Return of the X58 - The Best from ASUS and Gigabyte
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BIOS Settings & Test Setup
BIOS Settings
As one may expect from premium, enthusiast-class boards like these, ASUS and Gigabyte come with extensive BIOS settings, more than the essential ones that we have listed below. So the compulsive tweaker will find much to like about these boards. We only managed to push the base clocks for the two boards to 220MHz, which is similar to previously tested X58 boards.
O/C Settings | ASUS P6X58D Premium | Gigabyte X58A-UD7 |
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Base Clock (MHz) | 100 - 500 | 100 - 600 |
CPU Ratio | 12 - 63 | 12 - 65 |
DRAM Frequency | Auto, 800, 1066, 1333, 1600, 1866, 2133, 2400 | 800, 1066, 1333, 1600, 1867, 2133, 2400 |
Voltage Adjustments |
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Tested Overclock Settings | Base Clock: 220MHz max | Base Clock: 220MHz max |
Test Setup
As we mentioned earlier, our goal was to accompany these high-end X58 motherboards with equally high-end components and to that end, we have included some of the latest hardware available. This means having a SATA 6Gbps hard drive, a Radeon HD 5870 graphics card and Windows 7 Ultimate among other things. Besides the two boards, a Gigabyte EX58-EXTREME is used as a baseline comparison. This is an older X58 board that doesn't get the SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 treatment, but it does have the latest BIOS and we don't expect the hard drive to make that much of a difference.
- Intel Core i7-980X (@3.33GHz, Intel Turbo Boost, HyperThreading enabled)
- 3 x 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1333 @ 7-7-20 CAS 7.0
- Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA 6Gbit/s hard disk drive (one single NTFS partition)
- ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB (Catalyst 10.2)
- Intel INF 9.1.1.1025 and Intel Matrix Storage manager 8.9.0.1023 driver set
- Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
The following benchmarks were used:
- BAPco SYSmark 2007 (version 1.05)
- Futuremark PCMark Vantage (1.0.3.1)
- Futuremark 3DMark Vantage (1.0.3.1)
- SpecView Perf 9.0
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