Gigabyte's P67A-UD4 Sandy Bridge Motherboard Preview

[[XC] Hicks121]

Very sweet Buck!! Thanks for that brother. Off to MC now to get the cpu. I cant wait to get this thing crunching. Should be a monster. Lets see some of your crunchn numbers & a bench from boinc too!!!

[Buckeye]

Very sweet Buck!! Thanks for that brother. Off to MC now to get the cpu. I cant wait to get this thing crunching. Should be a monster. Lets see some of your crunchn numbers & a bench from boinc too!!!

Oh yes Dave had told me about that bench, thanks for reminding me

[zalbard]

Very nice review, thank you!
You seem to be lucky with your chip, doing 5.1GHz with 'just' 2500K.
Quite unusual bench selection, I like it.
Interesting power consumption figures, too. Especially for crunchers.
Any chance to compare some of the results with any other rig of yours?

[Buckeye]

Very nice review, thank you!
You seem to be lucky with your chip, doing 5.1GHz with 'just' 2500K.
Quite unusual bench selection, I like it.
Interesting power consumption figures, too. Especially for crunchers.
Any chance to compare some of the results with any other rig of yours?

Thanks you guys

Yes I sat and watched many different posts being put up before I did mine, so much of the same stuff, so I tried to find some different things to post about.

Yes I can add some more comparisons to different setups. Time was running short, trip to CES right in the middle of everything, new BIOS's coming out, plus new builds I am doing here at home. So much to do LOL.

[Buckeye]

Very sweet Buck!! Thanks for that brother. Off to MC now to get the cpu. I cant wait to get this thing crunching. Should be a monster. Lets see some of your crunchn numbers & a bench from boinc too!!!

Here is the result of the WCG Bench

[Johnny87au]

Wow good numbers low power consumption!

[Buckeye]

Just a update to this post.

Looking over at my main rig which still had 2x 260gtx's installed on it I decided it was time to get a few new cards.

On my main rig I like to run SLI, plus I have a ARC-1231ML Raid controller installed. I had thought about just getting 1x 580gtx but the price of those are just a bit to much for me at this time, and two of those would be over the top for me as I am not a heavy duty gamer anymore.

But I do like to game still so I was looking at the best bang for the buck I could get.

I have been looking at Gigabyte's Super Overclock 460gtx's for sometime. I really like these cards, they have great performance and the cooling system on them is very good. Plus the price of these cards is very good now.

So two Gigabyte Super Overclocked 460gtx's were ordered and I decided to run them on the P67A-UD4 setup and see what they could do.



And here they are installed on the P67A-UD4 system I have here.



These are very nice cards and perform really well for a system like this. Even at full fan speed they do not make that much noise. Heat output is not that bad either.

First test is 3DMark Vantage



Next is 3DMark 11



And finally the Heaven bench



I am not all that super crazy about the OC_Guru utility, it does work well but the graphics seem a bit cluttered. Maybe some different skins for this would make it easyier on the eyes.

Just with quick testing on air the highest overclock on these cards I was about to get was 950core with out any voltage bumps. This is really enough for gaming and anything higher just adds more heat output if installed in a case.



These cards really added a nice boost to the P67A-UD4 system and are a good match for this board and CPU. Newer graphics cards are great but with a 2500K going all out on GPUs might be a better to go with a 2600K and higher end motherboard.

[runmc]

Bill what will one of those cards overclock to stock. I need a new card.

[Buckeye]

Bill what will one of those cards overclock to stock. I need a new card.

I hit 950core very easy with no voltage bump at all.
I am sure they will go over 1,000core with a small bump to voltage.

I wil have to look at the bot to see what others are doing with these with cold added, which I think you are planning on doing Ron

Lets see, Gigabyte Super Overclocked 460gtx's running on Cascade... yummy

[runmc]

yes yummy I hope your note telling a big one Bill. I ordered two

[Oliver]

Thanks for posting in Buckeye

I would try 3dmark11 with another vga driver, sub 4k with 460s is not correct

keep pushing it

[sin0822]

its a problem with Fermi cards and 3dmark11, driver update will solve it.

[Buckeye]

Those are the latest drivers off of the Nvidia site.

Is there other ones ?

[Oliver]

There is 266.58 from today u can give a spin else try the 263.09

[Buckeye]

There is 266.58 from today u can give a spin else try the 263.09

Ah ok, thanks Oliver