Just going to highlight the features of this board that are relevant to the topic at hand… overclocking!
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 series motherboards once again hit the motherboard industry with high quality and innovative motherboard design. Featuring the industry’s first consumer desktop motherboard design to introduce 2 ounces of copper for both the Power and Ground layers, delivering a dramatically lower system temperature, improved energy efficiency and enhanced stability for overclocking.
As the signature specification for GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 motherboards feature
- 50,000hrs operation time Japanese Solid Capacitor
- Ferrite core chokes with higher energy efficiency compared to the commonly used iron core chokes
- Lower RDS(on) MOSFETs that features a lower resistance, which reduces power consumption and heat generation.
The GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 series motherboards looks like it will provide the stability, reliability and longevity essential to meet the power needs of high-end processors and other components running today’s most demanding applications and games.
PCB (Printed Circuit Board) is composed of 2 oz copper = Amount of copper weight in 1 square Foot (12 inch x 12 inch) area PCB is 2 oz. Doubling the amount of copper provides a more effective thermal cooling solution by delivering a more efficient spreading of heat from critical areas of the motherboard such as the CPU power zone throughout the entire PCB
For the MOSFETs, GIGABYTE decided to use Low RDS(on) MOSFETs. These are MOSFETs that are specially designed to produce lower switching for faster electric current charging and discharging. The benefits of using these more expensive components is that Low RDS(on) MOSFETs have lower power consumption during the switching process, resulting in a faster switching process and less heat generation.
DDR2 1366+ Support –The World’s Fastest DDR2 Motherboard. Delivering native support for DDR2 memory up to 1366+MHz, GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 series motherboards allow users to easily reach higher memory frequencies at lower voltages; achieving higher memory performance with lower power consumption to run even the most memory intensive applications such as high-definition video and 3D games with ease.
But enough techno-babble; this review is about results, so let’s put Gigabyte’s claims to the test.
