The second type of comparison we are going to discuss today is the mainboards performance during maximum CPU overclocking. This time we disabled extended “C-STATE” processor power-saving modes in the BIOS and thus limited the maximum processor clock multiplier by 22x. In this case the CPU can work at higher base clock than with a 26x multiplier, which produces higher resulting performance. Even though the price is higher power consumption in idle mode.

And again Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 and Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R mainboards are often next to one another, as they overclocked the CPU and the memory the same way that is why they perform equally in any operational modes. Certain differences can be explained by imperfections of test programs, but on average they are never more than 0.5%. Overall, the benchmark results show that a system built around Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R is pretty much as fast as any other similar system.