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GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R (Rev. 2.0) Motherboard Review

Manufacturer: Gigabyte
Product: GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R (Rev. 2.0)
Date: Fri, Nov 26, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Alton Engelman -
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Overclocking the GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R (Rev. 2.0)


GIGABYTE X58A-UD3R CPU-Z

Judging on looks and features alone, the GIGABYTE X58A-UD3R has great potential to be a nice overclocker. While I am no expert at it, I'm no novice at overclocking either. Also, remember that no two pieces of hardware will perform the same.

GIGABYTE X58A-UD3R Overclocked CPU-Z

Honestly, as easy as it is to overclock a CPU on this board, it left me wanting more. As far as stability goes, anything over 180 on the BCLK was a no-go when booting into Windows. Raising voltages didn't do the trick either. I even tried lowering the memory speeds at 200 on the BCLK but to no avail I couldn't get it to be stable.

I will give it the benefit of the doubt that the reason I couldn't go beyond a stable 3.4 Ghz could be that I'm using the C0 stepping of the i7 920 CPU which has been known to be a little finicky or it could maybe even the review sample of the GIGABYTE X58A-UD3R we were given. 3.6 Ghz was do-able but oddly wasn't completely stable on the X58A-UD3R. For a $200 motherboard, 800 Mhz is not a bad overclock at all but I can't say I wasn't able to boot into Windows at higher speeds on the Rampage II Extreme with the same CPU.

Next Page - Final Thoughts and Conclusion


Review Index
Page 1 - The GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R (Rev. 2.0)
Page 2 - GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R (Rev. 2.0) Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R (Rev. 2.0) Board Layout
Page 4 - GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R (Rev. 2.0) Bios Images
Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System
Page 6 - PCMark Vantage
Page 7 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 8 - SiSoft Sandra 2010 Memory Bandwidth
Page 9 - SATA 3 (6Gbps) Testing
Page 10 - Aliens vs Predator Benchmark 1.03
Page 11 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - Overclocking the GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R (Rev. 2.0)
Page 13 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion