May 21 2011 review by pcstats

To sum up, whether or not the Z68X-UD5-B3 mainboard is worth buying for your next Sandy Bridge system, comes down to how you answer this question - do you absolutely need Quick Sync accelerated video transcoding?

If you do, you don't get that with this board because the Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 is one of the few Intel Z68 motherboards at launch time that doesn't have onboard video ports. Without those, it can't take advantage of the LucidLogix Virtu driver and as such any and all video transcoding will be as comparatively slow as the MPEG2-to-MP4 example in the test.

Benchmarks Tested:

3D Mark 2011, 3DMark 06, 3DMark Vantage, FEAR, PCMark Vantage, SiSoft Sandra 2011, SYSmark 2007.

Compared To:

• ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, ASUS P7P55D Deluxe, ASUS P7P55D Premium, ASUS P7P55D-E Pro, ASUS P8P67 Pro.
• Biostar TA890FXE,Biostar TH67XE.
• ECS H67H2-M, ECS P67H2-A.
• Gigabyte G1.Assassin, Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD7, Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P, Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P, Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R, Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5, Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6, Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4, Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7, Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7-B3, Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3, Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3, Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3.
• Intel DH67BL
• MSI 785GM-E65, MSI 890FXA-GD70, MSI Eclipse Plus, MSI P67A

Overclocking:

The maximum stable overclock was x47 or 4.7GHz for the test Intel Core i5 2500K (3.3GHz) processor.