Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Review

Testing Methods

With the exception of SiSoft Sandra and Lavalys Everest, all of our benchmarks use real applications that give you a great idea of how well a product fares when performing the tasks you're likely to want it for.

We test with our own CustomPC Benchmark suite which can be downloaded here so you can test your own system. It uses a combination of GIMP image edting, h.264 encoding with Handbrake and multitasking with 7-zip file compression combined with video playback. Finally, for our game testing we put the board through one or two game tests and record the minimum and average frame rates.

Our benchmarks include stable overclocking results obtained too, so you can gauge how much performance potential there is in the motherboard, and how much value this adds to your purchase.

Test Setup:

Motherboards:

• Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H (Intel H55)
  
• Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 (Intel P55)
  
• Asus P7P55M (Intel P55)
  
• ASRock P55M Pro (Intel P55)
  
• Biostar TP55 (Intel P55)

Common Components:

• Intel Core i5-750 (45nm, 8MB L3 cache, 22x133MHz; 2.93GHz, Turbo Mode and Intel power saving states left at BIOS default settings)
  
• 4GB DDR3 1333MHz at SPD timings
  
• ATI Radeon HD 5870
  
• PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750W PSU
  
• Seagate 7200.11 1TB SATA hard drive
  
• Intel X25-M 80GB SSD
  
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
  
• Intel inf 9.​1.​1.​1025
  
• Nvidia Forceware 196.21 WHQL

Overclocked Settings:

• Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H: 4.1GHz CPU, 205MHz base clock, 20x multiplier, 1,6400MHz dual channel DDR3 memory at 10-9-9-25-74-1T, 3.28GHz CPU-northbridge, 3.28GHz QPI.