GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H Smashes 4 South African Overclocking records!

[Gouhan]

Here's something that I may have overlooked when I was initially greeted with the GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H motherboard, and that is, this is a super fast motherboard. Odd you'd think that by profession I'm supposed to have a keen eye for these kinds of things and through extensive testing, find out what's cooking about an particular motherboard. So how then did I miss this glaring aspect in what is otherwise meticulous and rigorous testing methods? Well, it's simple really? When comparing several boards against each other you're looking for repeatable results, that is you're going to not only average results, but you'll discard ones too low, too high and ones that believe it or not fall outside the plotted performance curve. Reason being, you're actually looking for anomalies on the negative as as all boards inherently start out as 10/10 products and from there, lose points accordingly.

What does this have to do with anything? Easy?
I've overlooked easily the fastest and most efficient Z77 motherboard on the market. So confident I am of this, that I'm willing to issue an open challenge to ASUS, MSI, ASROCK, EVGA, ECS or anyone else to try and match this board's efficiency. It's a bold statement but one I'll stand by.

This board is insanely fast! For overclockers looking to make their most out of everyday retail quality CPUs for overclocking, you'll not beat this board. I guarantee you that.

We have 4 new SA records
I didn't realize this because I was not trying to break records, but actually looking to see how far my CPU(s) would go.​

3DMark2001se​

3DMark05​

SuperPi 1M​

PiFast​

Now the kicker here is that all these scores can be significantly improved with tuning, which I didn't do because as I said, these were done to test CPUs not to break records.
I'll hopefully be overclocking again next week to break even more records as I will aim to not only beat these , but add to them 3DMark06 and AquaMark3.

If by some ways you're not convinced of how incredibly quick this motherboard is.
Compare is with the mighty Asrock Z77 Extreme 6 motherboard. Believe it or not this is the fastest of the lot from Asrock, not the Fatal1ty, not the Extreme 9, but this one as it has not PLX switch chip, no latency overheads and has some special tweaks I like this board a lot and it even matches (and sometimes exceeds) the ASUS Maximus V Gene in 3DMark2001se which is hard believe me.

 

[Oj0]

Never mind.

 

[§~Sir.ÐJ.Neo~§]

Hmmm, you just made my mind up for me hey Shock...
Nice one and congrats with those records... Hope to see more records broken on the other bunch of benches...

But for sure you might have just made my mind up for choice of next mobo for me... +1

Looking forward to a full review of it from you perhaps?? If you do by chance do a review of it. PLEASE PM / Skype / Gtalk link it to me.
Thanks

Keep up the GOOD OC-ING and benching work

 

[Gouhan]

Good stuff. It really is a fantastic board for the overclocker.
If you're a gamer though primarily I'd be hard pressed to overlook the G1.Sniper 3,as that board is mastered. 4-way SLI, Wi-Fi, BlueTooth, Creative Recon 3D Hardware Audio, mSATA, E2200 Killer NIC and INTEL GIGABIT as well, it is peerless right now in gaming boards. These two boards are the only ones I'll need in my arsenal for Z77, one for gaming and one for overclocking! The Sniper 3 is expensive damn it it's an incredible board!

For overclocking though I've found my champion in the Z77X-UD5H, its not an easy board to clock far, far from it. It's not perfect, but dial it in right and it'll scream!

 

[Sarinaide]

Any air overclocks, considering a large majority of users will still be using air or water, how does said Motherboard compare with its competitors under conventional cooling methods?

 

[PancakesZA]

Pity I've had 2 of them and both died...lol
Still impressive though...

ASRock and Asus for me for the next 2 years.

 

[Gouhan]

I have no idea how you managed that AtiBoy, maybe a bad batch.
Asrock not bad but compared to the GIGABYTE it's nowhere near as fast. Then again this thread I only put for extreme overclocking, air and all that is useless for Ivy-Bridge.
This platform and chip is purely for the overclockers, for joe average, not much different form SNB.

On Asrock, but I'll add another 5 to 7K on this with the UD5H/UD3

Again on the Asrock board

I will bench on the UD5/UD3 again with a more appropriate VGA card, 500K I will break

 

[Oj0]

Is that the limit of your IMC? On the 1:12 multiplier you'd be on 1,356 MHz which should help AM3

 

[Gouhan]

Doesn't work like that. It's board/CPU combination, not every CPU will do a specific frequency with a given set of timings, also the RAM comes into it as well as the board.
There's a lot of detail on IB and boards make a huge difference, it's just learning what works best for which board/CPU/Mem combo

 

[Oj0]

I don't doubt you might need to relax the timings for a higher speed, but when I was tweaking for OCL I found timings to matter very little to AM3, on several occasions tightening up even hurt the score. Several of my team mates have commented that 8-10-8 is quicker (on IB) than 8-8-7, for example. Some even found that tRCD needs to be increased to get stability on IB.

 

[Compitum]

Well done...Congrats !!!

What is significant though is that Pre-2012 ASRock would not even have been mentioned in the same breath in SA....with Gigabyte or ASUS
BUT...we brought it to you first ......and now...and I quote
"Compare is with the mighty Asrock Z77 Extreme 6 motherboard. Believe it or not this is the fastest of the lot from Asrock, not the Fatal1ty, not the Extreme 9, but this one as it has not PLX switch chip, no latency overheads and has some special tweaks I like this board a lot and it even matches (and sometimes exceeds) the ASUS Maximus V Gene in 3DMark2001se which is hard believe me."

You never no....the local guys are starting to understand the Power of the ASRocks and your records might be tumbled soon by an ASRock
I am BIASED though...please forgive me

Keep on "Rocking
Christie

 

[DeBunnee]

Sponsor me a board and Ill take Shock on

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[dRweEz]

Nice 6.5Ghz CPU shock, is that one of the local retail chips?

to make this a fair challenge there must be some sort of cap to CPU speed, say 6.2Ghz?

 

[Gouhan]

Christie, I just posted a 140K score on the Asrock Extreme 6, which is actually the fastest 3DMark2001se score in SA ever, and top 40 worldwide (I'll not commit to top 20 cause that'll be gone in a few hours) and believe it or not, #1 using a GTX680 (which is pretty rubbish at this benchmark, spectacularly so)
I'm not using a retail BIOS for this board (Extreme 6) though and it's tuned for 01, hence it can match the MVG. However I maintain to all, the 140K is just a place holder for now until the UD5H is back in action then, we'll see some remarkable scores - It's an insanely difficult board to work with and I'd not recommend it for just regular air clocking if you don't have time, but for the die-hards (when there's time and funds) It's worth every minute when you see it fly.

@dRweEz this is a retail and very local chip, my ES chips have degraded beyond comprehension, actually wait, it's the TIM that's lost its thermal transfer capabilities/cohesion so it'll be impossible for the chip to get lower than say -150 to 155'C regardless of what POT, board or amount of pouring.
I wish the retail was 6.5GHz but it's not sadly, as you've seen with IB there's some behavior that's just counter-intuitive so we need to spend far more time on the platform to get a good feel for what the system can do.
As for the challenge, hmm 6.2 is on the low side let's say 6.3GHz maybe, but I've no 580 so :S either way let do this to put a few Safa's in the top 20.
there are at least 4 capable people here of a top 20 3DM01. Let's get all 4 in

@0jo it's not the memory here that's low, it's just the VGA card being rubbish at this benchmark, easily 10K more on an air 580 at 900MHz

 

[Oj0]

Sponsor me a board and Ill take Shock on

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Whahahahahahaha

ShockG, if you don't come right my offer stands indefinitely

 

[Gouhan]

I won't bench this wknd, again I need to focus and sort out some stuff the other weekend though I'll get it right and hopefully have a 580 ready and a 7970 for AM3 and 03.

 

[DeBunnee]

Sponsor me a board and Ill take Shock on

Whahahahahahaha

Even when I lose I win

 

[xander]

is there still comps going on? would like to run and benchmark my rig for the SA OC.
Might be 1156 socket but it outruns and outclocks i7 3770K procs.

 

[BillyBob]

is there still comps going on? would like to run and benchmark my rig for the SA OC.
Might be 1156 socket but it outruns and outclocks i7 3770K procs.

 

[xander]

Why do people always think ima troll

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[Seeker_ZA]

May 2012. . .

 

[SoloMid]

May 2012. . .

Vivi - Gigabyte UD5H Performance Test + VIDEOS

 

[Oj0]

Why do people always think ima troll

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Tough one, I'm going to go with one of these options:
Cause you dug up a two year old thread
Cause you're trying to pimp LGA1156 in an LGA1155 thread
Cause you think LGA1156 is a faster platform than LGA1155

Personally, I'd go for all of the above.

 

[xander]

Fair enough....but how many procs do you know of that are able to hit the clocks that I get on that socket or even any socket...highest i7 3770k I have seen with my own eyes was on 6 ghz but I hav read ppl get it to 7ghz

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[Oj0]

How many world records do you see held by a slow, high clock speed chip? If clock speeds are everything, I have in my possession a Pentium 4 which is able to post at 8.6 GHz. By your logic, it's FAR better than your LGA1156 chip.

 

[Air]

Why do people always think ima troll

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