Gigabyte Z77-D3H (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.

Starting off with Cinebench R11.5, we see that the Z77-D3H is a great contender straight out of the box, with a solid CPU score when running at the same speed as other boards from Asus, MSI and even a higher-end Gigabyte board. By Overclocking to 4.6GHz, we see that CPU score soar ahead by quite a substantial amount.

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.

At stock speeds, the Z77-D3H was once again a strong contender, giving a slightly quicker time to process on the 32M preset. When overclocked, we saw a distinct 2 minutes of calculation time, shaved off of the results showing that in CPU intensive tests, the Z77-D3H can keep up with some of the more extreme boards on the market.