Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 Motherboard Review

As with all of our reviews, we pit the default speed system against the overclocked one in a head-to-head byte match.  The effective overclock for these tests is 4.5GHz @ 44x multiplier and 102 BLCK.  The results are show below.

Overclocking the Sandy Bridge architecture is a little different from what we are accustomed to, in fact the process reminds us of the old days when the only option was to hack the system to adjust the multiplier or hotwire the system clock to raise the frequency.  In doing so there was also a good chance your attached devices would stop working.

We were able to run our 2600K at 4.5Ghz without too much issue however anything more than that was proving to be difficult to stabilize.  We suspect this was likely due to the smaller PWM and despite the ample overclocking controls you have to be careful not to overextend what the motherboard can provide.