Layout

At a first glance the Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H BK is good looking product. The manufacturer decided to go for a combination of black, grey and gold. In fact the PCB is kept in matte black entirely and two DIMM slots as well as a few SATA ports are grey. The coolers received golden writing and additional golden decals. The layout is well thought and there is for example plenty of space around the CPU socket to install large coolers without any issues. The fact that there are SATA connectors which have been angled by 90 degrees allow an easy installation of oversized graphics cards.


The Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H BK comes with a digital 10+2 phase power design. The CPU gets ten phases and the memory can rely on two phases for stable current delivery. As we already mentioned on the features page, this board comes with a digital power design, which is standard these days even with mid-range motherboards.



Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the Z97X-UD5H BK. Officially supported are DDR3 3000(O.C.) / 2933(O.C.) / 2800(O.C.) / 2666(O.C.) / 2600(O.C.) / 2500(O.C.) / 2400(O.C.) / 2200(O.C.) / 2133(O.C.) / 2000(O.C.) / 1866(O.C.) / 1800(O.C.) / 1600 / 1333 MHz. There is engough space between the DIMM-slots and the CPU socket which means that you won't run into issues with large coolers even if you choose to install memory with big heatspreaders. Also supported are Xtreme Memory Profiles (XMP) in version 1.3.



PCH as well as the current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via passive heatsinks. On this particular board Gigabyte chose to connect the two VRM heatsinks with a heatpipe in order to improve heat transfer. On another note it is nice feeling, that this board is actually heavier than average, which is always a good indicator on how serious a manufacturer is about quality.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 14 - SiSoft Sandra 2
Page 2 - Specs and Delivery	Page 15 - UC Bench
Page 3 - Features	Page 16 - Super Pi 1M / 32M
Page 4 - Layout	Page 17 - wPrime 1024M Multi Core
Page 5 - Connectors and I/O	Page 18 - Cinebench
Page 6 - BIOS	Page 19 - Bioshock: Infinite
Page 7 - Test setup	Page 20 - Metro Last Light
Page 8 - Preview / Gallery	Page 21 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 9 - 3D Mark	Page 22 - Power Consumption
Page 10 - 3D Mark 11	Page 23 - Performance Rating
Page 11 - 3D Mark Vantage	Page 24 - Price Comparison
Page 12 - PC Mark 7	Page 25 - Conclusion
Page 13 - SiSoft Sandra 1