Gigabyte EP45-UD3P Motherboard Review :: Test Setup and Performance

Author: Ben Sun · 10-29-2008 · Category: Motherboards

Scores

  • Features: 37
  • Ergonomics: 9
  • Compatibility: 23
  • Support: 8
  • Performance: 13
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It should be interesting how this board performs against the various P45 Express chipset motherboards that we’ve tested before. I would imagine the board would test in the same performance range as the other Gigabyte EP45 boards and am not expecting any surprises in terms of performance here. There is a new Intel motherboard and CPU chipset coming soon that will require a new platform. We will add HD encoding and change the video card to a ATI HD 4870 for that platform.


Test System

  • Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 running at 2.66GHz
  • 2GB Crucial Tracer DDR2-1066MHz DDR2 memory running at 1066MHz
  • 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA drives in RAID 0
  • EVGA 8800GTS SSC 320MB video card running 175.16 Forceware drivers
  • HiPer Type M 880W PSU
  • Windows Vista 32-bit business with SP1
  • Philips DVD-RW

Tests

  • SpecViewPerf 10
  • 3DMark05/06
  • PCMark05/Vantage
  • CPUBench 2003
  • Crystalmark 2004
  • Pifast
  • wPrime
  • Sysmark 2007 Preview with Patch 3
  • Aquamark 3
  • Sisoft Sandra X1

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