Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 Review
by Ian Cutress on December 26, 2011 4:37 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Gigabyte
- X79
- Sandy Bridge E
Unfortunately with our gaming benchmarks, I came up against a small issue with the board. The first PCIe which is rated at x16 would not run in x16 mode, only giving me x8 bandwidth. After confirming with Gigabyte, this seems to be more a manufacturing anomaly than anything else. I was able to use the second x16 slot for single-GPU testing at x16, however dual-GPU testing was limited to x16/x8. Overall, this only really showed in Dirt3, as shown below.
Aliens vs. Predator Benchmark
Aliens vs. Predator is a DirectX 11 science fiction first-person shooter video game, developed by Rebellion Developments. Available as a standalone benchmark, on default settings the benchmark uses 1920x1080 with high AF settings. Results are reported as the average frame rate across 4 runs.
Dirt 3
Dirt 3 is a rallying video game and the third in the Dirt series of the Colin McRae Rally series, developed and published by Codemasters. Using the in game benchmark, Dirt 3 is run at 1920x1080 with full graphical settings. Results are reported as the average frame rate across 4 runs.
Metro2033
Metro 2033 is a challenging DX11 benchmark that challenges every system that tries to run it at any high-end settings. Developed by 4A Games and released in March 2010, we use the inbuilt DirectX 11 Frontline benchmark to test the hardware at 1920x1080 with full graphical settings. Results are given as the average frame rate from 10 runs.
Conclusions
There's nothing much special about the GPU performance, as to be expected.
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Death666Angel - Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - link
But there are those that use X79 as a gaming rig because of it's higher PCIe-lane count. So I see nothing wrong with offering options for everyone. :-)alxnet2003 - Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - link
FWIW, I've been buying up 16GB (2x8GB) sticks of G.Skill from newegg for what I thought was pretty cheap. I've got my ASUS X79 populated with 48GB right now (4x4 and 4x8). What's the point of using 48GB? I do a lot of video editing and x264 encoding. Having a sizable RAM drive really speeds up the editing and muxing process.freedom4556 - Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - link
These have been recalled. Seems the VRM likes to explode while overclocking! Gigabyte owners have two choices, update to a neutered BIOS that will err on the side of caution to protect the weak VRM, or get a replacement board from Gigabyte sometime later down the line.TechPowerUp reports:
http://www.techpowerup.com/157543/Gigabyte-Recalli...
A video of one such incident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detail...
sonci - Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - link
Ha Ha again Gigabyte,I remember my nforce 4sli, one of the mosfet exploded in fire, with not so agressive overclock,
Gigabyte at that times used a dual power board, so I still used my board for some years after the explosion..
vailr - Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - link
How does the "Fresco" USB 3.0 controller on this board compare with the more common NEC/Renesas USB 3.0 controller?Also: when might we see Windows officially support a bootable USB 3.0 external hard drive?
This "rev.1.0" board is still listed for sale at Newegg, even though it has been officially recalled by Gigabyte?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...
Perseides - Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - link
If im not mistaken, is'nt this model of mobo havin some problem with the MOFSET burnin off, n GIGABYTE is recalling them?http://www.gigabyte.tw/press-center/news-page.aspx...
LoosCarl - Sunday, January 1, 2012 - link
Get this GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD3 Motherboard from Amazon: http://cl.lk/21hkxjrsdougal - Monday, January 2, 2012 - link
Looks like the new F7 BIOS does indeed fix thermal issues and improve overclocking.http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Gigabyte-X79-UD3-...
binqq - Friday, January 6, 2012 - link
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