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Gigabyte X99-UD4P (LGA 2011-3) Motherboard Review

BIOS and Overclocking


Gigabyte is known for the UEFI BIOS, starting off as a laggy, almost legacy style interface to a now fluid and easy to use GUI. With this motherboard, they offer their latest UEFI and legacy BIOS versions. I personally prefer the more advanced features of the legacy BIOS, I find it easier to use. The Gigabyte BIOS types have been covered extensively, so I will only briefly explain things here.

Upon entering the BIOS you are greeted by the Gigabyte Startup Guide screen. From here you can adjust some easy to fix features.

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One of the features I liked was the easy to use, but still in-depth smart tweak; this allows you to overclock the CPU and memory and adjust voltages fairly easily.

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The other option to that is the updated legacy BIOS. This has every feature you could want in a BIOS, but I’ll stick to the main page as each legacy BIOS is 99% the same.

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One of the features that caught my eye here is the ‘CPU upgrade’. I’ve never seen a feature like this, so being curious and clicking it, it opened a small list of compatible CPU’s and some conservative overclocks. I don’t see why the 5820K and 5930K are possible options here as the BIOS already knows I’m using a 5960X. You might get some bad experiences from novices clicking a CPU that isn’t theirs.

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Overclocking

Now our i7-5960X can normally achieve an overclock of 4.4GHz on Gigabyte motherboards; however, this motherboard crashes without voltage increases. In the end, I stuck with a healthy 4.3GHz.

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