Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 (Z77) Motherboard Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
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Like any other Z77 board, the UP7 features SATA III as standard, and this time around we find some of the fastest speeds that we have ever seen from our Wildfire drive with speeds of 460MB/s achieved with the CPU at stock.
Overclocking saw a little gain of around 3MB/s, but not enough for us to say that there is a direct boost in controller speed.
