Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P P45 Motherboard Review

Memory Benchmarks

Everest Ultimate v4.50

Everest Ultimate is the most useful tool for any and all benchmarkers or overclockers. With the ability to pick up most voltage, temperature, and fan sensors on almost every motherboard available, Everest provides the ability to customize the outputs in a number of forms on your desktop. In addition to this, the memory benchmarking utility provides a useful tool of measuring the changes to your memory sub-system.


As you can see, our 50% memory overclock (800Mhz to 1200Mhz) contributed to an impressive increase in overall memory bandwidth. Having said that, the copy bandwidth is actually approximately 100MB/s slower than we would expect with these settings, but that is a mere 2% difference and we are confident that a future bios release will rectify this minor performance downfall.


Here we see a 40% drop in latency, which is downright excellent. This overclocked result is a mere 0.3ns worse than we achieved with the more mature EP45-DQ6, which proves that the EP45-UD3P is already a very strong performer.


ScienceMark v2.0

Although last updated almost 3 years ago, ScienceMark v2.0 remains a favorite for accurately calculating bandwidth on even the newest chipsets.


As in Everest, ScienceMark reveals a monumental 50% bandwidth increase going from the stock to overclocked settings. With this level of scaling, it is clear that the EP45-UD3P is efficient at turning the increased frequencies into raw megabytes per second.