Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 Review

Written by Paul Goodhead

July 14, 2011 | 14:55

Tags: #best-motherboard #blue #comparison #how-to-overclock #lga1155 #overclocking #performance #z68

Companies: #gigabyte

Media Benchmarks

Download from: bit-tech.net

We've developed our own suite of benchmarks using real-world and open-source applications to simulate how PCs are actually used. The suite comprises an image editing test using Gimp, a video encoding test using Handbrake, and a multi-tasking test using 7-Zip to archive and encrypt a large batch of files while an HD movie plays in mplayer.

A score of 1,000 means that the test system is as fast as our reference PC, which used a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 at stock speed, 2GB of Corsair 1,066MHz DDR2 memory, a 250GB Samsung SpinPoint P120S hard disk and an Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi-AP motherboard. The scoring system is linear, so a system scoring 1,200 points is 20 per cent faster than our reference system. Equally, a system scoring 1,200 is 4 per cent faster than a system scoring 1,150.

GIMP Image Editing

Website: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
Far from being some kind of pr0n-filtering tool, Gimp is an open source image editing application - Gimp is an acronym of GNU Image Manipulation Program. Our test simulates how well a PC can manipulate a collection of large digital photos, and to achieve a low time requires a PC with a powerful CPU, plenty of quick memory and efficient hard disk drive access.

Image Editing

Gimp

  • Biostar TP67XE (B3)
  • Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3
  • Asus Sabertooth P67
  • MSI P67A-GD53 (B3)
  • Asus P8P67-M Pro
  • Asus P8P67
  • ASRock P67 Extreme 4
    • 1618
    • 2197
    • 1614
    • 2243
    • 1613
    • 2217
    • 1591
    • 2226
    • 1590
    • 2271
    • 1583
    • 2241
    • 1564
    • 2214
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Points, higher is better
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Read our performance analysis.

Handbrake H.264 Encoding

Website: HandBrake
We use the open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded video encoder Handbrake to encode a HD video using the H.264 codec. This primarily tests multi-threaded CPU and memory subsystem performance.

Video Encoding

Handbrake

  • Asus P8P67-M Pro
  • Asus Sabertooth P67
  • MSI P67A-GD53 (B3)
  • ASRock P67 Extreme 4
  • Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3
  • Asus P8P67
  • Biostar TP67XE (B3)
    • 2784
    • 4028
    • 2750
    • 3918
    • 2733
    • 4040
    • 2715
    • 3878
    • 2703
    • 3952
    • 2680
    • 3961
    • 2673
    • 3901
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Points, higher is better
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Read our performance analysis.
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