Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Motherboard – packs a punch at £80

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Motherboard3. Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Motherboard (Super High Res Gallery)4. Bios and Overclocking5. Testing Methodology6. Synthetic: PCMark 77. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage8. Synthetic: 3DMark 119. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark10. Synthetic: HQV Benchmark 2.011. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra 201112. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.5 64 bit13. Synthetic: SSD Performance14. Real World: 3D Rendering15. Real World: Media Encoding16. Real World: HandBrake 9.517. Gaming: F1 201118. Gaming: Alien V Predator19. Gaming: Dirt Showdown20. Gaming: Max Payne 321. Closing Thoughts22. View All Pages

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0 x64.

Strangely, the SSD performance wasn't quite as good as we would have expected, with sequential read speeds around 150MB/s lower than the UD5H motherboard we reviewed at the start of May. We reinstalled the operating system and all drivers to confirm, but this was the best we could get from the Patriot Wildfire 240GB drive. It could possibly be a driver glitch on some level, but we were unable to resolve the performance drop before going to publication.

Atto Disk Benchmark mirrors the results above, with a 420 MB/s peak from sequential write, and 350 MB/s peak from sequential read. Not really noticeable in the real world, but slightly worse than the Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H results from the SATA 6Gbps ports.

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