Gigabyte GA-Z77-UP4 TH (Z77) Motherboard Review

Cinebench R11.5

CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s award-winning animation software CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more. CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and Mac OS X). And best of all: It’s completely free.

First off in Cinebench R11.5, we find that the Z77X-UP4 at stock has on of the lower scores that we have seen, however once overclocked a nice boost is seen with the score jumping upto 9.2.

Super PI

Super PI is a computer program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point—up to a maximum of 32 million. It uses Gauss–Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of the program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.

Moving onto a more lengthy CPU test, the board came out in the top half with a time of 9 minutes 19 seconds at stock speeds. Overclocking the CPU up to 4.6GHz shaved off just over 2 minutes from the 32M calculation time.