Biostar Hi-Fi Z77X Motherboard Review

1. Introduction2. Biostar Hi-Fi Z77X: Packaging and Bundle3. Biostar H-Fi Z77X: Layout and Features4. Biostar Hi-Fi Z77X: BIOS and Overclocking5. Testing Methodology6. Synthetic: PCMark 77. Synthetic: 3DMark8. Synthetic: 3Dmark 119. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage10. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven11. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra 201312. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.513. Synthetic: Super Pi14. Synthetic: SATA Performance15. Real World: WinRAR16. Real World: MKV Playback17. Real World: Media Encoding18. Gaming: Battlefield 319. Gaming: Call of Duty Black Ops 220. Gaming: DiRT Showdown21. Technical: Power Consumption22. Closing Thoughts23. View All Pages

BIOS

While Biostar have created a UEFI interface for the motherboard, it's not up to the standard of those we've seen from Asus and ASRock in the past.

All of the usual settings are available throughout a series of menus.

All of the overclocking settings we'd usually ask for are present and are fairly easy to find.  However, we would like to see Biostar including an automatic OC option on future models for less experienced users.

Overclocking

We were impressed with the overclocking ability of the Biostar Hi-Fi Z77X.  Achieving an overclock of 4.8 GHz was very simple indeed, requiring us only to bump the voltage to 1.36V and the multiplier to 48x.  We used this setting for our overclocked tests.

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