Review: Biostar TZ77XE4 T Overclocker - Ivy Bridge
Category : Z77
Published by Marc Büchel on 09.05.12
Biostar is one of the underdogs in the motherboard industry. Nevertheless they have some interesting motherboards based on Intels brand new Z77 chipset in their portfolio. In the following article we're going to take a closer look at the TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker. We're going to check out its feature and analyze performance. 
On the following pages we will show you what the Biostar TZ77XE T Overclocker is capable of.
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Specifications / Delivery
| CPU | Intel Socket 1155 for 3rd/2nd Generation Processors |
| Chipset | Intel Z77 |
| Memory | 4 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR3 MHz Memory |
| Multi-GPU | Supports NVIDIA SLI Technology Supports AMD CrossFireX Technology Supports Lucid Virtu MVP |
| Slots | 2 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode, black) 1 x PCIe 2.0 x1 |
| Audio | Realtek ALC898, 7.1 Channel |
| Storage | 2 x SATA 6 Gb/s port (Intel RAID 0, 1, 5, 10) 4 x SATA 3 Gb/s port (Intel RAID 0, 1, 5, 10) 2 x SATA 6 Gb/s port (ASMedia 1061) 1 x eSATA 6 Gb/s port (ASMedia 1061) |
| LAN | 1 x Realtek RTL 8111E |
| I/O internal / Connectors | |
| I/O external | |
| Formfactor | ATX (30.5 cm x 24.4 cm) |
| BIOS | 64Mb Flash ROM, UEFI AMI BIOS GUI |
| Warranty | 3 years (5 years by region) |
Accessories
Features
| T-Series UEFI BIOS | Biostar also equips their motherboards with graphical UEFI BIOS. The interface is well structured and allows quick navigation. |
| T-Overclocker | With T-Overclocker you get a Windows based software, which can be used to overclock the system once windows has already booted. For this purpose you get for example OC presets which can be loaded to quickly and easily reach higher clock speeds. Furthermore the fans can also be adjusted too via this software. |
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Layout
The TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker with a black PCB and black expansion slots. Southbridge cooler as well as the coolers on the current converters get an orange cover which really looks nice and gives this board an individual touch. Furthermore we like that there are only those three orange spots on the board. Like this the board comes with a calm design, which is still unique.
Biostar equipped their latest TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker motherboard with a 13 phase VRM design. This really is enough even for overclocking. In a later stage we will check what this board is capable of regarding extreme overclocking.
Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the Biostar TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker and it supports DDR3 2600 (OC) / 2400 (OC) / 2133 (OC) / 1866 (OC) / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 MHz.
The current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via a passive heatpipe cooling solution. There are two separate cooling blocks covering the area which are connected via a heatpipe. The southbridge got a cooling block too, which has not been integrated into the heatpipe loop of the VRM. The fact that the cooling blocks around the CPU socket aren't too big makes it comfortable to install a big aircooler. We also noticed the very high manufacturing quality of the cooling blocks.
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Connectors and I/O
Totally Biostar equipped the TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker with eight angled SATA ports which should be enough for any office PC or gaming system. There are also practical onboard power- and reset-buttons. Biostar also equipped the TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker with a debug display which is very useful if you should once have issues with one of the components in your system. It is quite common that the last PCI-Express x16 slot is also the expansion slot is the closest to the bottom edge of the board. That has the consequence that the connectors at this place aren't accessible anymore. The TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker is no exception in this case. On the other hand there is two slots of space between the first and the second full size PCI Express port. This means that an SLI setup will be very well ventilated.
Totally you'll find only three fan headers on the Biostar TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker which isn't much. Especially for a high-end system more fan headers will be needed. The absolute minimum in this case are four fan headers. One of the connectors is on the right side above the CPU and the other two can be found at the bottom edge of the board. On the other hand practical is the fact, that the fans rotation speed can be controled via the BIOS or via a software.
Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel Biostar equipped the TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker with two USB 3.0/2.0 ports, four USB 2.0 port, one eSATA 6 Gbps ports, one gigabit ethernet port, an analogue audio panel, an HDMI port, a VGA connector and a DisplayPort connector.
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BIOS
What you're meanwhile getting with every single board is the feature to save and afterwards reload different BIOS profiles. Generally Biostar succeeded in creating a well structured BIOS. The UEFI BIOS awaits you with a graphical user interface, throughout which you can navigate using not only your keyboard but also your mouse. At this stage we're hoping that Biostar is going to improve the looks a bit. We like the icons in the dock but the menus and the colors don't look really nice. If you click the "O.N.E." button you see all the different overclocking settings which make it easy to overclock.
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Test setup
Hardware |
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| Processor | Intel Core i7-3770K, 3.5 GHz |
| Memory | 4 Gigabyte Kingston H2O KHX2133 @ 1600 MHz CL8-8-8-24 |
| Graphic card | ASUS ENGTX 580 |
| Driver | Version 275.33 |
| Hard disk | Samsung Spinpoint F1 320 GByte |
| Power supply | bequiet! Dark Power Pro 1000Watt |
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3D Mark
3D Mark11
3DMark 11 is Futuremarks latest benchmark for the entire graphical subsystem. The benchmark uses DirectX 11 and it supports all recent features which can possibly generate high load on a GPU. Therefore you find tessellation, compute shader calculations, divers lighting effects and different depth of filed animations. Following we publish values regarding the performance preset of 3DMark 11.
Total
| 3D Mark 11 Total | Percent | |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 6'666 | 100.03 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 6'664 | 100.00 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 6'664 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 6'663 | 99.98 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 6'663 | 99.98 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 6'662 | 99.97 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 6'660 | 99.94 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 6'656 | 99.88 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 6'655 | 99.86 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 6'587 | 99.84 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 6'649 | 99.77 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 6'639 | 99.62 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 6'568 | 95.56 % |
| more is better | ||
Physic
| 3D Mark 11 CPU Score | Percent | |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 9'446 | 101.22 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 9'446 | 101.22 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 9'426 | 101.01 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 9'414 | 100.88 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 9'412 | 100.86 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 9'376 | 100.47 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 9'396 | 100.69 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 9'354 | 100.23 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 9'347 | 100.16 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 9'332 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 9'324 | 99.91 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 9'246 | 99.08 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 9'081 | 97.31 % |
| more is better | ||
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3D Mark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is able to squeeze a lot out of a recent system. Therefore the feature liste is also pretty long: DirectX10, FP16-HDR, motion blur, parallax occlusion mapping, GPU-physics simulation and different shader effects are being used to even make recent high-end systems struggle.
Total
| 3D Mark Vantage Total | Percent | |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 26'270 | 100.81 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 26'254 | 100.75 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 26'229 | 100.66 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 26'255 | 100.76 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 26'136 | 100.30 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 26'123 | 100.25 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 26'088 | 100.12 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 26'084 | 100.10 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 26'059 | 100.00 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 26'058 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 25'994 | 99.75 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 25'929 | 99.50 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 25'633 | 98.37 % |
| more is better | ||
CPU
| 3D Mark Vantage CPU | Percent | |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 25'383 | 101.10 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 25'378 | 101.08 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 25'354 | 100.98 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 25'327 | 100.87 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 25'300 | 100.76 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 25'290 | 100.72 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 25'255 | 100.59 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 25'168 | 100.24 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 25'108 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 25'100 | 99.97 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 25'067 | 99.84 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 25'054 | 99.78 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 25'034 | 99.71 % |
| more is better | ||
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3D Mark 2001
| 3D Mark 2001 | Percent | |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 61'335 | 101.86 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 60'998 | 101.30 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 60'947 | 101.21 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 60'607 | 100.65 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 60'360 | 100.24 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 60'359 | 100.24 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 60'216 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 60'026 | 99.68 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 59'875 | 99.43 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 59'762 | 99.25 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 59'743 | 99.21 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 59'623 | 99.02 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 59'255 | 98.40 % |
| more is better | ||
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PC Mark 07
3DMark 11 is Futuremarks latest benchmark for the entire graphical subsystem. The benchmark uses DirectX 11 and it supports all recent features which can possibly generate high load on a GPU. Therefore you find tessellation, compute shader calculations, divers lighting effects and different depth of filed animations. Following we publish values regarding the performance preset of 3DMark 11.
Total
| PC Mark 07 Total | Percent | |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 5'336 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 5'328 | 99.85 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 5'322 | 99.74 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 5'318 | 99.66 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 5'318 | 99.66 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 5'251 | 98.41 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 5'241 | 98.22 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 5'240 | 98.20 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 5'235 | 98.11 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 5'223 | 97.88 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 5'209 | 97.62 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 5'208 | 97.60 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 5'201 | 97.47 % |
| more is better | ||
| Video playback and transcoding / Video playback | fps | Percent |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 23.13 | 100.00 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 23.12 | 99.56 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 23.12 | 99.56 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 23.11 | 99.91 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 23.11 | 99.91 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 23.11 | 99.91 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 23.11 | 99.91 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 23.10 | 99.87 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 23.10 | 99.87 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 23.10 | 99.87 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 23.10 | 99.87 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 23.10 | 99.87 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 23.10 | 99.87 % |
| more is better | ||
| Graphics - DirectX 9 / Graphics - DirectX 9 | fps | Percent |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 90.71 | 101.45 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 90.50 | 101.22 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 90.32 | 101.02 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 90.39 | 101.10 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 90.11 | 100.78 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 90.09 | 100.76 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 89.93 | 100.58 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 89.59 | 100.20 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 89.41 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 89.30 | 99.88 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 88.77 | 99.28 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 88.43 | 99.03 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 88.29 | 98.75 % |
| more is better | ||
| Image manipulation / Image manipulation | Mpx/s | Percent |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 11.83 | 100.51 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 11.83 | 100.51 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 11.83 | 100.51 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 11.81 | 100.51 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 11.79 | 100.17 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 11.78 | 100.08 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 11.78 | 100.08 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 11.77 | 100.00 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 11.77 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 11.76 | 99.92 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 11.76 | 99.92 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 11.74 | 99.75 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 11.72 | 99.58 % |
| more is better | ||
| Web browsing and decrypting / Web browsing | Pages/s | Percent |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 18.19 | 100.94 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 18.13 | 100.72 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 18.07 | 100.27 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 18.04 | 100.11 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 18.03 | 100.06 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 18.02 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 17.99 | 99.83 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 17.95 | 99.61 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 17.93 | 99.50 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 17.92 | 99.45 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 17.91 | 99.39 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 17.83 | 98.95 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 17.74 | 98.45 % |
| more is better | ||
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SiSoft Sandra 1
SiSoft Sandra is a theoretical multi purpose benchmark suite which is able to show differences in CPU architectures. We split the tests with SiSoft Sandra into two parts. Therefore on this page you'll find Arithmetic-, Multimedia- and Cryptograph99y-benchmarks.
Arithmetic Benchmark
| SiSoft Sandra - Arithmetic Benchmark - Dhrystone | GIPS | Percent |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 116.00 | 101.05 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 116.00 | 101.05 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 115.77 | 100.85 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 115.61 | 100.71 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 115.50 | 100.62 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 115.42 | 100.55 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 115.30 | 100.44 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 115.24 | 100.39 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 115.22 | 100.37 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 115.26 | 100.41 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 115.00 | 100.18 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 114.79 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 114.37 | 99.63 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Arithmetic Benchmark - Whetstone | GFLOPS | Percent |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 88.89 | 100.49 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 88.78 | 100.36 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 88.62 | 100.18 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 88.52 | 100.07 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I | 88.50 | 100.45 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 88.47 | 100.01 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 88.46 | 100.00 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 88.22 | 99.73 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 88.18 | 99.68 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 88.00 | 99.48 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 88.00 | 99.48 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 87.82 | 99.28 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 87.80 | 99.25 % |
| more is better | ||
Multimedia
| SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - Integer | MPixels/sec | Percent |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 212.26 | 100.91 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 212.09 | 100.83 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 212.00 | 100.78 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 211.62 | 100.60 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 211.29 | 100.45 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 211.27 | 100.44 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 211.13 | 100.37 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 211.00 | 100.31 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 210.88 | 100.25 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 210.74 | 100.19 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 210.63 | 100.13 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 210.38 | 100.01 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 210.35 | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - Floating Point | MPixels/sec | Percent |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 297.67 | 100.95 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 297.10 | 100.76 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 297.10 | 100.76 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 296.85 | 100.67 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 296.59 | 100.58 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 296.14 | 100.43 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 296.00 | 100.38 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 295.88 | 100.34 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I | 295.50 | 100.21 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 295.48 | 100.21 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 294.90 | 100.01 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 294.87 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 294.79 | 99.97 % |
| more is better | ||
Crytography
| SiSoft Sandra - Crytography - AES 256 | GB/sec | Percent |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 7.12 | 101.71 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 7.11 | 101.57 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 7.11 | 101.57 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 7.08 | 101.14 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 7.07 | 101.00 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 7.00 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 7.00 | 100.00 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 7.00 | 100.00 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 7.00 | 100.00 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 7.00 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 7.00 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 7.00 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 6.20 | 88.57 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Crytography - SHA 256 | MB/sec | Percent |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 1.21 | 100.83 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 1.20 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 1.20 | 100.00 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 1.20 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 1.20 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 1.20 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 1.20 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 1.20 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 1.20 | 100.00 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 1.20 | 100.00 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 1.20 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 1.20 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 1.20 | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
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SiSoft Sandra 2
At this point we deliver the values regarding Memory Bandwidth, Memory Latency as well as Memory and Cache Access.
Memory bandwidth
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory bandwidth - Integer | GB/sec | Percent |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 22.07 | 101.01 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 22.00 | 100.69 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 22.00 | 100.69 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 22.00 | 100.69 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 21.92 | 100.32 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 21.87 | 100.09 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 21.85 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 21.83 | 99.91 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 21.82 | 99.86 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 21.81 | 99.82 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 21.78 | 99.68 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 21.76 | 99.58 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 19.20 | 87.87 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory bandwidth - floating point | GB/sec | Percent |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 22.00 | 100.73 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 22.00 | 100.73 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 22.00 | 100.73 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 22.00 | 100.73 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 21.92 | 100.37 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 21.90 | 100.27 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 21.87 | 100.14 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 21.84 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 21.83 | 99.95 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 21.82 | 99.91 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 21.81 | 99.86 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 21.79 | 99.77 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 19.20 | 87.91 % |
| more is better | ||
Memory latency
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory latency | ns | Percent |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 21.4 | 100.00 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 21.4 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 21.5 | 99.53 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 21.5 | 99.53 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 22.3 | 95.96 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 23.1 | 92.64 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 23.1 | 92.64 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 23.9 | 89.54 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 23.9 | 89.54 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 23.9 | 89.54 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 23.9 | 89.54 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 25.6 | 83.59 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 26.0 | 82.31 % |
| less is better | ||
Memory and cache access
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory and cache access | GB/sec | Percent |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 120.49 | 101.01 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 120.31 | 100.86 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 120.15 | 100.73 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 119.68 | 100.34 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 119.65 | 100.31 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 119.56 | 100.23 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 119.39 | 100.09 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 119.33 | 100.04 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 119.28 | 100.00 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 119.24 | 99.97 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 118.89 | 99.67 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 118.52 | 99.36 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 114.40 | 95.91 % |
| more is better | ||
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UC Bench
| UC Bench | PW/sec | Percent |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 889.9 | 100.74 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 889.8 | 100.72 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 889.7 | 100.71 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 889.1 | 100.65 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 887.9 | 100.51 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 885.0 | 100.18 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 885.0 | 100.18 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 884.8 | 100.16 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 884.8 | 100.16 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 884.8 | 100.16 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 883.4 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 882.6 | 99.91 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 882.5 | 99.90 % |
| more is better | ||
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Super Pi 1M - 32M
Meanwhile Super Pi even in its latest version has become pretty old. Never the less it is able to show scaling to the clock speed nicely.
Super Pi 1M
| Super Pi 1.5 XS - 1M | sec | Percent |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 10.327 | 100.76 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 10.329 | 100.75 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 10.359 | 100.45 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 10.374 | 100.31 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 10.374 | 100.31 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 10.374 | 100.31 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 10.390 | 100.15 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 10.390 | 100.15 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 10.405 | 100.01 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 10.406 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 10.406 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 10.420 | 99.87 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 10.467 | 99.42 % |
| less is better | more is better |
Super Pi 32M
| Super Pi 1.5 XS - 32M | sec | Percent |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 559.714 | 100.86 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 559.853 | 100.83 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 560.384 | 100.74 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 560.868 | 100.65 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 561.071 | 100.61 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 562.257 | 100.40 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 562.771 | 100.31 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 562.959 | 100.27 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 564.503 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 564.643 | 99.98 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 564.648 | 99.97 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 566.187 | 99.70 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I | 571.429 | 98.79 % |
| less is better | more is better |
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wPrime 1024M Multicore
wPrime is based on a multithreaded algorithm to calculate the square root to up to 32 billion digits. Therefore it is possible to put 100 percent load on every core or thread and to see differences between architectures.| wPrime - 1024M Multi Core | sec | Percent |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 210.100 | 100.74 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 210.066 | 100.76 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 210.212 | 100.69 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 210.334 | 100.63 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 210.690 | 100.46 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 211.134 | 100.25 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 211.162 | 100.24 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 211.176 | 100.23 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 211.394 | 100.13 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 211.659 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 211.992 | 99.84 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 212.099 | 99.79 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 214.123 | 98.85 % |
| less is better | more is better |
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Games
Crysis 800 x 600, low details
Crysis is still one of the games which has very high system requirements. Therefore developer Crytek implemented Direct3D-10-API, High-Dynamic-Range-Rendering, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Soft Shadows, Motion Blur, Depth of Field as well as Soft Particles. We test Crysis by using DirectX9 to show CPU-sacaling especially which low resolutions. If we look at the high resolutions we are able to spot that the CPUs influence compared to the graphic card becomes much less important.
| Crysis DirectX10 (800 x 600 low details) | fps | Percent |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 179.14 | 107.71 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 173.23 | 104.15 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 167.32 | 100.60 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 167.05 | 100.44 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 166.32 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 165.97 | 99.79 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 165.66 | 99.60 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 165.00 | 99.21 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 163.91 | 98.55 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 162.97 | 97.99 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 162.32 | 97.59 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 162.20 | 97.52 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 160.72 | 96.63 % |
| more is better | ||
Resident Evil 800 x 600, low details
Resident Evil uses nearly every modern rendering technology: HDR, Hemisphere Lighting, Soft Shadows, Soft Particles, Field- und Motion-Blur oder auch Alpha to Coverage and static Ambient Occlusion. Furthermore Resident Evil 5 has been optimized for multicore architectures and already comes DirectX11 ready. By using the DirectX9 benchmark we can again show CPU-scaling with low resolutions and the compared to the CPU overproportional influence of the graphics card at high resolutions.
| Resident Evil DirectX10 (800 x 600 low details) | fps | Percent |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 221.4 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 219.5 | 99.14 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 218.7 | 98.78 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 218.5 | 98.69 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 217.7 | 98.33 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 215.7 | 97.43 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 215.7 | 97.43 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 215.7 | 97.43 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 213.2 | 96.30 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 212.6 | 96.03 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 211.9 | 95.71 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 211.6 | 95.57 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 207.2 | 93.59 % |
| more is better | ||
Street Fighter 4 800 x 600, low details
Street Fighter 4 comes with an extra benchmark version which makes testing you system childrens play. At low resolutions the system requirements are pretty low and we can see CPU-scaling in the results. At high resolution the graphic card becomes more important and the CPUs clock speed has less influence on the fps.
| Street Fighter 4 (800 x 600 low details) | fps | Percent |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 832.85 | 106.43 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 806.81 | 103.11 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 803.92 | 102.74 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 802.43 | 102.55 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 802.37 | 102.54 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 801.05 | 102.37 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 797.67 | 101.94 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 795.52 | 101.66 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 789.76 | 100.93 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 783.26 | 100.10 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 782.50 | 100.00 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 780.76 | 99.78 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 766.45 | 97.95 % |
| more is better | ||
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Power Consumption
Idle
| Idle | Watt | Percent |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 84 | 123.81 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 90 | 115.56 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 93 | 111.83 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 94 | 110.64 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 96 | 108.33 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 98 | 106.12 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 98 | 106.12 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 100 | 104.00 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 101 | 102.97 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 102 | 101.96 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 104 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 110 | 94.55 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 114 | 91.23 % |
| more is better | more is better |
Load
| Load | Watt | Percent |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 136 | 108.82 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 137 | 108.03 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 138 | 107.25 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 138 | 107.25 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 142 | 104.23 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 144 | 102.78 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 145 | 102.07 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 146 | 101.37 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 147 | 100.68 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 148 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 149 | 99.33 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 151 | 98.01 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 155 | 95.48 % |
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Performance Rating
| 3D and Gaming Benchmarks | Percent |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 101.10 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 100.40 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 100.28 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 100.21 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 100.21 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 100.13 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 100.01 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 99.96 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 99.27 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 99.19 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 99.15 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 98.97 % |
| more is better |
| 2D Benchmarks | Percent |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 100.11 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 100.05 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 100.04 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 100.02 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 100.00 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 99.92 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 99.83 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 99.80 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 99.78 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 99.57 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 99.27 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 99.21 % |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 96.67 % |
| more is better |
| Performance per Watt | Percent |
| ASUS P8H77-I | 119.76 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe | 113.75 % |
| ASUS P8H77-M LE/SI | 108.98 % |
| ASRock Z77 Extreme6 | 107.62 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V | 107.51 % |
| Biostar TZ77XE4 TOverclocker | 104.97 % |
| Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H | 103.78 % |
| ASUS Maximus V Gene | 102.55 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth Z77 | 102.52 % |
| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe | 101.14 % |
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H | 96.63 % |
| Gigabyte Z77 G1.Sniper 3 | 93.80 % |
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Conclusion
| Allgemein | + | - | |
| The TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker generally is an interesting board. In combination with a down-draft CPU cooler this motherboard will be cooled very efficiently. This will, as a consequence, extend the components lifespan. With the "Thermal Radar" the TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker offers good possibilities to control the temperatures and airflow in your case. Using the corresponding software one can control the fans connected to the board and therefore realize highly efficient cooling. | - Design | - Only 3 fan header | |
| Layout | + | - | |
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Generally the ASUS TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker s layout is well thought. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors. There are also practical power/reset buttons onboard as well as a debug LED. Unfortunately the last expansion slots is a full size PCI Express port, which means that if you choose to install a dual slots graphics card at this place you're going to cover the connectors at the bottom edge of the board. On the other hand there are two slots between the PCIe-x16 slots which means that an SLI or CrossFire setup will get a perfect environment when it comes to cooling. |
- Angled SATA connectors - Two slots between first two PCIe-x16 slots - Power/Reset/Clr-CMOS Button | ||
| Performance | + | - | |
| A quick look at our overall rankings shows that the Biostar board is on the second to last spot in our comparison tables. Regarding 2D performance we find it in the center span of our comparison tabels. Basically you can see that Biostar would really have to optimize performance of this board to reach the same level like the big brand in the business. In quite a few 3D benches this board managed a poor last or second to last spot. Shifting the focus to power consumption shows that it's also ranks in the center span. | - SiSoft Sandra - Super Pi |
- wPrime - Resident Evil 5 - 3D Mark Vantage CPU |
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| BIOS / Overclocking | + | - | |
| Also in the overclocking part the TZ77XE4 was a convincing product. Therefore it's been childrens play to reach the clock wall of our test CPU. Furthermore the UEFI BIOS is easy to use and one can quickly find the settings needed. There are BIOSes from other manufacturers which are nicer to look at, but that's it. | - Not well structured BIOS - UEFI-BIOS | ||
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| Recommending the Biostar TZ77XE T-Overclocker is quite difficult. Basically it isn't a bad motherboard and the only thing we really didn't like is the fact that there are just three fan header. If there wasn't the poor 3D performance we would have liked this board. But this way we think it's an alternative for people who want to try something different. | |||
| Rating | |||
| We give the Biostar TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker sufficient three out of five stars. | |||
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Author: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch Copy edited and translated: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch c.ney@ocaholic.ch