2-26-2011 review by hitechlegion

Benchmark numbers speak for themselves and are good, the reviewers have reached their highest stable overclock so far on the P67 platform. The manufacturer did not implement an EFI BIOS on this boards and opted for a traditional Award version of the BIOS.

Compared To:

In the system benchmarks the results were compared to th overclock results of the Core i7 2600K, in the gaming benches you'll find Single, SLI and TRI-SLI compared.

Overclocking:

A Core i7 2600K was OCed @ 5088.5MHz, Turbo Boost was set to 51 and the vCore to 1.53v.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark 2011, AIDA, Batman Arkham Asylum, Battle Forge, Call of Duty Black Ops, Cinebench R10 and R11.5, F1 2010, Lost Planet 2, Mafia 2, Metro 2033, PCMark Vantage, SiSoft Sandra, Stone Giant, Unigine Heaven, World Bench.

Test Setup:

• Graphics Card : ASUS GeForce GTX570
• HDD : Seagate 2 Terabyte SATA3 Baracuda
• Mainboard : Gigabyte P67A-UD7
• Optical Drive : LG Blu-Ray DVD
• OS : Windows 7 Ultimate x64
• Processor : Intel Core i7 2600K
• PSU : Cooler Master Silent Pro 1200W
• RAM : 2x2GB Patriot Sector 5 2000MHz