Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Review

3D Mark

Published: 23rd April 2012 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £177 | Author: Bryan Waters

3D Mark Vantage

If you thought the Unigine result was impressive, you need to sit down and strap yourself in for the Vantage score. 52000 P score and nearly 38000 X score with Lucid turned on. These are frankly ridiculous scores. Unbelievable. To put it in perspective, it's the equivalent to a GTX680 SLI setup, and not far behind SLI MARS 2s.

3D Mark 11

Just the same as the Vantage result, the improvement from merely turning on Lucid MVP is mind-blowing. Around a 30% performance increase. Just incredible. Sure it doesn't work in a lot of games, and you're stuck with using the motherboard display outputs, but if you're merely number hunting you'd be foolish to not consider turning it on with a single card.

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23-04-2012, 12:03:41

tinytomlogan

With the heavy trimming that their range has got, the Gigabyte UD5 is expected to be the top-end product in their Z77 range. Does it live up to the title?

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23-04-2012, 13:25:18

MaXiMiZe

Nice review

23-04-2012, 14:47:35

RawZ@Aria

Just FYI, we have 15 free Antec Kuhler 620 Liquid Water CPU Coolers left with this board

- http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Motherboards+-+Intel/Socket+1155+-+Intel+Z77/GIGABYTE+GA-Z77X-UD5H+Intel+Z77+Socket+1155+DDR3+PCI-Express+Motherboard+w%2F+FREE+Water-Cooler!+?productId=49181

23-04-2012, 15:20:23

Master&Puppet

Another good review though I'm not sure IB was worth your (plural) time! I was so hoping that the early reports of heat and similar overclock outputs would be wrong but alas there is very little to pick between these 1155 chips.

23-04-2012, 16:35:07

hellhole

Nice review mate!

I've got my Z77X-UD5H sitting in my Cooler Master Cosmos 2 & it looks very small lol...

Just waiting on Ivy Bridges to hit Aussie shores and i can boot it up =D

24-04-2012, 11:09:27

MaXiMiZe

^^ Bet you can't wait. Am I right in saying that this board is in direct competition with the P8Z77 deluxe from Asus?

25-04-2012, 08:17:59

D3FiANC3

Am I right in saying that this board is in direct competition with the P8Z77 deluxe from Asus

More or less. The WiFi version is a bit closer still.

14-05-2012, 14:09:12

Ghost623

I bought this board/chip after the review here, upgrading from a Phenom x6 1100T, and its a hellofa upgrade from where Im coming from.. However, I call fowl on the overclock. You say its 1.3 on the vcore, but the cpuz shows 1.0. I cant get anything near that. I am extremely curious how you were able to hit 4.8, because the best I can do is 4.5 @ 1.2 I have tried a few times trying to hit 4.8 but have been unable to (its water cooled with corsair H80). I would like to see what you did to achieve this speed. Your overclock settings screencaps are just where you can make changes, not the actual changes themself to what you tuned everything to.

25-05-2012, 09:47:17

Master&Puppet

Well he said "The Core i7-3770K is set to 1.32v on the vCore, and a multiplier of 48." That seems right to me.

TTL probably did an offset overclock so that the core is only supplied with the volts when it needs them under load as opposed to fixing a straight 1.32v.

http://forum.overclock3d.net/index.php?/topic/39090-offset-mode-overclocking-starter-guide-and-thread/

Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Review

3D Mark

Published: 23rd April 2012 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £177 | Author: Bryan Waters

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