Overclocked Performance Summary

I have really changed how I do my overclock testing with motherboards. Every single test you see in the main section is repeated in the section that follows, including power consumption. As I test more products, a good picture of overclocking efficiency should emerge, which should prove interesting when it comes to those products that are 100% overclocking-oriented. I have grouped the results into sections here, and all Intel products are tested with 4.6 GHz CPU speed. Memory speeds vary depending on the platform's ability. I will report it here if a board fails to pass one of these tests, I need to increase voltages, or am perhaps allowed to drop voltages.


Overclocking with the Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H was pretty uneventful. I simply set CPU voltage, cache voltage, CPU multi, and enabled XMP. The board booted right up, was perfectly stable, and the board's CPU VRM pulled less power than I had expected, all the while turning in some pretty fantastic benchmarking numbers for a sub-$200 board. The numbers speak for themselves, so I'll shut up and let you take a look.

AIDA64

CPU OC Performance

3D-Oriented OC Performance

3DMark06 and 3DMark Vantage

3DMark11 and PCMark 07

3DMark

Metro: Last Light

Sniper Elite V2

Shogun 2

F1 2010