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Overclocking
- CPU-Z result for a Core i5 @4556.86 MHz
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Japanese site club.coneco.net reached the 4GHZ with an i5 750 using a Thermaltake ISGC200 cooler.
Miscellaneous
- tomshardware.co.uk
The question: Does the Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3 support proper Crossfire ??
The answer: The UD3 does not support CrossFire @ dual 8x mode, instead it supports @ 16x4x, which won't won't perform very well.
- forums.tweaktown.com
A forum discussion and comparison between the UD3 and UD2.
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Professional Reviews
- hardware.info
The UD3 was compared to 20 other mobos from MSI, ASUS, Asrock etc. In Cinebench 10 the UD3 was one of the slowest boards.
Bechmarks tested: Sisoftsandra 2009, Cinebench 10, 3Dmark Vantage.
- madshrimps.be
The Gigabyte P55-UD3 is compared to the Gigabyte P55-UD6 and the MSI P55-GD80.
Conclusion: An inexpensive P55 platform with lots of BIOS settings and good Overclockability, the performance is on par with the high-end models, on the other hand the bundle doesn't contain lots of extras.
Overclocking: The Gigabyte P55-UD3 with a core i5 was tested @3.8Hz with a CoolerMaster V8, unfortunately madshrimps didn't do any extreme testing with the UD3 they only used the above mentioned high-end models for that.
Bechmarks tested: PCmark05, 3DMark Vantage, Cinebench 10, Hexus Pifast, Lavalys Everest 4.50, PCMark05, SuperPi 1M and 32M, Winrar, Wprime 32M and 1024M.
- maximumpc.com
A very extensive test with many (exotic) benchmarks, where the i7 920, 860, 870, i5 750, Core 2 Quad Q9550 and Phenom II X4 965 BE are compared.
All socket 1156 processors are tested with the Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3, the other boards in the test are:
- Gigabyte GA-MA790 FXT-UD5P(socket 1366)
- Asus Maximum II Formula(socket 775)
- Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R (socket AM3).
Bechmarks tested: MainConcept Reference, Premiere Pro CS3, Handbrake iPod Classic, POV Ray 3.7, ProShow Producer, Fritz Chess Benchmark, Valve Particle Test and of course all the 'usual' benchmarks.
- techradar.com
Conclusion: Only half the price of the UD6, techradar managed to get almost the same performance from this mobo as from more expensive P55 boards.
Overclocking: After some BIOS tweakery techradar couldn't squeeze their 2.93GHz i7 870 over the 4GHz mark, they were still a 100MHz short.
Bechmarks tested: None.
Cons: A far more stripped down chipset and thus techradar thinks the UD3 is a bit expensive.
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