We decided to use the popular i5-750 CPU for our testing as it should give us a good idea of the overclocking potential of the H55M-UD2H motherboard. This was cooled by a CoolIT ECO A.L.C CPU cooler installed into a Corsair Graphite 600T chassis.
Test System
Motherboard: Gigabyte GH-H55M-UD2H
CPU: Intel Core i5 750 2.67GHz
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR3
PSU: Corsair TX650W
Chassis: Corsair Graphite 600T
Graphics Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 470
Cooler: CoolIT ECO A.L.C.
Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-2
Hard Drive: Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB (7200rpm)
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
3DMark Vantage
PCMark Vantage
Super Pi
FRAPS Professional
SiSoftware Sandra 2010
Cinebench R10
Cinebench R11.5
KitGuru Photoshop Benchmark 1(4)
Grand Theft Auto 4: EFLC
All the latest bios updates and WHQL drivers are used during testing. We perform under real world conditions, meaning KitGuru test all games across five closely matched runs and average out the results to get an accurate median figure.
For our tests, we overclocked the system to 4.00GHz using a base clock of 200MHz with a multiplier of 20x. We were able to push the system to 4.20GHz but encountered stability issues in some of our more demanding tests.