System Overview & Testing Procedures
We will be running the Gigabyte Z77X-UD4H through a full battery of benchmarks. Here are the specifications of our test system.
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD4H
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD6950
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 16GB
Power Supply: OCZ Fatal1ty Series 1000W
Storage: 750GB SATA II Drive
Cooling: Asetek 570LX
Case: HighSpeed PC Top Deck Tech Station
We will be testing the system at the Core i7-3770K’s stock speed of 3.5GHz and again at our overclock of 5.0GHz. Here are the tests we will be running.
CPU & Memory Testing
SiSoftware Sandra (download)
– Processor Arithmetic Benchmark
– Processor Multimedia Benchmark
AIDA64 Extreme Edition (download)
– Cache & Memory Benchmark
System Testing
PCMark 7 (download)
PCMark Vantage (download)
SiSoftware Sandra (download)
– Overall System Benchmark
Video Testing
3DMark (download)
3DMark 11 (download)
3DMark Vantage (download)
Heaven Demo 4.0 (download)
Gaming Testing
Alien vs. Predator
Lost Planet 2
Battlefield 3
Dude, you are killing your 3770K !
The voltage system of this board is by default set to AUTO, which means it increases automatically with the overclock.
What you wrote in the review “reached 5.0 without increase in voltage” is totally wrong and dangerous !
By going to 5.0Ghz you also increased the voltage to a monstrous 1.6V, I won’t expect that CPU to last at that voltage more than a week.
Look at the CPU-Z screenshot you took at 5.0 !!!
My god!
Please correct your review, you are misleading people to try such insane overclocks which will burn their CPU in the process…
you are right, same feelings about it. guess what should we think about so called “pro user’s” opinions which i belive autor of this review should be.