Gigabyte P67A-UD4
Published by Michel90 on 08.02.11Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| In our opinion the P67A-UD4 is a very good looking board. The design as well as the layout are definitely good. One thing we very much like is, that when you put a graphics card into the second PCI-Express x16 slot the connectors at the bottom edge of the board won't be covered. Unfortunately there are no practical power and reset buttons on this board. There is also no clear-CMOS button, all you can find is an old-school clear-CMOS jumper. | -
Design - Layout |
- No onboard Power/Reset/CLR-CMOS buttons | |
| Layout | + | - | |
| Generally the Gigabyte P67A-UD4s layout is very well thought. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors. Furthermore the placement of the PCI-Express x16 slots is well thought too and therefore nothing needs to be criticized at this point. We already mentioned that we'd like to see power and reset buttons on this board. Looking at the boards price and the market segment it's aiming for it is understandable why there is no debug led but this would also have been a nice addition. | - Angled SATA connectors - Connectors a the bottom edge accessible in any case | ||
| Performance | + | - | |
| Depending on the benchmarkt the Gigabyte P67A-UD4s performance is ranges from good to very good. Especially in the Futuremark tests this board was even quicker then Gigabytes flagship the P67A-UD7. Looking at the memory benchmarks we see that it's again fighting with the UD7 but this time in the center span of our comparison tables. Looking at the the 2D benchmarks as well as at the game tests we can see where it doesn't perform very well. Hopefully Gigabyte will be able to squeeze some more performance out of this board with upcoming BIOS updates. | - Futuremark | - Games - 2D Benchmarks |
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| Overclocking | + | - | |
| If we look at the Gigabyte P67A-UD4 from an overclockers perspective we see that it comes with everything an overclocker need to adequately tweak a recent Sandy Bridge CPU. The BIOS comes with a lot of settings and without a lot of effort one can push a decent CPU easily to 5 GHz on air. Again the maximum CPU speed was 5.2 GHz and we unfortunately suspect that this is the maximum our test CPU is able to achieve. What we really like is the Dual-BIOS-Protection functionality. This features works absolutely perfect. You can enter what ever settings you like and if it doesn't work the BIOS automatically loads a backup. | - Easy Tune 6 - Power/Reset Button - Dual-BIOS Protection |
- No EFI BIOS | |
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| Generally we can recommend the Gigabyte P67A-UD4 to PC gamer and people who are looking for a stable platform that doesn't offer too much nor too less. | -
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Author: m.salathe@ocaholic.ch Copy edited and translated: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch c.ney@ocaholic.ch
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