After a while I found myself simply using the keyboard to tab through the features as I found it to be much quicker than persevering the mouse control method which after all this time I would have hoped GIGABYTE would have resolved. Therefore, once you have clicked on settings, you then have to resort to using the keyboard to either scroll through the available settings or enter the value manually. Point and click is percetly adequate, which is an improvement over the UD5 which had horizontal axis issues but the UD3 suffers from scroll wheel problems in that it just doesn't work. While mouse control is 'supported' by the UEFI BIOS, it doesn't work particularly well at all. It works and it offers a good amount of features and settings, particularly in power management/adjustment but the navigation using a mouse was cumbersome at best and down right frustrating at worst. One of my criticisms of the X79-UD5 was GIGABYTE's UEFI BIOS. For todays review we used the very latest official BIOS revision available at the time of writing so my findings will be based on this BIOS.
For our run of benchmarks we ran the CPU at 3.3GHz (100x33) with Speedstep and TurboBoost 2.0 disabled to ensure power saving/auto overclocking features did not interfere with the benchmark results.īefore we get to our overclocking results I feel it necessary to discuss the BIOS. Under load, our CPU automatically clocked itself to 3.6GHz and dropped back to 1.2GHz using just 0.8v when idle. Here is a shot for the board at is reference level with the BIOS set to default values (Speedstep enabled).
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