Review: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 motherboard

by Tarinder Sandhu on 17 October 2011, 10:34 3.5

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Here's something interesting. Increasing the CPU speed from 3.6GHz to 4.7GHz has practically no effect in 3DMark 11's default performance test. We ran the test three times and observed near-identical results from all three configurations.

There's not much to be gained at the low-resolution Call of Duty: Black Ops test, either.

Yet there are a few games that remain CPU dependent irrespective of the resolution and image-quality settings. StarCraft II shows a 10 per cent gain in average frame-rate once the chip is clocked up. Gigabyte's board does well here, just beating out the ASUS.