Gigabyte P67A-UD4 LGA 1155 ATX Motherboard Review

Testing Configuration and Benchmarks Used

We compared the Gigabyte P67A-UD4 against a couple of its main competitors in the motherboard market — the  ASUS P8P67 Pro and ECS P67H2-A. Testing this board against other comparable LGA 1155 motherboards should give our readers a general overview of this board’s performance against other solutions in its class.

 

 

 

CPU-Z screenshots

 

Test System Setup
CPU	Intel i5-2500K (running at 3.3GHz, 100×33)
Motherboards	ASUS P8P67 Pro Gigabyte P67A-UD4  ECS P67H2-A
Memory	Patriot Sector 5 (2 x 2GB) DDR3-2000 Dual Channel
Hard Drive	Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10,000 RPM SATA 3GB/s
Sound Card	Onboard sound
Video Card	Gigabyte GTS 250 512MB
CPU Cooling	Corsair H50 watercooling unit
Video Drivers	NVIDIA: 266.58
Power Supply	PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750w
DirectX Version	DX10 / DX9c
Operating System	Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Our 64-bit test bench for LGA 1155 processors includes 4GBs of dual channel DDR3 memory, a GTS 250 512MB graphics card, and a Western Digital Raptor 150GB SATA hard drive for storage. This configuration is based off a typical mid-range users LGA 1155 system and focuses on evaluating the motherboard’s features and abilities and less on the rest of the hardware components.

Benchmarks used:
– SiSoft Sandra 2009 SP1
– CineBench 11.5 64-bit 
– Handbrake DVD compression
– 3DMark Vantage
– Crysis Warhead
– Far Cry 2
– Just Cause 2
– PCMark Vantage