Gigabyte X79S-UP5 WiFi Review: Ultra Durable 5 Meets the C606 Chipset
by Ian Cutress on September 6, 2012 6:36 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Gigabyte
- X79
- C606
Dirt 3
Dirt 3 is a rallying video game and the third in the Dirt series of the Colin McRae Rally series, developed and published by Codemasters. Using the in game benchmark, Dirt 3 is run at 2560x1440 with full graphical settings. Results are reported as the average frame rate across four runs.
Metro2033
Metro2033 is a DX11 benchmark that challenges every system that tries to run it at any high-end settings. Developed by 4A Games and released in March 2010, we use the inbuilt DirectX 11 Frontline benchmark to test the hardware at 2560x1440 with full graphical settings. Results are given as the average frame rate from 4 runs.
With a native set of x16/x16/x8 lanes onboard, the X79S-UP5 seems to do fine with gaming testing, matching our other X79 boards.
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jdonnelly - Thursday, September 6, 2012 - link
Seems to go to a different board, vice the board you're reviewing.IanCutress - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - link
Hi all,Thanks for pointing this out - just a hangover from the html table template from the last review. Then I went on my honeymoon and came back to the emails and comments :) Thankfully the link in the Test Setup was correct :) It should all be fixed now...
Ian
DigitalFreak - Thursday, September 6, 2012 - link
The Newegg link in the board features table goes to the ASRock X79 board you reviewed last week. :-)earthrace57 - Thursday, September 6, 2012 - link
The link to newegg linked me to the ASRock Extreme 11 :)alcortez - Thursday, September 6, 2012 - link
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...apriest - Thursday, September 6, 2012 - link
I want Thunderbolt with more than 32GB RAM. How about 96-128GB RAM and Thunderbolt on the same single (or even dual) socket workstation board?The0ne - Thursday, September 6, 2012 - link
Where are the rest of the awards in the same category? Is there an easy place to find these? It would be helpful for people like me who don't have much time and trust your judgement to just pick between the them (bronze, silver, gold). Thanks.Rick83 - Friday, September 7, 2012 - link
That's a bit cheap.Probably no support for AMT either (but then few 2011 Xeons are vPro enabled, so it's not that bad)
A note to the editor: Please add the exact NIC name/number. There are so many different Intel NICs, and also a number of different Realtek NICs, that it's convenient to know which are used without having to crawl the web for the info, especially if the manufacturer's site conveniently omits that info.
You've got the board on hand, with all the device IDs, so go ahead and put that info on the spec-page.
Thanks.
Rick83 - Friday, September 7, 2012 - link
Another note:If a mainboard claims to support ECC-RAM, please do test if it actually does, and how so.
tiro_uspsss - Friday, September 7, 2012 - link
from my limited experience + what I have read here'n'there on the web, GB mobos suck with supporting RAID cards (LSI etc). With this product (& any other in the same catergory / market target), will GB finally address this issue?