Gigabyte X99-Gaming 5P Motherboard Review

We will outline the performance increases that can be obtained from using the Gigabyte X99-Gaming 5P motherboard to overclock our system. Our overclocked processor frequency was 4.4GHz and memory speed was 2666MHz.

As a performance comparison, we have included the overclocked results from seven other X99 motherboards. The maximum overclocked configuration achieved with each board was a 4.4GHz processor frequency and 2666MHz memory speed (2400MHz for ASRock's X99E-ITX/ac).

CPU-only overclocked performance continues the Gigabyte board's trend of being sat in the middle of our results chart. Cinebench and 3DMark Physics show sizeable gains from boosted CPU frequency, however Bioshock Infinite doesn't seem to care for greater clock speed.

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