds 11-11-11-30 @ 2133mhz, so I'm trying to figure out what my O/C issue is.
At stock speeds the system is great, but any type of overclock warrants issues in windows 7.
I'm running a EVGA 580gtx as the Gpu as well...
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Hey guys, saw the review on this board, I have it in my new system along with a 2600k Intel Proc. Was wondering what the bios settings are for the O/C, because anytime I try to overclock even to 3.5ghz, software doesn't run well at all in windows. It's like it's unstable, even if I go up to 1.39v to the CPU. I have Corsair H100 on it, running super cool, @ stock 30c idle, 38c load. So temps are not a problem. It's at auto CPU voltage and @ stock speed now, running decently stable. I have a Corsair HX850 watt PSU running the system. I have the Gskill 17000 ram running at stock speeds 11-11-11-30 @ 2133mhz, so I'm trying to figure out what my O/C issue is. At stock speeds the system is great, but any type of overclock warrants issues in windows 7. I'm running a EVGA 580gtx as the Gpu as well... |
Try manually pumping the voltages up to 1.35v and then just increase the CPU multiplier to 4.2 or something. Don't bother tinkering with the Bus Speed for Sandy Bridge, you'll be lucky to get a 10MHz increase in that.
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