Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H (Z87) Motherboard Review

AIDA64

AIDA64 Extreme Edition is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users. AIDA64 Extreme Edition provides a wide range of features to assist in overclocking, hardware error diagnosis, stress testing, and sensor monitoring. It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives. AIDA64 is compatible with all current 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Memory bandwidth out of the box was strong at the top end of the scale. Overclocking to 4.8GHz opened up a huge amount of potential that saw the write speed soar forward to 27,831MB/s.