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

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell June 12, 2012 Featured Announcement, Motherboard

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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9 comments

Joseph Rha
June 12, 2012 at 1:52 pm

shall have to pick one of these up. how come scan have such a low price compared to everyone else in the UK?
Davis
June 12, 2012 at 1:54 pm

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?
Ernie
June 12, 2012 at 4:25 pm

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