Review: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB WiFi

Published by Marc Büchel on 19.06.12
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Conclusion

Allgemein   + -
The Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H-WB WiFi leaves a good impression and so far we really like it. Opening the box shows a good delivery. There really is everything you need. With the WiFi card there even is a nice addition which enables wireless connectivity. Generally this is a nice looking board which also comes with many overclocking features. There are for example voltage readout point, power, reset and CLR COMS button. Overall this is a really versatile board.   - Layout
- Bundle
- Design
 
       
Layout   + -

Generally the Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H-WB WiFi has been very well thought regarding the layout. You will find everything that is practical and useful like for example reset/power/clear_cmos buttons as well as a BIOS switch, voltage reading points, a Debug LED Post Code display. Once more practical are also the angled SATA connectors and finally one legacy PCI slot which can still be very useful nowadays. Furthermore we found two PCI Express x1 slots below the first full size PCI Express slot. If you should think about an SLI or CrossFire setup the cards will be well ventilated.

  - SLI/CrossFireX
- Onboard buttons - Debug LED Post Code
- Voltage reading points - Legacy PCI
- HDMI/VGA/DVI/DisplayPort
- no PS/2
       
Performance   + -
With the Z77X-UD5H-WB WiFi, Gigabyte has a motherboard in its portfolio, which shows very solid benchmark results. The performance was very good concerning 3D Mark Vantage and Streetfighter. Furthermore there are no performance glitches, which is makes this board perform consitently in a wide variety of benchmarks. A closer look at the power consumption on the other hand shows that this is a board with a lot of features onboard. High power consumption is typical for motherboards with many features. Therefore it is no surprise that you can find this board almost at the bottom of our comparison tables when it comes to power consumption.   - 3D Mark Vantage
- StreetFighter
 
       
BIOS / Overclocking   + -
Also in the overclocking part the Z77X-UD5H-WB WiFi was a very convincing product. Therefore it's been childrens play to reach the clock wall of our test CPU. Furthermore the UEFI BIOS is very easy to use and one can quickly find the settings needed. Gigabyte really made it's homework and nowadays usability is very good. Also compared to the competition. Gigabyte chose an individual approach and in our opinion, they succeeded.   - Well structured BIOS - UEFI-BIOS  
       
Recommendation   + -
If you want to build a end comptuer or a gaming system, which is based on Intels Ivy Bridge CPU then the Z77X-UD5H-WB WiFi is definitely a good choice.   - High-End
- Gaming
- Overclocking
 
       
Rating
We give the Z77X-UD5H-WB WiFi good four out of five stars.



Page 1 - Introduction Page 11 - SiSoft Sandra 1
Page 2 - Specifications / Delivery Page 12 - SiSoft Sandra 2
Page 3 - Layout Page 13 - UC Bench
Page 4 - Connectors and I/O Page 14 - Super Pi 1M / 32M
Page 5 - BIOS Page 15 - wPrime 1024M Multi Core
Page 6 - Test setup Page 16 - Games
Page 7 - 3D Mark 11 Page 17 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - 3D Mark Vantage Page 18 - Performance Rating
Page 9 - 3D Mark 2001 SE Page 19 - Conclusion
Page 10 - PC Mark 7  


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