GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H

Zitat: Ausstattung: 94 Punkte Leistung: 100 Punkte Ergonomie/Funktionalität: 100 Punkte

Zitat: Pro: + Looks great + Lots of SATA3 and USB 3.0 + Great BIOS, for the most part + Flexible video outputs Con: - £150 is steep for a Z77 board - Fan control could, and should, be better The Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H motherboard, priced at £150, sits on the premium side of the market, because stripped-down models are available for almost half the money, including the firm´s own (and reviewed) Z77-D3H . Spending significantly more buys you a board that´s geared towards providing greater features and specific focus on overclocking. Looking the business and adding to Intel´s SATA and USB repertoire, while including a bunch of useful enthusiast-orientated bells and whistles into the mix, we come away with the feeling that Gigabyte has created a solid, if not spectacular, motherboard. The only manifest changes we´d make rest with a little component repositioning and better fan-control support in the BIOS. In all other areas, however, the UD5H feels like a premium board. Is it worth buying, then? We think that you really need to take advantage of extensive SATA, USB 3.0 and LAN support for it to be of genuine benefit to the enthusiast, because it performs similarly to a reference board at stock speeds. The Intel Z77 motherboard market has moved to a state where a £100 board is perfectly adequate for 95 per cent of users, so spending more, significantly so, requires a healthy return on investment: Gigabyte´s ROI is reasonable. However, checking other manufacturers´ offerings at this price point on a feature-to-feature count, Gigabyte´s is above average. Bottom line : consider the £150 Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H motherboard if you plan to run a full-on, feature-rich PC rig. There´s plenty of good here, but, given what´s already out there in Z77 land, reducing the price by £20 or so certainly would help: the el-cheapo boards limit just how much manufacturers can charge for premium motherboards.

Zitat: Plusy: + 12-fazowa sekcja zasilania + Dual UEFI BIOS + Złącze mSATA + Wszystkie możliwe wyjścia wideo Minusy: - Wysoka cena - Tylko jedno złącze PCI-E x16 Wyjątkowo rozbudowana płyta główna firmy Gigabyte przeznaczona do pracy z procesorami Intel Ivy Bridge. Na jej laminacie umieszczona została rozbudowana, 12-fazowa sekcja zasilania, trzy złącza PCI-Express 3.0 dla kart graficznych (x16, x8 oraz x4), a także siedem złączy SATA 6 Gb/s obsługiwanych przez chipset oraz dwa dodatkowe kontrolery Marvella. Jest tu również złącze mSATA. Na uwagę zasługuje również rozbudowany, ale zarazem przejrzysty graficzny Dual BIOS.

Zitat: We’re happy to say that the UD5H is a pleasing return to form for Gigabyte, as it proved a very close match for both the Asus Maximus V Gene and the reference Intel board in our testing. Granted it was slightly behind the Gene in our Media Benchmarks, but it made up for this with a good showing in our games testing. It’s also as fully featured as you could expect a board to be, with the only notable omission being a CMOS reset switch on the back I/O.

Zitat: GIGABYTE has put together a really nice Intel Z77 Express based motherboard with the Z77X-UD5H and it does a good job of ticking all the boxes. Coming in at $189.99 it falls under that important $200 mark and instantly becomes a hit for a lot of people who aren´t interested in blowing out their bank accounts.