Overclocking

Overclocking with the Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH was significantly better compared to the other Gigabyte Intel Z77 Express products I've tested so far, but I was getting slightly higher voltages in BIOS than I would have liked. My CPU requires a setting that delivers a true 1.18 V to bring my 3770K to stability at 4.6 GHz, and on the Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH, this meant I had to set 1.25 V in the BIOS to get the real voltage I needed under load. Fortunately, the onboard measuring points helped me find that out or I might have thought the VRM was a bit on the weak side of things. Memory clocking using XMP worked flawlessly, booting right in with 2400 MHz like it was no big deal. I recorded a VRM power consumption of 93 W while running stability testing - less power draw than what I expected.

Overclocked Performance Summary

Cinebench provides a substantial performance increase when overclocked, something that resounds true through the entire series of Intel-based products. The Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH wasn't the best performer, but it wasn't the worst either.


SuperPi 32m results were, again, average for the Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH, which finished just 1.53 seconds slower than our best result.


WPrime 1024M numbers re-enforce the results with, again, average overall performance.


F1 2010 is starting to show its age for sure. Here, again, the Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH gave mid-level performance.


With Codemaster's F1 2010 starting to age, and proving less reliable in showing performance increases, we've added the Shogun 2 DirectX 9 CPU benchmark to our testing suite. Here again the Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH fared very poorly with last place. It seems that perhaps a BIOS update is needed as I'm sure that this can be fixed fairly easily.