![]() We’ve been hard on Z68 boards in the past, as it doesn’t add many useful features over Intel's P67 chipset, despite the extra cost. Despite being based on Intel's premium Z68 chipset, it costs just £82. It’s pretty obvious which route Gigabyte has taken with the GA-Z68AP-D3. ![]() Of course, motherboard manufacturers are aware of this homogeneity too, so they’re turning to the only other areas available to differentiate their products - features and price. This puts all the strain on the CPU and means that most of the motherboards we’ve seen perform very similarly - nearly all of them have hit an overclock between 4.8GHz and 5.1GHz. ![]() Click to enlargeThe culprit for this is Intel’s decision to use an integrated clock generator, meaning the only real way to overclock an LGA1155 system is through the CPU multiplier.
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