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EasyTune6, Benchmarks and Conclusions
EasyTune 6 Features:
GIGABYTE's own software tools to help you make the most of your motherboards capabilities. EasyTune 6 gives Windows access to tweaking and overclocking with the touch of a few buttons, as well as information about key components on your motherboard.
Main CPU Information Screen:
One Click Quick Boost Menu for easy overclocking:
Advanced tuning menu for voltage adjustment:
BLCK and memory frequency adjustment menu:
Turbo Boost core ratio adjustment menu:
System voltage monitoring graph menu:
Benchmarks:
Today's test system consists of the hardware listed below, and as with all good testing a clean install is used and the latest Windows Updates and manufacturer drivers are applied. The applications used in today's tests are the latest of what was available at the time of this analysis.
Firstly, a quick note about the CPU-Z screenshot below. While the default frequency of the processor is 3.4GHz, by default with Turbo Boost enabled the CPU sits at near a 3.5GHz frequency with consistent loads over each core and thread. While we are able to disable this feature in the BIOS, we feel it is a beneficial feature of this CPU and thus we have kept it enabled for the time being.
The first benchmark measures the maximum achievable memory read bandwidth. The code behind this benchmark method is written in Assembly and it is extremely optimized for every popular AMD and Intel processor core variant by utilizing the appropriate x86, MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2 or SSE4.1 instruction set extension. The benchmark reads a 16 MB sized, 1 MB aligned data buffer from system memory into the CPU. Memory is read in forward direction, continuously without breaks.
On to measuring the maximum achievable memory write bandwidth. The benchmark writes a 16 MB sized, 1 MB aligned data buffer from the CPU into the system memory. Memory is written in forward direction, continuously without breaks like the first.
The next benchmark performs different common tasks used during digital photo processing. This benchmark stresses the integer arithmetic and multiplication execution units of the CPU and the memory subsystem.
This benchmark measures CPU performance using AES (a.k.a. Rijndael) data encryption. The CPU AES test uses only the basic x86 instructions, and only consumes a mere 48MB of memory, and it is Hyper Threading, multi-processor (SMP) and multi-core (CMP) aware.
Conclusions
With GIGABYTE moving to a black PCB design for their performance/enthusiast level of motherboards it's sure to bring across a variety of users that had issue with the distinct blue themed design. This motherboard allows those without large budgets to get their hands on a slick black PCB, quality power circuitry and motherboard components, plenty of external USB and fan connectors, a variety of slots with CrossFireX support and ample overclocking tools and tweaks that allowed us to run Intel's Core i7 2600K at 4.6GHz with just under 1.4v.
All in all the P67A-UD3R brings a solid foundation of technologies and features that are utilised even in the higher-end motherboards, and for a sub $200 dollar motherboard it ticks all the essential boxes a new Sandy Bridge motherboard should include without breaking the bank.
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