Gigabyte Z77X-UD4H Motherboard Review

System Overview & Testing Procedures
We will be running the Gigabyte Z77X-UD4H through a full battery of benchmarks.  Here are the specifications of our test system.

Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD4H
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD6950
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 16GB
Power Supply: OCZ Fatal1ty Series 1000W
Storage: 750GB SATA II Drive
Cooling: Asetek 570LX
Case: HighSpeed PC Top Deck Tech Station

We will be testing the system at the Core i7-3770K’s stock speed of 3.5GHz and again at our overclock of 5.0GHz.  Here are the tests we will be running.

CPU & Memory Testing
SiSoftware Sandra (download)
– Processor Arithmetic Benchmark
– Processor Multimedia Benchmark
AIDA64 Extreme Edition (download)
– Cache & Memory Benchmark

System Testing
PCMark 7 (download)
PCMark Vantage (download)
SiSoftware Sandra (download)
– Overall System Benchmark

Video Testing
3DMark (download)
3DMark 11 (download)
3DMark Vantage (download)
Heaven Demo 4.0 (download)

Gaming Testing
Alien vs. Predator
Lost Planet 2
Battlefield 3

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