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

Handbrake is a fantastic free program which we wanted to include to confirm findings with Media Espresso, earlier in the review. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

We used the latest V 0.9.5 for testing today across all platforms. We encoded an DVD.MPG file.

The system takes 4 minutes and 50 seconds to complete the task, which is around 4 seconds faster than the Core i7 2600k clocked at 4.8ghz.

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9 comments

  1. shall have to pick one of these up. how come scan have such a low price compared to everyone else in the UK?

  2. Wow that is impressive for such a cheap board. I was contemplating sticking a 120mm fan over my 920 Antec cooler for this board. just so the surrounding componetns get some cooling. What do you think? good idea?

  3. Good value, but id aim a bit higher for more connectivity. oc is good, but gigabyte are always good for ocing