Review: Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3
Published by Marc Büchel on 26.01.12Fazit
| Allgemein | + | - | |
| The GA-X79-UD3 is the second board from Gigabyte that has been developped with overclocking in mind. Form an optical point of view this thing really looks great. We like the black and orange design. It's kind of aggressiv but still the colors suite nicely, especially on the matte black PCB. Because Gigabyte decided to make use of an XL-ATX PCB there is plenty of space to arrange all the different components and chips very well. On the other hand you'll have to check if this board really fits into your case if you should be thinking about buying this thing. What we also like very much is the delivery. There even is a Quad-SLI-Bridge. Furhtermore Gigabyte even put a WiFi PCI card into the box which can also handle Bluetooth 4.0 and comes with two additional antennas. | -
Design - Layout - 4 x PCI Express x16 Slot - 10 SATA Ports |
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| Layout | + | - | |
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Generally the Gigabyte
GA-X79-UD3s Layout has been very well thought. Once more practical are
the angled SATA connectors. Unfortunately there are no power- and reset-buttons.
Furhtermore there is also no debug display which might be very useful in case you should
have issues with a component in your system or the board itself. On the
other hand you find a total of four PCI Express x16 slots (x16 / x8 /
x16 / x |
- Angled SATA connectors - Space around the CPU socket |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| Regarding our 2D benchmarks selection the Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 ranges in the upper center span of our comparison tables. When running our 3D Benchmarks this board is able to score even better. It outperformed all the other contenders and scored first. The only performance glitches we saw in PCMark 7 total score. In all the other benchmarks the scores were at least good. | -
Memory Bandwidth - 3DMark 11 Physix - 3DMark Vantage CPU |
- PCMark 7 | |
| Power Consumption | + | - | |
With a power consumption of 140 Watts under idle condition for the entire system the GA-X79-UD3 almost gets a top position in our comparison tables. You can see the exact same behaviour under load conditions. There is almost a top position for this board. Finally there is our performance per watt (efficiency) ratio. Knowning all the other results it's a small wonder that you find this board in the center span of our comparison tables. |
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| Recommendation | + | - | |
| The Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 is an excellent allrounder. We can recommend this motherboard to gamers, overclockers as well as enthusiasts. The UD3 really does a great job in every PC. On top of all that this board only costs CHF 236.- (est. EUR 197.-). | -
Enthusiasts - High-End PC - Gaming System - Overclocking |
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| Rating | |||
| We give the Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 gets very good five out of five stars. | |||
. The last of these slots also is the last expansion slot
onboard. This means, if you should plan to install a dual slot GPU in
this slot, then the connectors at the bottom edge of the board will be
inaccessible. 
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