FRONTPAGE Gigabyte Z87X-OC Motherboard Review

[Overclockers.com]

It has been a while since Overclockers.com had a chance to review a Gigabyte board. Not because they haven't put anything out though, that is for sure. Gigabyte, like all other board partners, came out with an entire line of Z87 boards but we just now had a chance to look at them, specifically the Z87X-OC.

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[Robert17]

Well done Joe. And thanks. It would be nice for some of the OC'ng features you highlighted to become a 'me too' for all the board makers: USB connectors by the SATA ports, GPU dual supports; debug LEDs should be re-thought but it does look like a nice board. Gave me some thoughts for my project as well.

Again, Thanks for your time and efforts.

 

[BigHeadClan]

I swore that you had the OC Formula overpriced, then I remembered I got mine for a killer deal at $170.

Well great article sir!

 

[GarbInC]

Excellent review, i'm really glad to see this surface. Nice chips underneath those heatsinks too, but as you stated not as high quality as the OC-Force!

Thanks again for a useful review!

 

[keny]

Nice review mate I am also the same as you whereas I use the classic style bios as it seems to run a lot smoother and I also like using the keyboard in the bios which is more tricky using the normal screen, I have found that if I leave thermal protection enabled in the bios I get 100% throttling once over a certain clock speed, no matter what temps, maybe a bios issue, but its done it on both bios versions I have used as of now, not a big deal as you just dissable it but thought I would mention it incase anyone suffers the same problem.

 

[EarthDog]

Interesting point. I will see if I can reproduce that... When I overclock to 4.9Ghz or PTL, it was disabled though just out of habit.