Legit Motherboard Reviews
GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H WiFi & GA-Z77X-UD3H Motherboard Reviews
| Manufacturer: | Gigabyte |
| Product: | Z77 Boards |
| Date: | Sun, Apr 08, 2012 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Dan Stoltz - |
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System Power Consumption
Since power consumption is a big deal these days, we ran some simple power consumption tests on our test beds. The systems ran with the power supplies, case fans, video cards and hard drives. To measure idle usage, we ran the system at idle for one hour on the desktop with no screen saver and took the measurement. For load measurements, Prime95's in-place large FFT's were run on all cores to make sure each and every processor was at 100% load for maximum power consumption and heat. Curious about real world scenarios, we decided to drop Furmark and ran 3DMark 11 on the performance preset and took the maximum power consumption during the first GPU test.
Benchmark Results: The power consumptions of the GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H WiFi was significantly lower than that of the Z77X-UD3H during the time in Prime95. What we noticed was the Z77X-UD5 runs at 3.5GHz under a full load and the Z77X-UD3H runs at 3.8GHz under a full load. All of the Intel Z77 motherboards had lower power consumption across the board than the ASUS Z68 motherboard though. At Idle, the GIGABYTE Z77X-UD3H was sipping power at only 65 Watts and under the synthetic gaming load it was pulling 192 Watts. The GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H pulled slightly more at idle with 75 Watts, and in 3DMark 11 it pulled a peak of 199 Watts.
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| Review Index |
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Page 1 - Intel Z77 Express Chipset Heads into the Wild
Page 2 - GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H WiFi Retail Packaging Page 3 - GIGABYTE Z77X-UD3H Retail Packaging Page 4 - GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H WiFi Motherboard Layout Page 5 - GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD3H Motherboard Layout Page 6 - The Legit Reviews Test System Page 7 - SiSoftware Sandra 2012 Sp2 Memory Bandwidth Benchmark Page 8 - Futuremark 3DMark11 DirectX 11 Gaming Benchmark Page 9 - Battlefield 3 Performance Benchmark Page 10 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer Performance Page 11 - Intel Z77 SATA III 6Gbps Performance Page 12 - Intel Z77 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Page 13 - System Power Consumption Page 14 - Overclocking the GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H WiFi Page 15 - Overclocking the GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD3H Page 16 - GIGABYTE GA-Z77X Overclocking Results Page 17 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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