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Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Z68 review – bargain mobo of the year

To test, we attached a Patriot Wildfire 120GB SSD to ascertain SATA 6Gbps performance.

A very important part of overall system responsiveness is down to hard drive performance. We use two of our favourite benchmark utilities Crystalmark X64 Edition and HD Tach to rate the Samsung SSD from the onboard SATA controller.

One of the best results we have achieved with this particular drive, scoring over 505 MB/s in the sequential read test. Extremely impressive.

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Again, very strong performance results in both read and write tests, peaking around 500 MB/s in the write test and 550MB/s in the read test.

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13 comments

  1. Wow, that might be a ugly looking board, but great performance ! ill direct my friend to this link he was on about a new mobo and system before christmas

  2. Great bargain. I have read an analysis before on x4 and it doesnt really make much difference for a second slot card. maybe 5% lower performance.

  3. It is a bit stripped down, but in the right places. such as not having 12 sata ports etc. who the hell needs all that anyway.

    Shame about the x4 secondary port, but ive looked at the 3dmark results and they seem pretty much on par with 2x x16 slots… very good quality board. I like gigabyte anyway.

  4. They are selling well, most places are sold out. companies need to release more sub £100 b oards like this, huge audience.

    Look at the results for instance. a 2500k and a board like this with cheap ass memory, performs well, and for gaming a 970/980/990x is a total waste of time.

    proved many times. nice article

  5. Gigabyte have good bios recovery systems, always found it with my older P67 board. I moved to asus Z68 and it sometimes craps out. has surprised me to be honest as I know they get the best name overall. ill move back to gigabyte in the next cycle.

  6. We sell 10 of these a week. excellent product. Never used one in Crossfire, so this is a good resource.

  7. I got one two weeks ago, but they are hard to find now in stock

    Ebay sellers have them

  8. Bought it, this week and am very happy. great review thanks.

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  10. Hello Zardon, thank you for the very informative review but I just wanted to ask.

    How did you overclock the Z68AP-D3 without an option to change the Vcore? Which setting do I change to change my Vcore? Right now I have a 2600k and I’m hoping to go at least 4.2Ghz. I’d be really grateful if you’d email or post the solution here.

  11. The maximum selectable multiplier for me with this board is 41x. Is this a limitation of revision 1.0?