Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H Review

Written by Paul Goodhead

September 24, 2010 | 07:38

Tags: #amd-athlon #best #fastest #m-atx #overclocking #quickest #sata-3 #sata-6gbps #socket-am3 #ud2h #usb-3

Companies: #gigabyte

Crysis

Publisher: Electronic Arts
We tested the game using the 64-bit executable in DirectX 10 mode, with the 1.21 patch applied. We used a custom timedemo recorded on the Harbour map, which is more representative of gameplay than the built-in benchmark.

For our testing, we set all the settings to High, with 2x anti-aliasing, no anisotropic filtering, and a resolution of 1,680 x 1,050.

Crysis

1,680 x 1,050, High Detail, 2xAA, 0xAF, DirectX 10, 64-bit

  • Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 (ATX)
  • Asus Crosshair IV Formula (ATX)
  • Asus M4A88T-I Deluxe (mini-ITX)
  • Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H (m-ATX)
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Crysis (OC)

1,680 x 1,050, High Detail, 2xAA, 0xAF, DirectX 10, 64-bit

  • Asus Crosshair IV Formula (ATX)
  • Asus M4A88T-I Deluxe (mini-ITX)
  • Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H (m-ATX)
  • Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 (ATX)
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See the Performance Analysis page for performance analysis.
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Posted by SlowMotionSuicide - Fri Sep 24 2010 07:02

At least it's a pleasure to look at.

Somewhat pointless mb though, nowadays I'm only using AMD chips in budget builds for friends and relatives, and atm I think it's unnecessary to pay for USB3 and/or SATA6 in such scenarios. The money is better spent towards faster CPU.

Posted by Kúsař - Fri Sep 24 2010 07:51

A floppy port on microATX board? Their typical response would be "but customers are requesting this feature". If I were a velociraptor I'd get some cheap second hand mobo instead of building a brand new PC to run DOS.

Posted by lacuna - Fri Sep 24 2010 09:06

So you indentify that the board would be appropriate for an htpc and also point out that its highlights are the USB3 and SATA 6 ports and yet you test it with a 5870 and a normal hdd thus providing a review which only states the obvious: its not great for gaming.

Excellent work.

Posted by okenobi - Fri Sep 24 2010 10:17

What I don't understand is that we're told the C300 (being the only drive to make use of SATA 6 atm) works loads better of the Rocket card. So that makes SATA 6 support rather redundant if you really want the extra speed of one of those drives.

USB3 won't be mainstream for some time, and I only use the odd memory stick or card reader etc.

So whilst it make, per se, make a board more "future proof", a don't really see a huge point.

Am I missing something?
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